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   by sv9 6y ago

   Corporations and governments use ad campaigns effectively all the time. I'm convinced that if you took a fraction of that fusion money and bombarded people with "nuclear is fine" ads for a year or two, public opinion would ch
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   by sv9 6y ago

   Bioweapons are crappy precisely because of what's happening now. A good weapon discriminates, and lets you kill exactly who you want. By that measure, a virus is about as hamfisted as you can get. Besides, why unleash a pandemic on the
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   by sv9 6y ago

   I can't find the blog post, but I read one once that said, basically: you don't need labels or folders. You need your inbox, the archive, and trash. Once you've tended to an email, either archive it (and just use your search
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   by sv9 6y ago

   Presumably the cars crammed together in a field is supposed to be fun, whereas an interstate is supposed to be soul-crushing.
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   by sv9 6y ago

   This is 100% a rightwing talking point, pushed by the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter, and I wish it would go away. Look... if we all want to get along, then we need some way of working together despite disagreements. If
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   by sv9 6y ago

   They're going to make the service fail during a known period so people will know they haven't migrated.
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   by sv9 6y ago

   I'm consistently amazed by HN's ability to take the most meaningless, inconsequential part of an article (the scroll behavior, the whitespace, the usage of the word "bricked"), and nitpick it to hell and back instead of