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by Retra 7y ago
You can't dismiss it all as entitlement. Imagine that you have a gym membership and someone is offering a service to life your weights for you for a fee. Do you have a right not not lift weights without paying this fee? Of course you d
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by Retra 7y ago
If you actually want to preserve something, it is valuable to have production of both digital and hard copies.
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by Retra 7y ago
Poor people are poor. They don't have money to afford things. That's what it means to be poor, and that's who we're talking about when we're talking about poor people. So it is a matter of definition that poor peopl
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by Retra 7y ago
No, I'm questioning the validity of answering the title question by consulting a dictionary. That's not how one should go about answering technical questions, even if we find it works sometimes. (The proper way to address the ques
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by Retra 7y ago
Couldn't you just randomize result ordering?
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by Retra 7y ago
The dictionary is not a reliable place to look up technical terms. (Actually, it's not a reliable place to look up most anything.)
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by Retra 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the writers of Office Space have gone on record saying "TPS report" is a meaningless term used simply to evoke a sense of wasteful bureaucratic nonsense.
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by Retra 7y ago
Arguably, it is the best option if you have enough security through insurance; put all your extra cash into some kind of investment.
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by Retra 7y ago
The question has been answered over and over again. People asking this question don't want answers, they want a mystery to be in awe of.
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by Retra 7y ago
If the gold is mixed or chemically bonded, you are delivering rock, and there's plenty of gold in the rock beneath your feet, it is just not worth the cost to extract. Surely requiring a high-risk rocket delivery system makes it less f
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by Retra 7y ago
Consenting to eating fast food is not the same as consenting to the second-order effects which you are unaware. That's not how consent works.
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by Retra 7y ago
The APA considers them the same thing.
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by Retra 7y ago
They're just as useless on reddit, no need to be smug about your choice of social media platform.
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by Retra 7y ago
No, Taxes are not voluntary.
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by Retra 7y ago
They may be a sucker, but there is still value in warning people and/or litigating to recover losses. We afford people the ability to make mistakes so that we can effectively learn from them, not simply to punish people for being imper
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by Retra 7y ago
Do you think people should up-vote a comment simply because it repeats a slogan?
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by Retra 7y ago
>Except that they get a big tax credit with which they can buy high-efficiency windows and a more efficient vehicle. They will? It sounded like people with less efficient vehicles/heating would get smaller tax credits, not larger.
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by Retra 7y ago
I think if you can properly do a fully 3D circuit, you will probably also free up a lot of space to interleave heat pipes within.
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by Retra 7y ago
Indeed; I'm an extremely introverted person, but that's only because people don't actually want to talk business 100% of the time. If that's what we're doing, I am very much extroverted.
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by Retra 7y ago
A couple of nice ropes aren't a net, not matter how much you spend on them.
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by Retra 7y ago
What is a U$S?
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by Retra 7y ago
They also can't just move out of cold climates and buy high-efficiency windows whenever they like. And many of them live in rural places where they do drive inefficient vehicles and have almost no public transportation.
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by Retra 7y ago
When I went to middle school, we went to an old, collapsing building that was falling apart. Students (including myself) acted terribly. The very next year, we went to a brand new school. Suddenly everybody acted in a much more civilized ma
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by Retra 7y ago
They also used a lot of that money to develop a 'premium' aspirational product.
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by Retra 7y ago
I think their point is that, if a prisoner cannot be trusted to know things, then people who know things cannot reasonably be made into prisoners. So either you can't put a programmer in prison or you should allow prisoners to know how
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by Retra 7y ago
It costs a lot to build a new home or refurbish an unmaintained one. So if you're saving someone those costs, you are generating value for them.
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by Retra 7y ago
Arguably, that advantages companies that can hack that metric -- as anything they do to survive (politics) is treated as a reverse proxy for the value they bring to the market. This is why "too big to fail" and "job creator&q
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by Retra 7y ago
Hmm. From my perspective, I've never seen a post like this that didn't refer to an article I'm already aware of. Which would tell me if you like this kind of thing, you could probably just spend more time on Wikipedia instead
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by Retra 7y ago
The only technology needed for this to happen was a common understanding of language. The only people you can't trade with are those you can't communicate with. And cities can issue their own currency; they just can't convi
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by Retra 7y ago
You should use 'tupple' when referring to odd-length tuples, and 'toople' when referring to even-length tuples. That is obviously the only sane compromise.

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