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by nkurz 2y ago
Upvoted because I like and agree with much of your answer, though I'd ask you not to assume my worldview just because I'm asking the question. Growing up, the richest relatives I had were union machinists. I appreciate the role o
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Can someone make the case for why we should support the port workers in this situation? My intuition is that while they are probably competent at what they do, there are likely many people who would be eagerly and immediately replace each
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Is it regionally common somewhere to call a "jigsaw puzzle" just a "jigsaw"? Or is this just done by fanatics? From the title I couldn't figure out what this was going to be about. I notice that Wikipedia[1] says
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https://archive.is/i5uej
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https://archive.is/SQ6jT
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https://archive.is/FIfjX
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Your submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41606356 ) was killed because it looks like spam. Also, it's in Turkish. Generally only English language submissions are appropriate for submission here. But sinc
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True, but "filled with lots" and "slurry" might also be misleading. It's many tiny particles of plastic across a really big area, with the pieces so small and far between that it's generally not visible from t
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Saddling up on the high seas – the cyclists powering 50-MPH yachts(bbc.com)
24 points by nkurz 2y ago|10 comments
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The one in the GP worked for me: https://na.unep.net/geas/archive/pdfs/GEAS_Jun_12_Carrying_C...
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Same, although it happened to me last week. I've been using Google since they were on stanford.edu, and this was the final straw for me. I still could often find what I want within the top few hundred results, but being required to c
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1) I instinctively agree with 'roenxi', but I'd also agree that I don't have a solid basis for this belief. Could you expand on your claim that Malthus was wrong, as opposed to just too early in his prediction? 2) Have
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'Right to Repair for Your Body': The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine(404media.co)
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This is obviously a very important correction if it is correct. That said, I think you may be correcting only the simplified strawman version at the top of the post, while the "actual" version offered at the bottom corrects for th
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Upvoted, but that's a bad reason to stop reading. This isn't a how-to guide. This is an explanation to the rest of us of about how our tax laws are so full of holes and that the very rich can create schemes for multigenerationa
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Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained(old.reddit.com)
598 points by nkurz 2y ago|475 comments
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Mapped: How Much of Each U.S. State's Population Lives in Cities(visualcapitalist.com)
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I was about to post the same. Obviously, it wasn't a lack of effort that left out these numbers from article. Cynically, it's because they wanted the reader to reach a conclusion that the numbers did not support. It is confusing
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https://archive.is/j3ee1
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Since the original citation was for a Subaru, it made me wonder how Subaru's X-Mode actually works. It says, among other things: X-MODE in Subaru vehicles is specifically engineered to push through tough conditions like snow and mud.
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The reasons given that an invasion would be difficult for China seem reasonable, but I'm bothered that it seems to assume "unifying" with Taiwan would require a land invasion. Given Taiwan's dependence on imports, it se
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I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but blaming it on "New Englander entitlement" seems inexplicable. The culprit and her husband live full time in St Louis, Missouri. The Maine property is their vacation home. Unless you
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> Consider you dropping a baseball off of the Eiffel Tower That seems like a really odd example to use unless you are making the point that the basic laws of physics can only take you so far. As starter, assuming we drop it from the top
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I don't buy 538's new election model(natesilver.net)
32 points by nkurz 2y ago|31 comments
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Norfolk (the developer) has graciously granted permission to home gardeners to save and share seeds: Will my Purple Tomato fruit make seeds? If I save the seeds, will they be viable and will the plants be the same Purple Tomato plants? Y
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Not the OP, but I have some of the same concern. No, it's not a "mockumentary"; yes, it's based on true events; but based on some of Herzog's other films and public statements, there are good reasons to doubt that
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Should the Hawthorn Be Saved?(theatlantic.com)
35 points by nkurz 2y ago|14 comments
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https://archive.is/O8cVw
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Williams College (US school similar to Dartmouth in culture but smaller) had the same requirement for over 100 years. It was removed in 2022 largely out of concern that it had "disparate impact" on non-white students. Now those
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I've only skimmed the paper, but I didn't find anything that would clearly distinguish between things that harm someone's reputation in a justifiable way, and things that harm it in an unjustifiable way. For example, if the

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