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I was responding to the comparison being offered. The reality is there are few companies that offer individual offices and a lot of real estate that exists for open offices. It's not a false dichotomy because by-and-large it is the d
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> (In Mice) Most important thing. A lot of people claim to have a gluten allergy. They have blood tests for that. As far as we are concerned, in humans, gluten is not bad unless you have the allergy. If you think wheat is causing you p
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> The idea that employers need to give you everything you want is strange. The working class, low class, and middle class are all tax cattle. We have to take ostensibly dangerous commutes on highways with people too tired/too rushed
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> if they no longer had to work in a cube farm, A cube farm is massively preferable to open offices. I never want to go back to working in an office but I especially never want to go back to an open office. The mixture of seeming too
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I've been around a few of these people in my life (albeit not nearly as successful). One guy in particular got people to invest millions in his sinking ships. Some people have a reality distortion field around them. Pair that with a ha
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This post really indicates how deep the mainstream misinformation networks have penetrated the minds of the American. The "real" Republican party, consisting of younger voters, is by-and-large populist. Majority of them are pro-ga
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I was with you until you mentioned Python. The use cases for the two languages are entirely orthogonal. Rust is a fantastic C++ replacement (nothing will replace C). My problem with Rust, now on month 3 of trying to love it, is exactly what
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Cloudflare controls about 19% of websites. Of the websites that use a CDN, 80% of them use Cloudflare [0] (in a note at the bottom of link). [0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-wh...
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Cloudflare controls about 19% of websites. Of the websites that use a CDN, 80% of them use Cloudflare [0] (in a note at the bottom of link). [0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-wh...
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I haven't had any problems on Waterfox. However, it is absurd to me I need javascript to simply visit a website anymore.
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Any time a large portion of internet traffic is controlled by a single source it brings problems like this with it. All cloudflare has to do is arbitrarily decide who and who can't use the internet and effectively their word becomes la
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Rawstory aint a source, bub. It is humorous my post is now flagged. Makes my point in my opening post abundantly clear.
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I am not an oncologist but I thought that metastasis was more related to a tumor growing too close to a major blood highway. If some of those cells that like to grow out of control get into that system they end up getting lodged all over th
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Up/down vote systems, especially ones that punish the poster quickly by rendering their post unreadable, create a hivemind of people who agree. HN posters LOVE to point out the fact it's "not like Reddit" when, in fact,
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> Fewer children means greater economic strength. I don't think you understand the utility of having children. Neoliberals love this position because it effectively supports importing as many immigrants as possible for megacorps to
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The agile mafia does not appreciate your sarcasm.
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Given the importance of this medication and it's promising initial data I have no idea why it's not given "warp speed" clearance. We cleared mRNA technology almost overnight in response to the pandemic. I feel like socie
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After looking at a few photos of the author via Google I am unimpressed by their physique. This article could've been written by ChatGPT. I would advise anyone reading it to heed the warning at the bottom: > You are not on the websi
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> There is no scientific evidence to support that there is some underlying, persisting system that drives consciousness - literally everything points to consciousness being driven by brain activity. Similarly, there's no scientific
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Because one of the meaningful, intimate, things someone can give you was given up 23 times in a row. You're not special and that has an effect on one's psyche. You can certainly enjoy a person's company but you will never be
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I also don't know how you can differentiate "consensual" from "non-consensual" sex work. 1. They say "no im not exploited" because they are afraid 2. They say "no im not exploited" because they a
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> comment was about a general case Greentext quoting to prove you can't read is like punching yourself in the face.
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It's always funny to see ad hominem on HN who tends to claim moral and intellectual superiority in all arguments. I don't really care about what the author says on other topics. The TikTok trial should've opened everyone&#x27
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> I would rather attribute this to the rigors of society which doesn't allow for different development paths. Adulthood is a hard transition and some people need more time or different structures than others, but society doesn'
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> The compiler helps a lot with its useful error messages. As someone trying very hard to love Rust this is just simply not the case. It takes the shortest path to most answers. The most trivial example where the compiler becomes less he
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Not sure why I am being downvoted. So I won't answer any further because the HN morons are apparently ravenous this morning.
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I have had nothing but trouble with Linux and Nvidia drivers. I am willing to put up with it because I love Linux distros but I do not recommend Linux to anyone because it still hasn't got enough polish the average person can use it wi
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The goal of a university degree is not to get a job. It's to create a person who is well rounded enough to drop into almost any field but very specialized in one field. Universities becoming trade schools is the reason bloated admini
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> That said, Emacs definitely was one of the culprits for ergonomics problems, in that it encouraged multiple-simultaneous-keypresses (e.g., Ctrl-something, Alt-something), which is one of many possible contributors to typing injuries. B
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Raising the debt ceiling isn't righteous. The dollar is almost exclusively backed by two things: the petrodollar and the subsequent ability to open the gates of hell in order to defend it. We are right to consider why we are a primaril

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