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by automatoney 3y ago
It's called a loft bed - this one would probably be considered a low loft. This kind of bed is also frequently seen in American university dorm rooms.
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by automatoney 3y ago
Hah interesting to hear I'm part of a trend. I drink occasionally, but I honestly have never liked the taste of alcohol and I pretty often will go out to bars/clubs and just not drink at all. The effects of alcohol are fun, but I&
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by automatoney 3y ago
Unemployment specifically refers to people who are looking for work - people who aren't seeking work don't count as unemployed in statistics.
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by automatoney 3y ago
It's very fun to troll other players with, especially that middle bar piece is easy to hide. I've also seen someone play keep-away with the last piece. Just overall very funny how much you can goof off with a simple puzzle!
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by automatoney 3y ago
There's a visual bug where you can hide pieces of the 'e' behind the completed portions of the 'e' - it doesn't work for other letters because they still show the outline.
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by automatoney 3y ago
This would be a really good (and much more accessible than the linked pdf) explanation without the condescending tone. This is some pretty advanced math, and pretending otherwise isn't constructive. If someone says "I'm havin
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by automatoney 3y ago
Hmmmm just given the recent Unity news, maybe this headline is a bit misleading as it seems to be focused on VFX users, and not game developers? Maybe "Unreal... be free for animators"?
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by automatoney 3y ago
Extremely impressive, and VERY well explained. I can't overemphasize how much I wish there were way more stuff like this online. I also really like something about having the English and Japanese text right next to each other... maybe
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by automatoney 3y ago
Or a consequentialist could respond that they accept that the specific hypothetical isn't wrong, but it's so divorced from practical reality that it isn't useful as a thought experiment. I've also seen people argue that
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by automatoney 3y ago
Ooooh more info please! Which phone? And what's the experience like? Are you using it for development at all or is it more things like word? I wanna know all about this setup, since I'm definitely going to need to upgrade my phone
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by automatoney 3y ago
This is so relatable. I was looking forward to working on projects that I cared about more, but then when I got there I realized how much energy actually caring takes. Especially in terms of emotional investment - I've decided to save
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by automatoney 3y ago
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is higher today than it has been in millennia, and carbon dioxide causes heating through the greenhouse effect. What scientific evidence do you have that supports your skepticism? https://climate.nasa.g
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Ancient Bones Offer Clues to How Long Ago Humans Cared for the Vulnerable (2020)(npr.org)
5 points by automatoney 3y ago|1 comments
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by automatoney 3y ago
Actually, archeological evidence shows that even in extremely harsh environments, many early humans took care of people who were unable to work. From the article linked below: "...an idea of what it must have taken to keep Burial 9 ali
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by automatoney 3y ago
Maybe I'm oblivious to them, but I don't think I've seen meters in Soho/Chinatown/LES and I definitely don't remember them in the East Village. Are they more in the Tribeca/Fidi area?
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by automatoney 3y ago
For those unfamiliar with NYC, street parking is free basically everywhere so the space cars take up is already heavily subsidized.
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by automatoney 3y ago
I have a feeling that bans are not the most effective approach long term. Maybe there's a solution where we educate young people on responsible phone use and work with them to design practices that work for everyone. After all, outside
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by automatoney 3y ago
HSV (Herpes simplex virus) vaccine? Do you mean HPV (Human papillomavirus)? I've only ever heard of the HPV vaccine, as well as its relationship to cervical cancer.
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by automatoney 3y ago
It's high level comedy, he's just on a level of irony you can't attain. You have to be one of the 30 under 30's to get it /s
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Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing?
104 points by automatoney 4y ago|123 comments
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by automatoney 4y ago
The word for this figure of speech is metonymy - specifically a type of whole to part synecdoche. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totum_pro_parte
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by automatoney 4y ago
Is there any info on what happened to them? Their twitter last said "Rumors of my death are almost as exaggerated as my writing style. Sorry for the delay; I'm catching up." a little bit after their last post. I would defini
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by automatoney 4y ago
Adding new detailed thoughts in a reply: The article leans heavily on traditionalist phrasings - "no one was lifting the most centrally important functional objects in our lives into the domain of beauty. The practice of these long-g
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by automatoney 4y ago
Yeah I'll be honest the work is nice but the author comes off as extremely insufferable. The writing gives off the impression that the author wants us to see him as this highly educated renaissance man, but it feels like that impressio
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by automatoney 4y ago
This was almost word for word my decision process when picking where to live. "I'm not going to buy a car, so I want to live somewhere designed for that, and I want to live somewhere with local tech jobs." I also don't l
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by automatoney 4y ago
It is questionable that a story about priests using a gay dating app for adults reminds you of... a pedo English teacher you had who hung out with priests? There's a long history of people equating being LGBTQ+ with being groomers, ped
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by automatoney 4y ago
It's reductive to say that the Catholic Church merely condemns gay sex. They also do not allow gay people to get married - which is the difference between their stance on pre-marital sex. There is no way within the framework of Catholi
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by automatoney 4y ago
I found this article's perspective really thought-provoking, and overall the piece has a lot of interesting philosophy wrapped in the narrative of Harriet McBryde Johnson's encounter with Peter Singer. Post title edited from &quot
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An account of discussions on selective infanticide and assisted suicide (2003)(nytimes.com)
2 points by automatoney 4y ago|1 comments
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by automatoney 4y ago
> Even on HN, most people believe many things about how the Internet works, at the networking layer, at the application layer, and socioculturally, that are not true, and provably not true, but widely believed. Could you debunk some of t

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