leafmeal

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by leafmeal 6y ago
Are people downvoting you because they don't want to humanize someone they hate? Or am I missing something?
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Thanks, I was not familiar with the concept of emissivity.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Possibly a stupid question, but why would painting your roof blue help keep it any cooler than painting it white for example, which reflects more light? Edit: Ok it turns out there's 2 parts to a cooling roof, how reflective it is, and
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by leafmeal 6y ago
> This totally breaks a fundamental notion in Git that the same work, based on the same commits, has the same hash. This is not a fundamental notion in git. The hash includes timestamps as well. edit: It also contains author and commiter
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by leafmeal 6y ago
This article is directed at people who consider pushing themselves hard (whether or not they do). As someone who doesn't do shit, but thinks about doing lots and pushing myself hard, I still found it an insightful read.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
> As others have said the USA is far from a free market. Instead the wealthy use the state to manipulate markets for their benefit, and the rest of us suffer as a result. Some might still call that a free market.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Perhaps because some people also conflate working and socializing?
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Your claims about social, cultural and spiritual inferiority sound like outright zenophobia/racism.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Just looked into them and apparently they are not a bank which I'm guessing means not FDIC insured. That gives me pause...
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I'm pretty sure no fees was one of the selling points.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Perhaps children in our culture are "clueless" because usually they grow up far removed from the animals they eat. I wonder if children who grow up with farm animals, or in a culture dependent on hunting would feel differently.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I was about to post about the cassava example which is often used to explain the role of blind faith in cultural evolution, but then I found this fascinating article that argues against it: http://cognitionandculture.net/blo
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by leafmeal 6y ago
What's fascinating is that I believe it's this exact trait that has allowed us to advance as a species. Humans are excellent copycats, we follow traditions and practices often without question. Call this "culture". Cu
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I'd like to see a control run where you don't attach a filter to the fan. My hypothesis is that it won't look very different compared to when the filter is attached (I hope I'm wrong though).
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I found this fascinating. The writing is excellent.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I'm confused... why don't you believe they could drive past 365 cars during their commute?
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Any spreadsheet software should get you pretty far. Most languages have some graph/chart making libraries too.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I appreciate the humbleness of this writeup. The dev asked others for help explaining the code, and eventually the bug was solved by someone on another team completely! And there's no shame in that (nor should there be), but my pride o
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I love all of the photos. Lots of casual pics of happy people. Everything has a very 90s/00s vibe which I'm finding nostalgic. Does anyone know where this database comes from? I feel like they were all scraped off old MySpace page
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I agree with your first point. With the second one, I'm less convinced. Perhaps I'm being a pedantic here, but you can always refuse an order. There may be consequences (like being court martialed) which you can avoid by resigning
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by leafmeal 6y ago
This comment would be really funny if it was a joke.. but I just can't tell what's real anymore.
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Broadband for All Gains California Senate and Assembly Commitment(cafwd.org)
3 points by leafmeal 6y ago|0 comments
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by leafmeal 6y ago
It may feel that way, but Cydia did nothing illegal. They were more or less forced out by Apple's anti-competitive practices.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. These are definitely good reasons for someone to resign. They're also reasons that benefit the resigner personally. I think that's a good thing, and people should take care of themselves, but it re
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by leafmeal 6y ago
A lack of conscience can be a very marketable trait ;)
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I'm sorry about your sprinkler, just remember that delivery person was probably having a hard day too.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I suspect return policies are often used to justify unnecessary purchases. How many times have you bought something online you didn't actually want, but then didn't return it because it was too much of a hassle? Even if things are
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I'm only interpreting here (not judging). But I think s/he means you're spending a lot of time justifying the position that expediency is what's important, which is ironic.
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by leafmeal 6y ago
Yes it did make me smile. My response was only half serious. The moral I extracted was that free will is fake and humor is all that matters. If that's the case I'd have hoped he'd have thrown a few more jokes in ;)
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by leafmeal 6y ago
I appreciated all the detail he put into it. It gave me a lot of insight into everything that he considered. I think the detail proves that it's just not a simple problem. If you want to give a complete explanation, you're going t

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