jyounker

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by jyounker 10d ago
Please name a specific time when there was more honor in the world.
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by jyounker 13d ago
Dark man. Dark.
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by jyounker 13d ago
There's an argument to be made that WWI started because Wilhelm II was an incompetent statesman who disassembled his country's relationship with friendly states, and turned them into enemies.
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by jyounker 13d ago
The word "confabulation" is much more precise and appropriate than "hallucination". We should use it instead.
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by jyounker 13d ago
From the point of view of the system, this is an error. It is incorrect information. The term "hallucination" feels much more like anthropomorphizing. The word hallucination implies an aberrant condition. A much better term would
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by jyounker 25d ago
I love the number of people who are commenting about how the article is wrong, and then finding out that they are actually wrong.
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by jyounker 29d ago
I suspect it was just wanting to get the job done. The difference between this amazing story, and absolutely nothing happening was a fraction of an inch.
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by jyounker 29d ago
Oriental carpet stores are interesting businesses. I always wondered how they stayed open until I met someone whose family has been in the business for several generations. Individual sales are in the thousands, so they operate more like hi
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by jyounker 1mo ago
> which allowed them to quickly pinpoint the farm that was the source of the Cyclospora outbreak. Got any documentation for that? The most precise location I can find is "Mexico". What I've heard is that the lettuce from
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by jyounker 1mo ago
I've been in this industry for 34, and it's always been full of people who are at heart authoritarians, who believe that they would do a better job than anyone else, and are seriously lacking in self-awareness.
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by jyounker 1mo ago
I can think of three other great dads who were hugely ambitious: * Jimmy Carter * Bill Clinton * Barak Obama
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by jyounker 1mo ago
Just as a geographic note: You can buy winter tires in California. The Sierra Nevada (snowy mountains) run down a sizable chunk of the state. California has even hosted the winter olympics.
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by jyounker 2mo ago
> Consider as a demonstrative example, race car drivers. They have had options to have extremely detailed Heads Up Displays with all sorts of absurd data available at a glance for decades. It's kind of a bad example, because there a
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by jyounker 2mo ago
His photo is on the web page. He looks not-German to the common German racist.
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by jyounker 2mo ago
You can look at his photo. In Germany, he is a person of color. In fact, he is from a group that is one of the specific targets of racism.
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by jyounker 2mo ago
Having lived in Germany (and Switzerland) for fifteen years, I've come to really appreciate the Ruhetag. Having Sunday off gives a real rhythm to the week, and I really appreciate that there is a day where I'm not going to be runn
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by jyounker 2mo ago
You need to understand that Germany is not logical. It is systematic.
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by jyounker 2mo ago
That is a deeply scary looking compound.
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by jyounker 2mo ago
It sounds like IntelliJ is out of memory and the GC is thrashing. Increase the IDE's heap size(1), and it will probably work fine. (1) It's a menu option these days.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
Are there things in that list that involve toilet humor and are funny?
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by jyounker 3mo ago
You have nothing to worry about.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
What a lame article. Even I can do better: one cucumber, vaseline, and a box of ultra-thin condoms.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
Do you have proof of that assertion?
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by jyounker 3mo ago
I'm glad you got lucky. I got it identified and treated with antivirals early (first 12 hours), a friend of mine turned out to be a research dermatologist who took over treatment in the first 36 hours, and still I ended up with long te
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by jyounker 3mo ago
That seems like being penny wise and pound foolish.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. I got it around 46. The horrible looking stuff on the outside is also on the inside, and it weakens your internal tissues. I know this because I tore one of the muscles in my lower back, and it stil
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by jyounker 3mo ago
As someone who got shingles at about 46, yes.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
Sears stopped making homes in 1942. They were strictly pre-WWII.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
I can't imagine any Germans I know describing permanent residency as a business relationship.
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by jyounker 3mo ago
You're always going to be an outsider if you can't speak the language, no matter where you go in the world. B1 is a reasonable level, as it's the bare minimum for doing day-to-day tasks in the local language. I honestly can&

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