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by lotharbot 9y ago
of particular note, D&D 5e accomplished many of the technical/balance things 4e was supposed to accomplish but failed at, while still retaining the excellent flavor and sense of power from 3.5e.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
almost every type of insurance can be "maxed out". You buy a policy with a particular amount of coverage based on your perceived need. The insurance company charges you less for a lower cap, but if you put the cap too low, it wo
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by lotharbot 9y ago
I'm not particularly aware of the details of EU politics and couldn't name the major factions. But I will point out that "integrate further" can itself become a tribal identity -- in some cases a fairly oppressive one, i
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by lotharbot 9y ago
regarding 2: there's some nuance needed for what it means to "accept" the smaller tribes -- on whose terms? (Which leads directly to 1 -- if the larger tribe's terms are onerous, unfair, or oppressive, the smaller tribe
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by lotharbot 9y ago
Anti-separatism is often just tribalism based on the dominant tribe.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
There are a lot of possible explanations as to why Soylent gets a different type of coverage than Slimfast (most obvious to me is "it's marketed as a long-term meal replacement with adequate calories, not as a short-term weight lo
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by lotharbot 9y ago
these sorts of "mega-cities" are often a staple in futuristic dystopian scifi, and they've always struck me as completely impractical. There are circumstances where bigger is better, where you get increased efficiency due to
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by lotharbot 9y ago
IMO, 3-6% moving all the way from bottom to top or top to bottom is actually quite good. I'd be extremely concerned if it was 20%, as that would imply the system was nearly random. I'd also be concerned if it was 0%, as that wou
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "those "universal" rights have to be applied to an out-group" Yes, absolutely! That's why I used the term "universal". They apply to everyone, not just favored groups. > "hundreds of mess
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by lotharbot 9y ago
I aspire to be as levelheaded and kind as you are, someday, in handling difficult situations.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "don't think this is really true ... in any online community." Stick around and give us the opportunity to surprise you ;) > "My comment would have been the same regardless of gender." You might have int
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by lotharbot 9y ago
Dove is a woman. (Source: I'm her husband.) EDIT: the issue isn't the Hacker News audience; the issue is that you were wrong in your assumption that Dove was male, and your entire comment depended on that assumption. There is no
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by lotharbot 9y ago
There's a lack of proportionality to the "system" you describe. Someone with a dozen twitter followers, all friends and family, who has no intent to "broadcast to as many people as possible" but just to comment to a
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by lotharbot 9y ago
as a patient, Qliance was a phenomenal experience, and easily worth the cost. (I no longer live in the area, but am with a DPC practice where I am now, which is of similar quality.) I wonder if the problem with losing their big employers wa
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by lotharbot 9y ago
you can see from the link malandrew provided about American spending habits (in a sibling comment to mine) that Americans are spending considerably more on housing, on average. I don't believe the surveys cover "high-income"
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by lotharbot 9y ago
it's worth noting that housing has also gotten much bigger since the 1960s. A source worth looking at is the American Housing Survey, which is put out by the US Census Bureau. What I find most telling is that average housing in 1970 i
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by lotharbot 9y ago
the problem is more specific than the second employer getting non-zero value. It's getting ongoing value, under the table, direct from a present competitor -- harming the relative competitiveness of the first employer. The value of
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by lotharbot 9y ago
But your next company is getting your prior experience, which becomes more out-of-date every day, not your up-to-the-minute experience on what might be an actively competing project.
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by lotharbot 9y ago
> "When I'm off the clock, my time is my own, up to and including doing paid work for anyone else I want." At least one of the reasons for a non-compete clause is to make sure you're not doing stuff on the clock for
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by lotharbot 9y ago
This has a lot to do with the fact that a cow is a whole animal. If you raise one to sell the chuck, you also get T-bones and ribeyes and tri-tips and flank steaks and so on. Most of that goes into the same retail pipeline, so availabilit
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by lotharbot 9y ago
Utah has traditionally had plenty of negatives, but a handful of recent innovations (particularly their direct housing initiative) have put them at the head of the pack. I don't think it's fair to chalk that up to "giving a
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Knowing about a chronic, untreatable, future illness can help you decide whether or not to have children, and if so, whether to have them earlier than you might otherwise have planned. Likewise it can influence you to accelerate the pace o
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by lotharbot 10y ago
The way I phrase the simple answer: both gambling and insurance are slightly-negative-expectation plays with occasional large payoffs. With gambling the payoff is random, but with insurance the payoff is coupled predictably to an external
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by lotharbot 10y ago
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K082HI4?psc=1 some reviews complain of fit, but a lot more say it's perfect. YMMV of course.
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by lotharbot 10y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Silicone-Cover-Models/dp/... this is the exact product you're asking for ("Creates an air-tight and water-tight seal on the Instant Pot stainless steel inner pot."
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by lotharbot 10y ago
widespread enough that there's an xkcd about it: https://xkcd.com/1279/ I have a 7-letter gmail address. Middle initial (I don't use my first name), last name. Every so often I'll get information maile
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by lotharbot 10y ago
even a Volt that's not plugged in is going to be able to run its electronics for a long, long time on a single charge. Wifi routers consume on average about 6 watts. The new Volt has an 18.4 kWh battery, which could run such a wifi ro
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by lotharbot 10y ago
I have a prepaid phone, because I don't want to spend $hundreds/month on an unlimited data plan that I'm only rarely going to use. But $20/month for unlimited data in my car? That would be worth it just for the 3-4 road
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3"
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by lotharbot 10y ago
you should scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the "rules" link, and familiarize yourself with our community expectations.

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