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Embracing the Kobayashi Maru: Why You Should Teach Your Students to Cheat [pdf](rumint.org)
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by eric_h 8y ago
Is it possible for a SIM card to not have a phone number? My iPad has a SIM card for cellular data and it has a phone number even though it doesn't have a phone app.
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by eric_h 8y ago
> NBA game data is not subject to copyright That is pretty fascinating. In horse racing (where paying for past performance information has been standard operating procedure for more than a century), there is (at least in the US) exactly
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Study reveals secret origins of asteroids and meteorites(news.ufl.edu)
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by eric_h 8y ago
springboard is essentially the Finder application on the iPhone - so crashed to springboard means crashed to home screen, basically.
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It's also (albeit unintentionally) man made.
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> I see your point but have you met people with alcohol dependency? They aren't very social. Fair enough but the scale from buzzed to antisocial is vastly shorter on heroin than alcohol. From my observations of others, the desired p
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by eric_h 8y ago
For me that's what it was - I gathered quite a collection of shit I never even used or played (apps, media), just because I could (before Napster). For the friends of mine with no technical chops who I taught how to pirate, there was n
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by eric_h 8y ago
Alcohol is a very social drug, and thus has a fair bit of social self-reinforcement as a habit. Heroin is basically the opposite of social. Ever hung out with someone while they were on heroin (and you weren't)? They're no fun at
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by eric_h 8y ago
Legalized weed has also significantly dropped the price of black market weed in states where it's not legal. I've seen about a 30% increase in quantity for the same price from the high margin sellers (delivery services).
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by eric_h 8y ago
> many countries do distribute milk in thin plastic bags that you then empty into a pitcher at home. Nonsense - you put the whole bag in a pitcher and then snip an end off the bag! No need to do any dishes afterwards.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I've developed an unconscious habit of just scrolling faster past the ads. As my subconscious detects an add coming up next on the feed I just naturally twitch a little faster to skip past it. I never developed this intentionally, it j
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by eric_h 8y ago
> If factory meat becomes the only available option I'm out. I agree but I'd like to add a disambiguation. Factory farmed meat should be stopped, factory produced meat (i.e. with no live animals as inputs) would be pretty g
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by eric_h 8y ago
A successful business is not the goal of an addict who deals, just enough flow of cash/product to skim some (product) off the top for themselves.
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by eric_h 8y ago
That sub story also takes place in a location where the local authorities are very active in finding and squashing scams (Vegas).
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by eric_h 8y ago
a counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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by eric_h 8y ago
> It is unclear whether any of the drugs were ever sold at a premium over the original purchase price. The number one reason for addicts to get into the business of selling drugs is to support their own habit - you can only do that if yo
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by eric_h 8y ago
> SCOTUS tends to side with law enforcement on civil asset forfeiture cases Has SCOTUS ruled on an asset forfeiture case before?
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by eric_h 8y ago
> all injuries are permanent Most significant injuries I've sustained since my early 20s have not let me completely forget them, in spite of them being "fully healed".
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by eric_h 8y ago
As someone who grew up in a house who's mailing address and zip code were for a different town and county from the actual physical location of the house (it was just past the border) - I can't even begin to imagine how to actually
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by eric_h 8y ago
Core works great now. I recently whipped up a micro service in it (on my MacBook) and rolled it out to our linux infrastructure with very little effort.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn it was a checked-by-default checkbox in the welcome to macOS app that runs when you open a new machine from the factory. I don't recall having to go into system preferences to turn it on with
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by eric_h 8y ago
True, but "queue" in this case conveys almost exactly the same meaning in a grammatically correct way.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I love how he says that the result of seven riffles is “likely” to be unique, when in fact the result is very, very, very [very x 1000] likely to be the first time any human has seen that ordering of cards.
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by eric_h 8y ago
It can if you rebuild it afterwards, but obviously that is not the intent of the current administration.
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by eric_h 8y ago
> The idea of "to add 1 law, remove 2 others" worked well in other locales I've heard this hypothesized as a means to remove legislative bloat, but where has it actually been implemented?
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Certainly - but it makes sense to optimize expenditures in the slightly uncomfortable range to avoid excessive waste.
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I am - switching to http works.
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Using saccade-tracking to trick VR users to walk in circles, “infinite walking”(boingboing.net)
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by eric_h 8y ago
According to [0], the use of architect as a verb goes back to at least 1818. 0) https://english.stackexchange.com/a/212273

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