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by LanceH 3y ago
I watched him before congress. He was not the problem. It was absolutely painful to watch the assault on the first amendment.
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by LanceH 3y ago
I had never considered having my GPS any other way until my manager who was visiting from out of town said he thought I was mad. I've given it some thought since then. If I'm traveling through some place for the first time, curre
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by LanceH 3y ago
> I think it's just cultural exposure rather than any sort of brain difference when it comes to map reading. I'm not convinced of this. My oldest could read a map before kindergarten. He could navigate IKEA or the zoo. My mi
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by LanceH 3y ago
Or that it does. There is a limited supply of highly successful men.
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by LanceH 3y ago
Lots of bad code was written in Perl by people who didn't know how to program. This is a feature, though. Tons of valuable software was created with the assistance of a language that attempts to get things done more than it tries to
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by LanceH 3y ago
The pattern described in the initial link is "915". That means throwing a ball to the height of a 9 ball pattern (the height you would throw if juggling 9 balls normally), next ball to a 1 ball height (essentially handing it acro
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by LanceH 3y ago
The strike is less meaningful when imposed by moderators enforcing it. It's not simply a boycott of those using the app, which would be proportional. Moderators are dragging a lot of other people along with them that may not share th
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by LanceH 3y ago
Apologies to those accused of being conspiracy theorists, xenophobic, and spreading misinformation will be going out shortly.
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by LanceH 3y ago
The empire of man is cruel in its indifference to individuals and humanity's future is certainly grim. But the work is ostensibly being done to preserve the existence of man.
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by LanceH 3y ago
> non-dystopian societies. I would say that your view is extreme or at least hyperbole. A lot of people believe they should be able to do things with their property so long as it doesn't impose on others . Whether I live in my hous
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by LanceH 3y ago
>Are you saying that only owners can decide what happens on a given neighbourhood? I think they're saying owners should be able to dispose of their own property as they see fit.
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by LanceH 3y ago
There are most definitely stray dogs in the US. But the US is very big and varied in climate, terrain, and population density. I'm in the suburbs and a stray dog would be caught and taken to a shelter. There are some coyotes, though.
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by LanceH 3y ago
My interactions around language switching were always pleasant. My group was always greeted in English, then everyone would switch to Icelandic for me -- and I know very little. Sometimes I could fake a sentence or two, but generally ther
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by LanceH 3y ago
Billions wasted pursuing publication over meaningful effort.
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by LanceH 3y ago
You're not understanding. The "correct" people have the majority numbers now, so we should embrace the tyranny of the majority.
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by LanceH 3y ago
Among law enforcement looking to use new surveillance powers it is anyone who could potentially do anything wrong.
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by LanceH 3y ago
One way is to look at the series of products Apple has produced, and they've been successful. The other way to look at it is the series of 3d vision devices (both tv and goggles) and view how successful those have been. So, is this the
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by LanceH 3y ago
Reddit moderation isn't some altruistic effort. It's people shaping the discussion of their subreddit. They are participants as much as any other user.
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by LanceH 3y ago
> Freshman year, first semester, I paid $1100 for books, and then we only actually used one of them more than slightly. This really bothers me. Universities hold themselves up as virtuous. Then students hire them to provide to provide a
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by LanceH 3y ago
I think this result actually shows that a parachute doesn't increase death/trauma when exiting a non-moving plane from 2 feet up. So, worst case for parachute wearers is that they are no worse off than without one. Parachutes are
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by LanceH 3y ago
Or split it off like they did with music storage (and deleting all but 250 of my stored songs), then peppering me with requests to upgrade to prime music 24/7. I use prime because I have enough need for the shipping aspects of it that
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by LanceH 3y ago
Come to think of it, I haven't seen it since the 90's -- all in the US. But I haven't played weekend tournaments since then.
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by LanceH 3y ago
He's not talking pro leagues, but the kinds of leagues where you make a team and sign up for a weekend tournament. That scoring system is very common.
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by LanceH 3y ago
A university I went to left a hiring document out marked "confidential". It specifically stated that preferences in hiring go to women and minorities when at all possible. It was not stated as "tie breaker" but stated
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by LanceH 3y ago
I've wondered about this asymmetry between company and individual. Player throws the dice wrong -- crime. Hotel overbooks and doesn't provide what was already paid for -- oops. Don't scan something at Walmart? Arrest and pr
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by LanceH 3y ago
Everything you say might be true. But it seems that the only "studying" that really stuck was when they went to quizlet. Read the rest of it where most of them admitted to cheating -- which probably means pulling it up and copyi
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by LanceH 3y ago
Taking one data point and extrapolating a quality onto the other isn't a "pattern".
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by LanceH 3y ago
I think it assumes knowledge that the subscription is called "Creative Cloud". It is not immediately clear that older pre-subscription versions were not also "Creative Cloud". So, no, the article doesn't explicitl
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by LanceH 3y ago
It's not quite pain tolerance, but puts the competitor in duress and wastes their time: In the winter sport of biathlon (skiing and shooting), if a target is missed, there are penalty laps around a small loop before they can continue.
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by LanceH 3y ago
"everyone's meeting up at the pizza place to hang out" There are obviously ways around that -- a lot just won't bother. And sure, someone that isn't that courteous might not be worth being around, but if it's

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