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by knolax 6y ago
> Given his own cultural frame, and what he witnessed This type of fashionable moral relativism can be used to justify any atrocity. From an objective point of view, he could've stopped the child sacrifices without committing genoci
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Not everyone has a bank account. Wikipedia lists the Bronx as one of the places where this is prevalent[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked
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I hope you realize the irony of the fact that you're posting on a forum much more heavily moderated than Reddit.
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So was Afghanistan a burgeoning naval power that threatened our hegemony?
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If school teachers have been killing students without repercussion, I feel that it would be a lot more than just the school being burnt down.
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Line wrapping is an abomination.
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Termux is a lot more than just a terminal emulator.
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Considering the fact that there are five times as many Android devices as Windows devices, and the greater ease of use of Termux compared to WSL. I find that highly unlikely. Anecdotally every newbie programmer I've seen try to use WSL
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Musk went to an Ivy League... > While awaiting Canadian documentation, Musk attended the University of Pretoria for five months.[51] Once in Canada, Musk entered Queen's University in 1989, avoiding mandatory service in the South Af
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If the majority of people live in LA and NY, then that'd be reasonable, but that's not the case. If we got rid of the electoral college, rural voters would still be a substantial portion of the population. In the current system ru
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by knolax 6y ago
Says nothing about flagging comments or "manipulating algorithms"
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Do you have any sources or is this the standard "anyone who disagrees with me is a bot" rhetoric.
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The real reason is likely HN's broken auto-capitalization system.
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Publisher offers product inferior to what you can get for free. Confused why nobody buys product, makes product shittier.
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by knolax 6y ago
> And how could you even possibly compete with a book piracy site such as z-lib? You can get any book you want, for free, within seconds with virtually no fear of legal repercussions. People used to say the same about movie and music pir
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by knolax 6y ago
> micromillimetre Somebody doesn't know how SI prefixes work.
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Standard or not I wouldn't take any "research" that doesn't actually provide data seriously.
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I don't know what kind of art you guys grew up with, but when I was a kid all the art I was exposed to (in cartoons and textbooks and whatnot) used saturated colors and was shaded. This is the exact opposite of the art style I associat
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by knolax 6y ago
He's offended by the fact that they're not all white. It's the real reason why people are acting like they're outraged by vector drawings of people: some of them happen to be brown.
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I want you to explain to your grandmother why the software you wrote can handle dollar signs but not cent signs.
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The general trend of Kawaii things also looks nothing like the websites he's talking about. For example, they lack the distinctive hand-drawn cartoon art style like this site has[0]. [0] http://www.mitchiri-neko.com/
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It's also not accessible under the age of 21 in America, the largest and most influential Western country.
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Agreed, there's no additional meaning to the world kawaii that isn't already captured by the word cute. Actual Japanese websites look nothing like what the author describes.
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Author could've just called it cutification without wasting a paragraph to explain a common loanword. It's not like these trends actually come from Japan. Look at some of these top 20 Japanese sites[0], none of them look like what
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After you.
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Funny you mention American English given the fact that a great many Americans have various diacritic marks in their names. You can make the claim that those names are "foreign" but the most common ancestry group in the US is Germa
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by knolax 6y ago
This is really off topic but that picture of the "gala" surprised me with how dingy it looked. Looks like a shotgun marriage in a prefab church.
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by knolax 6y ago
Or "ignorant programmers who don't understand how text works or can't bother to support it properly getting to decide character encoding standards". We have English speaking programmers swearing by ASCII despite it not h
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by knolax 6y ago
I wouldn't list IRC as an exception. Every IRC channel I've ever tried using has been dead.
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There's a reason the military contracts out most of their R&D.

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