Talanes

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by Talanes 6y ago
Or Bison and Cattle: separate species, yet only four herds of American Bison are left that don't have Cattle genetics mixed in.
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by Talanes 6y ago
>Well the main source of turmoil would be in replacing the office since theoretically all the powers in the country devolve from the head of state. If we just need somewhere for power to divest from, then hand it over to the royal Corgis
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by Talanes 6y ago
I've been waiting for ACT III possibly longer than any other piece of media at this point. At least I'm better off than GRR Martin fans.
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by Talanes 6y ago
There are a lot of Shires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire
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by Talanes 6y ago
"What has happened is all that could happen" is surely not the best line of argument you have?
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by Talanes 6y ago
The market-based approach wouldn't have these companies rolling back their surveillance, but consumers en masse moving over to paid, privacy-focused alternatives. I don't actually consider this remotely likely, but the world is ge
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by Talanes 6y ago
Color preferences are strange. Their is a slight fuzziness to the color contrast on dark mode, but for me it just reads more like a natural grain, compared to the light modes strict contrast being more obviously digital. Which is to say, I
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by Talanes 6y ago
We have two. I suspect that you are thinking of Yellowstone, but there is also the Long Valley Caldera in Eastern California. The Mammoth Mountain area.
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by Talanes 6y ago
I've only skimmed the paper at present, but are all of their examples based around minors being involuntarily committed by their parents? Because that seems like a separate, if related, issue.
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by Talanes 6y ago
>I would rather see us focus on fixing schools and the economy than spend billions on these programs that have dubious outcomes I couldn't find an exact number in the five minutes of searching I was willing to put in, but the budget
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by Talanes 6y ago
I wouldn't consider simple regulation an enclosing of the commons, but when you add on to the need to invest capital in the form of vehicle registration fees and license fees, it starts to become more enclosed.
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by Talanes 6y ago
>What's the intended form factor of a laptop? What are the top 10 intended form factors? I'm not sure "reading from 'a few' [several] feet away, while I'm laying down in bed" is in that top 10 list. I m
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by Talanes 6y ago
Which countries do not require licensing to use their roads?
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by Talanes 6y ago
How so? Because I'm not going to assume that you are calling HackerNews the same as technology in any reading of the sentence, purely from context. So what other shifted meaning can be had from the swap?
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by Talanes 6y ago
The only time I would use "that is" as a distinctive phrase is to mean "for example" though.
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by Talanes 6y ago
I would still see the difference if you switched the e.g. and i.e. without batting an eye though.
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by Talanes 6y ago
>Is this going to feed someone who's hungry? Shelter someone who's homeless? Do anything that will make any actual difference in the life of any living person? No? Then why are we wasting time on it? I don't really underst
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by Talanes 6y ago
Where does using one over the other cause an actual change in information though? Not just sticking out as the wrong one if you know the proper distinction, but actually conveying different information? The comparison that follows is the im
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by Talanes 6y ago
As a native english speaker, "for example" and "that is" code as basically the same style of skip-over phrase: just there to lead into the important part. I'm curious what distinction you are reading into it. I&#x27
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by Talanes 6y ago
Also not much land to freely live off of, unless you have the wealth to secure some already.
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by Talanes 6y ago
Yeah, I don't ever recall seeing something that made me think Trump was in the pocket of "Big Pigment."
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by Talanes 6y ago
I don't understand why designing bathrooms to drain isn't a universal practice.
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by Talanes 6y ago
>Belgium I mean, it is the rudest word in the universe.
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by Talanes 6y ago
>When I first saw the "large size" side drinks at fast foods I started laughing. In Europe the large size is equivalent to the US Medium. Depending on where exactly you were, this is the experience of a lot of Americans compare
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by Talanes 6y ago
They were under American rule more recently, and were only given their Independence without a fight after agreeing to preferential trade on importing American products.
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by Talanes 6y ago
It'd make it a far more attractive move from here in SF, but even then it's a pretty mild incentive.
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by Talanes 6y ago
Not to defend the obviously very unmoored gentleman, but if he worked where all hints seem to imply he worked, the company was already using their database to extort users. Edit: Just in case this was unclear though, that would definitely b
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by Talanes 6y ago
At this point I'd be willing to put money on knowing where you worked, so if you have any worry about being outed for that, well yeah. I do kinda hope you're not just bullshitting though, because those assholes definitely had it c
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by Talanes 6y ago
I caught that, I assumed the throwing out of a CAD amount is where we all got confused.
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by Talanes 6y ago
Possibly a joke about their profile, which says they are selling a car and to comment an offer on any of their comments. If not, then I'm as lost as you are.

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