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The main problem with it is that it takes too long to cook, and the T-intersections of the pasta are still undercooked when the rest of the pasta is done. Further, the non-uniformaty of the joints of the pasta means that the ruffley bits ha
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I'm not convinced by the examples that you have listed (a conspicuously empty list at that), and examples are only evidence by analogy anyway. The reactivity of hydrogen is not proof of the reactivity of helium.
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After Germany surrendered unconditionally and was amicably reconstructed.
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How does history prove any such thing? That's neither how history or proof work. Most of the wars that have been resolved to everyone's benefit have done so by the unconditional surrender of the aggressors, followed by amicable re
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Um, no. Regular users care about being able to run ublock origin.
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Chancellor isn't a real job. It's basically just a hat that you wear while being unassuming. The whole point is to be unassuming. You can't do that with an onlyfans.
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You cannot determine how likely something is to occur in a universal sense. To be accurate, the headline should read "young drivers who fail test 20% more likely to be in crash than those who pass". As it stands, this reads like a
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I think this article is badly argued, but about a topic which interests me greatly. There are basically three epistemologies. There's the constructive (mathematical, proscriptive), the empirical (science, emotional), and trust. The con
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Well, the first is talking about artists, and the second is referring to programmers.
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Neither Occam's nor Hanlon's razor are to be used in strategic pursuits.
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The evidence for him being provocative, perplexing, and strange, is that he used 4 instead of 'for'. This is not evidence of anything except that the authors want you to think that Prince is provocative, perplexing, and strange. T
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3y ago
>Prince had always been provocative, perplexing and often strange artist, and frequently used symbols (such as an eye for “I”) or numbers (such as 4 for “for”) in his album artwork. This sentence is perhaps the new best example of fluff.
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it sure would be nice to get the repository of mario maker 1 levels before nintendo burns the library down.
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I'm afraid you just don't understand the structure of my comment. It's not a hypothetical fear. It's an analogy for removing functionality under the guise of curation or security.
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The difference in quality of the game designers who worked on the original AoE2 versus AoE2:DE is pretty apparent. I think what is most annoying to me is how much harder it is to parse the visual information of "what kind of unit am I
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>need to pay the bills for all the security work that will always need to be done This is in no way the business incentive of a major OS, and you've painted an extraordiarily rosy picture of OS development.
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>Parents can easily control which parts of the internet their kids have access to I'm not sure that this is true. It doesn't sound true.
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To the author, Lean is not mathlib (A fact that you will probably get sick of hearing if you spend time in the zulip). If your objective with lean is to use mathlib, you should try following the mathlib tutorial as well.
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I did not mean the physical keys.
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>everything was better back in the day This exception is actually an example of how everything was better "back in the day". This toaster, which has had its controls removed, is analagous to, for example: - a personal computer
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Imagine removing the number keys from your phone and calling it progress. Manufacturers build in parental controls and then the customers become children who you can get to do chores for you in order to unlock the right to use them. This bu
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It is not the world's job to empower a dictator, nor is it in its interest.
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China represents problems more severe than the labor cost of the electrification of the non-commercial fleet.
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Ok, but what's their magic state fidelity?
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>kind of talking about every essay, ever? Absolutely not. Only the bad ones. An essay is an argument with yourself. If you take the explicit position that you should ignore your doubts, as this author does, then what you are putting on p
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I didn't claim that the author is still "religious". I claimed that the author maintains the importance of "faith". This is the same thing as being religious, of course, but without the specifics. He is publicly mak
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The author writes a decent essay, but the claims that he makes about the mathematics curriculum don't really line up with my own experience of the subject, and I suspect has nothing to do with his actual trauma. This passage sticks out
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>would it also be bad for NYT to film the same things and publish a piece about how bad the situation is, with ads? Yes. Advertising, in which you pay someone to lie or exploit a fallacy (e.g. red wine associated with lower risk of cardi
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manufacturing costs are not just input costs. In fact, the ideal coinage the values ordered: cost to manufacture > fiat value of coin > cost of materials
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I'm way less comfortable with the idea that google gets to decide who sees this data than my government. The right that google is asserting here is the right to sell this data or use it for its own benefit, not the right to keep it pri
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