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Re:Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:42AM (#39692767)
Family Dollar aggressively lowered the number of employees in their stores leading to disorganized and dirty store locations. It isn't surprising that they are now closing these locations.
Re:Safetyism Killed Playtime on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:20AM (#39191940)
"Children are far less free than they used to be. While 71% of Boomers and 80% of Gen X recall playing in the street as children, only 27% of children do today."

Freedom is being allowed to get run over in the street!

Re:Steam Deck OLED on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:04PM (#38212666)
So annoying how hard they are marking up the storage upgrade. I get the pricing model where they gouge the power users to make the entry level unit cheaper. It just sucks when every product is gimped on storage just for this idiotic structure.
The alfalfa must flow.
Re:Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:32PM (#29112217)
You beat me to it!
Re:New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:01PM (#28399650)
I would write it like this. Seems fine to me

  do_a_thing(now, using, five, different, parameters
      ) if some_complex_condition(using, four, different, parameters
      ) else do_another_thing(having, three, parameters)
I read it as women dominated beer pong.
Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:56AM (#26115004)
I mean just the idea of spinning up linux on Mircrosoft's cloud is pretty funny in and of its self.
Re:Books helped South African man overcome homelessness on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:32AM (#25791338)
Sad story.
Re:Books helped South African man overcome homelessness on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:32AM (#25791334)
You are wrong.
Re:Why cancer cells waste so much energy on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:30AM (#25791312)
Cancer is bad
Re:Prologue: A web framework written in Nim on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:23AM (#24848150)
A lot of different words out there.
Inspired by a Sonic the Hedgehog level.
Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:13PM (#24486209)
Pretty gross that he had that money in the first place. Good for him I guess?
Re:Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:19PM (#24483854)
Less developed countries would move towards reform if exploitation regulation went into effect.
Re:Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:11PM (#24483721)
Paul "By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s” Krugman.
I hope the athletes sue the school for a hefty fee.
We have investigated ourselves and found that we have done nothing wrong.
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life on Saturday August 22, 2020 @09:38PM (#24248838)
The peer-tube recommendation was really embarrassing.
Re:The dual PhD problem of today’s startups on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:14PM (#24215716)
Is this the onion?
Re:Essential Coding Theory [pdf] on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:50AM (#24198509)
Seems like a lot just to learn web coding.
Re:An Inside Look at CloudKitchens on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:06AM (#24078147)
Not sure if this is mentioned but it sounds similar to another restaurant disruption that gained ground recently, I'm talking about redesigned food courts. The idea was an artisanal food courts that chefs could rent stalls in. I am sure they are still around but I know there was a lot of fuss over their exploitative practices.
Re:I’ve Consed Every Pair on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:28AM (#23041763)
Maybe the most cringy thing I have read on here.
Re:Learn X in Y minutes Where X=Prolog on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:19PM (#22242240)
What is y?
Re:Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:36PM (#21838984)
Bit of a stretch
With the 60% majority required in the Senate, entrenched two party system, lifetime appointment of judges, President's power of veto, I could go on forever but all the different aspects of the Constitution discourage any change to happen. It as much if not more of an issue with the American political system as it is the people who are elected. Although they are not without reproach considering the current campaign finance laws are a joke.
Re:Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:34PM (#20587447)
Pointing out the obvious injustice and loss of adjacency imposed on voters in these districts is the obvious reason for this project but leave it to Hacker News readers to fixate on the technical aspects of redistricting while ignoring the political and social reasons which led to this issue.
I think yelp is another site.
The ruling class would never allow it.
Neoliberal capitalism offers no solution to mass waste or climate change.

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