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by jemfinch 8y ago
> I don't know why I haven't seen more studies where extremely obese individuals just stop eating. Primarily because it's not considered medically safe, and a study along those lines would be too dangerous to the patients
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by jemfinch 8y ago
Different regions in the US have very different barbecue styles. There's a vast array of different ways to long-smoke meat over wood, and a vast array of ways to sauce and prepare it after it's been cooked. Since good barbecue of
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by jemfinch 8y ago
Spanking in the US is typically not illegal unless it results in bruising after the fact, or a repeated pattern which amounts to emotional abuse.
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by jemfinch 8y ago
Yeah, there's a distinct difference between my yelling and my wife's yelling. Mine is calculated; hers is more emotionally responsive. That's one reason I escalate to yelling more quickly: because I want to be doing it as a
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by jemfinch 8y ago
I haven't run into that level of rebellion from any of my four kids, at least not yet. I don't expect I will for some time, if ever, but what do I know about raising kids older than 9? Not much! I agree with you, based in part o
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by jemfinch 8y ago
> Hitting the kid is simply a way to translate these long-term consequences into short-term ones that can be more easily felt. That's a good argument for consequence-based discipline in general , but it doesn't make any case f
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by jemfinch 8y ago
> In the grander scheme of things, it can be seen as an anti-solution. Every person who has adequate preparations for themselves and their family is a person who who's allowing societal resources to go to someone else in greater nee
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by jemfinch 8y ago
Oh, it's 20% now for gross income over $425,801? I guess that brings it almost to the rate paid on regular income by earners who make $38,701 per year.
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by jemfinch 8y ago
The top 1% of income earners, perhaps, but not the top 1% of wealth, which largely pays only a 15% long-term capital gains tax.
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by jemfinch 8y ago
PHK's "B-heaps" are interesting: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327 .
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by jemfinch 8y ago
> It's an invariant of the 'DirectorySearchResult' class that query is non-null, as the destructor deletes it without checking it for nullity. Deleting a null pointer is a fully specified no-op in C++.
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by jemfinch 8y ago
By volume of content it's "usually" called the rule of 3, because the rule of 5 didn't exist until C++11, and most of the C++ content was written before moving was a thing. It's now called the rule of 5.
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by jemfinch 8y ago
The length of the minute and second are arbitrary.
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Is there a some reason why we should be interested in your particular brand of moralism instead of some other?
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by jemfinch 8y ago
What agenda did you think he was pushing? I think you may be confusing "agenda" with "perspective". He was pushing one perspective: his own, as all authors do. But it's our job as readers to understand the author&
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by jemfinch 8y ago
Their recommendation is not to "abolish" Daylight Saving Time, but to commit to it and make it the year-round standard.
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by jemfinch 8y ago
It's not just about online harrassment, though. It's also about a fraudulent game developer. So when the OP was complaining about that fraud, they were completely on topic and justified. I was responding to a person who was sayin
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by jemfinch 8y ago
I disagree. Calling bullshit "bullshit" isn't uncivil. Cf. Paul Graham's own essay on bullshit: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html . Or his 2014 tweet on political correctness: https://twitt
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by jemfinch 8y ago
Will you please stop spreading this misinformation? If you want to use backwoods folk medicine on yourself, you're free to do so. But stop recommending this bullshit to others. What you're doing here is no better than the tick-
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by jemfinch 9y ago
> Which is what the US Constitution is. OP quoted the Declaration of Independence, which is neither law nor agreement.
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by jemfinch 9y ago
"Chelsea Manning" is the preferred name that refers to the person Lamo reported. "Bradley Manning" is a former, non-preferred name. Nothing about history changes if a different name is used; the same person is referred
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by jemfinch 9y ago
It doesn't have disadvantages apart from the code to manually manage an explicit stack. The actual space used will be reduced. And yes, it should be possible to successfully read any well formed sexp that can be created in a text stre
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by jemfinch 9y ago
Why would it depend on the altitude? It's a sealed vessel that holds (iirc) 7 psi on low, and 11 psi on high. It seems like these pressures should remain the same regardless of altitude, unless the outside atmosphere is somehow invol
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by jemfinch 9y ago
> Which brings in all the problems with the Pence view. It reinforces the glass ceiling / old boys club It's a damn shame, too. But the reality for me is that apart from making sure my kids stay alive , my most important comm
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by jemfinch 9y ago
I don't understand what the point of having two adjacent lemonades is.
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by jemfinch 9y ago
Not really. That claim fails trivially to the "evening and morning" of each day. The argument fundamentally stems from the Protestant belief in "Sola Scripture": that all Christian doctrine and belief derives from scrip
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by jemfinch 9y ago
That's a heat-related issue; fixing it would require the ability to dissipate heat much faster (fans, etc.). That's one of the reasons why cinematic digital cameras are so much larger than DSLRs.
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by jemfinch 9y ago
> I was being pretty damn condescending and spoke out of line without regards to the context. No, you didn't speak out of line. To be honest, the recruiter was lucky you were willing to continue the conversation at all; if that wer
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by jemfinch 9y ago
"Self-reliance is a myth made by conservatives to justify cutbacks to the poor" is a myth made by liberals to justify government overreach. No one's arguing that anyone has been entirely self-reliant, let alone that prepper
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by jemfinch 9y ago
What you call "extreme individualism" or "ego-centrism", we used to call "self-reliance".

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