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by mbg721 4y ago
It's tough to compare averages across populations when the people who don't drink really don't drink. Something that takes into account number of drinks per drinking occasion might paint a different picture.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There is at least a large supply of new, cheap teachers. It's essentially the only adult profession that high-school and college students know (in the US) besides what their parents do, and you can get into it from a starting point of
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by mbg721 4y ago
That part sounds like "Don't be perceived as a cost-center," but I think most big-lumbering-org departments have figured out how to plead their case. That's a lot harder to do with something like teaching, where there&#
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by mbg721 4y ago
It's better than saying "AA". I was going someplace on the double-A highway and needed directions, so I plugged it into Google Maps and got to hear about the "AAAAAHHH!!!!!" Highway the entire time.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"We are beginning our ascent, and thank you for flying BOOM!,"
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by mbg721 4y ago
Being in the business of extracting oil from snakes is one way to fail, but that doesn't mean there isn't a viable market there.
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by mbg721 4y ago
This feels like online businesses around 2000, where people have identified the problem and know the tech they can use to solve it, but the companies trying to do it aren't the ones that can make the business side stick.
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by mbg721 4y ago
"Fetch cancellation" is where the browser tells itself "Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen," right?
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by mbg721 4y ago
My friends were generally emotional wrecks and hugely into alcohol, but they survived and have productive lives now. They weren't made of fine Waterford crystal.
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by mbg721 4y ago
There's a difference from Ferris Bueller saying "If you have the means, I highly recommend it."
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by mbg721 4y ago
Everybody and their second cousin have been trying to call themselves the successors of the Romans, from the Byzantines to the Franks to the Ottomans to the Russians to Mussolini. (Edit: and, of course, the Pope) But I think this is the f
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by mbg721 4y ago
The details aren't important, as long as we're good patriotic citizens and comply.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Those eight guys I knew who split the rickety house with the two ovens whose pilot lights kept going out had plenty of social belonging. There's a huge racket in convincing freshmen to spend money they don't have, in order to liv
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by mbg721 4y ago
More specifically, epsilon is the arbitrarily-small add-on that you observe but don't change directly, so using it here is pretty effective at conveying the idea. (I guess the direct change could be framed as the Delta Method, but peo
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by mbg721 4y ago
> I can't think of any type of job that is both vilified AND one that you could take on the cusp of destitution. Telemarketing? (Edit) MLM would be another answer, and is pretty popular among some of my extended family who are deep
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by mbg721 4y ago
My dad's big tip was to ask the guys at Kinko's for old printer-paper boxes, for similar reasons.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is that really true in college towns? My experience (at an urban university campus that required a year in the dorms) was that the dorms and meal plans were staggeringly expensive, but the cheaper off-campus housing tended to be in older
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by mbg721 4y ago
This is a big problem for board games (whose fans also collect large numbers of them on shelves to be seen in interviews). Even well-regarded games often don't get a reprint, so it's not too uncommon for a game that's a few
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by mbg721 4y ago
I would think you'd have to have an awful lot of them before it became a problem. Books tend to be pretty small and less oddly-shaped than most other stuff you have to move. They're so efficient to pack that you end up with some
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by mbg721 4y ago
NFL rookies know they're in the "playing football" business; but many of them, having a big windfall, are suddenly in a number of other businesses that they aren't aware of, whether they like it or not. Suh is pointing
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by mbg721 4y ago
Options in general have asymmetry built in; that's the point of using them for risk-management. The idea is that the buyer pays a flat amount for the privilege of limiting the downside risk, and the seller is expected to know what the
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is this like the mm/dd/yyyy date problem, where ideally names would be ordered from the most general part to the most specific?
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by mbg721 4y ago
Sort of...Green Acres seemed more to exploit that difference to create an absurd environment in general. (Filmways had a lot of trained farm animals around anyway.) The recurring joke was that Eddie Albert had an idyllic vision of being a
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by mbg721 4y ago
My favorite broken-logic joke about this is that a (pick your favorite ethnicity) grandmother owned two chickens, but one day, one of them got sick. So she killed the healthy chicken and made soup to nurse the other one back to health.
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by mbg721 4y ago
It depends what the class was for. I had a sort of similar experience with a physics class where the professor would take a break mid-exam and just give everyone the answers, but it was a class that was a prerequisite for engineering stude
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by mbg721 4y ago
Why should I care what white-supremacists (other people who happen to have a similar skin color to mine) think? I have nothing of any substance in common with them.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I always do a double-take at the "something went wrong" messages from MS and the dinosaur browser errors in Chrome, because they trip the same part of my brain that's been trained to notice phishing emails.
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by mbg721 4y ago
If Doug, Karen, Susan, and Chad were all ever in the same room, the stereotype energy would be enough to make it spontaneously combust.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't think it's true that they're meaningless, though; non-wacko people do have deeply-held values and get upset when public policy runs counter to them. The nihilistic viewpoint is more a symptom of getting used to polit
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by mbg721 4y ago
If the US balkanizes, it won't be geographically tidy. Voters in urban areas in the Midwest are much more left-leaning than say, upstate NY.

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