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by markdown 4y ago
Mammoths were frozen whole in ice. Dodos died in the tropics. Big difference.
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by markdown 4y ago
The top of the case is right there. The rest of it is just a plastic container and doesn't need to be in a fridge.
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by markdown 4y ago
> FWIW, there's no battery in that screen grab, for a car or otherwise All the components of a car battery. You can see the lead on the right.
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by markdown 4y ago
Providing a service would be selling them with a reasonable markup. That's not the case. Are you super-rich and unaffected by this, or do you just enjoy being reamed by massive rent-seeking corporations?
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by markdown 4y ago
Getty Images has millions of historical public domain images that they never paid for but charge a $1000 a pop for. They're bottom-feeders. Absolute scum.
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by markdown 4y ago
Side effects include: headache, nasal congestion, and Benjamin Button Syndrome.
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by markdown 4y ago
> Another interesting approach would be to write the comments into each HTML file directly, instead of in a separate file, so you wouldn’t need JavaScript at all. A better approach IMO. Why require js for something as trivial as adding a
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by markdown 4y ago
In Singapore, 50 years is a long time and the train goes where you're going. I'm not saying the US could pull off a Singapore, but there's no excuse for San Francisco, or LA, or any other large city to have done so.
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by markdown 4y ago
> traced the outage to a damaged database file Lil' Bobby Tables strikes again!
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by markdown 4y ago
> they have a right to make money from the data. I thought it was a govt service. BOM is private?
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by markdown 4y ago
> usually the Pilot Monitoring FTFY. It's a common misconception in the general population that the Captain always flies the plane and the FO supports them. There's always a pilot flying, and pilot monitoring. The roles are usu
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by markdown 4y ago
That's a great passage that you've quoted, and a great example of why we need UBI to keep Americans alive under late-stage-capitalism. > What a ridiculous article. Why is this on HN This on the other hand is sentence completely
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by markdown 4y ago
> there are cases where cannot identify which convention has been used You could always just ask them. "I'm sorry but we had trouble parsing your date. Please indicate the correct date: _ Saturday the 12th of March, 2032 _ Wedn
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by markdown 4y ago
Would a few nukes solve the Taiwan problem without needing to deploy any troops?
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by markdown 4y ago
> So China's only card it can play is, being as sick as it is for at least a year more, is to be a paper tiger. and threatens with empty promise. Everything you wrote before this, and in particular "you will note all the anger
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by markdown 4y ago
I don't believe so. There isn't enough wood in them. Some cultivars can grow to be small trees, but are usually pruned and kept as little bushes.
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by markdown 4y ago
This happened to me. I couldn't compete with the coffee berry borer and ended up chainsawing them down one by one. Coffee is surprisingly hard wood. I planted noni instead, but that turned out to be a fad, and those were removed next.
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by markdown 4y ago
Soccer Tournament.
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by markdown 4y ago
> policies Establishing clear policies and guidelines is critical. Musk's mistake is making things up to suit his personal feelings as he goes along.
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by markdown 4y ago
Big Mac Meal.
621.
by markdown 4y ago
> Finalized a mortgage before the recent rate increases. What a privilege it is to live in a country where home loan interest rates are fixed.
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by markdown 4y ago
> Do i just live in bizzaro-world? Yes, one in which there is no empathy and one can't comprehend that others might have different skills, different experiences, different abilities.
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by markdown 4y ago
> ... plain old exploitation > ... some nerd striking it rich by making a fun app I suppose you could call Amazon a fun app.
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by markdown 4y ago
> I feel that rain doesn't phase me at all. Me neither, but I live in Fiji. I suspect I'd absolutely hate the freezing rain of the Pacific Northwest.
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by markdown 4y ago
> What you say is akin to saying it's amusing to see a chess player beaten in a game because the opponent just took all of his pieces and put them in his pocket, and bribed the judge to look the other way. What exactly is amusing ab
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by markdown 4y ago
> Fresh mines can be dropped from aircraft now if a sudden need arised. How would this work? Surely the impact would trigger detonation.
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by markdown 4y ago
Nope. You might have trouble getting there though. If there's no public road/easement to the beach, you'd have to get there by boat in order to legally use the beach.
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by markdown 4y ago
Straight to the "ANTI-SEMITE!!! card" eh? > A comment in a thread about a swastika should not be used as an opportunity to connect Judaism to Israeli policy. Fair point. I withdraw that and apologise for going off on a tangent.
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by markdown 4y ago
Twitter is the biggest offender on the internet. Tweets suddenly disappear just as you go to engage with them.
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by markdown 4y ago
I mean, I most certainly would never use a crooked cross for the reason you point out, but it's a bit much to demand that an ancient culture change their behaviour because of your lack of discernment with regard to usage and intent. It

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