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by ksenzee 2y ago
I would have bought this instantly if I had a digital piano. What an amazing idea. Going to have to look into those adapters you listed.
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That’s pretty easy when the dose is two pills every six hours.
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No you won’t! It’s just the oral formulations that are being taken off the shelves. The inhaled version does indeed work and will still be available.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
In this case, we really, really don’t want to continue using “busses” as a plural noun. Merriam-Webster is the authority. We’d rather fight our holy war over labor and center.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Yeah, I’m going to say you were pretty lucky. With my first I had pain significant enough to be traumatic, before the stage where I could get an epidural. I used to tell people if I’d gone out and had my husband run over my leg with the car
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by ksenzee 2y ago
The choices are not “Google as it currently exists” vs “a world without Google,” but rather “Google as it currently exists” and “Google as subject to stricter regulation.” There’s a fair case to be made that the world is worse than it would
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by ksenzee 2y ago
The only nationwide unique ID people are assigned is a Social Security number. They are absolutely not designed for unique tracking. In practice that’s exactly how they’re used, in healthcare and everywhere else. It’s maddening.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Congratulations! I hope you're getting some sleep. If you do ever happen across that data I'd be interested.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I’m not sure there are any rational arguments for Christianity. I say that as a practicing Christian. Either it meets a spiritual need in you, or it’s not very valuable. I imagine that belief in a God who punishes evildoers has kept some pe
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Drupal is trying for basically this with its Starshot project. It might just work, if they can get enough people to build third-party themes.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> In fact you mentioning how they are like hearing aids has made me justify never wanting a pair. Why? Because hearing aids are unsightly? Are wheelchairs unsightly? Canes? Prosthetic legs? It looks to me like this idea of what’s “unsigh
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Yeah, it's super fun for folks who do have these diagnoses, and now have to defend them. "The autonomic neurologist who diagnosed me said..." etc.
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This first sentence isn’t really coherent, but I assume what you’re referring to are live attenuated virus vaccines like the oral polio vaccine, and implying that the virus used in this vaccine will end up like cVDPV (circulating vaccine-de
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Downvoters may think this is an argument against universal healthcare, not realizing that it’s really an argument against a particular style of universal healthcare. Some countries, such as France and Switzerland, have a private sector that
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Except that in this case, the consensus HN view is also the wider consensus. Boeing engineers have been yelling about this as loudly as they can, for many years now, and the public is finally listening.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
For $50k I would at least have a lawyer write them a nastygram. Wow.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Yes, good observation. Why would that help, though? No matter what's at the top, you're turning the whole thing halfway around.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
He means turn the circle of fifths 180 degrees. In other words, move the chord up a tritone (six half-steps).
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> maybe I am out of date or have read the wrong things No, I think you have a better grasp on it than most people outside the US. Americans really want to believe we don’t have a caste system, because it’s antithetical to our origin stor
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> he legislative branch is not interested in making reasonable laws, and/or creating capable regulating bodies like most other modern countries That’s the point of a common-law system. Not that I’m defending Congress and how little
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I’m glad my parents didn’t follow rule 1. They wanted to call me Kathy. It took me until grad school to convince everyone in my life that I was Katherine and absolutely not a Kathy, tyvm. If I’d had to run it by a judge, I’d have been prett
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by ksenzee 2y ago
One of the more endearing human errors is our tendency to anthropomorphize—put a name and a face on anything, even just a pair of googly eyes on a paperclip, and suddenly it’s a person (“Clippy!!”). These people, instead of thinking “How ca
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I used to think this. I have come to believe the opposite. We can’t _never_ update _any_ laws. It’s chaos.
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No, truly, doctors are not legally required to keep people alive against their will. It’s just that you have to have made it clear in advance what kind of life-saving and comfort measures you want. You have to say “yeah actually I don’t wan
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I would be surprised if there exists a country where people never die like this. You would have to euthanize every single person who died of a long list of natural causes.
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She did. This was from 2000: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-19-tm-54188...
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The problem is that the busybodies are usually well-meaning neighbors, trying to protect your kid from what they think is mortal danger. So throwing a fit about it is not a good look, if you care about getting along with your neighbors. The
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by ksenzee 2y ago
In the US, the biggest danger to free-range kids is nosy neighbors, who are convinced kids out wandering alone are in danger of… something! Kidnapping? Sex trafficking? Darned if I know. But it’s a huge problem to those of us who want our k
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Sure, I did too, or using a pay phone. There are precious few pay phones and landlines anymore.
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If it weren’t her, it’d be another one. There are whole swaths of the populace convinced any child out alone is in mortal danger. They’ll post to the neighborhood Facebook group in panic if they see a child walking to the convenience store

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