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by frenchy 9y ago
How often do you travel around town where you need to carry more than a backpack would hold, but less than what you can jam in a small car? For me, I could probably use a bike about 90% of the time. I don't always, but it's mostly
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Or sodium intake related to the munchies.
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Because credit card companies offer incentives to sign up for their cards. A lot of people here regularly carry a lot of debt on their cards, and the credit card companies know if they give those users more cards to juggle around their debt
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by frenchy 9y ago
> it does still feel like you want your kids to be bored though Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if at least a little boredom in a kid's life is important for character development :-/
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by frenchy 9y ago
If I was to hazard a guess, it's because the vole has a lot more competition for food. The elephant's main risk is eating up all the food and having none left. The vole's main risk is having some other animal grab the food fi
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by frenchy 9y ago
There's also the crustaceans known as sea lice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_louse
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by frenchy 9y ago
Hard to say. It could be a million things. Some people are just hard to get along with. Some people are great fun for 1 hour a day, but miserable if you're around them all day. If you've devoted your life to your career, it's
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by frenchy 9y ago
Have you read the GPL? There's absolutely nothing in it about whether or not you can charge for the product, only that you have to give (modifiable) source code to anyone you give the product to (and you can charge a nominal administra
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by frenchy 9y ago
And yet using a VPN is still somehow "against the will of the people" ...
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by frenchy 9y ago
Come on, Nicotine and CO2 aren't even remotely close to the same sort of thing. It's quite true that nicotine is only responsible for a small part of the (direct) harm of cigarettes, but nicotine has a lot of bad effects that the
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by frenchy 9y ago
A discourse marker is a high-level language feature that helps form a coherent (or maybe not-so-coherent) discourse. Things like "then", "so", "um", "...", "Once upon a time" are kind of cla
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by frenchy 9y ago
Is Chromium actually used by many people? I was under the impression that people mostly use Chrome because of Google's advertising & bundling. [1] supports my theory with desktop Chrome amounting to ~25% usage and Chromium amountin
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by frenchy 9y ago
> A- Ads do not manipulate people into buying things against their own interests. Businesses who sell great products that people want don't just magically find their customers. They find customers with ads. I think that's a pre
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by frenchy 9y ago
A BMW apparently. Isn't it well known that these are the most expensive cars to maintain?
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by frenchy 9y ago
I believe the general problem with bacterial viruses, is that our body mounts a immune response against them.[1] It works okay for a little bit, but because our immune system "learns" (e.g. clonal selection) the second time they a
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by frenchy 10y ago
> ... I don't understand the hate for Facebook ... I suspect that any hate of facebook has a fair bit to do with the fact that it is 1) pervasive, 2) a fairly closed system, and 3) comes with a lot of strings attached. The fact that
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by frenchy 10y ago
In the same way a block of wood is chock full of carbs but will provide no nutritional value (not quite the same way, but vaguely related).
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by frenchy 10y ago
You generally get more calories from cooked foods too. I suspect the raw food thing has more too do with being cheep/lazy/hard-core.
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by frenchy 10y ago
While it probably became popularized in North America, it seems to actually be of British origin: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hiking
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by frenchy 10y ago
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. The Bible is not one book, and it had many authors. There are plenty of historical reference that have been corroborated by archeological findings. You don't need to believe everything
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by frenchy 10y ago
Interesting polls. There might be several different forms of discontent; and that they seem the same to us, but are not very similar underneath. For example, the girl who bing-eats ice cream after her boyfriend breaks up with her is clearly
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by frenchy 10y ago
> Maybe drugs are not as awesome as I thought. I suspect this to be the case. It seems to me that the a key feature with psychedelic drug users and proponents is that they end up discontent with life [1] (and to a degree, with reality).
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by frenchy 10y ago
This is a bad analogy. Nobody calls themselves a "toothologist". The reason is pertinent as well: dentists are basically toned down surgeons, and (in North America) you're not allowed to practice as a dentist without the trai
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by frenchy 10y ago
There was a fair bit of established orthodox doctrine laid down between 100-400 CE. Christian groups that follow this are generally considered Christian by each by each other. Mormonism deviates significantly from orthodox doctrine, so it i
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by frenchy 10y ago
Linguistically this is known as reanalysis.
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by frenchy 10y ago
Automate clicking on the ads by the website owner is click fraud. This isn't click fraud because the consumers never agreed to anything. Doesn't mean Google will accept it, obviously.
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Because very few Americans actually care. They tortured prisoners of war during Bush's administration and no one was held accountable for that.
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Perhaps they don't want to prioritize a platform that Apple themselves don't even work on too much.
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Heme-bound iron is better absorbed by the body than other sources of iron, which is why sometimes vegetarians are anemic despite the high quantity of iron in vegetables. Much of the the known mechanics of digestion are molecular, but that&#
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I'm doubtful its really quite as simple as that. This is really only an anecdote, but a pattern I've noticed while leading mountain climbing trips is that feeling good [1] is strongly connected with people's ability to feel s

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