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by fiblye 7y ago
People carry out muggings with the threat of harming and killing people. A mugging isn’t a mugging unless the person is willing to back up and sometimes follow through with their threats. The punishment for them is high because sometimes pe
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by fiblye 7y ago
>When the Apple pen and the Procreate became available, the iPad pro also became one of the most used tools for painting and sketching. Yep. I had zero interest in tablets whatsoever, but the day I saw the Apple Pencil had launched, I we
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by fiblye 7y ago
Really strange how this is painted as a gender issue, and the strict definition of "hobby" is strange too. What's the difference between a "hobby" and an "interest"? I know plenty of people who refer to co
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by fiblye 7y ago
I hear that a lot, but search results differ for me between Bing and DDG. Bing is definitely a major component of its results, but I doubt it’s the only part.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Oh man, this site is wild. I haven't seen any obvious ads in weeks, but the site looks just like this image for me. Everything loaded after a 1 second delay, so I'm assuming that that's how they got around ublock. Crazy that
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by fiblye 7y ago
>This is a concession to the fact that the US is a multi-cultural society, so teaching values as such would be inappropriate. That in itself is teaching values. From kindergarten and up, American schools teach students that diversity is
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by fiblye 7y ago
Remote locations are where companies frack and spill oil and coal waste with impunity. People are also more likely to drink well water there (apparently 15% of Americans rely on it). Coming from a rural place where water smelled like rotten
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by fiblye 7y ago
>refused to show their resident's card (both also legal) Do you mean legal residents, or not showing their ID is legal? Because if police ask for a foreigner's resident card, they have to present it. [1, Q41] [1] http:/&
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by fiblye 7y ago
It's strange how Japan gets so much attention for this. It's about the same in every country. According to Wikipedia: >In Canada, the national conviction rate is about 97%. This does not include cases in which the charges are d
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by fiblye 7y ago
What would drive a stream in the absence of gravity?
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by fiblye 7y ago
I bought my parents a $50 Brother laser printer about 12 years ago. They’ve been using it since then and I don’t think they’ve ever even changed the toner. Before that, they’d buy new inkjet printers every year for the same price and ink a
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by fiblye 7y ago
People have adapted almost completely to the idea of snow being some rare, special event. People who fondly remember playing in the snow nearly everyday in winter during their childhood have come to expect 50-60 degree January afternoons an
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by fiblye 7y ago
I live in the Japanese city with the highest number of Brazilian immigrants. My wife works for a law firm. Most of their cases are insurance settlements and divorce disputes. They have a few criminal cases, but the overwhelming majority are
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by fiblye 7y ago
Yeah, with this idea, people would just clog up right outside the airplane door waiting for their family. Anyone trying to get through would get some angry looks for daring to push through.
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by fiblye 7y ago
>it's because the page they are looking for does not exist. I could see that argument holding water if other search engines didn't give me precisely what I searched for. Google just simply tries to be smart and assume I'm
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by fiblye 7y ago
My experience is that google gives me results assuming all of the words I searched aren’t the words I’m looking for, and it uses tangentially related words in place of everything. Even quotes are useless now. Ddg is useless when I’m searchi
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by fiblye 7y ago
Carmack is also generally writing foundations and engines that are reused in multiple games. If it's not readable, it's useless. Most indie devs are trying to crank out a game fast because they have a vision and/or they just
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by fiblye 7y ago
I get sick and feel dead for the entire day if I play an FPS on a typical screen for more than 5 minutes. I've tried getting over this for years, even beating a few games like Deus Ex and Half Life in intervals of a few minutes at a ti
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by fiblye 7y ago
I’m pretty sure it isn’t. I used to live in Pittsburgh and would wake up with a metallic taste in my mouth if I left the windows open. Going outside almost always smelled like burnt tires or some small hint of coins, even when I’d walk arou
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by fiblye 7y ago
Sounds like something users want. Unfortunately, that’s not what most website owners want. They want to be as annoying as possible so that you smash “agree” just to get it over with.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Some people die from being near peanut dust. That doesn't mean nuts are unhealthy to those who can eat them. Even those who are included in "lactose intolerant" populations actually have no trouble chugging a huge glass of mi
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by fiblye 7y ago
Scrolling through reddit or HN threads takes almost no mental effort. I’d dare say it’s the sort of thing people do to relax after reading “hard” content like novels or research. Speaking personally, I can feel burnt out from reading a nove
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by fiblye 7y ago
> First of all if this were true you'd see tons of asian men dating white women to escape the cultural pressure. Before jumping to conclusions, there’s another question to ask: do Asian men not want white women, do white women not w
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by fiblye 7y ago
People thought Windows 8 looked awful when it launched 8 years ago. It looks awful now. People have been complaining about flat design since it got introduced, but entry level designers have been forcing it for a whole decade now all while
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by fiblye 7y ago
Because diseases aren’t some static thing that we can keep in a definite state of low infection forever. Letting it exist allows it to evolve. Ten polio children today could easily become ten thousand polio children tomorrow. We know we can
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by fiblye 7y ago
> Singapore may be very modern, but deep down the government is still very authoritarian. Those two really have no relation to each other, though.
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by fiblye 7y ago
People still steal smartphones, despite them being locked down with thumb and face scanners along with being traceable. It seems to be a hard market to kill.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Oh, make no mistake, Japan’s plastic recycling is just like the rest of the world: it was dumped in poorer Asian countries. Most cities burn it now. PET plastic is allegedly recycled, but that’s just a small portion of all plastic.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Bachelors and associates degrees aren’t equivalent. Whenever I’ve seen a job posting asking for a degree, they explicitly ask for a 4 year degree.
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by fiblye 7y ago
The left to right swinging is the textbook example of animals undergoing prolonged extreme stress and insufficient stimulation. It’s probably the most recognizable sign. It’s baffling that any researcher was honestly thinking otherwise.

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