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901.
by mbg721 5y ago
How much do you enjoy programming that's very deep and sophisticated, something only other experts could understand and replicate, versus a problem that's low-hanging fruit in a technical sense but that nobody thought to use progr
902.
by mbg721 5y ago
Why, because we might have another once-in-a-century pandemic two or three years from now? We were told that we all had to drop everything and alter our daily lives because this was an exceptional crisis that hadn't been seen in gener
903.
by mbg721 5y ago
At least with smoking, the person who lit the cigarette intends to consume it. Here, even in the theoretical case, the ad serves no purpose to the space owner except to the extent that other people watch it.
904.
by mbg721 5y ago
I keep waiting for the online advertising bubble to pop, because there's so much about it that doesn't make any sense to me--selling washing machines to people who just bought one, placing a tacky and irritating autoplay ad for yo
905.
by mbg721 5y ago
I mean, in much the same way, "lexicon" is French for "the xicon"...
906.
by mbg721 5y ago
How is that different from a car crash? Just the number of passengers?
907.
by mbg721 5y ago
I get the sarcasm, but...why does it have to be that way? For decades, high-school kids kept their rifles in the trunk, and fewer students got shot than now.
908.
by mbg721 5y ago
Does Ridley Scott get a list of the names of people who watch his films?
909.
by mbg721 5y ago
The difference is how intricately tied it is to personal identity. It's the difference between cash and a card.
910.
by mbg721 5y ago
I know a lot of people who kind of put up with it because "I guess that's how it has to be." That sort of compromise is pretty fragile in the longer term.
911.
by mbg721 5y ago
Moreover, have we decided that the concept of a "boarding pass" is acceptable?? You used to just show up, pay, and ride.
912.
by mbg721 5y ago
You mean, things like humanity? On a more serious note, I think it's kind of cool that archaeology has sometimes worked in kind of the opposite way; everyone assumed the Trojan War was just made up, and then they found Troy.
913.
by mbg721 5y ago
The "necessary" part is the real political bone of contention. The "doable" part is where the argument shifts to "parenting isn't about doing what's easy", and the "easy" part is where it v
914.
by mbg721 5y ago
Natural gas is a big deal, but so is food; isn't Ukraine a major exporter of wheat? Crimea got Russia the port access they wanted, with few consequences, and this is a time when the West appeared particularly weak.
915.
by mbg721 5y ago
That sounds like it could also have been written to justify Japanese internment in WWII. Maybe hindsight buys us some luxuries we couldn't otherwise afford, but it's worth some hard thinking about what is really necessary.
916.
by mbg721 5y ago
If there's one thing musicians love, it's corporate guidelines!
917.
by mbg721 5y ago
Democrats have better party discipline than Republicans do, but that leads to weird outcomes like the people who most distrust the police voting for the author of the crime bill. There seems to be a tacit understanding that elections are f
918.
by mbg721 5y ago
When topics are social taboos, it's easy to miss out on some basic knowledge. However, in this case it's also possible to miss out on physiological variations and assume somebody just isn't wiping their butt properly.
919.
by mbg721 5y ago
"Wait a minute... my dad's name is Leo Varadkar too...Mom!?!?!?"
920.
by mbg721 5y ago
Even accepting that deterministic framework, I think there's still a distinction in that the lizard-thoughts are missing some metadata that comes with the thoughts we recognize as conscious.
921.
by mbg721 5y ago
It took a long time (for the general public) to learn how strategically important the Greenbrier was; there could be all sorts of baggage there.
922.
by mbg721 5y ago
The blob of land from Guatemala to Tierra del Fuego is treated pretty amorphously in the US media too. I guess that's not as big a deal because there are mostly only two languages involved, and it doesn't have the elephant-in-the
923.
by mbg721 5y ago
Nah, we can all just eat a ton of processed food, and we're good.
924.
by mbg721 5y ago
The only thing that would have changed meaningfully would be the attitude of the press.
925.
by mbg721 5y ago
If your population is NPR listeners in 2016, that isn't exactly an unbiased sample of the US political spectrum.
926.
by mbg721 5y ago
Sure, the all-you-can-eat sushi buffet is technically allowed, but it's poor taste at the very least.
927.
by mbg721 5y ago
A sample of New Orleans residents isn't exactly a sample of deep Catholic theologians. It's a party town by definition; you wouldn't study the Constitution by polling people in Las Vegas.
928.
by mbg721 5y ago
It is San Francisco, for those who are not closely connected to the startup-hub life.
929.
by mbg721 5y ago
Imo, recognizing that there are some uncontrollable thoughts is part of the general trend of acknowledging the close connection of mental health to physical health. The existence of "lizard" characteristics to the brain doesn&#x2
930.
by mbg721 5y ago
The 1970s Mastermind commercials aren't effective, because the mix of vitamins that's injected into bread and pasta no longer has that Gene Rayburn-esque quirk of making everyone crave earth-tone clothes. So Wordle is the next be

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