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By having a really low range of inventory and really high turnover of that inventory so they focus on bulk buying only a few items. Walmart sells everything and there is a cost in supporting being a one stop shop. In Aldi it's typical
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>What on earth does beef have to do with this? The topic here is eating habits that damage the environment.
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I'd be in favour of removing meat subsidies. If the 'true' price of steak or a burger was ten times higher people would eat it for special occasions and not every day with every meal. It's telling and hypocritical how ma
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I think stuxnet was made famous (at least in my circles) by this quora post: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...
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>There's a saying in Icelandic - þetta reddast - that means "everything will be alright", and, while many languages have a similar expression, this one is really embedded in Icelandic culture. Ireland has a "It'l
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I think Theatre Royal vs Hawkins House is better example in Dublin: https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/then-now/hawkins-st-theatr... Almost seems criminal.
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I actually would expect less calories to make you more productive at work, increase cognition and libido. Obesity has been shown to negatively affect all three. More data is always useful for drawing more precise conclusions but the availab
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What about users accounts to the share the files and then adminstrating those users over the internet, what about metadata and images for browsing. What about viewing on Smart TVs. Plex and jellyfin offer a lot of functionality that your su
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I use Jellyfin -- what's a large library? I have 500 movies and it works perfectly. Hooked up to a Digital Ocean Spaces Bucket. I also have dozens of users connecting to my server. 4GB RAM, AMD CPU. My fear of plex is them mandating a
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They had a voting system. By having mods decide what was and what wasn't a 'good' question undermined the whole point of the voting system. Mods should use their powers to filter out hate/spam/trolling/egregiou
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Will you be making making the game pretty or simply demanding others do that? I see a fantastic effort here to replicate the Civ V mechanics. If people want to improve the graphical assets they're free to do so.
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I'm not a biologist but how can certain bacteria and viruses be resistant to alcohol? I barely recall an internet discussion where people were concerned about "super bugs" coming about from using alcohol to disinfect -- &quot
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I gave up on Spotify after the Neil Young debacle. I've tried Deezer and Qobuz both really weren't as good as Spotify they lacked the range of songs and creating playlists was really awkward -- any other alternatives people would
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>I'm on the fence about it. Any thoughts? Discuss the thoughts at the top of the GitHub page so that your thinking and criteria are clear of why certain games are included an others are not. It's completely fine to exclude Civ
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I don't think the dangers of AI are not 'Skynet will Nuke Us' but closer to rich/powerful people using it to cement a wealth/power gap that can never be closed. Social media in the early 00s seemed pretty harmless -
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Civ VI (more precisely all Civ series games) should be on this list. There is a whole category of Great Engineers and the game mechanics allow these real life Engineers to aid in the construction of Wonders and triggering a win condition. C
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It's absolutely pandering. These same lads denounce democrats and progressives for being "socialist" or "communist" for not backing unhinged neo-liberal policies. Xi is literally an authoritarian communist quasi dic
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The West Bank Settlers are 'to me' the crux of the entire conflict. It's why Israel can't legitimately say they're looking for peace when they actively support these 'salami tactics'. The constant and cons
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You're not supposed to be able to patent 'Mathematics' or 'Nature' because these phenomena are 'discovered' and not 'invented'. You can patent a device that exploits a natural phenomena but not t
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>There's not much money in selling dev tools, just ask Borland, Sun, or Microsoft. I think that's not the case for Microsoft -- GitHub, Azure, OpenAI, Visual Studio etc. The make lots of money selling Dev Tools.
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I'm of the opinion it was his idea, he convinced the board it would be a change with some pushback but he'd get it across the line. He has a history of these changes (he worked at EA Games previously) while the board do not have a
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Wouldn't the 'better system' produce smarter politicians? Are you not just arguing the semantics between the ends and the means to get there.
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>Of course this would get upvoted on HN Entire article begins with "What If" and then explores it seriously. What if questions are important even if the subsequent topic isn't fundamentally serious.
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Those of you interested in a somewhat impartial take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17p3ThgMQYo Patrick Boyle explaining how the Irish economy works with a focus on Apples operations in Ireland. While Ireland isn't a
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This sort of thing won't convince HNers or iOS Devs or other software devs who heavily use Mac hardware but it will convince tech journalists who aren't as tech savvy as they like to think they are who will spread the 'good n
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I live in an apartment in Dublin -- noise is not a problem for me. I'll concede there is a bias in Ireland against apartments. I suspect it's because of the perception that 'flats' are either like the Ballymun flats or L
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I suspect Stephen made a trade off between terseness and power and it being intuitive. Part of the value of jq is that it's effectively a "small program" that can easily be piped in a one liner rather than a program that has
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You want to provide any examples of what you mean or just leave a statement saying "jq is the worst ever"?
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Yeah, I'd say Charlie Brooker's stint at PC Zone was more notable. That was the best gaming magazine ever and the world is shitter without it. Dave Woods, Jamie Sefton, Will Porter, Rihanna Pratchett. I'm genuinely amazed PCG
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Why?

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