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by plandis 4y ago
Wayne’s character is done really well by the audiobook narrator, Michael Kramer.
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by plandis 4y ago
> American How exactly is this confusing? What other country uses American as a demonym?
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by plandis 4y ago
> Messi and his compatriots a 16 percent chance of winning the tournament — second only to host nation Brazil. How it started for Brazil was certainly different from how it ended for Brazil in that World Cup.
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by plandis 4y ago
Nothing screams international unity quite like getting upset some people call a game soccer in their normal language.
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by plandis 4y ago
Legal action being taken against the person who pulled public flight information and published already public information? The sad part is I’m sure Elon can bury this guy in fees even if the lawsuit is ultimately ruled as entirely without m
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by plandis 4y ago
> and doing a $500k home Reno because you have good architectural taste and style This is basically the cost to add a second floor to your crappy home you bought a several years back because that’s all you could afford to buy in Seattle
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by plandis 4y ago
The chance of winning is very small but it’s certainly not zero.
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by plandis 4y ago
Yeah that was my thinking as well and why I asked the question. Thanks for the link!
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by plandis 4y ago
Why not read the JEP for this: https://openjdk.org/jeps/424
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by plandis 4y ago
I don’t think they are arbitrary from the perspective of a business. LTS JDK builds offer bug and security fixes for an increased amount of time compared to non-LTS versions. Unless your business is keen on upgrading the JDK every 1.5 quart
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by plandis 4y ago
What’s not fashionable about streams in Java? I’ve seen many modern open source Java projects using them.
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by plandis 4y ago
> Or am I just confessing ignorance and this isn’t a thing and it’s no more complex and magical than Rust or JavaScript or Python? If anything I’d say JS has a more complex configuration story than Java.
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by plandis 4y ago
Does legal fraud require intent?
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by plandis 4y ago
I did this for the first time last year. It was fun! Really excited to do in again.
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by plandis 4y ago
> Because meat tastes better I don’t think you can reasonably state this as objective fact. I eat meat mostly because it’s the easiest way for me to hit specific protein targets. I personally prefer vegetables in most circumstances thoug
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by plandis 4y ago
I’ll admit that I bought a lottery ticket for the first time ever when the US Powerball was over $1B. I don’t think people entirely buy lottery tickets expecting to win and doing the rational thing of calculating expectation values and taki
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by plandis 4y ago
What law do you think this specifically violates?
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by plandis 4y ago
TSLA is publicly traded though?
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by plandis 4y ago
Why would I risk throwing away what wealth I have accumulated for a small chance of growing my wealth multiplicatively? I see your attitude a lot in friends I’ve made since college who are almost all from at least upper middle class familie
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by plandis 4y ago
> since you are only denying the person one very specific use of their "property" You’re denying the author income in exchange for their labor of writing the book in the first place. > Of course, if it starts materially affe
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by plandis 4y ago
…and then get spammed on my work email? No thanks!
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by plandis 4y ago
If I worked at your company and saw that you were firing people right before vest, rightly or wrongly, I’d assume worst case that’s a possibility you’re maliciously doing it and would probably jump ship. Additionally, if asked by friends in
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by plandis 4y ago
Meanwhile Griffith is out there like a boss, slapping a second order partial differential equation on like page 1 of chapter 1 telling you to just do it, bro.
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by plandis 4y ago
> It still weirds me out that people in USA are such bad neighboors (and their law so restrictive in some cases). I’m sure bad neighbors exist in Portugal. > For the pic seems to be her home, her property and she can't even hang
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by plandis 4y ago
Why is it so hard for Europeans to not buy an iPhone if they don’t like the charger type? This will slow any innovation in charging cables until enough powerful companies need something new. Small innovators are SOL since they won’t have th
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by plandis 4y ago
Good time to buy if you’re wealthy with cash on hand.
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by plandis 4y ago
Japans declining population is surely influenced to some extent by their fiscal policy. I don’t think being near as low as it has for them has been a huge success?
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by plandis 4y ago
This was the give away to random people in chat that happened months ago?
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by plandis 4y ago
Telephone companies are common carriers (AFAIK) and have additional rules they must follow. Twitter is not.
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by plandis 4y ago
Seattle changed a bunch of speed limits to 25MPH but the problem is that the roads were designed for faster speeds so now instead of everyone predictably going similar faster speeds, you get an unpredictable mix of some people going the spe

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