BobaFloutist

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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
Are you sure that the "so-called" was addressing the claim of statehood, and not of being Muslim?
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
As long as "no cash value" means they don't get summed in topline total comp, and that they can't be used to circumvent minimum wage, I don't see an obvious problem. If it's a bad offer, it's a bad offer.
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
Well the courts said they need probable cause for a search, so they needed an on-demand probable cause generator, or else they wouldn't be able to do pretextual searches on "randomly" stopped minorities anymore, which would b
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
If anything, that would lead one to assume that it over estimates typical length.
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Some painters can't paint if they can't sell.
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Basically, if you're vegan because you object to industrial farming practices, and value animal welfare, eating animal products (or even meat) that you personally produced, while personally overseeing the animal welfare and farming pra
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
> the main difference between myself and my peers is that I chose to live with my parents and save for a house instead of moving out It was very clever of you to choose to be born to tolerable parents with enough spare cash to let you li
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
I mean it's used by editors in headlines, but the article itself says "has described a new Colobus monkey species," and goes on to discuss the locals (relative un)familiarity with the species.
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
> The British government have a strong, well-established (since ~1950), and arguably inflexible attitude towards "right to self-determination". > Meaning: the people who live in a place get to decide who governs them and the
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
It's interesting to me whenever developers say "actually this framework/language/library/platform that's popular and lauded for how accessible it makes development has great performance as long as you dig into
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Do you consider the historic Arabic expansion across the middle east to be colonial, or is colonialism when boats?
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Of course there are, but women tend to be inconsiderate assholes in different ways. While a population of 300 million means you could probably find plenty of counterexamples, obnoxiously loud cars and motorcycles are overwhelmingly driven b
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
I've been a fan of continuous time change for a while now. In theory, to get a similar result to the hour change twice a year, you only need ~20 seconds of change every day, though I think you could do even better if you took location
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Right, because nobody has killed millions of people while representing themselves with a pentagram. The comparison falls flat.
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
One great "hack" I've discovered is that most hotels are more than happy to stow your luggage behind the counter, or even in a luggage room if you arrive before check in times. This more or less completely eliminated my gripe
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Sounds like a local maximum to me. Did you maybe mean a global maximum?
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
~1.5 Mg of sugar.
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Could you ask him for a video of himself 3d printing it?
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Part of this is defacto deregulation allowing suppliers to overcharge smaller stores with less purchasing power than big chains. (The policy not to enforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Patman_Act ). Pa
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
I think it would still be a vast improvement if online shopping was relegated back to only a narrow set of specialty goods. And this is ignoring the possibility of ordering less time sensitive specialty goods to a relevant store, where they
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
Or your watch telling you the room is 98 degrees because it's only ever measuring your body temperature
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
I suppose that would make "Botanical Computation" the use of plants to perform calculations.
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by BobaFloutist 3mo ago
I always thought of supply and demand as more defining a limit that the price approaches as the number of transactions and the size of the market approach infinity, barring structural obstacles or persistent information asymmetry to prevent
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
I hope you're aware that this particular argument only reinforced people in their existing positions, and has no chance whatsoever of convincing people that don't already agree with you.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
If I had to guess, it's like when an expensive medical test gets more accessible and they have to update their model. If the cost to get an MRI means everyone that gets one has a combination of symptoms and risk factors raising the pre
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Sure, but you're not scaling that to median income. Exchange rate only tells you half the story.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
You're comparing diesel to gasoline
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
It's been exceptionally successful in Singapore, for one.
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by BobaFloutist 4mo ago
Honestly I think the biggest advancements in ICE cars recently have been the development and maturation of hybrid cars. Imagine telling someone in 2006 that your minivan got 36 miles per gallon!

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