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by jmts 8y ago
Genuine advice is often coloured by a person's own bias and experience, and if another takes it without taking that into consideration, they will be misled by the same faults. In this case, the advice about baldness is a joke based on
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Hoping there's a "Hey 15 year old, everything you've learned and are likely to learn in the next several years through TV and popular culture about life and relationships will turn out to be wrong or misleading, but it sure m
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Realise that the advice is nonsense and baldness has no meaningful impact on your life. Go bald and be happy.
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I'm pretty much bald, and have been tending that way since my mid twenties. Early thirties now. I'm plenty happy. If you feel like your happiness is dependent on your having hair, then you should probably really ask yourself why.
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-r enables recursion -n enables line numbers -I (eye) ignores matches on binary files -l (ell) lists the filenames of matching files only (overrides -n) -A, -B, and -C specify how many lines of context after, before, or around the match to
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I assume (though I'm certainly not as knowledgeable as Inigo) that he's suggesting most functionality that uses trigonometry during rendering in some way tends to be performed using dot- and cross-products - which are calculated u
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Though I'm relatively new to it, for me the first things that went into my notebook were an index of indices (to allow grouping of common content), a general index for everything else, a page for each month of the year as a simple cale
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All this 'moon hype' of recent times is ridiculous. Supermoons are not super - they are regular, and normal, and likely indistinguishably larger from any other full moon to any regular observer. This full moon is not special eithe
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Google translates this to: "Not as bad as everyone thinks" https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...
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I had the same initial reaction. This time it's Voyager 2, not Voyager 1. And the term 'leaves the solar system' is moderately misleading. See my initial response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18650987
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My first reaction when I saw this - probably a reaction due to previous repeated news about Voyager 1 leaving - was "But hasn't it already left, multiple times?". This is explained somewhat in GP's footnote [3]: In earl
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Having not done much gaming in the last 5 years or so, and never having been particularly competitive, I'm wondering if someone might be able to give a description of what 'boosting' is, and how it benefits a player? My point
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Spray cow manure on fields to encourage plant grown I don't believe that's quite right. The article suggests that manure and fertiliser themselves release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, potentially negating any increase i
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All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken (2012)(tonyarcieri.com)
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Based on some of the comments regarding the role that foreign countries have in the market, I thoroughly recommend people give "Narconomics" by Tom Wainright a read. It approaches the drug trade from an economic perspective, and I
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I've found that this is easy to flip on its head, at least for yourself. Convincing the masses to treat errors differently is another problem altogether. People tend to get defensive about being wrong for two reasons. Either because th
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This is essentially just an asynchronous response to some request. I expect there are probably three cases: 1. Response is unimportant: do nothing 2. Response timing is not important: client polls 3. Response timing is important: server cal
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Or in this case (if you check the researcher's surname), the Ministry of Magic.
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Interesting. A little more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_flash
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"Clinical trials are a type of scientific study. The studies shown in the article are of a particular type, and don't represent all studies, much like cows don't represent all farm animals. There may be similar cases across t
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"Meditations" is the archetypal Marcus Aurelius piece.
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Toward the end of the article they go on to explain that these rocks that aren't fossils fail to exhibit a number of traits that they expect from rocks that are fossils.
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Data Structure Visualisations(cs.usfca.edu)
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Could you provide your bank details please? Passport or other photo identification would be nice. I'd also like a copy of your browser history for the last 5 or so years, full records of your sexual history, transcriptions of any embar
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I've been curious for a while why we don't have more plants on buildings. Roof space seems to be wasted a lot of the time, why not put a park there? Is it considered a hazard?
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One of my friends is an archaeologist. My view of an archaeologist was always one where they are leisurely researching history, finding locations for finds, cautiously digging in the fields, sorting shards of pottery, etc. She described ins
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Allow yourself to be wrong, make mistakes occasionally, and change your position on anything. Being wrong and making mistakes is an inevitable fact of life, and should not be treated as a personal or character flaw. Permission to make mista
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If accessibility is the exact situation alt text is designed for, and it works for the most part, who is to blame for it not being accessible if not the person putting inaccessible text in there? Merely providing something is not equivale
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The person with accessibility problems just told you that it is a potential accessibility issue. Perhaps we should ask them whether alt text will help, before telling them that it will. tarboreus, what's your experience with alt text f
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It is pre-stressed concrete, it is working in compression against the cable tension. This seems strange to me. My understanding is that pre-stressed concrete is concrete with reinforcements inside that apply a compressive force on the con

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