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by robonerd 4y ago
Containment boards don't work, but my recollection is that /pol/ was nevertheless created with the intention of being a containment board. /n/ and /new/ had already been banned for racism, but it metasta
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I fear for the future of anchovies.
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I hope they at least broke the nutrition science section of those courses off and continued teaching at least that much.
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If the app wasn't spyware, they wouldn't be so keen on getting me to use it instead of using a web page.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The question is phrased in a dumb way, but I think there's a kernel of a fair question in there. Evolution is the how and why, but it doesn't answer what about the crab shape makes crabbiness so effective.
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Excellent demonstration of why this sort of discussion isn't appropriate at work.
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> You got me. I'm a wealthy lobbyist for big bike. I'm sorry I didn't disclose this earlier. Bike lobby huh? Usually the anti-car position is motivated by environmentalism, or the social/economic inequalities inher
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> Show me any example of one claiming to eventually be without err or irrationality. Interact with them long enough and you'll come across a whole lot who act like it. What do you even think I'm strawmanning? That comment is
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I'm aware.
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Or the people who have smartphones and are sick of it and pine for the old ways, but feel compelled to keep one by society increasingly expects that everybody have one and capriciously install invasive apps on it, even for things like buyin
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's not just food either, trader joes is lacking many of the non-food goods that other grocery stores almost universally have. Need aluminum foil or parchment paper? You can't buy those at trader joes.
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> You can also say that about 1-in-5 deaths occur at what are supposed to be the safest places for pedestrians to cross roadways. I'd expect it to be far more remote if in fact intersections were designed for people instead of cars
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by robonerd 4y ago
Pursuit of rationality can be paradoxical in a sense, insofar as believing yourself capable attaining rationality is fundamentally irrational. You aren't a Vulcan, you're a Human. To err is human. All humans are irrational so
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> The markings here seem to be some sort of dense plastic material and don't wear much. I think those markings might be the epoxy based "golden oatmeal" this article mentions ( https://vancouversun.com/new
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by robonerd 4y ago
I don't think a think of the children rhetoric is justified by the data. Only 18% of pedestrian deaths occur at intersections, and only 21% of pedestrian deaths occur during daylight. Of the 6205 pedestrians killed in 2019, only 42
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by robonerd 4y ago
You could levy this argument against literally any tax Chicago institutes.
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> the rules of the road are built around redundant requirements so that crashes don't happen when one party can't or won't hold up their end. Exactly; this is why brake-checking is illegal. The person behind you has a r
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> I’m convinced they ditched radar because they were having big supply chain constraints with radar, and then Musk convinced himself that Machine Vision with AI is the path forward anyway and decided to rip the bandaid off and address b
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by robonerd 4y ago
Besides the plows and grit, this CBC article claims the paint they choose has something to do with it: > Most of the paint is environmentally friendly but being water-based, it rarely lasts more than a year, especially on the province&#
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by robonerd 4y ago
I'd like to know when "beta test" entered the layman lexicon and came to be an accepted justification for a product under-performing expectations. Google's ngram viewer suggests usage of the term in literature began aro
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> It can somehow even see stationary vehicles, something I thought wasn't feasible. Radar seeing stationary objects is trivial, it sees them just like it sees any other. The trick is seeing only the stationary objects which are a
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by robonerd 4y ago
Beating the national average never should have been seen as the finish line. The average is dragged down into the gutter by a minority of drivers who choose to engage in very poor behavior, like driving drunk, speeding, making unnecessa
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by robonerd 4y ago
You continue using this feature despite these errors occurring daily? The way you describe it makes autopilot seem like an inexperienced teenage driver; I think whatever marginal safety benefit you get from it might be erased by the life-s
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"electrolyte beverages", e.g. gatorade, are generally not caffeinated. Why would somebody fall apart after drinking one without sugar? It's basically just water with food coloring and a bit of sodium and potassium. Also, I
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by robonerd 4y ago
Again, police being shitty have nothing to do with regulation and taxation of tech corps.
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by robonerd 4y ago
"Google shouldn't be regulated by Illinois because police are bad." Did I get that about right? I don't see what police have to do with any of this, it seems like a generic unrelated gripe being roped into the convers
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They're being replaced with twitch streamers who opine on news articles in-between thanking simps for donations. Reading news written by other people, being a personality for lonely people who want parasocial relationships, taking fre
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> the problem is the accompanying music and banner font and color scheme I hate the flashy animated bumpers they (all of them, all American television) use to segue everything. Stars and color gradients swooping around the screen, co
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> There's never a lack of relevant news. Some news is relevant to everybody, but I think most news is not relevant to most people most of the time. And most news that is relevant to some people won't be relevant to most pe
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I used to tell people that CNN was the most neutral of all the cable news channels. The channel a business can have running in their lobby or waiting room without signalling a partisan allegiance (unlike Fox, or MSNBC.) I still think that,

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