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by ksenzee 2y ago
It’s a lot easier to get busybodies to leave you alone if you can call your mom on your watch. My kid also wanted to roam free at age 7, and he got the cops called on him. He’s in middle school now and still salty about it. If I could have
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by ksenzee 2y ago
“Executives get fired” makes it sound like being fired is a natural consequence of a box office failure. Who is firing the executives in such a way that they incentivize mediocre performance? Maybe they should quit doing that?
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by ksenzee 2y ago
But the point of the article is that used concrete is no longer a worthless material, because it can now be recycled, which avoids the huge carbon impact of manufacturing new concrete.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
It’s the same in practice.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
...malt does more than Milton can / To justify God’s ways to man. —Housman
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Usually, but it does also get used in its literal sense, as “I’m praying for you” or even just “good luck.”
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Ending someone’s candidacy over an emoji you don’t understand seems premature at best. I know gay guys who use the nail polish emoji all the time at the end of their sentences, for example. Any chance this guy was gay and just being a bit c
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I hope you’ve changed your mind about chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia as well. They’re also post-viral diseases.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
A lot more people have played Mario than Kirby, though, and Mario came first.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Poetry in English is usually less about syllables and more about stressed syllables.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> two parallel but separate levels: one, the corncob bard of Yankee wisdom who appears on t-shirts and mugs: the other, the critic’s darling who is “bleak, dark, complex, and manipulative.” This is the genius of Frost. You can read Fire
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I think they're trying to say "equations in the form y = mx + b" without getting too technical.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I’m a pretty big fan of my live cat and the software she shipped with, I’m not interested in building a robot cat, and I think TCO is the wrong criterion to base this decision on in the first place—but a cat costs real money to take care of
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Total cost of ownership of a cat is considerably more than $300, unless you plan to make your cat hunt its own food, fail to license it, and never take it to the vet.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Yep, same group.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> Start funding replication. I’m not convinced this fixes anything. Even when a result is genuine, it’s very easy to fail to replicate it. We all know this from software development: it’s a lot easier to say “couldn’t reproduce” about a
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Ah, the missing piece here (at least in the US) is that you always want to have a joint account with someone you trust (a kid, a spouse) so it doesn’t go into probate. Anything that needs to keep being paid after your death gets paid from t
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by ksenzee 3y ago
“Copy Link Without Site Tracking” is available in Firefox also.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I’m not sure why reliable, timely news of the death of the person who set up the account would necessarily mean the company closing the account, as long as the bills were being paid. Your estate is a legal entity.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
It doesn’t have to be this way: set the bills up on autopay, and have a clear list for your executor of which companies are providing which service. Autopay should keep things working long enough for your kid/parent/whoever to fin
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Sentences, in a grammatical sense? No. Intentionally using buttons as signifiers of a specific thing? I think pretty clearly yes. I don’t believe “why Bunny dog” is a deep philosophical question, or necessarily a question at all. It might j
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by ksenzee 3y ago
“Undetected by management” is the meaning here, as the article makes clear. His friends knew he was there and were having a laugh.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
There are some where I think you’re right, and some where there is pretty clearly some genuine communication going on. You might want to watch a few more.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Ever hear someone describe their anxiety as “always being on the lookout for a saber-toothed tiger attack”? I have very little difficulty imagining environments where anxiety is linked to evolutionary success.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I am aware of the reasons why people decided to change it, and I am choosing not to argue about that here. I am, however, insisting that it is a bad metaphor. We all learned it the very first time we opened a git tutorial, so we accepted it
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Yes, and as it happens, “master” was a bad metaphor for what that branch actually is and does. It would have been a better metaphor for what is usually called “origin.”
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by ksenzee 3y ago
It is no longer online, alas. My university does now host an archive where you can upload old theses, though, and I should get on that.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I wrote a master’s thesis on Montaigne (specifically on a publishing system for his Essais) and I think it’s a decently topical name. The Essais really were more like blog posts than like what we now call an essay.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
This comment deserves some kind of prize for simultaneous display of surface support for women's rights together with a breathtaking level of casual misogyny.
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by ksenzee 3y ago
¡Dígame!

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