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> It has always seemed to me that Starbucks has one thing going for it - consistency. Absolutely. That's why end up going there when I travel and just need to get something quick. I may find a better coffee shop if I have time, or i
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> I never understood Starbucks It's the McDonalds of coffee. There are lot of better restaurants than McDonalads for sure but a random restaurant could also be worse. So McDonalds provides some low common denominator consistency. Sa
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> The U.S. military was unaware of the unprecedented Israeli ballistic missile strike earlier this month on a Hamas compound in Doha, Qatar, until it was already inbound This has that Dr. Strangelove feel to it. "Looks like the miss
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I am wondering why they couldn't have foreseen this. Was it really a failure to predict the need to charge for tokens eventually, or was planned from the start that way -- get people to use the unlimited option for a bit, they get hook
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Circuit Simulator
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Math and Physics Applets
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Yikes, indeed
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Wondering which drug companies are trustworthy. Let's say if this was Eli Lilly or Pfizer, would that make the announcement blurb better? As in, we see it and say "oh wow, that's sounds great". I imagine if we insert any
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1y ago
Let's be honest, it's a conversation piece with an extra "gotcha" since it's a move prop. It's pretty cool as that, no doubt, but I can't see it being a practical laptop bag.
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A good one! I like how Daniel pretended like not disclosing it was an option just to show their reaction. > "the best way for me and others to learn is by learning from our mistakes, and I think sharing this will help" I guess
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Wonder what the State Bar of CA would have to say about this: https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/282372 Doesn't seems like there isn't kind of disciplinary action. You can just make
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I wonder what's going on in the minds of these people. I would just be terribly embarrassed and not be able to look at myself in the mirror if I did shit like this. > batuhanilgarr posted a comment (6 days ago) Thanks for the quick
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My apologies, SoKamil, for cutting off the ending in the comparison. I wanted to highlight the difference and figured the first part is where the difference was. As in, they are still a non-developer and shouldn't have to learn all the
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1y ago
> FWIW, I submitted it as "non-developer" but a moderator seems to have changed it to "beginner developer." The author is a non-technical blogger, and she probably has to navigate lots of technical guides in order to
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1y ago
The title of the blog post currently is: > How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me The HN title is: > How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me Those are different t
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> For a time, the mantle would get hotter, since the shell around it would trap heat generated by radioactively decaying compounds inside it. As heat accumulates in the interior, the Earth in Kane’s simulations would experience an uptick
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> This is a blatant attempt to silence political speech the current regime doesn't like -- it was literally "cancel this guy or we'll make things hard on you." If they thought it was so easy to defend and so obvious w
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> I feel like the executives have a civic duty to have resisted, at least for a few days. Caving so quickly weakened the de facto press freedoms. Exactly, at least some kind of public rebuff or just saying Kimmel's show is not news
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> Boo fucking hoo? I think that's exactly the look they didn't want. > They didn't have to "defend Kimmel's phrasing". All they had to do was say "no, it's protected political speech, and you ca
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I do use moth my mouth and my nose for breathing. Not sure how that matters, but ok.
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Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. It's specific corner case of FCC licensing. ABC didn't have to cancel Jimmy and could have called FCC's bluff and tried to file a lawsuit based on 1st Amendment. But the PR look wa
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It depends on what the contract says. Each side has various clauses to protect their interests, like say if Kimmel starting showing porn on his show, now the station risks FCC license they can drop him. I imagine there was something. Techni
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> As a hiring manager in a big company, salary isn’t really much of a consideration for me. I think this happen higher up. Policies like work from home or not or how many roles to open in what region, how many H1Bs to sponsor is somethin
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Absolutely. That perfectly illustrates my point. Thank you.
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> That’s a lotta words to justify complete bs If that's the rebuttal, I'll take it as an acknowledgement that's it's right.
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> This is a violation of the US Constitution. Full stop I needs a comma, or semicolon at least. > The US government threatened a private company Threatened with what, imprisonment, death? They threatened to pull the FCC license. It tu
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> The fact that the shooter was conservative, from a conservative family? He implied it was trump maga head or some kind. Not just implied, he made it sound like it's a sure thing. Moreover, it applied to a crime that was just commi
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> Perception has nothing to do with it, the mafia-threats did Mafia threats work precisely because of perception. The perception of the power is the power. If everyone caves, and can't fight back, the mafia gets stronger.
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> No, they folded because the United States Federal government threatened them. Yes because they control the FCC and FCC has rules in regards to the content of broadcasts. Kimmel is free to say anything he wants on his own website or pla
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1y ago
Yeah that is definitely on the table, we'll see what happens. Here, interestingly, just a threat was enough. I wonder why the owners didn't want to fight it at all? The speed with with they folded was very telling. As others menti
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