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by qlm 8y ago
The difference for me (maybe this is regional?) is that for “blackbird” the stress is on “black” whereas for “black bird” the stress is on “bird”.
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by qlm 8y ago
Only on HN will you see somebody unironically suggest a bidding system for access to a park.
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by qlm 8y ago
What if there are many factories owned by different businesses producing the pollution? Do you sue all of them? What if the cost of cleaning is smaller than the cost of changing business practices to protect health and the environment?
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by qlm 8y ago
Can one of the HN free-marketeers explain how this sort of thing would arise "naturally" through market forces, without regulatory intervention?
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by qlm 8y ago
It's not necessarily always the correct command to run, it's just suggesting what you probably want to do.
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by qlm 8y ago
I was under the impression that the sterility of urine was a myth. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/ https://www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(15)00206-...
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by qlm 8y ago
Same. XPS 13 with Ubuntu. It's not the worst laptop experience I've had but it's close. The trackpad is a nightmare. The bluetooth adapter randomly dies and I'm forced to restart. About 10% of the time when I close the l
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by qlm 9y ago
Worst I've seen is a CMS site which, with caching disabled, used upwards of 40,000 queries to load the homepage.
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by qlm 9y ago
I can't speak for this new generation my work laptop is 6th generation XPS 13 running Ubuntu and the trackpad is absolutely terrible. Without an external mouse using the laptop is infuriating. There are random clicks while typing. Clic