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Re:Show HN: I wrote a maze traversal program in Clojure on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:30PM (#20245636)
I don’t have a whole lot to say other than this looks awesome! Well done!
Re:Little Free Pantry on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:40AM (#20240670)
It’s simple: poor people have always been screwed by people in power. It’s been that way since forever. It’s Florida too, so there’s probably a racial component. You get to screw over poor people AND black people.

There is no larger point. People are cruel, particularly certain political parties that tend to maintain power in the American South.

Re:The Hedonic Treadmill on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:24AM (#20240614)
But despite any positive or negative events, it still feels about as good as it did then, right? ;)
Re:2015 MacBook Pro recall: batteries overheating on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:35AM (#20239906)
Seriously. It boggles my mind why this is still a question. We don’t even have to get into the morality of it, but it’s simply not profitable to care this much, so why would Apple?
Re:Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:31PM (#20239664)
I refuse to believe that the solution to this is to throw our hands up and just accept that things like this will continue to happen. If large, multibillion-dollar corporations have such a hard time with complying with the law, and if we can’t seem to find a solution to that, then maybe we have to question the utility that these entities actually serve modern society. Maybe they shouldn’t exist at all if they’re hotbeds or criminal activity.
Re:Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:12PM (#20239576)
Nope, I mean they actually have less spending power than their parents, and that’s new: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672103209/why-arent-millennia...
Re:Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:44AM (#20232832)
Hey, at least it’s not a student loan. You can still discharge your $150,000 wedding in bankruptcy.
Re:Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:42AM (#20232816)
Can we please stop this canard? The youngest millennials are in their mid to late 20s, and the oldest are in their late 30s. Please stop generalizing an entire generation that for the first time in American history is expected to be worse off than their parents.