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by eric_h 8y ago
The issue at hand is specifically accusations of sexual assault which are provably significantly under reported and often dismissed when reported. This is a problem that needs to be solved and the first step to solving it is to listen to an
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In essence those words are used pejoratively in comparable situations. The word “bitch” however literally means “female dog” and is, in fact, used in a non-derogatory way in dog breeding circles. Context is everything, but calling a female
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by eric_h 8y ago
The ability to compose queries and sift through google results and find the answer to a question in a timely manner is a skill in and of itself that not everyone has.
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by eric_h 8y ago
In 7th grade, I and several of my friends were able to convince our ATP (Academically Talented Pupils) teacher that making and playing multiplayer Marathon maps was a worthy academic undertaking ;)
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by eric_h 8y ago
> America wasn't like this 20 years ago. 20 years ago was 1998, the year Clinton was impeached - the politics were just as slimy 20 years ago, the reality of it was just not as readily at our fingertips as it is today.
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by eric_h 8y ago
Newton was an asshole in an era when men being assholes was, in essence, acceptable. There is no evidence that being an asshole is a requirement for being a successful innovator or leader.
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by eric_h 8y ago
> tomatoes are technically fruits Tomatoes are quite obviously fruits. Most of the industrial tomatoes are tasteless because they're harvested well before they're properly ripe, but a ripe tomato harvested at the appropriate ti
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by eric_h 8y ago
Yelp isn't particularly useful if you're dependent upon the average score. It's solid as far as locating local businesses (and drilling down into actual reviews to make a decision, assuming you're in a city where yelp ha
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by eric_h 8y ago
> It is literally the kind of data collection that people use VPNs to avoid! I have a feeling that a majority of VPN app users use them with the intent of preventing a specific party from collecting that data (e.g. an employer or a gover
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by eric_h 8y ago
There is a constantly visible indicator that you're using a vpn on everything but the iPhone X. It's a stretch admittedly, but there's an argument to be made.
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by eric_h 8y ago
Huh. I'd always considered the definition of disposable income as the income that I would literally consider to be disposable, e.g. the money left over after I've covered everything I need (including housing, clothing, food and ta
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by eric_h 8y ago
> The real "lungs of the world" are the plankton in the ocean. Indeed, it's also mostly long dead plankton that we're burning in the form of fossil fuels.
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On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats (2015)(theverge.com)
1 points by eric_h 8y ago|1 comments
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by eric_h 8y ago
A company that doesn’t anticipate the end of a given revenue stream does a disservice to its shareholders. Facebook is not its only web property and it will still have hooks in a majority of internet users for some time in aggregate by impr
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by eric_h 8y ago
> I'll be surprised if it's still around in 10 years. I agree that facebook the site, in its current form, is unlikely to exist in 10 years. I highly doubt that facebook the company is going anywhere in that time frame.
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by eric_h 8y ago
Are you sure your neighbor wasn't running a grow op? I've never had a strain that wasn't tamed by two Ziploc bags, and the packaging that comes from the legal recreational shops are effectively odor-proof.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I personally think that particular term has been subverted to the point of being absolutely devoid of any meaning or humor and should really just not be used anymore. [Edit: I was not a down voter, but perhaps the down voters shared my pers
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by eric_h 8y ago
In NYC I get uber eats delivered by a car approximately 1 in 30 orders. Most Uber eats deliver by foot or by bicycle.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I have Fios in NYC and the password is also available on the account page on Verizon's website, which I find a bit unsettling.
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by eric_h 8y ago
Indeed. Anonymous collection protects the winner, public collection protects the game.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I would argue that he is more commonly known as Monopoly Guy - as this is the first I've heard "Rich Uncle Pennybags", and I first played Monopoly ~30 years ago.
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by eric_h 8y ago
It's very much a learned skill. I was fortunate to learn it well in school (and polish it further in my professional life). People who haven't learned to express themselves clearly and concisely are indeed to the left of me in the
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by eric_h 8y ago
Not the highest rated != pretty shitty
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by eric_h 8y ago
I'm not even joking, I'm planning on going back this fall.
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by eric_h 8y ago
It's true. The Yucatan peninsula is quite safe and also gorgeous. I only lost $250 when the police robbed me [non violently] the last time I was there.
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by eric_h 8y ago
> It's well known that Ivy League engineering is pretty shitty Citation needed.
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by eric_h 8y ago
There is plenty of truly artistic content created on mobile devices and posted on Instagram, it's not all fake vacation selfies.
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by eric_h 8y ago
While obviously the video only shows the car doing each ~difficult scenario once, to my untrained-in-the-intricacies-of-self-driving-car-eyes, these folks seem to have made serious strides in perfect situational awareness. They're noti
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Zoox Flashes Serious Self Driving Skills in Chaotic San Francisco(wired.com)
25 points by eric_h 8y ago|2 comments
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by eric_h 8y ago
> how is freely trading your labor and goods for other's labor and goods an immoral system? GP said "amoral" not "immoral". Morality is only a factor in capitalism in so much as it informs the decisions of the ac

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