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by pmg101 2y ago
Every Austen novel condensed into a single sentence.
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I have a BMI of 20 so I'm not trying to avoid calories. However I do try to avoid sugar, UPFs, and so on, because what benefit would there be in putting that crap in your body.
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Pay your mortgage on time every month for a few decades?
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Saturated fat is very good at making you feel full. I view peanutS/PB as a snack-displacement food: if I'm roaming around for nibbles, some sat fat will kill my cravings and reduce the likelihood of eating sugar. But ymmv
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Oh I see. But I mean why not just a debit/bank card that allows you to pay with money you have but not with money you don't? You just meant card in general. Yes I agree cash is now very inconvenient.
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I'm not in the US myself so I'm curious, how or why is everyone in the US basically forced to have a credit card?
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Of course I would also want the information from your second question, but it never occurred to me that asking directly would get me that information. I guess if it's a leaf node they might just tell you the truth, but in general you&#
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"If my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a bike!" is a suitable drop-in replacement. (Made famous in the UK by Gina D'Acampo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc )
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I'm at risk of saying something very ill informed here but my gut feeling is the difficulty lies in linking the person who is currently accessing the service with the person who did the age check. Taking your example: people may have m
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How do you define "this user" in this interaction?
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Odd because I thought "interdict" meant "prohibit" but from context here it seems to be being used to mean something more like "catch". Maybe misused or maybe a sense I'm not aware of or maybe the drones r
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A moderately smart person was selected for a good job perhaps over many many better possible hires simply because that person had the leisure to learn the game. Inefficient. But nice for that individual, naturally.
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Am I literally the only person who this doesn't bother? When I go to a site I click all the xs and buttons until I can see content, without any conscious engagement at all really. Sometimes when you go for a walk in the country there a
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by pmg101 2y ago
A shame to remove the joke in the original title of including the word "just": "Please just stop saying 'just'"
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I find the exact same logic applies for native Vs non-native speakers. It's a sliding scale not a binary of course, but yes the higher the information density and the more nuance can be transmitted then the higher bandwidth and the mor
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All such rules seem designed for a person not engaging their brain. Is this "the same" thing? If so - extract and reference. Or is it "a different" thing which is superficially similar? Then don't. Knowing when two
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by pmg101 2y ago
Surely both having and not-having emojis could be just as likely to trigger discussions about whether to have or not have emojis? Sometimes I feel like the opposite of your position happens: just add the damn emojis already to put an end to
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This is true in my opinion. But if you worked the fifth day and invested all your fifth-day earnings, you could retire/become financially independent a decade earlier. I'm not sure it's so clear cut which of these is the bett
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It should be "inoculated against" but the meaning is clear. A vaccine inoculates you against a disease by a physical mechanism: that is, it prevents you from getting that disease (to a greater or lesser degree). Metaphorically bei
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by pmg101 2y ago
Convincing but inaccurate. In the UK, the small SUV body style is associated with nothing more than the suburban family. MPVs (minivans) are disappearing, driven mainly now only by older people who appreciate the easier access and have zero
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by pmg101 2y ago
Haha selfless, or shameless!
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"Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute." From the preface to the first edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson & Sussman (which predated Code Com
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I THINK that following their logic a bi person would have to have no bi or gay male friends and no hetero or bi female friends. If I'm understanding that the root of this so-called "logic" is in the threat of mutual attractio
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I understand your general point and I'm not trying to make a general refutation of it. I'm just reporting some actual events from my own life where group based activities did not result in friendships, and doing some initial refle
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In principle you're right, and yet if you examine the world empirically you find that birds of a feather tend to flock together. It's such a truism they even coined a proverb to cover it. And I don't necessarily think there&#
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A priori you might think so. I'm just reporting my experience. To be clear - if I see any of my clubmates out on the roads, which happens a lot, we'll often briefly chat! Acquaintances are nice to have too, for sure. But we aren&#
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Haha I did have this idea too. I even did a few park runs. It's also much easier to fit into a busy schedule - a satisfying ride of 100 km takes up a whole day! However it just didn't click. I can't explain it. Cycling is so
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> Even so, it is difficult to understate the impact that machine learning is having on many aspects of our lives. I'm struggling to parse this. Does this mean that the impact has been so small that it is very difficult to understate
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I used to cycle alone which I love. I joined a cycling club to make friends but after a year or two gave up. I found that you would not see everyone every week. So you would have the same superficial conversation time after time and not fee
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Whether in the terminal or a GUI, a text editor and a word processor are different tools with distinct applications.

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