hawkesnest

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by hawkesnest 8y ago
I don't know how "hardcore" I am. My lack of belief is due to lack of evidence. The quality of my life is pretty good (perhaps due to my WEIRDness) and, yes, that would probably prevent me from looking to something "else
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
The reason for the stories, I think, comes to a matter of US copyright law. For the most part, recipes themselves (ingredients and basic steps) are not protected under copyright. Any extraneous fluff added to the article is, though. That, a
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
This use of half-rectified lighting is especially true of LED Christmas lights. I haven't yet dug in on how to change them to at least full-rectified, which look much better to my eyes. Is it just a matter of adding a bridge rectifier?
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
He got his account back, with a few purchases from the attacker.
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
I've berated more than one manager over calling a human being a "resource" in a meeting. Electricity, hardware, furniture, office space, and the like are resources. you might get away with calling people "talent", b
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
Can someone add the [2017] tag to this?
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
Is your position that believing in untrue things has no physical (non-societal) negative consequences? If your sister thinks the crystals are going to cure her cancer, that's going to impact HER quite a bit. I would assume losing her t
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
Reminder, links to JWZ.org from HN will have NSFW results.
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
I had an eye-opening experience with this. My android phone's home screen was locked, but somehow I managed to butt-dial emergency services. It wasn't until the police knocked on my door that I looked at my device to see what had
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
But problems 1 and 2 are the same for the official unemployment metric in times past as well. 1. If the person has stopped looking for a job, their likelihood of resuming their job-seeking is pretty low. That's especially true for the
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by hawkesnest 8y ago
You can't sleep in an RV? Isn't that the point of a vehicle like that? So long as they aren't dumping their tanks inappropriately, what's the big deal?
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by hawkesnest 9y ago
Too bad it's basically dead at this point.
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by hawkesnest 9y ago
People around here tend to look down on "Agile" practices, but having a dedicated time for honest retrospectives on a schedule (rather than when things break) eases situation. If you can get the team together (physically or otherw
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by hawkesnest 9y ago
I would imagine that the airbag solution would be rather unpleasant for humans, even if it were possible/practical.
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by hawkesnest 10y ago
Only if you think that folks leaving this world after 45-54 years are doing so because of old age! http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age...
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by hawkesnest 10y ago
That's great that you found out chickens can be smart. You may be surprised at how clever fish are as well!