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I wonder if this happened, would teenagers would be upset or relieved? There's a This American Life episode[1] in which several teenage girls explain the complex etiquette of Instagram. It sounds stressful, it sounds exhausting, it sou
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Robot vacuums are learning to avoid dog poop, but that’s not all they can see(washingtonpost.com)
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This one made me laugh out loud and I don't think any of the other replies understood it correctly. The astrologer has gone way out on a limb by telling the man that he is infertile without first ascertaining whether he has children. T
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> IMSO In my stoic opinion?
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It seems like that could be solved by having a cleaning service visit between each stay to inspect the property and prepare it for the next guest.
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I grew up in a Calvinist church and in addition to being inconsistent with doctrine, that comment also doesn't fit with the cultural attitudes that I encountered. Money was seen as dangerous and worldly. Like sex, we were taught that i
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It sounds like the bike shops were struggling due to low inventory, not low demand. Anecdotally, that was the case at the bike shops near me in Chicago, which had empty shelves, but also months-long wait lists for their tuneup and repair se
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For some additional context, the person in that story was 13 years old.
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What does tase mean in this context?
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I love lists like this. I remember waiting for a Greyhound bus and reading the list of prohibited items and imagining the stories behind each one. It ran on for pages. Human heads were not allowed, even if frozen. Martial arts weapons like
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Credit cards are insecure by design and worrying about having them stolen from your browser or vault is not worth it in my opinion. You're far more likely to have it compromised from the retailer side no matter how careful you are. Als
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If anyone has the ability to get a clear image of a nearby vehicle or aircraft, a carrier strike group does. E.g., https://www.ball.com/aerospace/Aerospace/media/Aerospace/Dow...
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> The feed is algorithmic and designed to surface topics to elicit responses/engagement with the community. I don't think that's entirely fair. For instance, posts with a large number of comments or a high ratio of comment
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Yeah, I googled 'sega keymaster' to see what the game looked like and the first result was a 2014 video in which the person demonstrating the game described it as "pretty much luck" and "not due to pay out no matter
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It is ubiquitous in Italy. Maybe blue would be better in the US, if it can be made different enough from the insurance company logo.
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The info boxes sometimes contain surprising errors. I recently searched for Picasa and was informed that it was invented by Pablo Picasso in 2002! Google 'knows' Picasso died in the 1970s and it 'knows' he released a pop
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Someone on Twitter started a poll on how to pronounce Doge and Kashkari replied, "The right pronunciation is pon-zi." It's probably just an ill-considered joke and not intended to be taken literally. Someone in his position s
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The writer is a well-known and well-liked psychiatrist/blogger who does not have a reputation for lying. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex
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I understand the opposition to another government service on ideological grounds, but the response in Ohio seems merely pro-monopoly and not pro-market. Is there anywhere in the country where state Republicans are looking for ways to increa
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Do you think that this device was entirely bespoke or do you think that the designers adapted another design (perhaps a commercial product)?
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I loved my MiniDisk player, but the arbitrary roadblocks that Sony put up for how you were allowed to use the device and the poor quality of the management software were so infuriating that I vowed not to give Sony another cent for ten year
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This is pretty trivial compared to some of the others, but I made a personal TV Guide for myself and my girlfriend using Trello and TVDB. (Screenshot below.) The purpose is to help keep track of what we're currently watching, since it&
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Just because I don't agree with someone's perspective, doesn't inherently make it low value or not thoughtful. I find I often learn much from people I disagree with, even if their argument didn't change my mind.
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However, in any community where the down vote is used for mere disagreement, there is no room for dissenting opinions. An open discourse requires that people are willing to listen to those whom they disagree with. Down voting liberally is c
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This had been true for me for several years, but recently, I have found that Google no longer provides that info box and it's necessary to click into one of the search results. (I am using Firefox, but I am logged into a Google account
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There seems to be an assumption that if Boeing is allowed to fail, no other American company or companies could ever fill its place and compete with Airbus. Is this really the case? Boeing had to get the Commerce Department's help to k
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Not unlike real acorns.
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eurleif, on the 2012 article: > Maybe I'm just cynical, but this story seems too perfect to me. It smells a lot like PR fiction. Would they really need a janitor to come up with the idea of spicy Cheetos? Seems like something they w
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That is a great story, but I cringed at the part about adding additional hardware to support their leaky code. Surely there had to be a better way?
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It's the same around me, but I think that's due to the survivor effect. Just last week I needed to make space on in my bookcase, so I dropped about a dozen novels in the little libraries around the neighborhood. By the next day, h

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