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by xref 4y ago
Can’t cook a proper milksteak otherwise
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by xref 4y ago
You’re agreeing with the op. You do have free speech on social media. You also have consequences. Same as on the street, work, school, playground, grocery store, car dealership…
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by xref 4y ago
I’m guessing nobody boundary tested this
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by xref 4y ago
Uhh like the thousands of existing regulations? Personally I’m banned from having roosters in my yard, banned from watering on even-numbered days, banned from renting my lawn to campers, banned from having political signs outside of the 6 w
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by xref 4y ago
Ars Technica is only $25/yr and has a lot of deep knowledge on specific topics
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by xref 4y ago
The WSJ has equally horrid opinion pages, as does my local paper. Editorial sections are basically trash in general, avoid them like the plague and your experience will be much better. Editorial sections are “clickbait” even before that was
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by xref 4y ago
The WSJ news section is generally described as center-right, and the editorial pages as hard-right
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by xref 4y ago
200t is “gold, silver, and emeralds”
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by xref 4y ago
Thousands upon thousands. There are a lot more companies in the world than FAANGs and SV unicorns.
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by xref 4y ago
For certain definitions of “free” spending time scrolling to try and find where the ad results end and my organic results begin is one thing that feels very un-free
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by xref 4y ago
Pretty sure Upton Sinclair debunked that theory over 100 years ago
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by xref 4y ago
Any reason you don’t do, say 3 to 4 months of each service so you cycle through 3 or 4 services in a year to see everything that interests you
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by xref 4y ago
Heh that's a neat puzzle, guess I'm not cut out for it because my post only returns "Getting closer...." or "<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>" lol
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by xref 4y ago
> an epic last stand to try to kill the invincible dragon, something that had only been done once before and was itself a legendary piece of MMO history. From a story linked below it sounds like the sleeper has been killed many times. Th
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by xref 5y ago
> Any company or person would do the same. Definitely not a given, NYT made a choice to act aggressively to monetize their IP and can bear the consequences of doing so. A classic example is Metallica suing their own fans who downloaded t
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by xref 5y ago
As someone with student loans and a mortgage, I got a 7% write down but a 18% pay bump this year! Hope I get it for several more years to come
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by xref 5y ago
Uh, looking at recent mortality rates COVID is much more dangerous than polio. Luckily people don’t have to pick one vaccine, they can have both.
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by xref 5y ago
Possibly the concept existed but the “blameless” term is widely credited to the GP, John Allspaw, who became CTO of Etsy. At least I haven’t found anything definitive predating him. Also impressive he’s had an HN acct for 12 years but only
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by xref 5y ago
Did he or didn’t he? Which he is he? Why would a blog post matter?
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by xref 5y ago
So, the burden lies with our ancestors who turned teosinte into corn?
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by xref 5y ago
Blackmail? Spider-man? Murdering journalists? I feel like maybe you’ve lost the thread here
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by xref 5y ago
Not sure the analogy holds when Visa and Mastercard repeatedly warn the hotel they’re violating their ToS, but the hotel dgaf
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by xref 5y ago
Having seen how you can massage numbers to say basically whatever you want time and again, that was my immediate thought “Gremlins 2 is our most watched movie _ever_”* * featuring a monster made entirely out of vegetables
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by xref 5y ago
Similarly if you’re looking to buy in the southern tip of Manhattan, Star Island Miami, or Brentwood.
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by xref 5y ago
lol, ok I'm not quite sure how discussing fractions of an integer would change the conversation in this case since we're already trying to compare one person's $120k to a statistical median of ~$35k. If you're actually i
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by xref 5y ago
Depends on your lifestyle but for the bulk of Americans $120k is extremely cushy, at nearly 4x the median salary of $35k
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by xref 5y ago
lol “semen-like” scent is right, we called them boiled-mushroom trees
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by xref 5y ago
Awesome vid, the visuals of driving in the nail to softwood are especially helpful. Had no idea cut nails were tested to grip about 1.5x better than wire nails, I thought they were mainly just about aesthetics
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by xref 5y ago
I hope they’d make a lot more than $100/hr doing a concert. Otherwise they sound like, you know, a local band without any real following.
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by xref 5y ago
This has been my experience, my one old piece of Griswold is way more nonstick than my several pieces of lodge have ever gotten, no matter how much bacon I cook in them. Gonna try the wire bush on the lodge, couldn’t make it any worse!

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