sephlietz

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by sephlietz 3y ago
Neither do I, but the rest of what I wrote does.
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by sephlietz 3y ago
The argument is that writing the parts in a consistently increasing or decreasing precision order makes more sense. So these are good. - year / month / day - day / month / year And this is bad. - month / day /
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by sephlietz 3y ago
With the caveat that I'm not an expert, that's the pommel (hilt is the entire handle) and it is at the bottom to prevent the sword from slipping out of your hand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilt
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by sephlietz 4y ago
In my experience, the twitter police scanner communities are dominated by racism and general hatred towards cities and city government (excluding police and other rescue). Is Citizen the same?
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by sephlietz 4y ago
Yes.
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by sephlietz 4y ago
Japan's population is something like 98% Japanese ethnicity.
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by sephlietz 4y ago
Didn't you and parent both say "to keep costs low"?
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by sephlietz 4y ago
How is this any different than any other technological innovation which has made a job obsolete or otherwise allowed fewer people to do more work?
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by sephlietz 5y ago
"Cash is not fungible." What do you mean?
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by sephlietz 5y ago
Maybe this a dumb question, but is the AirTag configured to Notify When Left Behind except when left at your home? I've never heard an AirTag beep before.
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by sephlietz 5y ago
I don't think you need to search for a psychological explanation. I think it is probable that many people think the benefits of Lego far outweigh the benefits of cryptocurrency mining.
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by sephlietz 6y ago
BoardGameGeek is usually a good resource for this. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/125921/catan-junior
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by sephlietz 6y ago
Our family has also found this to be true for Catan Junior. It's a great game on its own with quite a lot of replay value, so we end up sometimes playing Catan Junior even though everyone has the ability to play Settlers of Catan.
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by sephlietz 6y ago
If anything, my comment was a false analogy, not a straw man. Your comment was arguably a straw man, however, as it attacked a point which the article did not make (i.e., Hong Kong should not be responsible for itself) instead of any of the
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by sephlietz 6y ago
At what point are the people having heart attacks responsible for stopping them? The people having heart attacks need to treat them themselves, not run away to a hospital.
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by sephlietz 6y ago
Recency.
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by sephlietz 6y ago
No (I think). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461191/
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by sephlietz 7y ago
Rich, powerful people are not oppressed. Taxes are not oppression.
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by sephlietz 7y ago
Your argument implies that a wealth tax has always been favored by a majority of Americans (since by definition a majority of Americans have always been not rich), which I think is not true. I think the truth is likely that personal wealt
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by sephlietz 7y ago
Discussion from the original submission about 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18923591 .
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by sephlietz 7y ago
Berate doesn't mean yell, perhaps?
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by sephlietz 7y ago
"tornado alley moving east ", fyi.
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by sephlietz 7y ago
If you're talking about the one at the North Park Village Nature Center, it looks like they were already shut down. :( https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/06/20/preschool-program-ki...
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by sephlietz 7y ago
Is this meant to be parody (car => phone) or real? I honestly don't know, but if it's not parody, then I'm super curious about "no money in making cars" part.
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by sephlietz 8y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19518292 in progress also.
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by sephlietz 8y ago
No, but it could be preventing the equivalent of "here is a random phone number I picked, please 1000 of you dial it".
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by sephlietz 8y ago
Are you aware of any robocallers that have answered your "simple arithmetic question" correctly?
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by sephlietz 8y ago
I wonder if some of the "scala" hits are actually from the word "scalable"...
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by sephlietz 8y ago
Are they just describing Progressive Muscle Relaxation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_muscle_relaxation
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by sephlietz 8y ago
Larger discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609327 .

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