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by jimbob45 2y ago
Immigration is fine but Canada and the US are actively taking steps to dissuade the majority of their population from producing offspring in favor of taking in more immigrants. That's what people are upset over - not that immigration i
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Portal 2 has some truly unbelievable custom maps that hit the sweet spot for brain games mixed with hi-if graphics IMO. If you’ve never played the low-grav lunar levels or used the time traveling gun, you’re missing out. Into the Breach is
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by jimbob45 2y ago
[BRICS is comprised of] Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates Really, you only need RIC and you'd be making a much stronger argument. The idea that all these countries work in
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Because our data is nearly universally stolen to the point of absurdity and most videos already contain in-baked ads in the form of endorsements and placements. YouTube certainly makes more from knowing my viewing preferences than it could
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by jimbob45 2y ago
I’d not give Valve credit for lootboxes when Pokémon and baseball cards surely were the direct parents of lootboxes. Not would I credit CSGO for creating the digital item economy when Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 were doing that much earlier on.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Does anyone multiplex monitors between PCs for work/personal use? I suspect most people consider real estate to be too much of a premium to have two desktops fully set up but sharing monitors would be a decent way to make it work.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Departure_from_... Reading his Wikipedia article, it seems like Cook made every misstep possible with Forstall. Does anyone honestly think Cook would still be CEO if he didn
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by jimbob45 2y ago
I received that today on Reddit where I previously had never seen it. It would certainly make sense to see an uptick in bot activity right now given the upcoming election.
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It's for this exact reason that the role of ombudsman was created for many newspapers, although the role has been dying for a while now. Having someone on staff whose job it is to keep everyone accountable makes things easier on everyo
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by jimbob45 2y ago
It would be trivial to check the proportion of for-profit HBCUs to nonprofit HBCUs but given the title of the website, I sense that they may not have checked on purpose.
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Or worse - code built around 90s code such that the ancient code is now untouchable and you have to perform binary gymnastics to accomplish your goals.
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like I found out recently apparently the Boston police regularly go over to Israel for training? That's really common for most countries on earth though[0]. Gaining exposure and experience from other countries is very valuable for po
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The problem is that we've already solved these issues many times over on other sites that are decades old. HN simply refuses to implement 21st-century forum enhancements. Brigaded reports? 4chan solved it by adding a mandatory enum to
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Someone on here recently pointed out that a FitBit-style watch where the kid can still be tracked-by-location and maybe receive pager-style notifications is a decent compromise to giving your kid a whole smartphone. That way you still get t
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Should the rewritten history still be preserved as history then?
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US government services are bad almost across the board. Most of us would pay a premium to use a private version over a government version of almost anything. I’m guessing you would find it equally confusing if I told you we’d pay a premium
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Everyone checks out on Fridays with the exception of the rare fire. But, crucially, we're all still present or within arm's reach. It seems more likely that we'll get 5 short days rather than 4 long ones so that everyone is
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by jimbob45 2y ago
This is a pretty clear first amendment issue That's what OP is saying - someone wasted a ton of time and money on lawyers to receive a verdict that they should have known was coming.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
There was no Scarlett voice incident. There was a verifiably different actress hired before Scarlett was approached. That’s it.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
If only Teams was developed by the largest stakeholder in the Windows native app ecosystem. It would be a perfect chance to show off native UI tooling that would make other companies want to develop for that platform. Oh well...
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I lost him on a ski slope The HN crowd won’t be sympathetic but I most certainly am. It’s not until you get lost skiing that you realize how difficult it might be to meet back up, particularly if you forgot where you parked in the sea of
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The US hacked and spied on Angela Merkel's phone and nobody really cared or did anything.[0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/12/germany-drops-...
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in the US that typically comes along with rather radical beliefs about the ability to own firearms which makes suicide rather trivial. There are a number of other levers the US pulls to make suicide particularly undesirable. State-sponsor
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Because Linus had more clout in the SE industry than anyone else and said “SVN bad” and nobody wanted to do enough research to disprove him so here we are. Merging in Subversion is a complete disaster. The Subversion people kind of acknowl
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I don’t intend to ever use a dating app but even I feel an aversion to wanting to use one if there’s even a chance I could be talking to a bot. Even worse if you’re a man and you suspect the girl is just looking for free food.
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This isn’t “Student Syndrome”, it’s Parkinson’s Law[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law
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Ever seen "12 Angry Men"? If not, you should. The kid was guilty in that movie though. The only other possible explanation is that he had a brother that no one ever mentions or interrogates with video game-like levels of precogn
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Sometimes these things land and sometimes they don’t. XP’s grassy hill seems to have been universally loved but could easily have been seen as lazy. Granted, MS used to actually take theming seriously. XP had an excellent marketing campaign
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Biden held significant sway in the country as VP from 2009-2016 and now again from 2021-2024. The fact that he chose to do the bare minimum on the last possible year 12 years into the job with less of a majority than he’s had in the past
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They get to imprison or assassinate anyone they wish Except these people. They assassinate anyone they wish, except for these specific people for whom they have spent millions of dollars imprisoning.

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