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  1. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    Yes, I wonder how that happened.

    Yes, I wonder how that happened.

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  2. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    I meant an actual collection of one cent coins in a couple of those books with circular indentations for each year’s issue. About those Coinstar machines, if you choose the Amazon gift card option...

    I meant an actual collection of one cent coins in a couple of those books with circular indentations for each year’s issue.

    About those Coinstar machines, if you choose the Amazon gift card option you get the full value of the coins.

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  3. Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance

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    I suppose getting rid of the penny is the sensible thing to do, but my grandfather gave me his collection years ago, and I’ve been faithfully maintaining it year after year since I was a kid. I’m...

    I suppose getting rid of the penny is the sensible thing to do, but my grandfather gave me his collection years ago, and I’ve been faithfully maintaining it year after year since I was a kid. I’m a bit sad that I won’t be able to do that anymore.

  4. Comment on The algorithm failed music in ~tech

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    Amazing. Exactly the opposite of what I like.

    Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners’ attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music.

    Amazing. Exactly the opposite of what I like.

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  5. Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities

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    Why did you omit the only other sentence in the paragraph you quote, which gives a specific example of the fusion of corporate and state power contemporary to the Founders?

    Why did you omit the only other sentence in the paragraph you quote, which gives a specific example of the fusion of corporate and state power contemporary to the Founders?

    And Madison understood something libertarians have forgotten: the British East India Company.

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  6. Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan in ~design

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    I was so happy to read this article. I’ve been in love with this typeface for a long time without knowing anything about it. Another place it (or something very similar) turns up is Japanese...

    I was so happy to read this article. I’ve been in love with this typeface for a long time without knowing anything about it.

    Another place it (or something very similar) turns up is Japanese websites when they need to render the Latin alphabet. That’s where I first became consciously aware of it. It seemed so wonderfully functional and no-nonsense.

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  7. Comment on Predictions of AI doom are too much like Hollywood movie plots in ~tech

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    I think it does expose something real, though. I’ve had a couple of disagreements where I genuinely couldn’t believe that anyone addressing the topic in good faith could disagree with me. I...

    I think it does expose something real, though. I’ve had a couple of disagreements where I genuinely couldn’t believe that anyone addressing the topic in good faith could disagree with me. I assumed it was a misunderstanding of the issue, but when I tried to explain I was accused of being condescending. Fortunately these haven’t been terribly important disputes, but something like the “scissor statements” the story posits do seem to exist.

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