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> dysfunctional people pleasing Your "dysfunctional people pleasing" is someone else's "not being a total dick". As I said, there's no law against it. It's all about character and education (or lack the
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Mainly because they were introduced when the seats were set farther apart. Now companies squeeze more rows and keep the same seats. But also because with any shared resource there's an expectation of decency involved. Some people just
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> Flights from sfo to Frankfurt bolt upright sound unpleasant Same flight with someone's seat resting on your knees is downright painful. > when my wife was pregnant Imagine if she was a bit taller and someone reclined the seat a
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> This "random output machine" is already in large use in medicine By doctors. It's like handling dangerous chemicals. If you know what you're doing you get some good results, otherwise you just melt your face off. &g
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Interesting, I see only Max Payne 2 on Steam, and neither of them on GOG (the first place I always check).
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Can you even buy Max Payne 1 from any store today? A while back I looked around and couldn't find a single legal source for the game.
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But the article isn't saying it's surprising that you gain weight when you stop the treatment, the surprise is how fast you regain it compared to other treatments. The conclusion isn't at all obvious so there's no "
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They don't develop this equilibrium "instinctively" (something exclusively inside them) but they do "naturally" (helped by the environment). Now the reindeer weren't really in their natural environment, they we
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Much like Musk, any "organism" that reaches a certain level of power and influence becomes decadent and eventually gets to the point where it stops caring what others think, even for appearances.
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> “There was an aspect of, like, ‘Fuck the system,’” Masad said. “‘We need to remake civilization.’” No matter what the political views, running into "real" money radicalizes most people and gives them the impression that they
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> cue tired analogies with knife makers not responsible for stabbings The knife maker will be in hot water if you ask them for a knife and you're very specific about how you'll break the law with it, and they just give it to yo
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> but on a universal level, we're missing a cohesive master plan, in which a user, a human, need not undertake endless and repeated manual fend-off of the devil This is a very good way of stating the problem in terms anyone can rela
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You're either generalizing or just making a mistake stating so definitively that sitting on an asset means being stupid with investments. You know your house and situation but that's far from representative. Sitting on it might tu
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> It was simple - I priced it properly, and I didn't have to pay another year of taxes, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and worry, only to have to lower the price anyway to get rid of it. A couple of the other homeowners were angry
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I want to make this very clear, my point is about how we define a “dangerous” tool. It’s not what it can do, it’s how it does it. The real danger is in an untrustworthy tool, in fooling users like OD did.
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> Do you really not consider the first to be an example of the second? I think too many people got the impression that I'm defending OD and can't get out of that trench. My point is that a generic tool being able to do dangerou
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> I asserted that if a tool is that dangerous, it shouldn't be used on a daily basis Agree to disagree. I will repeat, we are surrounded by dangerous tools that we use on a daily basis. Clearly the "danger" part is not the
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Options are not a guardrail. Documented options that operate intuitively and consistently are the guardrail. This is where OD failed by MS's design, it didn't operate intuitively and consistently with almost any other computer t
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The comment I replied to suggested a generalization that "a too that allows you to make grave mistakes is too dangerous to use. We're surrounded by tools in real life and computers which allow you to make major mistakes (ever run
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> If it's so easy to make an unrecoverable and catastrophic mistake, it's a tool that's too dangerous to use on the daily. Shift+Del and rm -rf don't have any guardrails around them. In tech you are surrounded by foot
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> Whatever the initial problem was is likely to still present after reboot You only know this after the reboot. Reboot to fix the issue and if it comes back then you know you have to dig deeper. Why sink hours of effort into fixing a ran
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Mold can stick to some of the furniture even if it's not a large, visible spot. When mold developed on the wall behind your large wardrobe there's a good chance that the wooden back of the dressed caught a bit of it. You move to a
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The Titan submersible implosion features a lot on HN, and almost nobody here built such a contraption, or took one to the bottom of the ocean, or imploded. Naming a gaming storefront which may sell an old game doesn't answer the questi
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I don't think there's a one size fits all here. If you don't go out of your comfort zone and "do more" you may never get a promotion because you're seen as average. But it's also true that if you work hard
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> there will likely be people who want to play Final Fantasy 6 and Pokémon Silver for as long as computers are around Is Final Fantasy 6 seeing a lot on new players today? Old games are played more by the people who enjoyed them when the
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> in EU you might have the police knocking at your door for some reasons you don't have in the USA Is there any significant difference where the law gives you fewer rights in the EU in this regard? Speaking of knocking, it's ve
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Is this common? Airport scanners are usually face scanners. Iris scanners are almost always for employees with access to critical areas, not for travelers. I know Doha and Singapore airports use iris scanners at the security check. It'
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The reason was moving from the CE kernel to the NT kernel between WP7 and WP8. This was supposed to make developers’ lives much easier when porting Windows 8 apps. The minimum hardware requirement had to be bumped and old WP7 devices could
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When you have no power you get stomped. That “only” reason is (part of) the superpower. China was another example of superpower “style”. Not the Russian or US “let’s invade this country” or “let’s kidnap that leader”.
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The definition is probably not very precise. They started a war of aggression and every other country is tiptoeing around them. Iraq was also a regional power and got a very different treatment. So the “power” line isn’t so clear. China on

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