quercus

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by quercus 8mo ago
* Except when the 3.5% is entirely geriatric women.
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by quercus 8mo ago
Immigration was a pretty big topic during the election. People knew what they were voting for. I find it sad that you find it hard to believe people have civic pride they want to defend.
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by quercus 8mo ago
Who can resist a little schadenfreude.
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by quercus 8mo ago
They literally voted for it.
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by quercus 8mo ago
“weak men create hard times” never fails
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by quercus 8mo ago
Because most people are happy to see immigration laws enforced.
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by quercus 8mo ago
I can't remember a bigger HN blackpill than this getting downvoted.
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by quercus 9mo ago
468 comments.... guys, guys, this is a Blue Sky post! Have we not learned that anyone who self-exiled to Blue Sky is wearing a "don't take me seriously" badge for our convenience?
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by quercus 9mo ago
birdsong? are you talking about coqui frogs?
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by quercus 10mo ago
I was interested until I got to the "fascist" line where the author reveals his motives for avoiding AI. Bummer, I was hoping for a level headed technical argument. This post doesn't belong on the front page.
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by quercus 2y ago
reminds me of the classic 80's "Take on Me" music video
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by quercus 2y ago
Time for Selig to build some original ideas instead of yet another wrapper around a popular service.
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by quercus 2y ago
I thought this article was going to talk about async IO's potential to cause insidious bugs that you don't notice until they're crashing jet planes. That's definitely a topic worth of a blog post.
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by quercus 2y ago
Cheers to the author for finishing this brilliant essay even if he can't finish his software projects!
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by quercus 3y ago
Daniel Swain is a major climate alarmist. Read with a grain of salt.
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by quercus 5y ago
Hawaii's "fragile native ecosystems" exist only in your fantasies of the past, or way up in the mountains where nobody lives or farms. If Medinilla wants to invade an Albizia grove, who cares?
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by quercus 5y ago
Another preservation technique I've seen is burying the fruit in ash.
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by quercus 6y ago
My finger was hovering over the upvote button but I think the downvotes were required to validate the comment.
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by quercus 6y ago
Sounds like you don't know the difference between right and alt-right.
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by quercus 6y ago
No pictures. Drives me crazy when an article about an archaeological discovery provides not a single image of the object.
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by quercus 6y ago
Thanks for stating the obvious, Sherlock. My point is: the WORRY about climate change is mostly focused on urbanism. The loudest voices come from the city. These people have a weak connection to nature aside from the occasional hike and hol
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by quercus 6y ago
All the worry about saving the environment is really a worry about preserving the viability of urban/suburban lifestyles.
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by quercus 6y ago
Hawaii is not very expensive unless you want to live in a country club neighborhood and survive on imported products. You left off Puerto Rico. I know many Americans who have moved to Central/South American countries without much troub
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by quercus 6y ago
There was a period in my life (almost a decade ago) when I was sleeping poorly due to unhealthy work habits and excess caffeine. I was in my 20s and early 30s during this time and felt invincible, but the effects on my body were profound. T
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by quercus 6y ago
I wonder why so many people wishing to live in rural locations pick places with brutally cold winters, rather than the tropics. If you want to live off the land you'll have a much harder time of it in cold places.
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by quercus 6y ago
I used to maintain a bunch of open source libs but stopped because I felt the expectations from users were unrealistic for something that was not my full time job. Open source is great but I wouldn't do it again unless maintenance was
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by quercus 6y ago
Would you be shocked to hear that I do stop to consider what the conversations meant to her? They mean she gets to vent about all the problems in her life she's had decades to fix, but has chosen not to, because it feels so much better
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by quercus 6y ago
If my comment implies I only think of my mother once a month, then I certain failed in writing it. I think of her constantly - I spent decades trying and failing to be a positive influence on her life, at great emotional cost to myself. It
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by quercus 6y ago
Likewise, I'm scared of people, for their laziness in accepting the consequences of annihilating our culture for a few extra points of risk reduction.
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by quercus 6y ago
How can you reduce all of the freedoms we've lost in the lockdown to "go stand in stores." That's life to you? Standing in stores? It will not be possible to have a rational argument about the cost/benefits of lockd

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