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by cmpb 6y ago
In the past, I have found it very difficult to get through books, but I’ve never had a problem with just putting it down when I’m not interested. I think that’s a big part of my situation: I have had trouble finding things that really hold
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by cmpb 6y ago
It definitely doesn't fit the bill of this thread (no images, not original links), but it's an interesting site nonetheless. I'm amazed at the number of books you've read over the years. I'm shooting for 3 books thi
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by cmpb 6y ago
Good point. That seems like a "soft-shutdown" compared to the "hard-shutdown" that I interpreted from the parent post: dying due to being unfit in the environment.
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by cmpb 6y ago
>An unusually high number of reports of late breeding and captive rearing near the coast—primarily on tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)—may also suggest there are higher numbers of non-migrating monarchs than usual which can nega
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by cmpb 6y ago
SuperExpressive() .anythingButString('aeiou') .toRegex(); // -> /(?:[^a][^e][^i][^o][^u])/ There's got to be a better way to express that in Regex, right?
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by cmpb 6y ago
I'm curious about this. Is there any easy way to determine how much wealth Putin or Xi actually has? Or is any discussion about their wealth just anecdotal?
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The Stack Is an Implementation Detail (2009)(docs.microsoft.com)
1 points by cmpb 6y ago|0 comments
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by cmpb 6y ago
It could also be that he had the "privilege" to earn it (as not everyone has that privilege).
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by cmpb 6y ago
I'm sure that, as with most mental illnesses, susceptibility to conspiracy theory would be a scale (say, not-very-susceptible to highly-susceptible). And in that case, we're all on the scale somewhere. As you mention such weakness
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by cmpb 6y ago
I'm just saying, it took me until halfway down page two to realize it.
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by cmpb 6y ago
Please, rant away! I'm interested in your opinion and the context of the decommissioned machine
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by cmpb 6y ago
That sounds like a pretty easy/fun daily routine!
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by cmpb 6y ago
I do this too, but my window of I-can-still-take-my-meds is shorter because it’s only one dose for the day, and if I take it too late, I’ll be up all night. I’m usually halfway to dropping off the kiddos at daycare when it dawns on me, and
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by cmpb 6y ago
That's an interesting concept. Normally fire is a healthy part of the ecosystem, but as humans we've changed the context in which fires occur (e.g. by reducing naturally occurring fire and by making droughts more common) such that
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by cmpb 6y ago
Special training would be my guess at the suit defense tactic here. Police are trained to toss the item in such a way that it’s not considered assault, etc. Same reason police are allowed to use the giant screens in their cars while they’re
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by cmpb 6y ago
I would appreciate a response to this as well, from the author or someone knowledgeable on this subject
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by cmpb 6y ago
I think the normality of it isn’t the issue. The issue is that many residents of Hong Kong have been explicitly demonstrating that they are not comfortable with China having any control in Hong Kong
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by cmpb 6y ago
Thanks for reminding me to catch up on the last few months of XKCD! Ended up sending a bunch of coronavirus-related comics to my biologist wife.
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by cmpb 6y ago
What about https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html?m=1
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by cmpb 6y ago
>Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion. This reminds me of a show I watched on the Science channel when I was young about how h
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by cmpb 7y ago
Oh goodness, now I can't unsee it.
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by cmpb 7y ago
I think in this case, the picture of the blanket actually says a lot more than the title. Not much substance outside of those two things, however. Either way, HN often brings a lot of substance to the table in the comments for these type of
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by cmpb 7y ago
I’m trying to imagine a world where this technology is ubiquitous, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’ll be easily exploitable from the perspective of a nefarious actor (e.g. a jamming device of some sort). I just can’t see safety-critic
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International Geophysical Year(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by cmpb 7y ago|0 comments
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by cmpb 7y ago
I think it’s more likely that it was in their calculations to not bring them back.
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by cmpb 7y ago
As a citizen of the United States (who came of age well after this event took place), I've only ever been told that this was an act of heroic success, something to be proud of, something that America should be proud of. I'm curi
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by cmpb 7y ago
Science did know it. It just didn’t realize that the angular momentum could change with time.
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by cmpb 7y ago
No, it seems that I’m this case, the angular momentum of the light beam itself changes over time, a process that is typically referred to as (or driven by?) torque in classical mechanics, and so they used that term here as well. They call i
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by cmpb 7y ago
Thanks for that adding perspective to the conversation. If you don't mind my asking, what specific school system(s) was it that you were a part of? As a kid in the Louisiana public school system of the 90s, I can attest that I was not
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by cmpb 7y ago
The article mentions the fact that the dialect and culture are diminishing. In Louisiana, we have the same problem happening with the Cajun and Creole cultures, and it’s very sad to see. My wife’s grandmother spoke only Cajun French for all

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