IAmBroom

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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Alcoholic beverages are not required to list their flavoring ingredients, so "without mint on the ingredients label" says literally nothing. Because the FDA regulates beverages separately from food (or at least alcoholic ones - no
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It doesn't mean anything. There were robber barons in early Norman England. It's just that we don't know which one is so-called Robin Hood... when in reality it's most likely just a pop myth.
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Sushi is exceedingly modern. It's "derived" from a fish preservation method... which relies on salting and fermenting, so not really "raw" (more like sauerkraut than shredded cabbage).
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Global climate change is from trapping more sunlight energy (greenhouse effect), not industrial heating. But more importantly: between tsunamis and deaths due to lung duress, counterproductive.
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On HN we could have an argument about the definition of "is". Clinton was just ahead of the curve.
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Context in this case is derived by the arcane trick of RTFA.
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These sorts of people do not math.
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Yeah, but it's $499.99 when sold separately.
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Box cutters? Plentiful, cheap, impossible to "hack". Nuclear centrifuge software? Rare, expensive, hacked.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
This is already law. If you gift someone your $100M mansion, they pay income taxes instead of inheritance taxes. And income taxes are higher (in that bracket). That won't change.
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> I thought Brion James was fantastic in The Fifth Element because he's one of the few slapstick outlets. Did we watch the same movie? The opera singer was the ONLY character that wasn't slapstick...
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Moon. Contact. Interstellar. Gravity. Project Hail Mary. None of these fit those tropes. It didn't destroy anything; it just set a mold for the next few decades that was used to cookie-cut copies from. It cut a rut, and movie execs LOO
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The body makes no distinction between "natural" and "artificial" anything. It's just chemistry. Likewise, eating berries or honey is absolutely related to drinking (e.g.) sugary drinks. You are personally making the
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Star Wars makes it clear The Empire does bad things on the regular, but it never, ever proves that the "state religion" of Resistance's elite warriors is a good thing (beyond opposing the Empire's bad thing).
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Runtimes are increasing. Hell, "The Hobbit" is 3 overlong movies.
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The straightforward reason still stands: "Does the test still work in a biased scenario, where the test-giver believes in a result before the test is run?"
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It's really so subtle that it is just an on-rewind detail. Which is fine - an easter egg.
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Furthermore, the biggest problem with replicants coming to Earth en masse is that they could overwhelm police forces. Deckard both "fits in" to his bureau (as a mostly independent officer), and isn't really powerful enough to
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
There is a distinct lack of evidence to support your odd claim, while a very similar species (H. sapiens) has frequently used quads for long distance pursuit. Frequent jumping species, from frogs to lemurs, have distinctive cartilagenous
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
The article repetitively discusses the temporal bounds on LUCA, the Burgess Shale-type fossilization, and so on. It feels like an endless rehash.
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Omitting clarifying information is how cool kids signal their coolness to others, and exclude uncool kids. This is even more true of HN users than it was on the actual playground.
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> No, I'm not interested in arguing with someone for the umpteenth time ... why my claim makes no rational sense.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
> Google deserves scorn for how badly they have made the search experience on the web, we have to remember that they're fighting a battle against SEO Where did you get this idea from? They actively promote it.
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by IAmBroom 2mo ago
Amazon has gotten that bad. Yesterday I searched for "3/8 inch handles", and got several ball-shaped ones, plus some things that included (but were not) handles. I added the term - "3/8 inch ball handles" - and
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Continuous is not necessary - a break in the area can still have a halfway point.
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Merino is a breed of sheep. Sheep produce wool. You are not supposed to wash wool frequently, nor in machine washers.
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Fascinating, but polarization is a red herring. Magnetism is famously the wildly-unreactive half of electromagnetism; copper is REALLY sensitive to electricity and REALLY insensitive to magnetism. I agree ideas shouldn't be dismissed o
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I should have loved history. It was my worst subject (until Power and Statics in college). It was about memorizing dates and big generalizations about events. Now I'm active in a historical recreation society. I have learned to transla
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> It's still very odd that no species has ended up evolving a continuous maintenance system that can run while conscious, the benefits when hunting other animals that need sleep would be enormous, so there has to be significant evol
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Factuality and verifiability.

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