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391.
by labster 2y ago
Egypt is historically much more stable than its surrounding region, all the way back to the Late Bronze Age Collapse. A stable supply of water and being located at a center of intercontinental trade helps.
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by labster 2y ago
I thought all of the peer reviewers were stuck in their tusk material skyscrapers, but I guess not. That’s how the biscuit disintegrates.
393.
by labster 2y ago
I doubt God carries much sway with the credit card companies. Maybe try the other guy.
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by labster 2y ago
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including t
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by labster 2y ago
The mathematics works the same way as programming projects: when the task is 90% done you get to finish the remaining 90% of the work.
396.
by labster 2y ago
You know the rules, and so do I.
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by labster 2y ago
This is great news for employers! They get a highly motivated workforce focused on solving client problems and improving retention, all for free. No need to hire customer service reps and waste all that money when the invisible hand will t
398.
by labster 2y ago
Move on with your day? How could you move on with your day when someone was wrong? Wrong on the internet!
399.
by labster 2y ago
I don’t know, I doubt I would want a URL this long on my wall.
400.
by labster 2y ago
Kind of like alchemy. Except alchemy would kill you very slowly with heavy metal poisoning, and this stuff would kill you very very fast in multiple ways.
401.
by labster 2y ago
I’m not going to buy a Cybertruck, but my Shadowrun characters are definitely going to get one. Finally, the vehicle we were promised for our corporate dystopia future back in the 1080s.
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by labster 2y ago
That’s the distaff counterpart.
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by labster 2y ago
And then their descendant Perl took both the P and the L for its file extension .pl. Or so Larry Wall told me.
404.
by labster 2y ago
Warm for its latitude of >55°? We’re not living in greenhouse Earth yet. Wait a few decades.
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by labster 2y ago
As an American leftist, I never thought the show was particularly Thatcherite. Just as often some nitwit politician wants something dumb to win a by-election and the civil service has to save the day. Sir Humphrey is just as often the hero
406.
by labster 2y ago
Yes, Minister is amazingly relevant and fresh for a TV show from the last century. Human nature rarely changes, and bureacracy changes even more rarely.
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by labster 2y ago
This, more than anything, is why we need student loan forgiveness. The elected officials that were supposed to be supervising universities were asleep at the wheel, and the last two generations have had no option to get affordable education
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by labster 2y ago
Yeah, column-oriented works best for musical performance because it makes it easy to switch from Ionian to Dorian mode.
409.
by labster 2y ago
Corporations are people, my friend. Homeowners insurance already covers household items, making it an umbrella policy.
410.
by labster 2y ago
Area man suckered into purchase of declining fake news website
411.
by labster 2y ago
Employers don’t pay for COBRA, and employees rarely choose to do so.
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by labster 3y ago
If you’re red-green colorblind both language groups are equally hard.
413.
by labster 3y ago
So not the California High-Speed Rail Authority, then.
414.
by labster 3y ago
I wouldn’t blab, I’d just share the bunker’s armor specs with my buddies on the War Thunder forums.
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by labster 3y ago
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
416.
by labster 3y ago
Why not get the URL from Wikidata json instead of parsing Wikipedia pages? Some of these pages can be quite long, and you’re throwing away most of the data.
417.
by labster 3y ago
Experienced employees will continue to be laid off until quality improves.
418.
by labster 3y ago
In my city, it’s brown, blue, and green bins, respectively. They are slowly changing the green bins to black ones, presumably for consistent messaging with the rest of the state, but it will take years.
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by labster 3y ago
A wogembibobble is definitely going to look blobby, because the word is firmly on the bouba side of the kiki/bouba distinction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
420.
by labster 3y ago
I assume the refill cartridges will cost $1000 and have DRM?

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