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by bmelton 4y ago
But that's the thing -- reputations (and tangentially, gossip) are great ways to warn you away from potential conflicts you might encounter. If you're scared to date so and so because you know someone else who dated so and so and
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It's always baffled me that people seem so intent to need to take the whole person when evaluating anything they've done. Some actions offer color for their current activities, most don't. Someone considered to be "bad&q
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Thank you
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The article mentions it, but I've never known whether svg <title> attributes were screen-reader accessible, which is why I've always gone the poor-man's route and created a component (React or Web, depending on the proj
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You're right. They might need to bring back MazdaSpeed to get the [gear|petrol]heads back on board, who seem to have either stayed put with Honda/Toyota/Subaru fandom, or to Hyundai for those who haven't. Or just put out
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Considering the MSRP on your median Koenigsegg, it may still not be
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Race cars aren't more practical than golf clubs, but the reasons for which race cars aren't street legal are borne of practicality. Bumper height regulations are to hedge against the possibility of cars bumping into each other (an
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Agreed, but there's also Koenigsegg, which has managed to eliminate the need for cams, and complete heads from ICEs, replacing them with their 'freevalve' tech (which basically replaces the timing chain with computers so that
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That's a really good idea. Mazda is doing something that I think is fairly novel, which is almost exactly what you've described. They've scaled down the rotary engine from their RX cars to a single-rotor and put it into their
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It's even more interesting than that, really, because crime everywhere was bad in the very early 90s. Giuliani gets the credit for having cleaned up crime in NYC (and maybe he did) but we look to the early 90s as kind of the high wat
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The claim you made and that I was responding to was that "I cut and pasted these from right wing sources." Zero percent of that allegation is true.
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I think that's generally true in America as well. A "one-life" sentence in America generally amounts to 15-25 before parole eligibility. I don't know the prevalence of back-to-back life sentences in Germany (or in Americ
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Food Theory[1] did a (sort of) scientific breakdown on this and came to a similar conclusion, which I think did a great of reinforcing the plausibility of The Martian [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg7DjKPoN1U
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> This is just cut and pasted from some right wing talking points Not that it matters, but these were the collected thoughts of my resident friends and colleagues who live there, none of which you could remotely consider anywhere close t
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lol, I mean that denim has the particular attribute of forming to exactly your proportions. We've all seen old denim -- its wrinkles are bespoke to the wearer, its scuffs are defined by the work that was done in them. After enough (rea
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Interpreting the question in good faith (since nobody else seems to want to) I work in SF but don't live there, but over the past few years (especially under Chesa Boudin, the previous District Attorney) they've moved towards &quo
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I don't know if you've tried it, but there are places that can sell you custom tailored jeans, usually in the form of raw denim that -- because it will do such a great job of conforming to exactly your shape, to the point of &#x27
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It technically can render javascript, but there's a performance penalty that negatively affects your crawl budget. If you're twitter or facebook, or have enough domain reputation already that your crawl budget is big enough to o
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Citroen seems to be the closest to making these a reality. The Ami and Oli are wild, weird, but absurdly practical starter cars marketed to a slightly-more-sophisticated-than-starter-car demographics. The Oli is especially impressive in tha
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> maybe if they bought a $1200 windows machine it would have lasted 4 years Maybe it's different now (I haven't used Windows in decades, so I don't know) but I will say that it never felt that way to me. Perhaps because
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I know it's not the convention, but I almost prefer it this way. As someone who is self-taught (read: bad) on guitar, I spent literally years playing songs and suffering hand cramps before realizing that it takes a lot less pressure to
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In fact, there are areas of Iceland (generally long stretches of road where the wind can funnel through valleys) where the wind can knock cars or buses clear off the road. Generally, they issue weather advisories for that sort of thing, but
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I did not go inside of a volcano, but did climb a glacier. Otherwise, while I thought the hot dogs were pretty neat, the wife didn't care for them, so we stuck to the one and then engaged in more of their fine dining options. Dill and
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Depends on the night, obviously, but "very cold" is a safe assertion. The first day there I had a hard time, thinking that my casual cold-weather gear would keep me comfortable was a mistake I learned the hard way tracking the nor
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A much worse book on the science of bicycles is "The Third Policeman" from Flann O'Brien. Some of its wisdom: “The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over
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Took a vacation to Iceland for this past new year's, and am thrilled to hear any news that might allow me to stay there for longer. When I left Iceland, it felt very much like I was leaving a fairy tale. I was delighted by the whales o
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From https://lancasterpa.com/amish/amish-frequently-asked-questio... > “Can an outsider join the Amish church/community?” > “A local Amishman recently remarked, “You do not need to move here to adopt
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> For Altman, it’s not about money, either. One of the most surprising things in all of this is that he does not own even a tiny piece of OpenAI, which highlights the unusual nature of this company and the entire AI industry. It's n
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My first thought was "Okay, sure, but how does it perform after I load it up full of essential plugins like vim mode and such" but seeing that vim mode is built-in is kind of amazing. It appears to be more limited than I'm us
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> Even the US Federal Constitution can be changed by lawmakers This really depends on how loosely you define "lawmakers." The federal legislature cannot amend the Constitution by itself, as it requires a 2/3 supermajority

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