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by ksenzee 7y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother.
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by ksenzee 7y ago
We call it scrummerfall.
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by ksenzee 7y ago
If you're getting a predictable 10% from your investments, you're investing in a different SPY than I am.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
I just bought a Samsung Galaxy S10e and so far I'm quite pleased with it. It could stand to be smaller, but it does fit in my annoyingly small women's jeans pocket.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Last flu season (2017-2018) 80,000 people in the US died of influenza. It's a real public health problem, not just an inconvenience.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
I believe the word you wanted was "publicly." At least, I hope it was.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
The difference is that these are phrases with adjectives, not nouns being used adjectivally.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
> PHP has a type system equally as [sic] bad, if not worse PHP 7's type system is worse than Javascript's type system? I can't imagine any developer who has worked with both those languages agreeing with you. It sounds lik
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Headline typo: s/Sherriff/Sheriff/
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by ksenzee 8y ago
> No real work gets done on slack. Call each other. I just spent the last two hours helping a dev on my team write some code in an area of the project he was unfamiliar with. We did it all over Slack, with liberal use of code snippets. I
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by ksenzee 8y ago
This is what I mean. There are plenty of people experiencing homelessness because, say, they lost their job and they were already behind on their rent, so now they're couchsurfing or living in their car. That is not a complicated probl
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by ksenzee 8y ago
> Homelessness != Substance Use Disorder True. But the Venn diagram overlaps a _lot_. If we magically solved homelessness for everyone with a substance-abuse problem, the people still left homeless would be the ones cities are already ab
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Because theoretically batteries aren't needed for thermal. You capture the heat during the day but you can use it day and night.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
That sounds really frustrating. Do you have to warn friends and co-workers in advance? Or is it short-lived enough that you can just go hide until it passes?
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by ksenzee 8y ago
True - but the modern diet probably also contains enough microplastics from other sources that avoiding them in salt isn't likely to matter much. :(
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Not because it's near SFO, but because it's near the Pacific Ocean. They consider that a border. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Discussion of Paul Allen's death at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224227
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Yeah, Auburn itself within the city limits is Seattle/Tacoma suburbs, so that sounded weird. There are definitely semi-rural areas with an Auburn address, east of Highway 18, and maybe that's where he lived.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Your kids grow up and move away. No grandkids yet, and your kids live in another state now anyway. There's nothing much left for you to do during the day, and it's lonely.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Sorry, in what way are "ritual" and "vexing" magical language? They are both English words in relatively wide use.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Ed Yong at the Atlantic looked into that: "These differences persisted even after the team accounted for factors like the doctors’ years of experience and the patients’ age, ethnicity, other diseases, educational level, or the hospital
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Don't listen to me on this, listen to actual disabled people: https://www.eater.com/2018/7/19/17586742/plastic-straw-ban-d...
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by ksenzee 8y ago
How hard is it to carry some TP with you? NBD, right? So you wouldn't mind having to take your own with you everywhere you go? > Why are people so helpless? I... you are literally talking about disabled people. A decent society shou
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by ksenzee 8y ago
> establishments will still have straws on-hand for those folks Not everywhere, they won't. Santa Barbara just passed a straw ban without any exceptions for disabled people who actually need plastic straws. In other places, it'
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by ksenzee 8y ago
In the US, "therapist" generally means a licensed counselor (master's level education), marriage and family therapist (also master's level), or psychologist (doctorate). None of those practitioners has the authority to p
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by ksenzee 8y ago
> ...Or, don't tell your kids what they should do I disagree here. Telling our kids what they should do is a good-sized chunk of a parent's job, all the way from "Don't touch that stove" to "Pick a public pl
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by ksenzee 8y ago
They were studying fathers, so their denominator was fathers, not children. There's plenty of research showing that fathers make a big difference in their children's lives and happiness. From what I can tell this study doesn'
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Did you seriously just compare Mormons to Branch Davidians? And North Korea? Mormonism has its problems (excellent article on that at https://longreads.com/2018/06/07/meet-the-new-mormons ) but that is totally
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by ksenzee 8y ago
They didn't just find them. They placed clean mussels specifically for this test, then went back for them.
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by ksenzee 8y ago
Oh man. I wasn't expecting that thread to make me cry. It's worth reading, but get a Kleenex.

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