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by civilian 10y ago
Bullshit. Some people have halitosis, some people just don't brush regularly. There is one of my coworkers who occasionally has really bad breath, but it's not clear that he just missed a flossing. Source: I have a hygiene pact wi
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by civilian 10y ago
Chapter 2 is titled ‘Kissed by Jesus’, if that helps anyone avoid the longread. // edit whoops yeah I'm wrong, my replier is correct. Nevertheless... Chapter 1 was stumbling into a long resume of the boy's high school ex
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by civilian 10y ago
We could also quote Blindsight by Peter Watts: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm Search for "Once there were three tribes." and read 10 paragraphs :) The key quote is: > Equidistant to the othe
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by civilian 10y ago
I just have an argument with your fantasy: Elder Races would capitalist, it's just simply a good way to designate effort towards different resources. http://www.americanteeth.org/2015/06/21/why-i-m-a-capi
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by civilian 10y ago
Does Loeb address whether there would have been oxygen and carbon 10-17 million years after the Big Bang? I thought that the heavier elements formed much later, and had to be forged in the center of stars. Our first generation of stars appe
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by civilian 10y ago
Incase you're wondering, your comment is kinda tinfoily-hat and it's off-topic from the main discussion of company valuation and tax strategies. I'd also add the caveat-- are you sure who is buying who here? The next Preside
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by civilian 10y ago
It's pretty well established that in animal studies, animals that undergo caloric restriction live longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction I haven't kept myself up to date on it, but I think
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by civilian 10y ago
This would be acceptable if the benevolent dictator also participated in 6-8 hrs/week of exercise, and it was televised raw on CSPAN. At the very least it would be a good motivator, and at I bet it'd be very humanizing too. &quot
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by civilian 10y ago
I think the better way to avoid our replacement is to think about our non-coding contributions to our companies. I'm a full-time software engineer, but I spend maybe 50% of my day implementing code. I spend a lot of time figuring out t
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by civilian 10y ago
I disagree? It's just data man. WeWork tested the limits too, when they wrote that overly limiting terms of service.
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by civilian 10y ago
Hmmm. I'll agree to antitrust, but with a caveat. Most monopolies are government-enforced in the first place. Through some means or another, the government grants a business or group of business privileges above the other, usually thro
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by civilian 10y ago
That's a myth, granted a myth that was taught in all of our history classes. The Great Depression was going to end anyway. Here's a paper that discusses just that: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123226?seq=1#pa
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by civilian 10y ago
> Putting aside how [President] Elon Musk pays for it all, facepalm you can't compare the side effects of a massive government spending plan without looking at that! It'll all come out eventually. Either we borrow, and tax
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by civilian 10y ago
> has no good processor Do you mean he is stupid or that Kakakistan doesn't have an oil refinery or that he doesn't have a successor?
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by civilian 10y ago
Take some time browsing the /r/China subreddit. It contains a lot of westerners who live in China. https://www.reddit.com/r/China/ I travelled in China (Beijing, Chengdu and some smaller towns) for three
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by civilian 10y ago
Might it increase the burden of grief on others? I had a hard time seeing my friend's facebook page after he died. Months and years later, it still hurts that FB suggest that I invite him to events. But I don't want to unfriend hi
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by civilian 10y ago
My little brother was starting to have the same problem as his secondary teeth were coming in when he was five years old. The dentist sat down and simply told him: "if you keep sucking your thumb, your new teeth are going to come in c
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by civilian 10y ago
I think your understanding of class is off. I mean, what would an underclass really do to turn south koreans into a leisure class? The point of working crazy hard is to jostle for position with the people at or above your social position.
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by civilian 10y ago
What are the Knox laws? Google isn't pulling anything except this http://www.knox.army.mil/garrison/dhr/asd/docs/regs/r190-5.p...
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by civilian 10y ago
It's _probably_ more like +3 Cha. I feel like one of the things that a recruiter (or really, any separate person, like a good/pro-active reference) can do is actually tout your abilities. When we tout our own abilities, it often s
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by civilian 10y ago
Ah, it was probably the Church who was keeping the records in the first place.
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by civilian 10y ago
Ah, there are many different cultures among the people who are born with American citizenship. It's common-sense to me that most of the races have their own culture. (Although, admitting that it's common sense to me makes me wond
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by civilian 10y ago
We didn't know they would do this when we signed up and gave them our DNA years ago?
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by civilian 10y ago
Do you have any thoughts on encfs vs. duplicity? http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
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by civilian 10y ago
My office has a Sonos. The rule is: if you don't like what's playing, you can change it or turn it off. And everyone has access to the app, and it's anonymous who is taking what actions. We've never had "battles&qu
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by civilian 10y ago
It's not an analogy! It's another similar use of the word. As long as he's learning one more definition for the word flush, why not one more?
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by civilian 10y ago
Like the other people are saying, it means" flat" or "broken outer surface". Are you familiar with poker? We have another use of the word `flush` in that context, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
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by civilian 10y ago
Some hilariously bad math right here: > 9. The whole thing has already cost $322.6 million. > The total cost of the contracts awarded is skyrocketing toward half a billion dollars (though it has a ways to go to meet that mark). The
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by civilian 10y ago
You remind me of myself in 2008. #RonPaul2008
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by civilian 10y ago
As someone who studied biochemistry in a small engineering school in New England, I royally screwed myself when I decided to live on the west coast, and I doubley screwed myself when I switched from biotech to software. But hey, it's w

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