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by lurquer 8y ago
The smallest unit of a society is the family. It is natural that the family's collective wealth stay in the family. Each generation tries to add to the family's wealth. Clearly that's no longer the view among many... but it w
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by lurquer 8y ago
Those are pretty much solved... if you're hungry, eat the incredibly cheap and plentiful food available due to Western technology. If you're thirsty, drink water. Don't have access to water? Move. Or, dig a well.
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by lurquer 8y ago
I seem to go through a similar experience every time I need to design a recursive algorithm... after writing and rewriting a bunch of crap code, it finally clicks and I can write the REAL function (which is usually just a few lines and amaz
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by lurquer 8y ago
Why did animals evolve an attraction to ripe-colored fruit?
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by lurquer 8y ago
They also dislike long stories, as evidenced by their short tails.
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by lurquer 8y ago
Why did fruit evolve to change colors when ripe?
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by lurquer 8y ago
How much is due to the tariff?
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by lurquer 8y ago
Instead of mailing postcards, mail rice.
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by lurquer 8y ago
It's not extinct. It's just as common as ever. The only difference is the babies are aborted.
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by lurquer 8y ago
It's worse. I think I damaged something in my brain by watching that...
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by lurquer 8y ago
>Do you expect me to carry the wrapper back to my home or carry a small dustbin along with me every time? Yes. I don't know you and my comment isn't directed to you. But this is what I meant by 'confused' in my post..
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by lurquer 8y ago
That's correct. Indians litter. It's a cultural thing, I guess. Filthiest place on earth. (Don't downvoted me unless you have been to India.) It's sad that the solution is to ban plastic bags and the like... I'm not
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by lurquer 8y ago
Well, considering that nearly 2 billion will die in the normal course over the next 30 years, I would suspect it's not as big a deal as you make out. None of the infrastructure in s low-lying city like Miami is designed to last more th
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by lurquer 8y ago
All the crops discussed bear little resemblance to their 'natural' versions. They have been bred to maximize yields and attractiveness to customers. This will continue unimpeded regardless of CO2. What happens if CO2 goes up? Plan
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by lurquer 8y ago
It's an anagram of "I ask 'em to." There's many such Easter eggs in the series. Such as Jean Luc Picard's name... A reference to the well-known phrase "Cup and Jar lice." The character was bald, so he
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by lurquer 8y ago
But, that's incorrect. The safest place for a small mammal to be is where humans live. Humans do not tolerate large predators in their environment. In my semi-urban neighborhood, we have huge herds of deer lounging around all the front
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by lurquer 8y ago
I'll get downvoted, but I'll speak for the silent majority of lurkers on this thread reading the posts from the oh-so-enlightened and progressive 'polys. Any person who is ok with their spouse having sex with someone else is
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by lurquer 8y ago
Lucent. (Ugh... Rode that sucker down to $0)
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by lurquer 8y ago
In the late 90s-early 00s, at a corporate job, several of us used a script to have the browser load a random page every few minutes. (I didn't write the script... I think the pages were just random links from search results based on ra
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by lurquer 8y ago
Are we HN readers known for high standards when it comes to women? Perish the thought. When your pick-up lines involve references to Python or Containers, you take whatever's available.
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by lurquer 8y ago
The rating of the 100 pictures thing misses a very subtle point... Most women aren't attracted to bald guys. But, a small fraction are. So, assume there is a bar with 100 women in it. 99 of them dislike bald guys (or are indifferent).
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by lurquer 8y ago
Thanks. I'd missed that.
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by lurquer 8y ago
Is a victim of suicide suffering from depression by definition? If not, why would one immediately assume Bourdain was depressed?
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by lurquer 8y ago
> It is a pay-as-you-go system. Then who paid for the first generation of recipients?
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by lurquer 8y ago
That's complete nonsense. The pain we feel is the result of the calcium hydroxylapatite matrix in our bones shrinking (up to 1.2% in cases of severe dehydration) due to lack of water. This leads to blockage of the Haversian canals whic
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by lurquer 8y ago
I'd be interested in seeing how 'parent' is defined. Does it include step-parent?
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by lurquer 8y ago
Louis Vitton does not have a monopoly on purses. Nevertheless, it's marketing efforts (along with Gucci, and the others) has created the perception that purses are a luxury good. Ditto with diamonds. DeBeers associated this relatively
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by lurquer 8y ago
Most children are raised with single parents. That implies daycare and possession schedules. Both have the potential to drastically screw up a kid. (Imagine being bounced back and forth between two homes throughout the month. It would drive
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by lurquer 8y ago
> A good corporation is a bunch of gelled teams who are at home with one-another and enjoy working together. Destroying the corporation usually results in the dissolution of the component teams, one way or another. A gelled team that wor
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by lurquer 8y ago
External testicles in domesticated animals are essential. Easy to snip off. Ever tried ploughing a field with oxen that haven't been gelded? Not fun. It's also a very convenient way to manage the breeding of livestock, ensuring so

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