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by Sleeep 9y ago
Average lifespan isn't a particularly useful measurement for those who have survived infancy due to extremely high infant mortality rates in the past. Individual life expectancy changes each year of your life based on how many years yo
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Why does the author's wife think that chewing meat causes choking? This seems like a rather bizarre belief - does this have any basis in reality? If anything I'd think that learning to chew your food well from a young age would ma
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by Sleeep 9y ago
How do people fake seizures? Do they just flop around on the ground?
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Plenty of apartments in the US have washing machines, I've lived in several apartments and all had a washing machine[1]. As for the reason why many don't - historical (they weren't designed when household washing machines did
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by Sleeep 9y ago
I would add: All house numbers with the same street name in a town are on the same street. My address is 11 XXX Street. The house nextdoor to mine is 17 XXX Street. 13 and 15 XXX Street both exist, however they are on an identically named
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Wikipedia has a short list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_renaming#Naming_d...
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by Sleeep 9y ago
They keep coming up because people find them interesting and/or helpful in some way. If you don't, that's ok, you won't like everything posted to HN. Just don't click and move on.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
No, Safe Haven laws are only for newborns. Nebraska had an accidental experiment by omitting an age limit on their Safe Haven law. Parents drove thousands of miles to abandon their older children until the loophole was closed. https:/
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by Sleeep 9y ago
To me "this Wednesday" has already passed in your example and people don't normally make appointments for the past.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
No, I would mean six days, not 13. Guess it's ambiguous between different people but I always understood it like the GP explained.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
How do you tell the difference between someone who forgot their child in a car from someone who "forgot" their child in the car? Should we really be sending the message "you can always get away with killing your kid as long a
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by Sleeep 9y ago
No, what is egotistical is believing your individual choices don't affect others and believing that the consequences your actions are not externalized by society. I'm not even pro criminalization, but, c'mon man.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
This is true even in the United States http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/9/education-lev...
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by Sleeep 9y ago
http://www.newsweek.com/why-parents-may-cause-gender-differe... >In one, scientists dressed newborns in gender-neutral clothes and misled adults about their sex. The adults described the "boys" (actually girls)
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by Sleeep 9y ago
What? How on Earth do you know that "women are hardwired to smile more" instead of "women are culturally conditioned to smile more." Considering women are told to smile by complete strangers on the street you can'
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Why not just get a package box for your porch? I guess there isn't a guarantee they delivery person would use it.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
No airline miles are not a security. They are non-negotiable, you can't sell them, they expire, they don't represent an ownership interest.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
It's extremely common for businesses dealing with money to only accept customers from only the jurisdictions they have compliance with.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
You're not understanding how comminging works here. Say I'm shady seller X, I'm sending in fakes to FBA (lol). Yes, I'd like to sell "Product Y." I'll list Product Y and enable "commingling," and
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Why is this downvoted? This is what a few sites do (ie, Craiglist) and it works well and I prefer it. It's not much different than a password with email recovery option. I've also seen shopping sites do this to manage past orders.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Oh yeah, those are a nightmare for people with bad memory (me). I don't even know the payment amount of my loans, I create my own payment schedule, thank you very much! I couldn't even tell you my mortgage payment. I got a tip fro
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by Sleeep 9y ago
The Atlantic tomcod in the Hudson River has evolved immunity to the PCBs dumped in the river by General Electric. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110217-hudso...
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by Sleeep 9y ago
How do you find such a person and how do you vet them? Do they take landlords with only a single property?
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by Sleeep 9y ago
For people doing long distance single family detached house rentals, how do you make sure the general maintenance gets done? Things like lawn mowing, gutter cleaning, chimney sweeping, bush trimming, furnace serving, weeding around the foun
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Third party sellers get commingled with Amazon inventory so buying sold by Amazon doesn't fix the problem.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
If you have an American Express card Newegg participates in ShopRunner and ShopRunner is free if you have an American Express card. ShopRunner provides free two day shipping both ways on eligible items (all items I've ever bought have
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Even if the store didn't price match, you can get the price match from using a credit card that has a good price protection (like Discover) and submitting a claim (very easy in my experience).
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Ordering directly from the manufacturer is usually a good option if you know exactly what you want.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
Bad reviews are AstroTurfed just like positive ones.
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by Sleeep 9y ago
You can't really "inspect" most items in a B+M store. For example, if I buy a slow cooker I can see it in its package and see the display model. So? I don't know how well it cooks my fav dish.

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