jstewartmobile

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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
My point is that many Americans, self included, never heard of FGM until immigrants brought it into to our country. > you seem to think that everyone in these countries is the same Your words, not mine. Everyone is an individual. I thi
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
$10,045.99 industrial grade pillow
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
be careful what you wish for. per GBS: " all professions are conspiracies against the laity "
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
He's talking about you people. So many others have reached the same conclusion.
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
So you don’t see the organized crime tie-in when there’s obstacle after obstacle in billing and revenue, high bandwidth and storage expenses, a product that is in such oversupply as to be practically worthless, in a space that is mostly opa
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
I’m not claiming AstroTurf here. I’m claiming “track record.” For nearly every time I’ve been accused of bullshit, vindication is right around the corner.
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
No. I think the typical HN commenter participates in a debate where the boundaries are narrowly and firmly defined by officialdom, and that any discussion outside of those boundaries will be treated as heresy. But hey, nice job putting wor
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
If you keep tabs on the history of organized crime, the general unwillingness of payment processors to deal with the porn industry, the quality of advertisers on porn sites, and the logistics of the porn business in general, it is a very ob
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
1. Elite suppression of the upper-middle class ( upper-middle class pays most of the taxes ). Imagine the kind of market competition / wage pressures they'd face if doctors/lawyers/engineers only had to pay the same rat
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
With all due respect, Konrad can go f himself. Plenty of performant, non-foot-gun, alternatives to C++ these days. The choice of that language, and any abuses of it fall entirely upon Ferguson and his team. And for this nugget: “ It’s als
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Commissioned by Mozilla. 3rd place in browsers, but 1st place in penis recognition!
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
I doubt they do the eight-separate-interviewer hazing to people with public achievements. Who would stand for it? " Go calculate the angle, Linus. "
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
HeidiSQL on Wine, seconded.
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On the Usability of Editable Software(flak.tedunangst.com)
2 points by jstewartmobile 6y ago|0 comments
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Exactly. That's also a big part of why Mao and Stalin had such high body counts--position maintenance. Even Hitler was not immune. There's a story in Speer's biography where he was lecturing the gauleiters for wasting mater
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Feudalism/Democracy/Socialism/Capitalism/etc. ceased to explain reality a long time ago. Regardless of one’s ideological starting point, the complexities of the modern world will necessitate an org chart which is both ve
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Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as Covid-19(usatoday.com)
1 points by jstewartmobile 6y ago|0 comments
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Maybe because they don't get extra money for labeling a patient as a COVID patient: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
The masks are coming off!
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Things eventually have to add up. If they could de-rail your train because you’re the wrong race/gender, you were on the bullshit track to begin with--even if the world hasn't gotten wise to it yet. Lonnie Johnson grew up in segr
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
The Lancet reported similar findings on March 5: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2... The media has consistently been 1-2 months behind on the most relevant COVID-19 information.
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
You have the wrong end of the stick. I am not here to forbid some words, but to liberate others.
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
If they named it something like “ Pinochet ” or PIZZAGATE , I’m sure we’d be getting completely different responses from the same people who think naming a project after a child sacrifice idol is “funny” or “cool“.
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Double-down on a real subject like math/physics/chemistry or maybe engineering, and then the wizards in the current shop won’t seem like such wizards after all. Workplaces generally aren’t the most efficient avenues for personal d
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Will Blavatsky have the last laugh?
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
My public school was teachers taking naps and complaining about their personal problems while feral inner city youths dry-humped to the smooth sounds of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. From the stats, I believe my experience is the rule rather t
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
Most schools are massive daycare centers. Giving gifted kids their own time back—to pursue their own interests—would be more effective and less expensive than “three grades ahead.” Grinding out paperwork and watching the clock in the 8th g
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
So many gilead/remdesivir posts here... of no better quality than the whole chloroquine controversy... Ctrl+F Gilead: https://www.ycombinator.com/people/
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
How about responding to the words I wrote instead of the ones you imagined? I did not advocate " upvoting articles from blithering conspiracy theorists ." I have advocated two things: 1. Not flagging/censoring/de-platfo
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by jstewartmobile 6y ago
" Why not get YOUR information from... " I got my information from the academic article ( https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965 ). Then I saw this submission on HN that I felt was an OK summar

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