GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 7y ago
No one needs to "flip their shit" in order for it to be a bad name. I just don't like the sound of the word, for example, and that unpleasant feeling ends up tainting my opinion of the product. That's totally unfair, b
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Are you sure that it isn't, for women?
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Judgment? Of course. That's one of the main things we ask writers to do. But that's not the same as superiority – especially the shallow thoughtless sort that you expected from the author. You're not even trying to give this
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
What good is your uninformed dismissal, here? You're not even judging the book by its own cover! The essay that was precursor to the book lacks literary references, and if anything is infused with a sense of inferior ity.
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
It doesn't seem that way. If you're being snide... well, I guess that's that. Sad that you need to be so critical of one mildly helpful data point.
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No. We have no knowledge of your neighborhood, whereas US readers have a good-enough picture of the US. It's also useless because a neighborhood is too small a unit of measurement to be useful, period. Unlike cities, states, or the ent
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
How on earth is it impossible to logically derive a Leap Day every four years in a consistent spot, especially compared to any other calendaring we already do?
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I mean... it's context to make it relevant to US readers. You didn't see me say there was a direct comparison to be made. And you're kind of contradicting your claim that it's totally useless. 121/million vs. 1&#x2F
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
In contrast, the US had over 40,000 traffic deaths in each of 2016, 2017, and 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/traffic-d...
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Instead of just dumping the first thought that comes through your head on us, could you explain why you think it wouldn't work? What issues do you see arising? It seems to me we go through life with little exceptional circumstances a
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
What void left by the existing ones? Instagram, for example, is going stronger than ever. It's accomplished its goal of generating more and more activity on the platform. What reason do you have for thinking the public at large is worr
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
It seems like you're responding to the idea that "hacking is bad" and that's not at all what the essay got across to me. In fact, it outright agrees that "the focus on learning and doing is important." Instead
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
> You could wheel the prisoner on a bed into the courtroom with machines beeping. What would this judge’s ruling say to do? You can “see” the “living” prisoner present, but it’s not medically or legally known at that moment if it’s rever
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
Why on earth do you claim the judge is doing this? The law in Iowa defines death as irreversible. What reason do you have for saying the judge's common sense is what's at play rather than, you know, the law?
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Before you comment about the judge getting it wrong, do your due diligence and at least get familiar with the plain text of the law. In Iowa, "death" is defined in Iowa Code §702.8 as "an irreversible cessation of spontaneous
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
First of all, that wasn't the original sentence. What you've got is "fish fish fish eat eat", whereas the original was "fish fish fish eat eat eat ". It would be nice if English worked recursively like that, b
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It's convenient using "X" as a placeholder, because that specifically masks the problem of stacking up verbs. "Fish fish eat" is indeed a sensible noun phrase. And we can make that noun a subject of the verb eat.
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You can't infinitely nest those. Fish [that] fish eat eat [food]. That works because the second "eat" is in the present indicative. But you can't stack those. With three "eat"s, the second one needs to be follo
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It was, in fact, fun.
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
Do you not care when your expectations are breached? The objection that the clinic couldn't actually guarantee a specific number of children doesn't hold water since they could have stopped using his sperm once the 5th child was
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
> I pulled 23 credit hours at a regular collage in a normal semester. Good for you. But that's not "viable" for most students in the first place – 18 is probably pushing it.
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
Why is the legal sense some sort of surprising exception? Zenni also requires an up to date prescription.
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You don't have to actually use the stick; maybe Neumann wasn't willing to call the bluff.
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
HIPAA only keeps healthcare providers from sharing your information. It's not an omnibus shield for your health information. If Alice tells her coworker Bob that she had diabetes, it's not a HIPAA violation for Bob to tell Charlie
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Why couldn't you refute the supposed benefit by doing the activity but not benefiting?
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
Seeing as it's making fun of a fossilized religious fundamentalism, it's appropriate to leave out more contemporary positions.
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by GavinMcG 7y ago
Again, that's a store representing its own product in a certain way. And a full brand called "Amazon's Choice" isn't what's happening here.
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The difference is that Quality Inn represents itself as "quality". Amazon is advertising other products as being chosen by them. We know not to trust a company's claims about its product, but if you ask an employee about a
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What's unclear about the situation? A developer tossed out an idea at a con. That's it, and `#lang racket` is and always will be a first class citizen. If you're hesitant to recommend Racket because of a potential `#lang rack
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That's an article from several months ago. The Supreme Court already ruled, and said that federal courts couldn't do anything about it, so state governments that are controlled by one party can continue to entrench their power. h

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