Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
Sit at the pub long enough and someone will talk to you just because they notice you've been sitting there not talking to anyone. Of course, this process may take hours and is as likely to be lightly confrontational as it is friendly..
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by Talanes 5y ago
Even if you fully remove the law, the single-lenders ability for extortion is limited by the fact that they are a known person who can likewise have violence directed back at them.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Tired, defeatist, and giving way too much credit to the big guys. No matter how good they are at assembling a profile on me from indirect data, it's still going to be more effort and likely lower quality than if they had a giant store
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by Talanes 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_de_Lyon_rail_accident Fail safes do fail. Often due to severe user error.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Asking politicians to not over-estimate exponential growth is like asking water not to be wet.
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by Talanes 5y ago
You'd know more about me and my family background from knowing that I come from multiple generations of "The one kid that picked up and moved away from the family at 18" on both sides, than you would from knowing what kind of
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by Talanes 5y ago
I've never gotten a loan that wasn't from a "person" that only exists as a government-sanctioned construct. I'm all for natural rights for natural people, but corporate entities are creatures of law, not nature.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Take it a step further. Who is "our"? I doubt any of the owners of the teams in question are reading these comments.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>In my experience you can learn a lot about someone’s likely customs, dating expectations, traditions, religious upbringing just by knowing what kind of european they have in them. I mean... really? I didn't even have a clear idea o
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by Talanes 5y ago
> a particularly foolish or over-confident defendent might represent themselves, but otherwise, I would not budget less than $2000-3000 to hire a lawyer Foolish, overconfident, or just "never have had $3000 in one place and time in
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by Talanes 5y ago
The example wasn't even a $50 crime though, it was 50 $50 crimes. At some point they have to add up to be worthwhile.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I had a bike stolen in high school and knew exactly who took it and the police still wouldn't do more than take a report, which they discouraged me from actually doing.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> The alternative isn't a different raster image format Except that we're in a conversation about the relative resource consumption of bitmaps and png, not a conversation about what the best way to draw UI elements is.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> The SEC is also wrong to say: "Indeed, supervisors, including managing directors and other senior supervisors – the very people responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with JPMS’s policies and procedures "!! No,
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Why are we going after Carmen Ortiz again? Prosecutorial discretion is the law of the land, after all. One doesn't follow the other. If anything, the fact that certain things are left to personal discretion makes it more important
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by Talanes 5y ago
Carmen Ortiz has never held an elected office. Her time in politics was appointed.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Feeling mastery and competence is intrinsically rewarding. And that’s easier to achieve with point number 2 I started to write a point about how this wouldn't necessarily generalize to every field. The woodworker, for example, like
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by Talanes 5y ago
The most important function my Alexa serves is acting as the alarm that isn't my phone/requires a separate skill set to disable. Simultaneously talking and manipulating a phone is a magnitude harder to sleep through than just the
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by Talanes 5y ago
Huh, I went to check if the pun still worked in German, and apparently that's just the actual etymology of both the English and German words.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> No mainstream conservatives proposes 'let's ban kids form having mobile phones and Facebook until we fully understand their effect'. So if you are not willing to apply the principle consistently Instituting a new, wide-s
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, Pinterest is more of a Greek Siren. Drawing you in with the promise of what you're searching for, and then smashing your hopes on the shore.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>but generally they do have their own amenities like fast food courts / grocery stores / school systems Though some starkly do not. Before the pandemic, a friend was living in a San Diego area suburb apartment building that was
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Sidewalk cafes are not nightclubs. There's a difference between people sitting at a table and having a bottle of wine with a meal vs. a frat party. I don't think anyone is proposing a nightclub or bar scene on the sidewalk. Th
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by Talanes 5y ago
San Francisco isn't even as close to progressive utopia as it gets in the Bay.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I just wish the controls were more granular. There's people I follow for their actual posting who also just drag in a bunch of drama that they hit like on.
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by Talanes 5y ago
People who disagree automatically feel like they have new information to bring, while it's often hard to express agreement while still feeling like you're adding to the conversation.
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by Talanes 5y ago
My assumption was just that it was something about how the EQ is mixed for that jack, because it is labelled specifically as headphones. The other replies about surround sound are true, as well, but I don't think should apply to my tv
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by Talanes 5y ago
HDMI is great for a home theatre set up where there's an obvious central unit, but the ecosystem has gotten worse if your speakers don't take in HDMI, at least at the very cheap end of the spectrum I buy on. My current TV will onl
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by Talanes 5y ago
It's a trite joke not even grounded in reality. Vast swaths of California believe exactly the same shit as the people making those jokes. I mean, I grew up in the mountains, cutting through cow-pastures to get to school. I've yet
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'm only expanding on GPs point, so I'm not sure how my comment could be considered pedantic to them. And as for the title point: Spartans seem to only be mentioned in the article coverage of the research. They are not the topic o

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