Alex3917

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by Alex3917 5y ago
> I’m not the type to willingly buy in an HOA area The problem is that there's a hard trade-off between private property ownership and walkability. If you want to live somewhere where you can walk and bike to restaurants, houses inh
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Some Norway Maple cultivars are more invasive than others. The main problem with them though is that they release allelopathic chemicals from their roots which inhibit the growth of other native plants, trees, and fungi.
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> You'd have thought the people supporting the plan were proposing to kill members' grandchildren. That's crazy, considering that policy is likely adding an absolutely insane amount to everyone's property values. When
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If you can't keep your property free of invasive plants, the government should seize it and auction it off. Right now a big part of the reason why real estate is overpriced is that the costs of maintaining it are artificially low, beca
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> They do it simply because of risk and to protect their corporate image. They're only allowed to operate because they're licensed by the government, and the government can yank their license at any time.
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> It took me minutes to setup a Coinbase account to send funds to SciHub. The issue is getting money from Coinbase into Wells Fargo or wherever, not getting it into Coinbase.
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Getting a payment provider an adult business using crypto is going to be even harder than getting a payment provider for just an adult business.
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> Also for the record, the best mangoes are categorically Alphonso. How do they compare with different Asimina triloba cultivars? Or just too different to even compare?
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> Could you provide have evidence of your claims? Did you watch the Danah Boyd video I linked to? There aren't many better Internet ethnographers than her. Like I don't know if she's the absolute best person in her field,
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Of course it is. The entire premise of "media literacy" is that what the mainstream media is telling you might not be true, so you should do your own research. Which of course is accurate, but at the same time a lot of people woul
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> this seems more about instilling bias under the name "news literacy". Media literacy classes have already been shown to turn some percentage of kids into nazis no matter how you teach them, so any particular bias that might b
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> is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches The typeface pulls your left and right eyes toward each other, making you look at it cross eyed. It's incredibly nauseating, like the feeling you have
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Texas House Speaker signs 52 arrest warrants for house Democrats(texastribune.org)
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Cold Call(theupsizers.wordpress.com)
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> Turns out it has phototoxic sap, causing blisters and scars if you touch it and then expose that skin to the sun. Fun fact: The name for this is corona syndrome, named for people getting severe burns after cutting limes on the beach. A
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Right. If things are already getting postponed during delta, there's no way anyone is going back during lambda.
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If you get a breakthrough case of Delta, you have a 19% chance of getting long covid. That’s not to say there should be mandatory vaccinations, but case counts definitely matter.
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In the U.S. there is a law that says if you want to hire government-subsidized indentured servants from overseas, you need to the advertise the job to U.S. citizens first. Just because there is a sign advertising the job doesn't mean t
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> This is about a restriction NY is imposing on New Yorkers. So you're saying that since I live in Connecticut, I'm allowed to eat indoors in NYC without showing proof of vaccination? I realize that this is literally what the a
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> Super easy to get from a city/state website after entering a few details (think name, when your last vaccine was, which vaccine etc). Only available to those who got vaccinated in New York. And given that the NYC border is all of
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> It seems pretty weird to ask the indoor business owners to be the ones who are in charge of controlling that the vaccination rate is increasing and to be the one who are punished because the vaccination rate is not high enough. If thei
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by Alex3917 5y ago
It depends what you mean by email. For example, FWD:Everyone (fwdeveryone.com) allows using the Gmail add-on as the only interface between the user and service. So the user can stay entirely within their inbox, but they aren't interact
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by Alex3917 5y ago
If you work in the industry, the only thing you should care about is minimizing your risk of RSI. I've never used Colemak, but given that it doesn't have the same emphasis on alternating between hands, it would seem like it would
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by Alex3917 5y ago
You can't increase your odds of winning an Olympic gold medal in running by increasing your chances of becoming a quadriplegic or suffering a traumatic brain injury. However you can for sports like gymnastics, snowboarding, and cycling
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We shouldn't have sports where you can increase your chances of winning by increasing your chances of becoming a quadriplegic or getting killed. Whether or not Biles should have pulled out of competition is moot, because her event(s) s
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> Imagine a small company trying to write their own web browser from scratch nowadays. It's just not possible! PrinceXML seems to be doing reasonably well. Yeah, they're never going to catch up to Chrome, but they've been
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It's named after the one who told other people about the relationship. That's about as fair as you can get.
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> is this one of the first actual depreciation and get off service things AWS has done? The transition from Amazon Linux to Amazon Linux 2 on Elastic Beanstalk was pretty rough. The migration took a full week, and there was really only a
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Also, at least in some years, people who got the flu vaccine in previous years are more likely to die from the flu.
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by Alex3917 5y ago
Is there a good way to search (e.g. like a Google search) only personal blogs and homepages? I was looking into this the other day, but couldn't figure out a solution.

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