BMc2020

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by BMc2020 3y ago
I know. Back in the day there were two movies* out at the same time about an asteroid hitting the earth and suddenly there were lots of asteroid hitting the earth stories in the media. * Deep Impact and Armageddon * * (studios did this to
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Don't click unless you want youtube to know you clicked on a reason dot com video. Can be notoriously difficult to get out of your history. I ended up reseting my youtube history after clicking on a j*** p**** video. It would never s
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Everyone has had everyone one of these behaviors. What really matters is age, which is not addressed. Here are some more click baity articles from the site, if that's your level of sophistication. I myself insist on 10 things. That
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They're in for a shock when the rest of us weld the doors shut from the outside.
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Looks like good stuff if you are into that, but his blogging platform looks like an interesting source for new posts not seen elsewhere... bearblog dot dev/discover/
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Gemini says the shells pull 20,000 to 80,000 g's, but drones can drop much more fragile things. You could drop live cats if you wanted to attack ancient Egyptians, for example. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/
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It's actually alien sperm, and they are disgusted by what we are doing with it.
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terahertz waves, which are smaller and travel much faster than radio waves. Well raise my rent.
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Zuckerberg said that companies are no longer shrinking their employee size simply because of overhiring — they're now realizing there can be benefits to being leaner. While a lot of tech companies were reluctant to make cuts at firs
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cost averaging is what you do with an expense, not an asset. In this post, I’ve shown that DCA is rarely a good investment strategy. No shit Sherlock.
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An environmentalist movement sprang up, calling for the shutdown of the Metsamor reactors. The authorities backed down, and the two reactors were turned off on February 25 and March 18, 1989. Environmentalists defeated the Soviet Union?
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As for those refunds, Californians are still waiting for about $3.5 billion of the $5.5 billion that Consumer Watchdog estimates policyholders are owed for pandemic-era overcharges. The matter still hasn’t been fully resolved, say the st
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I made a script that sends an image i snip from my work compter to google photos where it is on my phone when I'm away from my cptr. I use it to replace handwritten notes on scraps of paper though, not documents.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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Some psychologists believe our values tend to cluster around certain poles, described as “intrinsic” and “extrinsic”. People with a strong set of intrinsic values are inclined towards empathy, intimacy and self-acceptance. They tend to be
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Even the IMF concedes that “An important feature of an economic model is that it is necessarily subjective in design because there are no objective measures of economic outcomes. Different economists will make different judgments about wha
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Grossing over $222 million total worldwide, the film is the highest grossing documentary of all time, according to Box Office Mojo....It was the highest-grossing film released by Lionsgate until it was surpassed by The Hunger Games in 2012
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I seem to recall from the end credits, where after it was over at Cannes, they said anyone who wanted to stay and watch Coven could. Everyone stayed.
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Ctrl-F Casino Royale During the film, the terrorist financier Le Chiffre uses a Ugandan warlord's money to short-sell stock in Skyfleet, thus betting the money on the company's failure. The banker plans to bring about said fail
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"...when I was reporting on white-collar workers who secretly juggle multiple full-time jobs. Overemployment, as the phenomenon is known, violates society's implicit norms of loyalty to one's employer more flagrantly than an
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Not to conflate capitalism and democracy, but any system that during normal operation creates the mechanism to destroy it will be destroyed.
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Why is Jamie Dimon – the most influential CEO in America – spouting these talking points in favor of Trump? Because he thinks Trump has a good chance of becoming president, and Dimon wants to be in his good graces.
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Weird I get downvotes when I think I'm the only one on the thread who had heard of him before.
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Microbe dot tv Dickson is semi retired now but you can check him and Vincents podcasts, TWiP and TWiV there.
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Cutting the tape isn’t just for the aesthetic. It’s a sign of respect to your coworkers. The baby manager stench is strong with this one.
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That's fair. Maybe to discourage vandalism? The phone company had a bad problem with people vandalizing phones to get the coins out. If you let people use a credit card, you're right back to identifying yourself.
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so you can't charge for free?
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Charles Stross dealt with the singularity quite a bit.
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Jack Welch: "PCBs don't last forever." PCBs: "Neither does Jack Welch."
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BMc2020: "I would have to be a complete nut to say Hitler was a great man." chris-orgmenta: BMc2020 said "Hitler was a great man."

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