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901.
by markdown 4y ago
If a company lobbying for change that would benefit them is political, almost all companies are political.
902.
by markdown 5y ago
I used to think this about rice. When I first started cooking rice, I washed it because I'd seen my parents and grandparents do so. But one day I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it was silly, and probably a habit passe
903.
by markdown 5y ago
It was. Best days of my life. I wish I could have given my own child the same.
904.
by markdown 5y ago
Yup, but as I live in the tropics, I can speak confidently about this behaviour, having witnessed it, experienced it, and participated in it in my childhood years swinging through mango trees.
905.
by markdown 5y ago
Many tropical fruits are seasonal, and found in great abundance when in season. As the season ends, competition for that particular fruit might heat up, and they might turn to the semi-fermented leftover fruit under the tree.
906.
by markdown 5y ago
> It's because those countries don't protect themselves from foreign predatory selling. Can't do that. You'd have the IMF and World Bank on your backs if you tried to place restrictions on trade. This is a one-way str
907.
by markdown 5y ago
> hypothermia (to 34° C) Is there a typo here?
908.
by markdown 5y ago
> David Friedman even thinks that climate change might be a net positive for the economy Which economy? Certainly not the ones that are getting destroyed by "biggest ever recorded" tropical cyclones. Maybe he meant Sweden fin
909.
by markdown 5y ago
> OS update breaks old Unity3D. I'm still on Mojave because I'd have to say bye bye to Adobe Fireworks if I upgraded.
910.
by markdown 5y ago
> To mostly kill off a species of bacteria, it can take months Why not just take a course of antibiotics before you start you new diet?
911.
by markdown 5y ago
> And I have way less gas. Sounds like you have a gluten intolerance.
912.
by markdown 5y ago
So you agree it should be criminal, so that the rich can get prosecuted for it as well? > Laws regarding defamation do more harm than good Everyone thinks so until their lives are ruined by someone else causing mischief. BTW have you sto
913.
by markdown 5y ago
That would give the rich the ability to defame the poor at will.
914.
by markdown 5y ago
> but there was an attempt. Unfortunately it was data-driven. This meant that if a new show didn't catch on within a season or two, it was cancelled. They've killed so many great shows chasing the lowest common denominator. The
915.
by markdown 5y ago
> We're very sorry, but we hit the rate limit of the model... please try again shortly.
916.
by markdown 5y ago
Typical to blame it on PEBKAC. "The pilots should have turned the plane off and on again." - Muillenberg, probably.
917.
by markdown 5y ago
AFAIK the bugs were caught, known about, and deliberately ignored. In fact even when the bug caused a fatal error that brought an instance crashing (to the ground, literally!), it was ignored both by Boeing and the US government.
918.
by markdown 5y ago
Can you name another country where you can bribe legislators and get away with it? "Most corrupt" definitely fits.
919.
by markdown 5y ago
What about that did you not understand? You have a corrupt government, where no law gets passed without input from corporations via their lobbyists. They have this access because they pay bribes for the privilege. That's banana republi
920.
by markdown 5y ago
https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/dark-waters-chemica... Basically, the US government allows companies to sell new chemicals they invent, completely unregulated. You could make a toxin today that kills ever
921.
by markdown 5y ago
Their "prowess" saw DuPont give cigarettes laced with new toxic chemicals they made to their employees to test the chemicals effects. Every human on earth has Dupont chemicals in their blood that will never go away, but accumulate
922.
by markdown 5y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. The GP commenter asked what brought us here... it was capitalism. It was people starting other sites that didn't censor or didn't have ads or didn't do this or that. The winners of capita
923.
by markdown 5y ago
> looks like it was _preparation for a future assassination attempt_ Random guy on HN reckons he knows more than the Secret Service and FBI who've investigated the matter. Par for the course I guess.
924.
by markdown 5y ago
If that isn't a rhetorical question... capitalism.
925.
by markdown 5y ago
> but military contractors in the west actually deliver stuff, Deliver stuff nobody needs? LOL, the American oligarchs aren't much better. Just because they use a different word (lobbying instead of bribing) doesn't make it any
926.
by markdown 5y ago
I get annoyed when code I write spits out unexpected responses to input. Very annoyed. I can sometimes be heard shouting at my computer. It "pisses me off". I'll sometimes make pronouncements and conclusions before I investig
927.
by markdown 5y ago
On HN even?
928.
by markdown 5y ago
You sound like someone who's never lived outside a western first world country. Like those folk who pushed crypto as the saviour of the average Venezuelan. I mean, your next door neighbour doesn't understand bitcoin, how is someon
929.
by markdown 5y ago
My dads Toyota Hilux was a rustbucket when he bought it 20 years ago. Still runs "fine", despite lots of use in the intervening years carrying highly corrosive NPK fertilizer on the farm. A bit of rust isn't anything to be sc
930.
by markdown 5y ago
Not true at all. They gutted GAE Standard Environment and turned it into a shell of its former self.

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