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by mertd 4y ago
You can die from drinking too much water. Dosage makes the poison as the sibling comment said.
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by mertd 4y ago
How should the creators be rewarded for their effort?
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by mertd 4y ago
I don't know what this team is or did. However, to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park, if everyone is preoccupied with building things, who will be the one that stops and thinks whether they should?
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by mertd 4y ago
Should I cancel my pool house "housing project"?
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by mertd 4y ago
Most CA houses have awful insulation thanks to the mild climate.
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by mertd 4y ago
That phenomenon still puzzles me. Why wouldn't it ring right away?
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by mertd 4y ago
Emotions are a little different though. The more you know how deep the lows can go, the more you appreciate even the smallest highs. There is a little utility in getting hurt.
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by mertd 4y ago
Careful with that statement. General public seems very happy adopting wearables. Much more than anyone would have guessed in the early 2000s.
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by mertd 4y ago
That's considered part of the team strategy in F1 to maximize the chances of getting both drivers and constructors championships. Team orders of this kind are issued at almost every race.
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by mertd 4y ago
Gen-Z doesn't use search is a weird argument to me. They are teenagers. Of course they won't do anything useful online. Their behavior should change once they enter adulthood. They'll need plumbers too and no they won't
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by mertd 4y ago
The ship of Theseus comes to mind. Surely some of these were not in continuous operation, changed owners or moved buildings. Is that the same pub then?
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by mertd 4y ago
I don't feel like owning a gaming rig anymore and that caused my sizeable Steam library to be locked away from me. Until I got the Steam Deck... The killer feature for me is the portability. I can take it with me on vacations and that&
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by mertd 4y ago
I believe people are imagining the automatic transmissions from the early 2000s and before. They were terrible.
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by mertd 4y ago
Bingo. It's not petitioning that movies change and avoid all sorts of emotional triggers. It's just documenting them. I don't see the problem here.
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by mertd 4y ago
This puts outsized power in the hands of incumbent homeowners. What about people who work in Atherton or nearby towns and need to commute hours to get to their jobs? They sure would like to live nearer to their workplace. They generally are
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by mertd 4y ago
As I understand, walking into a dealer and driving out with a car an hour later is an American thing. In many other countries, cars are made to order.
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by mertd 4y ago
Dealers are richest in their communities everywhere due to the anticompetitive franchising laws. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/sunday/rich-happi...
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by mertd 4y ago
This is not even a hindsight 20/20 situation. The math never made sense. They were too brittle to make the LTV turn profitable. Maybe people were hoping for subsidies? Practicality-wise, they neither belonged to the sidewalk (too fast)
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by mertd 4y ago
Everything is "data collection". Someone really needs to qualify the boundaries of what is considered a breach of privacy. Sending location, heading and speed anonymously is perfectly ok by me because in return we all get real tim
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by mertd 4y ago
I wonder what foodstuff will take place of truffles as the rare "it" ingredient once truffles are commodotized.
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by mertd 4y ago
It's a catch 22. The excuse for not building proper transit is sprawl and the excuse for sprawl is not having proper transit. Sprawl always wins in the US.
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by mertd 4y ago
People are free to take up whatever cause they deem is worthy. I just hope some will take a pause and appreciate the absurdity of drinking milk and consuming meat AND opposing use of animals in medical research. I have flown with Air France
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by mertd 4y ago
I don't want to take sides in this argument but just would like to point out that our animal cruelty standards are comically inconsistent. The animals that we use for food supply are generally treated horribly and they outnumber the sc
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by mertd 4y ago
> If you are party to the police interaction you can film closer than 8 ft. If you are in a car as a passenger you can film the interaction and the police cannot ask you to stop. If you are a non-party person simply watching the interact
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by mertd 4y ago
Zoning needs to change as well. Exclusionary zoning has resulted in very weird town layouts in the US. Make small errands (coffee, dining, convenience items) reachable by walking and the rest reachable by transit.
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by mertd 4y ago
It's institutional inertia. They are the kings of the ICE world. They are biased against preserving the status quo.
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by mertd 4y ago
My guess is that point and click adventures are not very profitable. There are no in game trinkets to sell, they don't fit a subscription model. I guess you can slowly release "chapters" and sell them independently and some d
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by mertd 4y ago
This encounter is very on brand for San Francisco.
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by mertd 4y ago
Can you point to a source for "the money is there"? Nothing surrounding Tether passes the smell test.
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by mertd 4y ago
I imagine if the headline news declared that we should reduce the carbs in our diets, most Americans would up the meat intake and not vegetables, and that would reduce fiber in their diet even more.

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