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by lurquer 7y ago
>Does US dominance guarantee a better outcome for the people in those places? That's not the right question. This is the right question: Does US dominance guarantee a better outcome for the people in the US?
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by lurquer 7y ago
"we" did nothing? I'm annoyed at the use of first person plural pronouns in such articles. It's particularly obnoxious in a story about identity theft which, as other posters on this thread have pointed out, is a linguis
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by lurquer 7y ago
Moreover, the State collects a filing fee... That is, a library card grants you permission to borrow something from the State, while the Corp application entails you giving the State your money.
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by lurquer 7y ago
You don’t need ID to buy a gun in the US. Private transactions are completely paper and record free. (Unless you are from some non-flyover state.) It’s only when you sell guns as a dealer that you are required to get ID and whatnot from the
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by lurquer 7y ago
Those stars will also grow cold and die out. Entropy is a bitch.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Marriage rates seem to have been ignored. That's a factor directly correlated to home ownership.
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by lurquer 7y ago
It wasn't for you. He said it was just for me.
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by lurquer 7y ago
The 8500 students are numbered off (assigned id's) from 1 to 10. Then you wait. Your first random number is the ID of the first person who dies. Second random is the ID of second person to die. Etc. Fairly slow algorithm. And only good
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by lurquer 7y ago
I have a friend with a German shorthair pointer. Whenever I hear him refer to the dog as a pointer, I briefly wonder if he’s referring to his dog, or if his dog actually represents the location of another dog.
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by lurquer 7y ago
I could listen to Laura Rego Cabezas talk about physics all day long.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Removing a forum dedicated -- at least for the next two nights -- to criticizing the Democratic position, is an obvious tactic. Anyway, the real point of my post was to see how quickly it would be downvoted. Petty partisanship is rife on HN
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by lurquer 7y ago
Dissapearing a subredit devoted to Trump immediately before the Democratic debates? Election meddling.
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by lurquer 7y ago
This is why I'm always dubious of "nature vs. nurture" studies with separated identical twins. The studies rarely take into account the facts set forth in the article; namely, that your appearance greatly affects your persona
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by lurquer 7y ago
The Rules of Evidence in Federal Court (and the States) make it fairly easy to introduce photo/video/audio. This needs to change. The rules regarding admissibility of this type of evidence were drafted when fakes were difficult. T
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by lurquer 7y ago
They examined four dead wolves. Four. Each had muscle fibers and a tendon at the appropriate place. Just not as pronounced. Where the wolves related? Apparently a pair was obtained from a taxidermist and a pair from Michigan. That is, this
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by lurquer 7y ago
It was indeed facile. There were just enough allusions to common philosophical issues to make the viewer feel smart... "der, it's like that cave and shadow thing in that Socrates thing we had to read in 7th grade... or was it Plat
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by lurquer 7y ago
What type of pasta would be more appropriate for the analogy? Clearly, spaghetti is probably the worst... I suggest macherroni (i.e. the mac and cheese noodle) or, perhaps, cavatappi.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Please don't do this. Such comments lower the quaility of HN and violate the site policies. Any good HN user nose this, and it snot funny lowering the discourse with such comments.
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by lurquer 7y ago
Not a book, but I'd put The Matrix in the same category. Whether it was through propaganda, newspeak, or the alteration of 'history,' 1984 was at its heart about the ease with which a group can alter one's perception of
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by lurquer 7y ago
$20m is probably less than their annual toilet-paper budget.
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by lurquer 7y ago
>I wonder if the narrative that humans are not of nature makes it easier for us to harm the environment, since we do not feel part of it (as evidenced by our use of the word nature as some _other_). To the contrary, there is a worldview
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by lurquer 7y ago
There's nothing new about all this... Tutankhaman will tell you what to expect when you use cutting-edge technology and preservation techniques in the hopes of some future civilization reviving you.... you'll end up under glass in
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by lurquer 7y ago
The dissatisfaction is warranted as the article is ONLY noteworthy IFF one assumes there was a complete extinction event on the atol. Without the assumption of this extinction event, the story is simply this: "There are rails on this i
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by lurquer 7y ago
Why does all critical thinking go out the window when it comes to evolution? (As well as being downvoted.) The atol in question was surveyed in the early 1900s. The rails were there. There has never been a time -- that we know of -- when th
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by lurquer 7y ago
Apparently, they can -- and do -- say whatever they want. It's easy to make up stories. And, apparently, there will always be a gullible audience.
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by lurquer 7y ago
At 'retail' spot prices, Aluminum is around $1,885.29 a metric ton. There are about 0.5714 ounces of aluminum in a typical can of beer. That is, there is around $0.03 of Aluminum in each can. (Actually, it is a lot less as, obviou
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by lurquer 7y ago
Sex.
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by lurquer 7y ago
That's bizarre! A lot of my friends coincendtslly had babies around the same time. The C-section babies were adorable with perfectly round heads, while the vaginals looked like Kanamits (obscure Twilight Zone reference). Of course, all
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by lurquer 7y ago
If you inject glowing nanoparticles into a watercress, the glowing nanoparticles will continue to glow. You can also inject them into hotdogs. Or, for that matter, just about anything. Am I missing something?
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by lurquer 7y ago
It will make 0 difference... You can have the announcer rattle off side-effects that would make your skin crawl, but as long as there is a cheerful beautiful woman jogging or gardening or lounging in a hammock with gentle CGI butterflies fl

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