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by bena 4mo ago
I think it's because he retired relatively early. He was 37 when he ended Calvin and Hobbes. And he's always been relatively private. He published a book not too long ago.
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by bena 4mo ago
Yeah. He's not dead. He could have gone into webcomics if he had wanted.
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by bena 4mo ago
And they were banned. What’s the real problem here. Spell it out for us.
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by bena 4mo ago
This is actually a tool used in construction. A chamber filled with chalk and a coiled line. You hook the line to one end of your item, pull the chamber across, make it tight, snap the line. https://www.homedepot.com/p/
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by bena 4mo ago
This set is expensive mostly due to rarity.
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by bena 4mo ago
I assume they were talking about 75159 right before it retired. I think that was when Lego speculation was just becoming a bigger thing. Now, I don't think something like that could retire with stock being on the shelf. I grabbed Betra
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by bena 4mo ago
Cloud City 10123 is 698 pieces. That would've retailed for around $70-$90 new. It is worth roughly $10,000 sealed in box. I have some of the original Lego Star Wars sets. All opened and built and etc. Including this one which I purchas
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by bena 4mo ago
It can also be used to mean "kicked out and told they can't come back".
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by bena 4mo ago
We have an even simpler version of this called "Derby Dash". It's basically just the race portion of the board with dice. It gets used a fair bit, but mostly because it is zero-player. Not to get too much into it, but since
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by bena 5mo ago
Fire insurance doesn't do anything for your house regarding it being on fire. Fire departments are good for the community at large as well so the fire at your house doesn't become the fire at my house.
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by bena 5mo ago
That's not collateral, that's the thing being wagered.
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by bena 5mo ago
Boolean algebra is like a NAND gate. It’s simple, but it can construct any other system you want. You can reduce any statement to a series of true/false statements. Now, it may take a lot of statements, but that’s not the point. The po
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by bena 5mo ago
Which is why anthropologists published a book containing a bunch of essays that basically said, "No, this guy is wrong".
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by bena 5mo ago
Historians. Well, one. Well, he's not a historian. He's a biochemist and physiologist who has studied some anthropology. It's Jared Diamond. That's who says agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.
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by bena 5mo ago
On a much smaller scale, this is advice I give to just about everyone: If your decisions won't affect how they treat you, then just do what you want. The fact that they won't like it doesn't matter, they didn't like you
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by bena 5mo ago
You don't update balances, you enter transactions. Then you derive balances from transactions. You can even insert them in an unvalidated state, then validate them later. That way if you have two transactions that come one after anothe
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by bena 5mo ago
But it's not progress. Not really. Mice are used only partly because they share a considerable amount of DNA with us. But they're mostly used because they're cheap. Both in financial and ethical costs. They live for about two
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by bena 5mo ago
Which is why I found the Claude Super Bowl ads really weird. They seemed like an indictment of the technology as a whole. The LLM character proxies all spoke with the LLM-cadence and phrasing. Because we all know it. LLM writing is very unc
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by bena 5mo ago
I think I understand why she told people not to look up her credits. It seems this may be a case of "I am representative of everyone's experience." Her first credit was in 2008 and then there is a 5 year gap between that and
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by bena 5mo ago
This is a failure of curiosity. I can talk to plumbers. I can talk to electricians, hvac, construction guys, anyone in the trades. Because what they work on are essentially systems and systems are interesting to me. Trust me, these guys d
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by bena 5mo ago
Uh, that's not going to fly. We use a VPN to enable remote users to access our internal network for things we don't want exposed to the public at large. And we're not a tech company. This really sounds like someone who has no
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by bena 5mo ago
Imagine if you split the search space N times, no middles. Then you could just compare the value.
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by bena 5mo ago
That was 1999. Invasion came out that year. Innistrad, Mirrodin, Ravnica, and other settings all came out after Hasbro's acquisition. Every year seems to be the best-selling year so far. Magic: the Gathering is Hasbro's primary
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by bena 5mo ago
TBF, that's just kind of built into the product naturally.
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by bena 5mo ago
So no human on Earth is intelligent by that metric.
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by bena 6mo ago
Or psychosomatic. It's possible she believes that those items all trigger her migraines therefore her body gives her a migraine when she believes she's had one of her triggers. A big tell would be her getting a migraine and blamin
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by bena 6mo ago
But they were involved in price fixing lysine. And that was wrong.
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by bena 6mo ago
A lot of people believe this about themselves, but yes, like you suspect, they don't mean it when it counts.
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by bena 6mo ago
You don’t have to accept their conclusions, but they don’t have to accept yours either. You can walk away
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by bena 6mo ago
Yes, the way I've heard it put is eating an orange is fine, but drinking a glass of juice is like eating an entire orchard.

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