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Comment · 7 years ago
lies, damn lies and...
Comment · 7 years ago
FTA: "it is estimated that 28.3% of the EU population aged 16 or over could not afford a one-week annual holiday away from home in 2018"

Surely including 16 year olds is skewing these numbers.

Comment · 7 years ago
Because the media turns everything into a witch hunt these days.
Comment · 7 years ago
At Apple: "Ah, another request to not log anything, make sure you log everything."
Comment · 7 years ago
Neolithic 1%ers and their elite lake front Crannogs...
Comment · 7 years ago
Just like all the profits made from the "war on drugs" government will just view climate change taxes as a new source of revenue with no incentive to truly end the problem.
Comment · 7 years ago
lol you support an article that includes the following:

"consider the ethical implications of virtual insects, including insect brain “uploads” and insect-like artificial intelligences that will emerge in the next few decades."

Comment · 7 years ago
"In 2015, the federal government seized drugs the state bought illegally off the black market. The shoddy, shady sources for the deadly cocktails have become a weak spot death penalty opponents have leveraged."

wat?

Comment · 7 years ago
Millions of human beings are dying of starvation, but no let's fret about the insects we might step on while we walk across the lawn.
Comment · 7 years ago
"Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" came on over the radio while reading this.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm confident it will be as effective as the do not call registry.
Comment · 7 years ago
> No, it doesn't, considering it was documented in Scotland in the 1700s. The Plum Island facility was started in 1954.

Yes, it does. This strain was before unseen in the US so much so it's very name references where it was first seen in the US, regardless of where it may have been elsewhere in the world.

Comment · 7 years ago
This article blames sprawl and climate change, but neglects the connection to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center right off the coast of Lyme CT. Borrelia has been in the US for ages, but wasn't known for causing the debilitating symptoms this modern strain causes.
Comment · 7 years ago
"If you can, carry a pager"

Why a pager? I wasn't even sure that they still made them.

Comment · 7 years ago
I imagine HN is an AI promoting other AI's, which in turn..

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