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by D-Coder 4y ago
"The books in question were published between 1923 and 1964, before changes to U.S. copyright law removed the requirement for rights holders to renew their copyrights. According to Greg Cram, associate general counsel and director of i
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by D-Coder 4y ago
I vaguely remembered a short story where a person at a cocktail party had been a different gender the week before, although some people never changed. It might be: > Robert Silverberg's Son of Man (1971), whose protagonist is transp
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Maybe mark the cup with something that will remind you. Clip a paperclip over the edge? Store it upside down? (If you're using a cup.) This could help interrupt the habit.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Well, teeth perform perhaps the most difficult task of the entire body. Take entirely external substances of all kinds of textures and densities and contaminants, crush all that to tiny particles, try not to get worn down too far in the pro
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by D-Coder 4y ago
> The issue is simply that modern day life is typically TOO easy for most people and gives back very little deep meaning. Any references that people were less depressed when things were more difficult?
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Oh wow. Excellent. Thank you.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Excellent, thank you! Interesting that in at least one situation, the Air Force really did use frozen chickens to be extra-sure of the canopy durability.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
"My company kills employees that they don't like — actually shoots them and puts the corpses in a dumpster." "Well, start your own company and don't kill people if you don't think it's right."
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by D-Coder 4y ago
It doesn't take a planet-full of stuff to build a space city. And dragging it up a gravity well is an extra step.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
It's pre-emptively reserving certain prefixes. "is" is for any function that returns true/false (which then collides with "island", "israel", "isaac"). "str" for any string functio
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Reference please?
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by D-Coder 4y ago
WOW, I hadn't seen that about vaccinations. Seems to be a good deal of info from around 2020 about this. One example is https://aaic.alz.org/releases_2020/vaccines-dementia-risk.as... .
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Or helped them be so efficient that the company didn't go out of business.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
For me, at least, typing is a lot easier than thinking.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
This story has also hit Ars Technica and the Washington Post (at least).
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Did they foresee the lawsuit?
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by D-Coder 4y ago
If you want to stick with HyperCard, I recommend LiveCode (www.livecode.com). I have a dozen stacks or more that I use to keep track of things, remind me, my own very personalized calendar program, etc etc etc. They no longer have a free ve
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by D-Coder 4y ago
> one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context Certainly a good reason to ban everyone who had the same vowel in their name... or something.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
How do human-driven cars do in the pouring rain or snow?
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by D-Coder 4y ago
> He can feel however he likes; nothing compelled him to post it publicly for all the world to read and comment. He has a blog. He can post any thing he likes, any time he likes. As can anyone here who can manage to put together a blog.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
There's always option three: Musk keeps it working, but worse than it was three weeks ago.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Laziest way possible? Flamethrower. This might cause some... collateral issues.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
1. Clearly describe the correct process in your other process documentation. 2. Email everyone who might be involved a note about this and a link to the documentation and why it is important. 3. Next time someone ignores it, rip them and
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Explanation of Australia's RCV: https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-and-australia-s-up... (although this is from 2013). I think they are doing it wrong. RCV is usually "rank the candidates that you know&#x2F
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Yep. Car analogies are the Rolls Royces of analogies.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
The Titanic sinks???
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Many people do. They have a five-person company that does one thing and that you never hear of, either while it's running happily or when it goes out of business.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
A unicørn once bit my sister... No realli!
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Sound recordings. A hand-cranked wax cylinder with an acoustic cone, a needle, and a rod to move the needle along the cylinder.
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by D-Coder 4y ago
Just a couple CPAP notes: - It can take a while to get used to it. A month is not unusual. - It's easier if you put the excess tubing on the bed with you, instead of dragging over the edge of the mattress as you turn.

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