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by coolso 9y ago
I agree with KAJ on many of his points, but there are a couple I disagree with. I just don't see how a cheerleader having to leave a restaurant that a Saints player walks into is equivalent to a black player having to leave if another
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> or puritanical reasons (make sure people aren't having sex?) I hardly think deterring people from having sex in a public restroom (if that's even actually the case) so that everyone - young and old - can go to the bathroom wi
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> Homes usually pay ~$6,000 to fill a pool. Where? I'm seeing anecdotes of an average of $100-300 to fill up a pool with a hose, and $1250 to bring a truck in.
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;)
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I think most would agree - but come on, let's not go overboard. CNN has just as much a right to exist on the internet as anyone else.
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I wonder if they'll ever turn comments back on, too?
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It cycles the liquid just fine; it's getting rid of 100% of the bubbles that urinating sometimes creates (typically when it's concentrated, e.g., in the morning) that it has trouble with.
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> Toilets manufactured today are at least as effective as those created before the regulations I replaced my toilet with a new model 2 years ago. Was it the best of the best, no, but neither was my old one. Use of any amount of toilet pa
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Another example is modern washing machines. A friend of mine lives in an apartment complex that just replaced an old machine from the late 80s / early 90s that finally died, with one of those new top-loading ones that has a load sensor
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> I don't get what changed? What changed is it helped the current President get elected. The only people who really used to care about Facebook's behavior were people in niche online tech circles like HN. But then the election
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> There are two different kind of cross-legged being described here - the OP means sitting in a chair with your right leg on top of your left, while the reply mentions the floor which suggests the feet-under-thighs position. There is a t
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How is it "lame"? It's common knowledge that media is a significant influencer of those who consume it (pretty much everyone), so it follows that writing an article suggesting that X may be superior to Y (because Y is bad) wo
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Except downvoted posts here turn gray.
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And it makes sense. Why would you want to continue running an online dating site after entering into a relationship? Not only would I think the motivation would mostly disappear, or at least drop off precipitously; but also, you have to thi
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> freaking out [citation needed]
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Serious question: may I ask why, in describing a plurality of good managers, you chose to use a lot of singular feminine pronouns and no plural gender-neutral pronouns; while in describing a singular (one) bad manager, you avoided the use o
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by coolso 9y ago
True but don’t you have a fraction of the illegal immigration that the USA has?
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> I've not heard of one good reason for him wanting to send Americans back to the Moon other than "prestige." Not even for the inspiration? I mean look at how everyone reacted to SpaceX's recent launching of a Tesla i
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Why are they afraid of being in America?
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> It's insane seeing videos of routine traffic stops in the US where both officers leap from their vehicle with guns drawn, ready to escalate the situation at the slightest provocation. Routine traffic stops, or felony traffic stops
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Looks like it hit the absolute bottom in 2016 [0], with a slight uptick in 2017 according to some [1][2], but still, overall, according to various studies it's been at an all-time low during these last couple of years. [0] http:/
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Headlines are why I rarely read online news articles anymore, and typically just view the comment sections, either here on HN, or Slashdot, etc. It never used to be this bad. One would think that with public trust in the media at an all tim
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Is scientific consensus incapable of being wrong?
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He mostly gets himself in trouble with the media, and most people hate the media. Trump won because he got himself in trouble with the establishment all the time. Not sure how that’s dumb.
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Misleading headline. Apple already pays more US taxes than any other business.
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> Frankly if I was in their shoes I would go with Toronto also to have some sort of hedging against the US political climate. Meh. However you feel about Trump, confidence in the US economy among businesses has been really high since his
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By the same token you could also rewrite a lot of comments in this thread, possibly including yours, as "Trump's Tax Bill Is Having Positive Effects Despite The Narrative And I Don't Like That".
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So is this actually a bad thing, or are all of the skeptical/negative comments just due to the fact that it's yet another example of the new tax bill having immediate, positive, real effects on the US economy?
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I wasn't being sarcastic, or mocking anyone's beliefs, scientific or religious. Nor am I an atheist or got lost and think I'm on Slashdot. I was merely putting forth a question I've always thought was intellectually inte
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> The ocean stores the accumulated salts of 4.7 billion years of surface rocks. I've always wondered. Were the rocks really there for 4.7 billion years, or did God create the rocks in such a way to trick scientists into believing th

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