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by eckmLJE 4y ago
You could start by reading about Wim Hof (a person) and his "Wim Hof Method": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
It says "as it rained down" from the sky -- once it hits the water it is no longer raining down.
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by eckmLJE 4y ago
Presumably fish don't breathe things that are in the sky
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
You may find this listen/read very interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2021/03/chicano...
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Aren't the newer smart TVs equipped with a cell modem so they can phone home without wifi, or they stop working after not being updated for x days?
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Around the time this fake traffic jam project was first performed, a friend of mine was working on a condo development that was just about ready to list for sale. They planned an open house. The property itself was very nice and successfull
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Some people have what they would describe a home (e.g. a tent in an encampment that they've made their own and lived in sometimes for years), but not a house (a structure with four walls and a roof built to code). Defining someone by s
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
I was hopeful the track pad on the steam controller could replace a mouse for anything requiring fast and precise aim/controlling (FPS/RTS), but I was sadly disappointed. For a casual or non-real-time gaming, sure. But if you are
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
they're all english - peplum - late 17th century: via Latin from Greek peplos . - boucle - late 19th century: French, literally ‘buckled, curled’. - pessary - late Middle English: from late Latin pessarium, based on Greek pessos ‘oval
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that particular clip came from a Zello chat room. On The Media did a great episode on work they did listening in on these rooms leading up to January 6, and they handed over all of their recordings to the FBI. https:&#
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
The question is really -- what was the rent for your unit before the pandemic began and the rental market in many cities became depressed. It's difficult to answer because plenty of people had just started a lease before the pandemic b
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
The greatest player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, is characterized by his refusal to quit when behind and to get blood from a stone in the end-game.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
There's a well-established history of men getting very angry when losing to women in competitive chess so I don't think it's out of some gentleness. Some good background reading https://www.newyorker.com/magaz
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Have you considered that the behavior you're describing is far uglier.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
After my company went remote, my life partner and I had the fortune in spring of 2020 to be able to temporarily relocate from our 1BR condo in Washington, DC to her family's "summer" house on Cape Cod in Massachusetts (USA).
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Although you make an ok point, you're greatly exaggerating FPS. I'm on a beautiful 1440p 144hz LG and I really only need 150fps. This still often requires less-than-ultra video settings even with a 3080 ti. There is a very small n
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
If you were developing in JS in 2015 this hurdle is understandable.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Is it just me or from the pictures does it not look like a 16:18 ratio? Maybe it's the perspective of the photos but it looks much less square than that.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
In person with cash or stubhub.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Actual instances of police funding being reduced are so rare that the author reaches for incidents of low police-citizen interaction following controversial police-on-citizen violence as evidence of what a straw-man version of "defund
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
When you buy an NFT, you're really buying an NFT and not the artwork. It's like the opposite of a car title.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Untrue, I believe you need a certain amount of karma to be able to flag.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Agreed, there is an essay collection named after Consider the Lobster that has some great ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
I find your comment to be very vague -- what are you talking about exactly?
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Isn't it actually a perfect microcosm of political theater and failure to address a real crisis?
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
One reason car companies are moving to EVs is the coming regulatory pressure from governments on fossil fuels and car emissions. They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
What's funny is that now, 5 years later, all the crazy things the writer is parodying sound completely normal to me.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Yes. It felt a little unrealistic IMO but it does describe throughout the story many different solutions that are more and less effective / politically attainable.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
Great tidbit -- found this in the NYT archive (likely paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/18/us/hubble-has-backup-mirr...
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
A universe in which string cannot exist and objects freely pass through each other and through the fabric of spacetime, stretching through regions millions of light years apart

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