mapotofu

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by mapotofu 11mo ago
Absolutely. These places have long existed. Hence the risks of the dragnet of data producing consequences exactly like this. This is no accident.
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by mapotofu 1y ago
There are tons of sketchy ads on FB, Google, YT, etc., these aren’t safe/vetted sites, they’re crawling with scams.
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by mapotofu 1y ago
I live in a very walkable small town with lots of young families also biking and walking with their young children, as I am, and couldn’t disagree with you more about cars. It’s so nice to walk to the market instead of loading and unloading
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by mapotofu 1y ago
The points you’re making are personal attacks about the whistleblower. They don’t focus on the substance of the accusations (insecurity). Instead, they focus on your idea of their career motivations and their personality.
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by mapotofu 1y ago
In the authors plan the internet is still intricately tied to media consumption. > use Amazon to buy books (vs Google to query words) when i get curious Go to the library?
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by mapotofu 1y ago
If you’re going to be commenting a lot, consider reading the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Specifically all of the parts about commenting. Looking at your posts it seemed like you had no
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by mapotofu 1y ago
Yes, stop going to McDonalds altogether and cook at home. For $6 I can get a pack of 4 pack of artisanal and locally made sausages and dip them in mustard for literally the same value, far more food, and 1000x better taste. Stop supporting
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by mapotofu 1y ago
I’ve had to do very, very little to my Artix desktop since setting it up that I don’t think I’ll ever switch unless my life constraints changed significantly. NixOS seems like a lot to learn. I’m happy to be proven otherwise and know I’m no
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by mapotofu 1y ago
> No Forest Service namby pamby shallow grades and switchbacks here! Having done trail maintenance for over a decade, describing switchbacks as namby pamby sounds childish and ignorant. I also disagree that early maintainers were masochi
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by mapotofu 1y ago
That is accurate though I can’t quote the source or threshold offhand. I have faith in this community to keep vouching for it. Hopefully more users see your quote.
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by mapotofu 1y ago
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look
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by mapotofu 1y ago
I’m a parent and agree with the assertion that text is visually unattractive and off-putting to most children. I’ve read to my kid (pre K) a lot (a lot), and he can read (a little), but he took more interest in learning to read through an a
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by mapotofu 1y ago
I honestly don’t know how you can say this. When my son was born, we were asked enough times about circumcision that it seemed like a battle to get to “no”. (USA) The system has a system and a narrative. If you’re working against the narrat
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by mapotofu 1y ago
If you half ass for kids, you end up with half ass adults. Maybe they understood this.
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by mapotofu 1y ago
That natives did not colonize Europe or China does not mean they were not highly skilled with plants. What kind of argument are you making?
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by mapotofu 1y ago
If you added the pottery fragments to the compost pile they would be “baked” again, albeit in a very different environment, and the finished product would have structural diversity closer to soil. Normally that would be rocks, but if your g
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by mapotofu 1y ago
Or, they had far advanced knowledge of working and remediating soil to grow food. Peat mosses, charcoal, household compost, are all valid soil additives that we now have scientific knowledge to explain how those benefit soil, but they were
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by mapotofu 1y ago
> During their excavations, the scientists also found several artifacts, including charcoal and fragments of broken ceramics. These discoveries suggest that the area’s Indigenous farmers may have dumped their household waste and the remn
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by mapotofu 1y ago
With this in mind, why do the users trust these companies in supplying that data? I’m asking this is earnest.