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by codyb 3y ago
A common theory is that increased temperatures end up causing an ice age. Bill Bryson discusses that in one of his books and I can’t remember the exact reasoning, maybe it’s something like Increased heat -> more moisture -> more cloud
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Wouldn’t they be consuming FDA approved foods and drugs by people as unscrupulous and heartless as them though in this scenario? Yeesh, these folk are people, I sincerely doubt “nothing bad’ll happen until I’m retired” is their general calc
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Talking about proportionality and the Senate is like talking about fine dining and McDonalds. Although, oddly enough it seemed to be a small bulwark _against_ extremism in the last election since you can't gerrymander a Senate race. So
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Just wait until the mass migrations get even worse. We’re already seeing the waves from South America here. Europe’s seeing them come up over the Mediterranean. A third of the entire nation of Pakistan flooded this year… how many times can
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Is Sapporo a bad company?
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I've certainly been moving back towards lighter beers... those IPAs are too strong. You think 5% to 6% isn't a big deal cause it seems so small, but it's a 20% increase in alcohol content. 5% - 7% is a 40% increase! If you&#x
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After I posted I remembered I knew that, yea that definitely helped! But some of the fault is on the banks as well for not managing interest rate risks well. As Matt Levine pointed out, they haven't had to worry for a decade! SVB'
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Seems like the vast majority of banks avoided this situation, regional or national, so... maybe it's on the banks at some point?
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Why not both? Biden certainly isn't urging the Fed to continue cutting rates despite a strong economy, while also cutting taxes increasing monetary velocity, during a time of increased monetary velocity due to COVID stimulus funds to k
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Well, to be fair, they don’t know who’s knowledgable and who’s not? I just order my stuff online, walk in, and pick it up. Not sure that it’s super frequent I have a “I need this hardware in 30 minutes or less” situation
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Politicians are elected by people, who own homes as their primary asset.
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I moved to Dvorak in about… 3 weeks. Love it now! I printed out a paper with my split keyboards layout, and just stopped looking at it over time. You can toggle back to Qwerty with one click.
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If you need an alternative DuckDuckGo seems _much_ cleaner to me... everytime I randomly inadvertently end up on Google I'm usually very turned off.
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NYC’s been pretty consistently expanding and updating it’s transit. Airtram to JFK. Hudson Yards 7 line stop. Fulton station in Financial District. Moynihan Train Hall opening. Half of the Q line expansion on the Upper East Side. Redoing La
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Seems fairly intuitive? Width and length of an acre with a depth of a foot
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Watching the Yankees in Spanish all season has really improved my ability to listen to Spanish. Combined with Anki spaced repetition flashcards (conjugation and vocabulary), Duo Lingo for some general practice, and Pimsleur for speaking and
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To be fair to the orcas, boats do seem to be awful for them. At the Seattle aquarium there's tons of information about how the noise from boats makes hunting much more difficult for orca pods. This was a sailing vessel but maybe they&#
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That's very funny. But is it possible whatever rudimentary coverings early humans had would just decay unlike a flute? Or would we still expect to see... fibers or something? For instance, if early humans used furs, would those... stay
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Huh? Sex is usually a positive healthwise no? Just being around people, and getting human contact in general.
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Ha, ya, you and the rest of society, really going to great lengths to make life harder for the people digging through trash for a nickel a can... I have a feeling maybe that you're really kind of asking for a lot from the people who&#x
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The alternative might be to lock up everything but leave the cans in a separate bag for the people who want to collect them? Aluminum's one of the few things that does get recycled well and it's pretty energy intensive to get new
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I as a user would like to maintain a beating heart is a pretty compelling story though.
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I think they've been working on that. The size of our military and the amount of logistics that occurs requires a tremendous amount of supply chain infrastructure that is not all wired up in to some centralized system. You can imagine
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Yea, would it make a lot of noise, you wouldn't really see it right? Would the energy be detectable by some sort of equipment that you could visualize on the screen?
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I love typing in Dvorak. Although I don't use it on my phone. I didn't find the switch particularly painful. I just switched one day... and had a chart printed out that I looked at whenever I couldn't remember something and e
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I know a few people who seem to always be in negative moods... and when I learn about them, it appears, that basically every waking moment of their lives, there is _some_ form of... signal just being beamed directly into their brain. Whethe
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Banking’s super highly regulated for good reason. It’s an inherently risky business built on borrowing short (I.E. your depositors can “call” their deposits at any time (see Silicon Valley Bank for a recent example of depositors calling sho
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I’ve never even tried it, so no. Docs are usually sufficient, and reworking prompts just doesn’t look that enjoyable to me.
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Yeesh. Gross.
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The 2 party system’s okay. It’s not the worst when it’s working alright. Right now it’s not great lol. But this system has survived 227 years or so for a reason. At the end of the day the Senate was actually a bulwark against extremism in t

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