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I don't think it's a secret that Musk has been cosying up to the Trump right for a while now. It's only a nasty comment if you find those individuals deplorable, and Musk clearly doesn't.
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Wait, everyone gets frisked at Indian malls? Was certainly not my experience 20 years ago.
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Does your bank take 30% of your money every time you transfer it between accounts? > It's not unbelievably high Stockholm syndrome?
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I can only speak from personal experience (what I've seen), but I googled and found this: > "Any pig that gets out can revert back in a matter of months to a state where it can exist in the wild," said Brown. "It will
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Just personal experience. I googled and found this: > "Any pig that gets out can revert back in a matter of months to a state where it can exist in the wild," said Brown. "It will get hairy, grow tusks and get aggressive.
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A pig gone feral will adapt very very quickly. The'll get fitter, their hide and hair thicker. Within a year a pink factory pig will be quickly transformed. They're very intelligent and would have no trouble handling that terrain.
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You (and most Americans... maybe most humans), have PFOA's (forever chemicals) in your blood that came from 3M. https://www.healthvermont.gov/sites/default/files/documents/... https://the
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Young? I'm pretty sure he was racing when I was a child 30 years ago.
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Possible, yes. But takes twice the typing.
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HN broke it. Not even an error message. Nothing happens when you click the button.
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Unscientific nonsense!
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Yup, women in the US need to be extremely careful about the apps they install. In Texas, app devs can get massive bounties for reporting if a woman has a medical procedure.
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In America, if you have unexplained wealth, the government can sue your notes and coins.
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> So yeah country based discrimination baked into US immigration law sucks. While it sucks for an individual from a high-emigration country, if one of the goals of immigration policy is greater diversity, than country-based discriminatio
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Not unique to the UK. This is common all over the world. It's the most efficient way to educate the masses cheaply.
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70% of every dollar you donate to a beggar goes to Tiktok. It's understood that Tiktok, like every other business, has costs. What they do with the money (pay 30% to X, 20% to Y) is irrelevant. Some % of the 70% is profit, therefore th
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LOL, I wonder if HSBC tried to make that claim. "Money laundering is against our TOS, so clearly we aren't money launderers." https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...
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What's "great reset"? Is that economics jargon?
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> it already is normalized and has been for a decade In use isn't the same as normalised.
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> I'd wager that an average webpage size is probably closer to 1MB. And the average American is heavier than they should be. Doesn't make it ideal. Always endeavour to trim the fat. This is HN, and despite the likely predomina
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"It's a Unix system. I know this!"?
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You missed my point and are stating the obvious. The problem is that that is a just a tiny tiny tiny fraction of all websites. The vast majority of websites are websites . Which leaves all web devs fighting over the few web app gigs.
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> those clients never dry up As someone who used to work in web dev, they most certainly do and did. And you have an ever growing pool (worldwide) of workers who are jostling over that dwindling supply of gigs.
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More capitalist propaganda. You're incorrect... workers do get paid in a command economy. Of course there isn't a command economy on earth, so this is pointless whataboutism on your part, but like I said... capitalist propaganda
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> Yeah, the issue is that you'll either have to install chargers every 10 feet in almost every city It's just an electrical outlet. There are dozens of them for every parking spot already, in the house/office/building
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TransferWise (now called Wise) are just as bad. They will sieze your funds if the person paying you uses certain keywords in the narration.
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You'd never have to visit a "gas" station. You'd charge at home, at work, everywhere the car parks. Every parking lot in every building will be a charging station. You plug in your car wherever you are, and get a bill
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> It's also weirdly off-center. It isn't. Just looks that way because the first few sentences are short.
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I see. I wouldn't know, as I haven't done any research on or looked into the impact of this policy on things at Yale. Since you seem to know enough to call it lip service, I assume you went there. what do you think should be done
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What do you consider higher learning? Learning how to screw in a lightbulb, or how to turn manipulate people into clicking on ads? > As the parent indicated, they're not willing to even communicate with people who don't parrot

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