Igelau

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by Igelau 5y ago
So how much would you bet? The lowest listing on the Twitter thread had a $3000 goal.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> Presumably your coworkers can come up with fifty dollars. It's nastier than that. It'd be one thing if it was just a handful of references. There's a link in the Reddit post to a Twitter thread where someone was posting
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by Igelau 5y ago
Hiring people based on how many friends-with-money-to-burn they have is going to be extremely discriminatory. E.g. in the US this is usually how we hire the President. The best fundraisers climb the party ranks and get the job. 98% of hired
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by Igelau 5y ago
Obsidian is not found everywhere. England has no volcanoes. I highly doubt they had much familiarity with working it into finely crafted items.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I don't care if it rains or freezes, I've still got my robot Jesus
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by Igelau 5y ago
I'd never heard of it until https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28845971 was shared here yesterday. I guess I'm not alone in just finding out about it and that's why it's posted here.
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by Igelau 5y ago
If you give me $1 million, I promise I'll respect you.
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by Igelau 5y ago
"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story..."
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by Igelau 5y ago
Reminds me of the Nth Country Experiment https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/nth-country-experimen... There's a difference between knowing how to do something (even without classified information) and being abl
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by Igelau 5y ago
And those pecs were the real deal.
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by Igelau 5y ago
wtf science > The 12-min trauma film consisted of 11 different scenes involving actual or threatened death, as well as serious injury; the film functioned as an experimental analogue of viewing a traumatic event in real life. Scenes cont
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by Igelau 5y ago
I'm not sure Tetris counts as escaping to a new world.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I really had to dig into it to figure that out as well. > We used the traumatic-film paradigm because it is a well-established prospective experimental tool for investigating intrusive-memory development. In this paradigm... participants
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by Igelau 5y ago
Some of those long-s ligatures are wild.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Except the companies are doing this because they are already strapped for cash. Willingly trying to avoid global shipping would actually make you more complicit.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Problem: failing shipping companies are leaving their crews stuck on vessels abandoned in ports. Solution: make more of these companies fail?
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by Igelau 5y ago
Babies like to play that game where they'll drop a spoon or something from their highchair as many times as you'll keep handing it to them. I like to call this "gravity testing".
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by Igelau 5y ago
To make gut, you have to clean it and stretch it and dry it first. By then it's about as clean as anything was back then.
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by Igelau 5y ago
The comment that got flagged for trying to reverse this missed its point, but I thought it had one. My reply-too-late: While that is a little hyperbolic, there's definitely a "kid gloves" approach you have to take in a lot of
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by Igelau 5y ago
> A perplexing 40 percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten I hate when people bring up food waste like it's a bad thing. What would be the ideal amount going uneaten? A 40% surplus sounds like a great buffer. Zero food waste isn&#x2
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by Igelau 5y ago
Everyone still got the magic beans they bought. No harm, no foul. It's strange to see people complaining about it. If they had faith in NFT the size of a grain of mustard, they'd know this is all it is, and calling it a scam is ca
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by Igelau 5y ago
That's a beautiful swear. Far from naughty, I feel enriched having learned this.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Some near the end looked like they might be in another language, but I won't be the one to find out. It used to be "if I search for this term, am I accidentally going to wind up getting goatse or something?" The good old days
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by Igelau 5y ago
Whoever leaked this is going to get buttbuttinated for sure. I have a hard time believing this silly mess is an actual component of anything.
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by Igelau 5y ago
The TI-89 blew my mind when I accidentally discovered Exact Mode. I had fed it a problem from my Number Theory homework just for fun... it wasn't supposed to actually answer it!
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by Igelau 5y ago
The sample size of successfully established political parties in the US is small enough that the rhetorical question went over my head :) I'm not sure we actually know what works and what doesn't. > retired senators, serious me
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by Igelau 5y ago
It doesn't really exist yet. FAQ: > Is the Forward Party a political party? > The Forward Party is a PAC that plans to grow its support and then petition the FEC for recognition as a political party when we fulfill the requiremen
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by Igelau 5y ago
I'd say right on the speculation line. It's far-fetched to say he can totally see, but he may very well experience some limited optical sensation, albeit one of such limited utility that we can't really call it sight. The sto
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by Igelau 5y ago
It's solving the problem of "what else haven't we tried to screw up yet by adding a Blockchain?"
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by Igelau 5y ago
I'd think that just once it would be fun to troll those people. "So tell me about the kind of work you've done with Python..."

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