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by ythl 9y ago
Or at least a way to toggle them all off at the beginning
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by ythl 10y ago
By that logic Clinton's supporters are a minority too. After all, 59,938,290 < 59,704,886 + 4,072,835 + 1,218,065 + 804,228
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by ythl 10y ago
The popular vote margin is razor thin and votes are still trickling in.
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by ythl 10y ago
I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among
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by ythl 10y ago
Watches markets around the world recover within hours Yeeeaaaaah...
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by ythl 10y ago
Come on, at least give the guy a chance before bashing the future economy.
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by ythl 10y ago
> with 1 super-well-prepared LSD experience in nature Please tell me you didn't run naked into a jungle
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by ythl 10y ago
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-teens-va...
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by ythl 10y ago
Are these other countries comparable to the US in terms of scale and population?
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by ythl 10y ago
What does this have to do with anything? Are the gamers political dissidents?
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by ythl 10y ago
Tell me, are you afraid of criticizing President Obama on Twitter? Are you afraid jack-booted secret police might kick down your door in the middle of the night and throw you in prison for 5 years if you complain about the government on Fac
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by ythl 10y ago
> It's a sad world we live in that I speed read your post and wasn't sure if you meant the UAE or USA.......... I hate this type of rhetoric comparing the USA to a police state. The USA does not detain, "disappear," o
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by ythl 10y ago
> Initially, it will explore the feasibility of building a line linking the two cities. So now it's one of those "feasibility" projects? Hyperloop suffers from the same problem as Solar Freakin' Roadways and Artificia
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by ythl 10y ago
How do you know people aren't double voting in areas that don't check IDs? Seems like an easy untraceable/unprovable way to commit voting fraud.
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by ythl 10y ago
Who keeps submitting these stories with clear political biases to HN?
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by ythl 10y ago
> Your belief should be based on the evidence you have, even if that means a small amount that leads you to an extreme conclusion. That's one way of thinking, but I reject it. You'll easily be manipulated by political and corpo
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by ythl 10y ago
Are there any acquired tastes that don't require some form of drug usage (alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, etc.)?
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by ythl 10y ago
> I've taught myself to enjoy damn near every food and drink out there and I am immensely glad that I have—I now inhabit a world filled with delights. Well yeah, when you have drugs to "teach" your brain how to enjoy somet
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by ythl 10y ago
> But that's not the same as 'appreciation,' which requires some education and experience, maybe even some aptitude. OP's point is that without the information about the price and make of the wine, your brain alone ca
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by ythl 10y ago
Is it better we have full agency and can potentially abuse things (sugar/fat, guns, drugs) or have limited agency that protects us from ourselves in the interest of public welfare?
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by ythl 10y ago
That's not a good enough reason to not have anti-vape commercials. Just because it's "less bad" than analog cigarettes doesn't mean we shouldn't speak out about their negative effects.
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by ythl 10y ago
Guns are often political focus because they are high profile in the media, but there are lots of "silent killers" that are responsible for orders of magnitude more deaths per year that don't get high profile press coverage (m
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by ythl 10y ago
> Come on, you don't go to a mall with a pencil, a brick or a bow and kill 50+ people Has this ever happened in the history of any 1st world country? The closest we've ever come is the Orlando shooting at 49, but... the events
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by ythl 10y ago
Do we have any statistics on percentage of vape users quitting analog smoking vs. recreational/teen experimental usage? If there are strong recreational vape trends in youth I can see why anti-vape ads might be a thing.
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by ythl 10y ago
> Desperation for action. If things are going badly, something must be done. This is something, so it must be done. I see this in politics a lot. If things are going badly (another "mass shooting" happens), something must be do
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by ythl 10y ago
What does GPL3 license mean in the context of Wssdl? That if I write a dissector with it then it has to be open sourced?
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by ythl 10y ago
It's just tiring though. I want to make a simple website. But in order to do it "right" or "optimally" or whatever, I need to flush all the old stuff I know down the toilet (jQuery, etc.) and learn a mountain of new
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by ythl 10y ago
> Amazing ly poor foresight on Apple's part
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by ythl 10y ago
> Treat their abuse as a health issue, not a criminal one. A health issue with a cost burden on responsible people who exercise good judgment. Addicts rarely pay for their own treatment. > When my brother overdosed on heroin, the poli
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by ythl 10y ago
> That said, I think there's a lot of unhealthy gun fetishization and lots of tragic deaths from irresponsible gun owners. Right, but my point was that cost is worth the freedom. There's a lot of unhealthy drug fetishization an

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