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by novia 9y ago
Well, I'm a North Carolinian and I just heard about this group from the article. I plan to attend the next meeting on the 22nd. Not all of us out here are hicks, especially when you get to the big cities. Look at the voting trends by c
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by novia 9y ago
Here's the problem. I already turned off all those options long ago, but the annoying behavior remains. To be clear, I don't mind the keyboard predicting things. It's only the retroactive changes that bother me. Someone else
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by novia 9y ago
And it's guaranteed not to have postdictions?
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by novia 9y ago
Please teach me. It's driving me crazy.
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by novia 9y ago
I've been trying to figure out how to disable that! Anyone have any ideas? Google search turned up no results, but after this thread I shouldn't be surprised.
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by novia 9y ago
Phrenology was used to justify pre-existing racism. All these studies that show that men are naturally more intelligent because their brains are larger amount to the same thing, but racism is out of vogue, so let's use it to justify pr
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by novia 9y ago
Do we really need to rehash the whole phrenology period of our history?
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by novia 9y ago
It appears to me that in part this may be explained by him attempting to cover his ass.
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) [pdf](gyanpedia.in)
38 points by novia 9y ago|5 comments
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by novia 9y ago
Can American soldiers imagine that they are completely safe from all physical threats?
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by novia 9y ago
The implication I believe is that the company is large enough that the boss would not personally know all the employees. The actor is pretending to be an employee that is responsible for the mistake that the hiring party made, but is not pr
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by novia 9y ago
Milk allergies or veganism?
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The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want to Be Accused of Sexual Harassment(medium.com)
9 points by novia 9y ago|0 comments
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We Snuck into Seattle's Super Secret White Nationalist Convention(thestranger.com)
3 points by novia 9y ago|0 comments
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by novia 9y ago
Conversely, junk food companies love to shift the blame to the consumers not getting enough exercise.
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Wells Fargo's $142M settlement: What you need to know(latimes.com)
1 points by novia 9y ago|0 comments
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by novia 9y ago
Well, I believe that they were the last country in the world to prohibit it, so even if you look at it from a societal bias perspective, Saudi Arabia's policy is now in agreement with everyone else.
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by novia 9y ago
I'm not the OP, but some examples of toxic femininity I've heard are: - Being passive to a point of causing harm through inaction - Gossiping/body shaming/putting others down with words The positive masculine traits shou
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by novia 9y ago
From the website linked in his profile: Contacting me The best way to contact me is via email; try my first name at this domain.
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by novia 9y ago
Swinging fists into noses [a metaphor for smoking around others without consent] should be illegal in both public and private.
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by novia 9y ago
My mother is dying of lung cancer from smoking right now. Growing up, she would smoke around me despite it causing me and my sister to have asthma attacks. I think forbidding it in public spaces does not go far enough. One's right to s
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by novia 9y ago
HN is in full on denial mode regarding sexism in tech (or at least that's how it seems to me)
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by novia 9y ago
It's worth noting that the equifaxsecurity2017 website posted the following update yesterday: "NO WAIVER OF RIGHTS FOR THIS CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT In response to consumer inquiries, we have made it clear that the arbitration c
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by novia 9y ago
My guess is that there is an acceptable format that is handed to the human like: [Introduction with name] [Problem Summary] [Solution] [Closing with phone number] [Optional Extra Line] [Signature] If parts of that template are already fille
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by novia 9y ago
Here is a recent back and forth I had with my bank. I sent the question through their messaging service to try to avoid the long wait times on the phone. I had to send 3 messages before my question was able to be answered. I'm not sure
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by novia 9y ago
I was eating dinner with two doctors about a month ago, and they were discussing this. They said it was difficult to prove that coal mining causes things like lung cancer in the miners themselves because it is just about impossible to find
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by novia 9y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by novia 9y ago
Where I am located it is legal, and honestly there is not much alternative. The roads google maps instructs me to take for their bicycle directions are not bicycle friendly. I am directed to take a narrow road with just one lane on each sid
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by novia 9y ago
If use_roads is set to zero, will this optimize for roads that include sidewalks?
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by novia 9y ago
I am a US citizen just graduating from a college, I haven't been in big IT yet. I'm just starting out with computer science.

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