guard-of-terra

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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
While they're at it, they might also make milk not burn-prone. I've read there's a single base that makes cow's milk to behave like that.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
It looks like a palm touch.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Producing more energy than it's possible to consume and then "splitting the bill" is especially a tax on the poor, since they will feel the 50% difference in price that article mentions, more than anyone.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
It's possible that in 10 years Internet will be segregated into per-country segments and she'll have trouble communicating with hosts while outside and sharing photos when inside.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Nowp. Just don't grant them residence.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> that's why you need strong institutions I do but I understand clearly that I'm not getting them where I live, any time soon. What's my backup plan? "Fighting other types" is one thing, genocide is another thing
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Locales? Timezones? Unicode? There's a lot of stuff that is there to be used from time to time, does not mean it hits your processor cache often. BTW, libruby-2.3 is 2,5M, just the shared object file, and it tries to use all aforementi
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Can human body actually make use of alcohol as energy? Because I was fairly sure we can only make energy of something that breaks down to glucose, which alcohol obviously doesn't. Not so sure already.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I imagine that's Green Card.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> Dowries will also likely go down I can't help wondering, how does being in IT and travelling to USA affect female Indians' marriage prospects? There's definitely quite a few Indian women in american IT, expecially projec
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> If you were a landlord managing an apartment building, how much do you charge for a unit? If all of your tenants suddenly make twice as much money as they did, how long before you double their rent? Remember, your tenants are now able
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Offtopic-ish: > some small fraction of people do manage to practice complete abstinence I actually think it's a pretty large fraction, but they do it out of inability to secure a mate. The people for whom supply and demand curves ne
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Because the "right" don't want to earn minimum wage; they want to earn decent wage, which is problematic in condition of "race to the bottom" caused by influx of people from less developed countries.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
This means I don't like book reviews on HN, that's like paywall but worse.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Unfortunately this article doesn't penetrate this extremelly important topic. It doesn't arrive anywhere. > Ceaseless change gave birth to liberalism, which, for all the mistakes made in its name, continues to adapt. Despite th
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Steve Yegge http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Wil Shipley https://blog.wilshipley.com/ Yossi Kreinin http://yosefk.com/ All three brilliant, with good sense of humor and having good "vi
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I can't understand why are you arguing for school if you didn't like it at all? Do you honestly think you're so unique that everybody else has different experience? Because many of us don't. I think that home schooling i
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> for the population overall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om... It was definitely good for them to hold that child in the basement! As a population overall. Why would I care about "
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> socialize You mean, learn what it is to be ridiculed, assaulted and mocked? Awesome development indeed! How could I ever live without it!? I hope this happens to your kid.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
My point is: You should be able to shield your kids from that shit. You should be able to take them home. I don't care about bullies, and the fun thing is: most kids are bullies when push comes to shove.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> I genuinely believe that home schooling shouldn't be allowed Maybe we should just give kids to bullies to use as slaves? Probably auction them. (School was unarguably the worst period of my life, period. Bonus points for being bla
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I think that Abrahamic religions is perhaps the worst thing that ever happened to Homo Sapiens.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
LiL.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I don't expect you to switch to my side opinion-wise, just to outvote you. You, however, could give it a shot, but didn't try. I think you don't understand how not merely democracy, not merely human society, but the whole gam
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Why do I have to show you anything? Let's just make a vote on the issue.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Only if dormant cancer cells get passed from cured parent to child, which generally should not happen.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
People from a different culture coming to where I live without invitation, not adjusting to local norms, trying to bring their own norms with them and force those on local population, doing horrible crimes and, most often, escaping without
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
It's your freedom to say that, and my freedom to not agree with it.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
However, given that cancer cells do not evolve between individuals (as opposed to bacteria and virii), if we are to find a efficient immunological treatment it's going to stay efficient. If anything, we will evolve for our cancers to r
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
It's hard to cure cancer definitely because cancer cells will always be trying to out-evolve any treatment. Anything that quickly kills 99% of cells, unfortunately, lets them select for survival traits really fast.

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