hobo_in_library

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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Their RoundupReady crops seem to have another poison hidden inside them (literally!) The Roundup pesticide that those crops are sprayed with is made of Glyphosate, and testers keep finding that pesticide showing up inside corn, wheat, and o
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
So would you be okay with slaughtering animals painlessly and then eating them?
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The cofounders also care about their reputation very much Their reputation has literally had monetary impact on Stripe by bringing in talent more easily because people “like” the cofounders, and it also has turned the company into the defau
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Also, Stripe isn’t spending any money on this. It’s instead become an opportunity for investors to buy lots of Stripe equity (which the cofounders are usually very stingy with—see the percentage of the company they sold during past rounds)
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
> I just learned that the author has turned into a 9/11 truther I don't get those folks. Personally, I identify as a 9/11 falser.
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
They also only claimed "moderate confidence" in their assessment
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
You do realize attacking an armed military inside your own country does not count as terrorism in most non-political dictionaries, right?
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
The article sounds pretty sketchy on evidence that Iran even performed that cyberattack in the first place: > "Mandiant, a leading U.S. cybersecurity firm, expressed “moderate confidence” last month that the attackers were acting in
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Just imagine how much work those slats will be to keep clean!
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Fishtank water filters work really well, I used to have one setup in the sink for my kid. Fill the sink (or a tub) up with 2-4 inches of water, put this filter in it and turn it on. You'll have a small, never ending waterfall on your
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Huh, that also explains how the trans movement grew so quickly out of nowhere. Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, pushing such a big change onto an entire country is a huge endeavor! Claims of trans pharma companies doing all t
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Would you mind sharing how you found your customers? That feels like the hardest part
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
I was attempting to show that we both read the same comment by JasonFruit and interpreted the phrase "not attempt to make them equal by government-enforced handicapping" very differently. The base claim was that after reading Jaso
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
It always surprises me to see people proposing a blanket ban on these kinds of guns despite the fact that all school shooters were young men under 25 years old. You could just limit sales of these guns to folks over 25 and make everyone muc
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
When I read the parent comment, I imagined a panel saying: "Oh dear, Poor John there was born without a left leg. Alright, everyone else line up in front of the man with a meat cleaver"
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
This is a weird article. The author clearly has an agenda they're pushing which the researcher doesn't appear to actually believe in: The title claims that since we haven't figured out effective conversion therapy yet (alleg
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
In other news, the oldest human alive is still aging!
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
Acceptance rates is a really poor choice of input for college ranking It's basically saying "other people seem to think this college is good, so we'll nudge them up a few points" In other words, it's attempting to m
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by hobo_in_library 4y ago
That is a very strong sounding approach to deal with just 250/4 = ~63 people from one state Most of whom were probably never actually going to go through with it anyways