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by onecommentman 6y ago
That I read Hacker News? HN can be a lot of good things, but a confessional it is not. Consult your local priest for more details...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
More information here: https://nypost.com/2020/12/30/congressman-elect-luke-letlow-...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
A - Hi. Drink this. B - (sniffs the drink). It smells like sewage. A - I want you just to taste this then. There can be a few responses B can make. B can 1. Throw the drink in A’s (type)face. 2. Pour the drink on the ground and walk away.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
The older you are, the more convenient and comfortable staying anonymous becomes, especially if you have or have had serious responsibilities over the years. You are either a target and/or intimidating, and either one gets in the way
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by onecommentman 6y ago
I informally interviewed some children about these recommendations. Jackson Frack, age 2, replied, “No, no, no no no. No.” Sophia Breen, age 2, added, “No, no, nooooooo. No. NO.” Olivia Vanter, age 2, stated, quite bluntly, “NO. NO. NO.” L
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New US Dietary Guidelines: No candy, cake for kids under 2(medicalxpress.com)
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by onecommentman 6y ago
As far as female celebrities go, she (seemingly effortlessly) maintained her physical beauty longer than any other I know. I suspected she had a portrait in the attic that aged for her. Didn’t know she landed in Idaho.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
It’s a hard question. You know your child better than anyone, but you don’t own your child nor their future. There are legal expectations for parental behavior at a Societal level, and perhaps informally at a Community level. Is that en
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by onecommentman 6y ago
That’s a list of topics, but not problems. Need problem statements and definition of terms before they get to be called “hard problems”.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Boils down to “who’s the customer for the paper?” If it is a clique of experts, they can do what they want. If Society is paying for it, then the customer base is arguably larger. But the current incentive system for academics and the like
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by onecommentman 6y ago
We are blessed with a strong stewardship culture in .US farming, and they are incentivized to manage their soil, but what about the land they rent? Roughly 1/3 of all US farmland is leased. https://www.fool.com/millio
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by onecommentman 6y ago
It might be a good idea to talk to any agricultural economist in any land grant university in the US before you invest your life savings on that being true in the US in the short/middle term. Or any US dirt farmer. Ag land is cheap i
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Yes it is Earlier this week, the FCC Fined CenturyLink $400,000 and West Safety Communications $175,000 for a multi-state 911 outage that occurred in August 2018. To resolve the dispute, both companies also entered into a Compliance Plan.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
When I was looking around a few months ago, the revitalized VAIO looked like it might be the ticket https://us.vaio.com/ Made in Japan and oodles of legacy ports...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Specifically in 2019 the average single family home was 2611 sq ft, apartments 1156 sq ft, acc’d to https://themreport.com/daily-dose/09-02-2020/as-more-stay-ho...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
[tales of woe (?) then] “But one piece of insight stays inside this tale of woe much like grit in an oyster. It's the fact that annoyingly, a large enough proportion also claim to be happier than they were before.” Annoyingly? The Aut
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Please let us judge the arguments first. If they raise questions, that would be the time to bring up his past. Probably not even then, ad hominem and all that... If the author’s arguments are silly, that will suffice.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Good luck on walking the fine line between the creative and the perverse. You get it wrong and you introduce an actual negative into the group. The best non-conformists are those who can conform, and demonstrate that in a productive way,
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Digital minimalism has made it a tiny bit worse on HN, since you can only flag/unflag. Instead of Steve Jobsian one-buttonism, three flag buttons would be nicer. 1. This is just politics. 2. This is just marketing. 3. This is just bor
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Thermal mass is your friend. Milk jugs filled with water, for a start. Maybe painted black and put in the sunshine... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombe_wall
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by onecommentman 6y ago
It’s neither ;-). If you’ve passed your midlife crisis, you have all the resources you need to answer that question yourself. And you’re the only person who can. If you want input, there’s more than enough actual wisdom literature out ther
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by onecommentman 6y ago
That’s a good question. I think the comment making the correction is adequate, since this isn’t a “carved in stone” sort of media and those interested read the comments as well. I’ll have something more to say about this when I finish my e
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by onecommentman 6y ago
“ massively reduce quality in order to meet caloric needs”? Please define “massively” for us. It sounds like you were eating larks tongue in aspic and are now buying year-old potatoes at the Latvian coop. Remember, some in an internation
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by onecommentman 6y ago
“I find it horrifying” Please, for the sake of your good content, don’t go hyperbolic. It makes you sound less credible. Things that are horrifying: genocide, torture, slavery, famine, child abuse, elder abuse. Things that are not horrify
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Connecticut (CT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_and_territo... You can’t follow the game if you don’t have a program. And it’s even an ANSI standard...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Why, in the 1700s, they did. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/media’s-first-moral-pan... https://didyouknowfacts.com/facts/as-novels-became-more-prom... https://www.semanticscholar.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
“people’s trust and support for the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government remains strong” I wonder, how many credits a positive response to a question like that is worth in China’s social credit system? Which is the problem wi
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by onecommentman 6y ago
“‘I raised kids’ doesn’t have the same boastworthyness in a lot of circles...” Wait twenty years and it will be the only thing...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
May I introduce you to accounting...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
The really good stuff is always free. If you take a more expansive interpretation of “stuff”. The pretty good stuff is often in short supply.

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