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by plonh 11y ago
There is a trend across the US mall food courts of Chinese quickserve shops evolving into pairs of such along side "Cajun" shops selling essentially the same food. But still, American "fried chicken" really implies &quot
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by plonh 11y ago
How can you accuse parent of injecting biases, when the parent was reacting to the claim of racism?
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Working poor tend to do more physically demanding labor, so that is still correlated with less jogging.
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by plonh 11y ago
Any warranty can be satisfied by simply refunding the purchase price.
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by plonh 11y ago
Why not filtered tap water? Most bottled spring water is bottled tap water.
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by plonh 11y ago
Humans like sugar, instinctively. MBA spreadhseets can't make that false.
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by plonh 11y ago
Sports/energy/tea/juice drinks are sodas. Chemically, at least. Are they a loophole in the soda tax laws?
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by plonh 11y ago
Bully and browbeaten seems to be a common complaint in modern Biblical families. Obviously there are millions of Christians who have lives they call Christian that are informed by centuries of culture that postdates the Bible.
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by plonh 11y ago
That's a horrible precedent. Most noncommercial advertising is popitical advertising, which is funded by the special interests who will commercially profit from the advertised politicians.
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by plonh 11y ago
No, it is just that overhead wires are older and cheaper. New wiring is underground.
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by plonh 11y ago
What is "MR" in those signs. Tangent: Mozilla just changed the name of its new brotli feature tag, because the "BRO" abbreviation was deemed sexist.
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by plonh 11y ago
Seattle has these signs everywhere. Not on billboards, but on ground signs around bike trails.
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Around here the ads are printed on scrim, so you still get light.
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by plonh 11y ago
Yes, better to eat the eggs of another species before they become babies, like snakes do.
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by plonh 11y ago
The notion that fat people are unhealthy is a modern notion. Look at the paintings in the Louvre.
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by plonh 11y ago
That's why it is important to set up these plans for yourself before you get old and proud, when you know what lies eventually ahead. And to spend lifetime developing the tristworthy relationships you will need later. Or go on physica
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by plonh 11y ago
Then "handshake" bit is rose colored view of the past. Scams were incredibly common in the past. Real estate, diamond and gold jewelry, and even the original "snake oil" and patent medicines, and all the classic "c
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by plonh 11y ago
Why would you intentionally harass victims like that?
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by plonh 11y ago
Electronic market makers are a much larger category than HFT. Microsoft Word is phenomenally heaper than hiring a typewriterist, because it is electronic.
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by plonh 11y ago
This is cool, but,...18F are consultants, who pop in, wave a magic wand, and pop out. Many of its employees are.bound by law to a max 2 or 4 year term. Will cloud.gov support its users for 5, 10, 15 years?
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by plonh 11y ago
NOx emissions have probably killed people with smog sensitivities.
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by plonh 11y ago
That article says that the democrats are getting a growing share of their funding from wealthier donors, while Republicans are getting a larger share of their funding from obscenely wealthy donors.
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by plonh 11y ago
There is another angle. Some fraction of the cost of a Tesla is for the electric drive, not weight or luxury or whatever. So by buying a Tesla instead of a Lexus, I am paying an extra penalty for contributing to electric car R&D.
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by plonh 11y ago
>As is the custom in mathematics and theoretical computer science, the result gains credibility not by having been sent to a journal and reviewed by other scientists but by having been vouched for by leaders in the field WTF?
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by plonh 11y ago
What to all those free consumer services that you don't pay for and and aren't connected to things you pay for have in common?
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by plonh 11y ago
You can get a month supply of these vitamins for $3 by buying a bottle of Flintstones. Protein and healthy fat is where to be concerned about the cost of nutrients.
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by plonh 11y ago
People in their right mind are able to not fall prey to consumerism and hock.
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by plonh 11y ago
If all the 99% actually had the comforts you imagine, they wouldn't be so mad at the 1%
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Tog also believed in research on your actual users, not cargo culting from decades old research in very different systems with very different users.
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It would be a struggle

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