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by fsckboy 1mo ago
that study was specifically "asylum seekers" which is not migrants taken as a whole. isn't the migrant population substantially higher than the asylum population?
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> then the energy required to run them isn't free either i think his point was that if you are in a remote location with solar and or wind power, the power is free because you can't do anything else with it (without transmissi
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
his implementation does not save space which is fine because that was not his intent. to make a programming analogy, he turned spaghetti-code into structured code.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> about primates that have high carb-sugar diets but doesn't explain why their brains remain so small compared to humans. Maybe they will eventually evolve? if they have abundant sources of carb-sugar, there would be no selection p
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> I don’t think that would fly as a defense in court but that's not the point, the point is to not wind up in court by presenting a phone that no long contains evidence but seems plausibly like your phone so doesn't arouse sus
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
engage with the people you want to engage with, don't with the people you don't, you didn't offer any correction to that.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
don't straw man, making a certain group of people mad, if it detects people who are problematic teammates, is an unmitigated plus.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> It’s funny you picked 160. no, it's not anything like a coincidence or a quote of Buffet. People always say "160" as the example number because the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler series IQ tests are among the most commonly
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
cheap laptops are cheap, simply don't use your "real" computer.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
how about they do what they want, and you do what you want, and you don't collaborate with each other if you can't get along? no reason to be angry. if one of my hiring practices would reliably generate that many f-bombs, i'd
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
there are people out there who don't want to hold your hand. stop advocating that we discriminate against them because you feel you need your hand held.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
the mention of laptop was not adding a laptop requirement to the original question
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
waist-to-hip ratio already took us beyond BMI, a long time ago.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> When the sun’s rays shone through the glass, they were amplified by four metal plates positioned at 60-degree angles; triangular mirrors between the plates further amplified solar wavelengths sorry, there was concentration, but there
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
usage: > I draw a line on advertising for myself the typical phrase in English, "I draw the line at advertising for myself" would mean that is the thing that has gone too far , something you will not accept . you used a slig
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
there are different flours available which vary in suitability for different purposes and in cost. King Arthur Flour has a computer controlled mill and they offer a service to bread makers to let them specify their own "recipe" fo
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program it is guaranteed in Scheme, and it affects the semantics of programs in a completely positive way. Much of compute
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> People in these jobs don't live long enough on average to get diagnosed not to mention the other devil in these studies: some professions are statistically going to have the lowest rate of every possible disease. you can't j
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> I take the point interesting, because if you want a steak medium rare in France you order it "au point", "at the point" > Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that i
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
the reporter was "hacked" in cooperation with the hacker in order to write the article
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
humans evolved to have risk seekers and risk avoiders. some people try it, the other people watch.
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
even if you "scorch" a field with too much manure one year, that field is going to come back with a vengeance at some point. There are all sorts of natural disasters that scar the forest (like fire), but it is a renewing process
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> everyone else flies to whatever country offers the best tax breaks for them to film once people are arranging plane tickets/charters, then they fly to the best place financially. But LA/Hollywood.gov priced themselves out of
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
marine life is unphased by salt; this fish sauce is former marine life
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
it is sitting right next to the ocean, which is where all that salt came from, just put it back
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> I've seen two pound jars of it in Costco. I took pictures of empty 100 lb (45 kg) MSG containers in the trash outside Bao restaurant on St Marks in NYC
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
I grew up in a seaside port and fishing community. 1st thing, what landlubbers think is stinky is not operative here, your thoughts are moo, like the opinion of a sea cow. The seacoast smells like rotten fish all the time, it's called
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
also, allergies pride parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhaUKnt1Zmw
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> If a company is violating no laws and... according to the article, he alleges Apple was doing something "without required customer releases"; there's at least the implication that a regulation is being broken, do you kn
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by fsckboy 2mo ago
> Jacobin is more like social democrat they always tell you who they really are: look up les jacobins in the French revolution.

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