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brokenkebaby
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
I think it's pretty clear what it means if you start reading from your own comment. You claimed that a history of promiscuity means nothing (and even blamed it on the parent commenter's insecurities, remember?) My response was tha
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
>I don't think anyone believes being sympathetic or hot is sufficient to sustain a relationship. I didn't claim you do. The point made is about "How promiscuous either of you were [...] before you met will have no bearing
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
>How promiscuous either of you were at any time before you met will have no bearing on that whatsoever, if you are committed to each other. The problem is in the fact that commitment doesn't naturally happen from sympathy, or sexual
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Btw while cotton dries slower than PE, or wool in any case, it also worth to note that moisture wicking doesn't mean just drying quickly. It means water absorption happen in such a way that it makes skin drier. Cotton regretfully absol
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
The reason cotton is perferred is because it's way cheaper than all viable alternatives.
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
You literally quoting a piece of commercial copyrighting (=ad) to contradict knowledge by experience. It's not like one data point, cotton is highly unpopular in hiking, and athlete communities. 1. Because it's strongly hydrophili
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Not in my experience. Cotton takes your sweat, and makes you feel like you are soaking in it (and that's why it chafes more - skin loses elasticity in prolonged contact with water). Nothing is airy about it.
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Yes, please: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23108937/ >Coffee is essential for my productivity, not for pleasure. For sure it is (for the reasons I described above). As for pleasure: I don't know, maybe you ar
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
It's guaranteed to be false for the simple fact of human organism adaptability to caffeine. You certainly feel increased alertness after a cup of coffee, so subjectively it may feel very empowering. But if you're a long-time caffe
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Coffee really became common beverage in Islamic world about 3 centuries after the "golden age" finished
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Not in that way. Arabic expansion grew a new layer above cultural heritage of East Mediterranian region, and Persia, and its most important centers were exactly there, showing a lot of continuity with their "pre-coffee" roots. Whi
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
>Isn’t it widely recorded that handwashing only came to be a norm mid-1800s? You're mixing up two completely different modes of washing. The one related to medicine in XIX is about washing hands in lime solution. Pop science magazin
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Both doesn't work for me
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
I don't know every Slavic language, but know a few. There are rules of transformation of sounds which can make -ph to become -f, or -p, while -v is very-very unlikely. And the fact that in some languages "v" can be pronounced
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
>I wish there was just a standard language for programming. Approved by a Central Planning Committee, I suppose?
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
>This strikes me as very weird, since there is a Tocharian language group and Iranic languages don't belong to it. I guess it's because "Tocharian" as used for IE languages of city-states of Tarim considered to be a m
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
I (quite obviously) talked about the description you posted. Unless you are the author it's not really yours wrt its content. If by chance you are, ok, I can see the reason for emotions. But the text is still disgustingly buzzfeedy, so
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Hey! The book can be better than the description you posted, but the description is what is open for everyone to see here. As for people downvoting you that wasn't me so I can't say for sure, but I'm observing your initial co
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Well, this excerpt has a buzzfeedy malodor
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Just a few days ago I found a bug in someone's code where a variable was introduced twice with slightly different name, like "var jobno", and then "var jobn". Made me think that Pascal's approach to keep vars d
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
I recently tried to search for my own web presence from late 90s early 00s, and I found the famous claim that nothing dsappears from the internet to be greatly exaggerated. A few snapshots made its way to web archive, but incomplete, and no
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
It's not a feature exclusive for Twitter to be sure but the fact that herd behavior on background of social animosity is much more important driver than cat pictures is pretty much established. There are number of studies on this accou
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Slogans like "good journalism requires good money" don't really bring any reasonable argument to the table, let's be frank. Neither good journalism nor good money is defined for everyone, and the correlation between the
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Incorrect claim. These nations actually invest into preventing such risky trips.
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
I cannot help but notice that Perl used to be very popular in early web development, sys administration, and in a a row of scientific fields. And lots of people were enthusiastic about it (as witnessed by CPAN content). Then it was declared
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
This answer looks unjustifiably overheated for a statement that says X is "terrible in many ways". It can be the best tool for someone, and still be terrible in many ways, no contradiction here.
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
Since I learned what is it it's been my strong feeling that AOP is a very big (and somewhat misleading) name for such a small thing
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
And what exactly is user-hostile there? It doesn't look beautiful to my tastes, but functionally nothing is particularly complicated to understand.
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brokenkebaby
3y ago
>Why people having emotions (eg. The person above, who does care) is somehow a bad thing? It's a bit of manipulation as nobody stated that having emotions is bad. Meanwhile, people leveraging unverifiable claims of bad feelings to h
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3y ago
>Rust members were "uncomfortable" with this purely technical viewpoint - not their behavior, personal beliefs, or even their demographic? Claim of "feeling uncomfortable" was invented to be a tool of political fighti
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