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by phil248 9y ago
Some animated shows, like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Frisky Dingo, did great jobs of using product placement as a comedic part of the show.
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If you don't have a readily available email address for things like password resets and two step verification, can you please tell us how you managed to travel back in time to 1998?
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I hear this a lot, but I don't see it. A lot of people move in to management roles, but others just keep writing code. I also don't see why "owning a small business" is a virtue in and of itself. Owning a profitable comp
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The age curve in the United States is actually doing pretty good thanks to the massive amounts of immigrants we attract. Japan and Germany wish they had our population growth rates.
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I thought college was an outstanding and irreplaceable experience. I still have student debt (pushing 40) and if that debt were tripled today I'd still think it was the deal of a lifetime. Other than some international trips, going to
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by phil248 9y ago
I would have gotten in trouble for playing on a Gameboy in class when I was a kid. This isn't much different. Though the ban seems like an over-reach of authority. Kids should be able to use their phones during breaks. And I'm sur
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No offense taken, but how can I purchase some of your foreign air bonds? I hope cash is OK!
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Having purchased several cryptocurrencies recently, I can attest that I am certainly not acting rationally. But at least I'm having fun!
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by phil248 9y ago
Just a fun geography tip, you can easily remember the locations of the 3 Baltic states because they go in alphabetical order from North to South. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
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No tax cuts have been signed in to law yet. I imagine most folks take a look at the Republican Congress and choose to hedge their bets at this point.
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To add a little socialist critique, governments have been hands-off crypto-currencies because major financial institutions haven't started ramping up the pressure, yet.
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The company is called Outernet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outernet
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That's really common is some countries with limited or restricted internet access. There was also a company trying to deploy a series of satellites to provide persistent, free (but low bandwidth) access to a small cross-section of the
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It's four years later, we should have some new information. If someone wrote a follow-up article on this topic I could see that being a worthy news item.
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There are specific populations of dolphins that exhibit complex hunting behaviors that have to be learned and are exclusive to those in the community that have a chance to learn the skill.
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I would hope that these days no rational individual could support jail time for any non-violent drug crime, with the possible exception of cross-border smuggling, which treads on some different areas of the law.
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I assume that comment got down-voted for making a broad generalization about a huge numbers of strangers without any supporting evidence. And also for just sounding kind of like an asshole.
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by phil248 9y ago
In the end, I'll just always be impressed by how Twitter got billionaire aristocrats and elder statesmen to use the number 2 to me the words to, too and two. Other than that, all the character limit did was make reading and writing mor
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I'be had the same experience, though you will start to get the hang of more complicated machines after a couple dozen spins. I wonder if that complexity adds to the allure. "Now that I understand this complicated machine, I bette
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" Turning things around would require changes of a pace and scale that we have no idea how to motivate and coordinate." Things like electricity, the automobile, air travel and the internet went from nonexistent to universal in dev
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I use TripAdvisor and Google Maps. I don't know how people feel about their reputations, and I worry about TripAdvisor because they are pivoting more towards being like Booking.com. But when I was in Havana, we wandered in to a string
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by phil248 9y ago
It seems like targeting the cancer-causing agents in tobacco would be more important than targeting nicotine. With less nicotine, some smokers will inevitably smoke more, thereby consuming more cancer-causing chemicals than before this move
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Traditionally in this country, people readily migrated for job opportunities. Maybe that's just a fairy tale, though it happened more than once in my family and with plenty of people I know. Perhaps people in resource extraction and on
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by phil248 9y ago
LED can produce just about any kind of light you want. Don't confuse them with the terrible CFL bulbs that were forced upon us. LED is likely the end game for lighting in our lifetime.
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As a casual fan of KSP, I'm not up to date on all the haps. Can someone tell me what to expect in the future? Will there be more development work done?
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"It's all a ruse in my book" Hence the desire for legalization and proper regulation, to be rid of the phony prescriptions and have set rules on where use is acceptable.
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How many more decades of witch hunts and investigations before we find some damn fire?
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Hell, I'mm still convincing people to use <br> instead of <br/>!
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Honest question: Then what do you do with the rest of your money? Say you plan on buying a home in 5-8 years, what is one expected to do with tens of thousands of dollars over that time period? Earn 1-2% on bonds?
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Great, let me waste some time analyzing an in-depth report on how I waste my time!

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