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You may enjoy the _Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song_: https://youtu.be/tKNXude-qqc?feature=shared
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> Supposedly an employee once filed a ticket saying “please put a pony in my office.” (He didn’t get one, in case you’re wondering, although one hears conflicting stories on this.) benley did get a pony for a day though had to provide hi
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Designing a diffracting telescope.
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Nothing is forbidden, until you try to explain it. I come from the perspective that genre is a contract with the audience. Here _Interstellar_ is making a genre error. Take _Star Wars_ for example. You don't need to know how the Force
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It was completely uneven. Cooper sobbing as he listened to years of messages from his family? I wish I could've written that. The twist where Mann activated his beacon because he didn't want to die alone? Solid. We need the gravit
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Telegram from the Consulate General in Dacca (1971)(history.state.gov)
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On Monday I've got a fantastic hashing bug to show you.
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At my last house, I removed the gas stove and replaced it with induction. I had two motivations: * Gas stoves are awful for indoor air quality * Compared to induction, they're awful to cook on
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> especially some of the more corrupt and incompetent ones Do you have particular boroughs in mind?
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Could be a mistake or they're counting posthumous releases.
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Incredible that his career spanned 60+ years. When I saw him in _The Dirty Dozen_ it must've already been thirty years old. This got me curious about who had the longest career in Hollywood. Mickey Rooney came in near the top at 90 yea
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I doubt it. Language and human evolution operate on different time scales. We wouldn't be able to converse with someone from 13th century England. If anything I will expect selective pressure on languages—those that are easy to use are
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The human brain isn't randomly initialized. It's undergone 500m years of pretraining.
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It has nothing to do with safety. It's pure protectionism. The point is to keep small gas stations competitive by imposing labor costs on larger gas stations.
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This isn't a lack of understanding. It's the principal-agent problem. Non-founder executives are usually rewarded for short term results. They'll deliver on this even if it means laying off the entire Python language team in
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by bhickey 2y ago
The manufacturer should be jointly liable for producing a defective vehicle.
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Arlene Blum is another mountaineer author worth mentioning. She's written about her expeditions including Annapurna I, as well as her work as a chemist campaigning to ban toxic flame retardant from upholstery.
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by bhickey 2y ago
Wade Davis was a speaker at the 2012 American Alpine Club meeting at the Ford Assembly Plant in Richmond, CA. He had a line that stuck with me: death is the price we pay for living. Side note, Davis is mentioned in at least one episode of t
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by bhickey 2y ago
> dynamically redefine functions even to violate lexical scoping When would someone want to do this?
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Under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium we wouldn't expect a trait to go from 0.1 to 0.3 in a large population in four generations. This suggests that the trait is subject to selective pressure. There are a lot of potential causes. In my esti
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by bhickey 2y ago
> No, you were comparing a small part of technical infrastructure costs to grant cost. I have no control over how WMF presents its expenses. For years WMF foundation has run "we need money or Wikipedia will die" ads while spend
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by bhickey 2y ago
> Secondly, if you're still just acknowledging Wikipedia hosting costs - and thus pretending there's (for example) no legal work necessary for it - I don't think people are getting through to you as they should. From your
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by bhickey 2y ago
It isn't a question of the good work you do. People care about Wikipedia, not the Wikimedia Foundation. The criticism arises from misleading advertising. WMF fundraising conflates the two, implying that _Wikipedia_ needs money or it&#x
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by bhickey 2y ago
To encourage them to testify.
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Let them trade whatever they want — but publish their trades and delay execution for 48 hours.
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This would've been 2014, I played in a 100 v 100 paintball game in Western Massachusetts. It was February, so the snow was pretty deep. At one point I stepped through some ice up to my knee. Rather than run straight up elimination, tea
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> Suburban roads also last much much longer (far less traffic). Have you got a citation on that? I was under the impression that most road wear is caused by heavy trucking and water/frost heaves.
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> That's just about most difficult population to determine primary cause of death for. Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776351/
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Either would've been preferable to what was done. Waiting on a provably fruitless trial in the midst of pandemic is regulatory homicide. Throughout 2020, more than 9% of all people in nursing homes died of covid. Depending on age case
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Ideally this is what would happen. In practice there have been very public failures in being overly cautious and aggressive. While Aduhelm reduces Aβ it has no clinically significant effect. Still, the FDA approved it. Mercifully it'll

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