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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
>>> I'll usually buy a clump or two of water lettuce and water hyacinth in the spring, and then by the end of summer I have so much I have to fish it out of the pond to keep it from taking over completely. To expand on this,
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
You're here dismissing competent design critiques with the claim that this guy doesn't have the right experiences, therefore opinion = null. Can you describe your experience driving F1 cars in a mixed-traffic highway environment?
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
Here are four examples for you: Mercedes: https://electrek.co/2022/09/19/mercedes-benz-eactros-longhau... Scania: https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/products-and-services&#x2F
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
It seems quite easy to conflate complexity with anthropomorphism, because we see ourselves as the apex, of sorts.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
If not priority, at least fix the actively-misleading results page. So many examples, choose your own adventure. One that annoyed me today: on mobile, reddit search results will all say like "3 days ago" or "6 days ago"
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
> I remember seeing fish I was used to catching (perch) I think VooDooJuJu's sibling comment is correct, and jumping off from that, I wonder: do you, or did you, have dreams about that event? This scene sounds something right out of
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
I am genuinely curious: how do you interrogate a trained actor?
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
I agree that it would be great as a consumer, but Amazon isn’t offering anyone an honest list of those widget prices. If I am a widget manufacturer, selling on Amazon means I am no longer competing for your purchase with just my market peer
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
>> So isn't all this pain simply because Ukraine's leader (maybe backed by US?) didn't budge until too late? Flatly, no, it is not.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
>>> The need to appease the public immediately seems to have done just as much pain to EU as Russia. Interesting way to frame the issue. FWIW, I would have gone with "the need to inflict actual repercussions on Russia for inva
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
Just to add anecdata: both myself and partner got our booster in early december 2021. Right before christmas, my partner came down with covid. I didn't bother to isolate from her because it would have been ineffective given our living
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
The Cromwell, mid-strip, has 3/2 odds on its tables. Most tables are 6-8 deck shoes, and I believe there is one or two tables of single deck.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
I don't actually believe this anymore. Hesitancy is a cover for those who lack the confidence to publicly affirm their anti-vaccination attitudes.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
Had this same thought a few weeks ago too. Nothing short of contempt.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
if Amazon just wants to be the market, that's one thing. but they're also trying to position themselves as a brand name with notion of value attached (e.g. amazon basics). I value my time and don't want a 'caveat emptor&
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
you don't speak for me.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
N=3 is an absurd sample size when you are sampling from an otherwise large pool. When N=3 because that's the entire size of the sampling pool, failing to take heed of those patterns is an unforced error.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
The aggressively short and interruptive sentence structure.
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by mentalpiracy 4y ago
finding common complaints and bitching about them together is perhaps _the_ quintessential method of social bonding.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
If you read two tweets down the thread, she explains that Ukraine is a winter wheat producer. Winter wheat is planted in the fall, and harvested in spring-summer. It has already been planted.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
Why should we use this as an example? You’re talking about people who are throwing away money by leaving assets idle - and implying that they obviously don’t know how to operate in this market.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
I want to use this, but I have an extreme aversion to speaking into devices.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
in Russian it is есть / yest, but very commonly dropped from sentences.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
> If the nuclear command & control centre is destroyed by a pre-emptive strike, there will be no coordinated first strike, but uncoordinated launches by individual units, highly conditional on officers resolve to fight an now unwinna
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
>> “The change in activity levels also leads to changes in sugar metabolism - they store more sugar and produce less lactate, just like humans.” Sounds like someone has just discovered a way to farm tastier brown crabs.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
> But if abiogenesis happened more than once, and we don't see any alternate-root lineages, then we've admitted the possibility that major advances towards complex life can have a resource lock out effect leading to the extinct
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
Ah yes, taxes are theft. The solution to government-mandates taxes is _obviously_ private enterprise! Surely no private company would ever do something as unseemly as threatening someone’s livelihood in order to extract payment.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
The idea that privately-managed charity could adequately address even one of the numerous structural-level problems in our society is tremendously naive.
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
The amount of money this IPv4 space is valued at now - while astronomical in comparison to past pricing, sure - might as well be $0 when you compare it to the colossal expenses in both funds and manpower to update literally decades of now-c
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by mentalpiracy 5y ago
The person you are replying to is referring to a terminal client, also named Hyper[0]. 0. https://hyper.is/

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