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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
For Brexit supporters - was it worth it from an autonomy perspective? A lot of the arguments I heard were things like, "we don't want Brussels having such a strong say in our <country/government/people/culture&#x
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
Interesting! Potentially up to 2 minutes and 45 seconds! "Pressurization could have enabled consciousness for the entire fall until impact. The crew cabin hit the ocean surface at 207 mph (333 km/h) approximately two minutes and 4
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
Thanks for this. I'm interested in these subjects!
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
Interesting. I know that younger liberal white women tend to be the most self-loathing of all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChR_qEPmBOI
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
Are those teachers in middle class well to do schools? I don't know if inserting teacher discretion is a "good idea" in cases where we're talking about "equity" - it could just as easily result in some students
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
"infotainment" or "edutainment" is what that type of content is - I think it's mostly mindless entertainment masquerading as informative or educational content
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
Wow! That's telling. I play 3 of their games every day and it's those 3 haha (not the full size crossword which you have to pay $, but the mini which is free)
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
I completely agree. I don't say this because it's crass, but DuoLingo is my goto "toilet app". I know it isn't as good as app or service X. But I can do it when I drop it on a daily basis to do the deed. Same with t
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by no_butterscotch 3y ago
I don't have any friends. I'm almost 40 and haven't had any friends since about 13. Each year since then I've averaged "going out" between 3 to 5 times per year for a "social thing". I think about wan
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
more deets? I want to use Postgres for JSON, I know it has specific functionality for that. But still, what do you mean by that and does it apply to JSON why or why not?
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
> Safety center, electric fleet commitments, DEI, Ukraine initiatives, etc, Two of these things are not like the other two.
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
> You can watch the entirety of Babylon 5 (remastered) on HBO Max. I just searched my HBO Max and it isn't available for me (US based). ?
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
We could use less meat but I don't think you should take a "moral" argument to this. There are plenty of cultures around the world for which cuisine plays a big role including being carnivore-based. There are festivals, arts,
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
ah yea this was going to be my follow-up to the post you replied to, can I use the library app(s) (Overdrive, Libby, Axis, etc) to subscribe to new editions of these mags as they arrive at the library? ...the obvious answer from a business
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
Interesting. I don't like all the build-tooling around front-end/Typescript. It's a common complaint I know. I recently tried to modularize some code into a package that used Typescript import-path aliases. I don't know
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
I use Duolingo, but only free. They've given me free access to their super tier twice now for a few days or a week each time. I assume at some point they'll do the same to try to give me a taste of this new product and maybe it&#x
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
How performant is it? It seems like there's a slightly visible lag in some of the interactions (button clicks) in the docs.
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
I wonder if India will try to grant them "diaspora" status like they did with the Romani in Europe?
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
> Another fun fact. It is quite expensive to license some games to show in TV/Movies. > We had some pinball machines and arcade games not make the cut because they were too expensive to license, or the IP owner wasn't licens
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
You have to fix the back button :)
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
Holy shit. There government should be in full on emergency road. Anyone that has more than 1 kid should get a reverse tax rate, the government gives them money. They should get a 10% discount on all things. Cars. Houses. Hotel rates. Anythi
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
I live in SF, and I've had co-workers here open "brag" about being able to tell whether someone is a brahmin or a kshatriya (sp?). I had one co-worker who would brag that he isn't discriminative to anyone, except other I
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
haha I loved the Gebru story arc. Such a funny thing imaging that team at Google going around patting themselves on the back for bringing in an "ethical" AI advocate, like lol, if that's what she is what the heck were all of
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
> Reminds me of the controversy at Pinterest a year or two ago when an Asian engineering manager asked how we could reduce the % of Asians in the engineering org (which was 68%). I remember this. Even on Blind today he's referred to
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
> The “open startup” idea always seemed superficial to me, founders seeking external validation. Similarly to me is the "democratizing X" startup. Those were never not about the same thing as every other startup: VC money and g
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
It chokes on everything: Brave or Chrome, incognito with Brave Shield disabled or uBlock disabled also don't work, same with Safari, ... I'm glad it includes the examples at the bottom so I can see what it does though.
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
> If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital. Do you know if this is a common occurrence? Also, I'm only a YouTube viewer and
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
Does this not reflect badly on Sundar? To have this "surprise" freak-out catch them off guard? To bring in the old leadership so publicly?
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by no_butterscotch 4y ago
Sure they will. Wasn't this supposed to include one of the "guay" countries as well?

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