Trilkhai

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by Trilkhai 7y ago
Pedestrians have the right of way in our state in general, but in most of the state they still wait until it's safe (i.e. no cars immediately arriving) before they cross. In Berkeley, especially in the two-lane roads immediately surro
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
I've always figured that the narrow roads over there were (much like the ones in the older European cities) created long before cars, when people relied on horses or horse-drawn vehicles for transport. Roads designed after cars became
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
That's certainly the case in the densely-packed public-transit-friendly cities where the only option to being inside is either a sidewalk or the street. Out in the less-public-transit-friendly suburbs, kids can (and do) run around in
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
Reminds me a little too strongly of Infocom's interactive-fiction game Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html They said you would sleep for half a millennium — not a
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
The studies I've seen showed correlative links between m/paternity leave itself with improved psychological results, not necessarily ones that are specific to reproductive rather than personal leave or aren't also tied to the
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
Soma in BNW is described in a way that matches a combination of opiates and hallucinogens -- it artificially elevates mood, makes everything seem wonderful and pleasantly exciting, causes sensory hallucinations similar to synaesthesia, and
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
There's already an OpenSUSE spin with that name, so that won't work. OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any distros called Iguana, Crocodile, or Agamidae yet...
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by Trilkhai 7y ago
USPS has increased its shipping prices quite a bit in the last several years, enough that I can (unfortunately) easily see it costing $9.99 or even more to send a box set of DVDs. Try checking the USPS shipping calculator, you might be sur