DFHippie

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by DFHippie 6y ago
Perhaps it was just terrorism or pique? By blowing up infrastructure after the Finns think they've won and you aren't anywhere around you demoralize them. It would be a sort of trolling. The military is made of humans and humans d
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by DFHippie 6y ago
When I was younger I loved ideas for their own sake and was constantly disappointed when I went to have fun with some idea and found that everyone gathered around it viewed it as an opportunity to assert dominance. I fled so many fields bec
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> To be honest the second amendment, for all the out-sized media attention it receives - is a rather ineffective and unimportant portion of the Bill of Rights - falling quite far down any reasonable ranking Particularly since most of the
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I can imagine having modular heat sinks apart from the heat pumps which your various household heat pumps could tap into: a warmth sink your cooling devices dump to and warming devices draw from; a coolth sink that does the reverse. It woul
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I think we're in agreement.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Single sentence utterances like this are rare. In context this distinction doesn't actually provide non-redundant information. So calling this "quite useful" is a bit of a stretch.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
One I've noticed is patterns of misuse of pronoun case in conjoined noun phrases. Americans are more likely to use "me" for the subject, as in "Tom and me did thus and so". The British are more likely to use "I
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> We have some flexibility on our American usage of "quite" but it means "nearly" or "almost completely", unless it means "totally!" So to say "that's not quite right" means you&#x27
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by DFHippie 7y ago
It's past subjunctive. The present subjunctive is still around but scarce: "Lest he think less of me" or, in a frozen expression, "Be it ever so humble ...".
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I'm not sure about CP, but AP is "advanced placement". You get college credit for it if you do well on a standardized test at the end.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
It's the other way around, economically speaking. The expensive routes that lose the postal service money are the rural ones. If they only delivered within and between cities, they be okay. (And if one political party wasn't bent
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I wonder how much of that, though, is tithing or other support of religious institutions. I'm not sure how to tease these apart, but Creflo Dollar and Opus Dei seem like they should be in a different category from Oxfam and street begg
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Both things can be true. They don't really care for Trump personally, they just want to sow discord, but Trump is a great way to sow discord. Non-Russian-aligned intelligence agencies were pretty unanimous in their assessment that Puti
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by DFHippie 7y ago
It might be the anesthetic.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I read some time in the last few years that Asian giant hornets were migrating into Europe. It's an easier migratory route than across the Pacific. I wonder whether the spread of apiculture has produced a food bridge they can exploit.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
They're encouraging people to identify and report them so they can be eradicated.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I worked one summer doing migrant labor in agriculture harvesting blueberries in Maine. I migrated with my sister from elsewhere in the US. We were doing it because we wanted money and we were curious about the experience. Alongside us were
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by DFHippie 7y ago
To extend this list a bit, Rust and Ruby also allow _ as a separator.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Something I wrote to facilitate keeping a personal log: https://github.com/dfhoughton/jobrog
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by DFHippie 7y ago
It's nice to hear there is a US plan.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
COVID kills old people, so the people in power (the ones competent to protect their own interests) have taken notice.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
That would be a pretty rough ride. I wouldn't want to be a straphanger on one of those. The turns would be uncomfortable as well in a railgun railway car.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I can't say the behavior of its participants and moderators is all that shocking. If you venerate someone famous for breaking rules, shattering norms, and thumbing his nose at the delicate sensibilities of others, what are the odds you
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> In the UK we have many people who claim to talk for the "working class" that as one of my friends put it "looked like they have never done a day of heavy lifting in their life". I wouldn't speak on behalf of th
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by DFHippie 7y ago
From the article: >Less snow means more dark ground is exposed and absorbing heat, instead of being covered in white stuff that reflects light. The warmer ground means higher rates of evaporation and, thus, less water in the river. Why d
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I'm sure this is right. You don't have enough statistical mass with any click by itself, but in the aggregate you can detect fraudulent activity with a high degree of certainty. Google's plan is to make it sufficiently expens
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by DFHippie 7y ago
My understanding is that immunotherapy has been shown to work great for cancers without solid tumors and results have been disappointing with solid tumors. It isn't that it's marching steadily forward and will eventually have been
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by DFHippie 7y ago
The author doesn't wave away the benefits. He says they are real but only apply to specific cancers which account for a small fraction of those diagnosed. Are his statistics wrong? It seems you benefited, but this isn't a countera
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> the now disproven out of africa hypothesis. What? When was it disproven? There's evidence of interbreeding outside of Africa with other species, in some sense of that word, which also originated in Africa, right? Maybe I missed so
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I do because I need this level of detail in my time sheet. `job r -t e` comes pretty quickly off the fingers if you type it every day.

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