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by shard 5y ago
I gave my tween kid a Galaxy S8 (released 2017) recently and it suites her needs fine. I'd prefer if I don't have to upgrade her phone for another 2-3 years. I'm having trouble finding an Android Go phone released this year,
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by shard 5y ago
I despair at the modern trope of dismissing something of worth due to a person's thoughts/actions in an unrelated area (in modern parlance, "cancelling" someone). It seems like an ad hominem attack to me. How will this t
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by shard 5y ago
I don't think Macrovision was universal though, based on my personal experience as a kid.
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by shard 5y ago
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
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by shard 5y ago
Any horse owners here who can speak up? Major differences that come to my mind are exercise requirements, socializing time, health care (grooming and vet care), stable cleaning, needing a stable at the work location. And how far can you tak
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by shard 5y ago
For another take, there's "Thinking fast and slow". Along with "Happiness Hypothesis", these 3 books all talk about a similar split in two way of thinking.
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by shard 5y ago
Next up, bears discover fire: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fi...
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by shard 5y ago
Reminds me of this: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/05/22/eugene-chun...
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by shard 5y ago
Higher testosterone has been linked to more violent crimes. Would you propose that high testosterone individuals be mandated to receive shots to reduce testosterone?
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by shard 5y ago
> It consisted of going to some Indian dude’s house for an hour every Saturday for a summer. Not private tutoring—six or eight kids crowded around a small dining room table doing practice problems. Wow I resemble that remark, down to the
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by shard 5y ago
Sounds like the first step towards the world described by Issac Asimov in "The Feeling of Power": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
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by shard 5y ago
Not sure why you keep arguing against yourself. Many immigrant Asian families have households which are not English-fluent.
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by shard 5y ago
The numbers don't work out, or am I misunderstanding something? > These microscopic worms... cutting harvests by up to 70%. > The new technique has boosted yields fivefold in trials with small-scale farmers in Kenya Seems like th
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by shard 5y ago
Do you mean that your company has switched 800 employees from Windows machines to RPi? Are the 800 people non-engineering? Are the RPis thin clients? Everything running in the cloud?
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by shard 5y ago
> In other words, it may be easier to change the CEO than the CEO's mind. (A possibly useful criterion: when did the CEO last admit a mistake? If the answer is "never", and reality indicates the need for a change of direct
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by shard 5y ago
This reminds me of a meme I saw a while back with a guy saying he makes vacation plans based on terrorist attacks, after which the tourist population and prices both drop noticeably.
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by shard 5y ago
Of course, handshakes are culture-dependent. Large parts of Asia had always been handshake free unless meeting Westerners.
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by shard 5y ago
Just curious what is it about Picasso's paintings that come across as unrequited teen angst?
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by shard 5y ago
Do people give comments on social skills in Google performance reviews? I wouldn't unless it was drastically lacking or causing problems. I wouldn't call anyone out if they are slightly awkward, doesn't make proper eye contac
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by shard 5y ago
If #4 is expanded to "Be charismatic and social", that would cover #6 and #7. I think #5 and #8 are part of #3, being in the right geographic location is definitely part of being the prevailing tribe, and so is having up-to-date t
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by shard 5y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to not be in anyone's tribe. People are automatically in the same tribe as others in terms of age, income, social class, gender, race, nationality, education, religious and political affiliations, a
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by shard 5y ago
The caveat is that in the general population, I would expect that there are vastly more people who can figure out how to configure a AirTag versus buy and configure a tracker off of AliExpress, similar to how the graphical user interface en
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by shard 5y ago
I think that's too narrow a scope you are putting on people who do searches. I in fact have searched on Google for ads, when I was looking for car insurance. I'm sure other people have searched for ads as well, I can't be th
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by shard 5y ago
With how easy it is to lose an umbrella, and how difficult it is to retrieve most of the time, I prefer to think of umbrella as disposable items. Depending on where you live, your need for umbrellas might be different, but a significant amo
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by shard 5y ago
I suppose if nobody but you ever handles your phone, that might not be an issue. I rarely drop my phones but in a household with kids, that's no guarantee. I put cases on every phone I have.
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by shard 5y ago
To save someone else a search, HPTA is, according to Wikipedia: The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis (HPG axis) refers to the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and gonadal glands as if these individual endocrine glands were a single entity.
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by shard 5y ago
I thought General Counsel means you have a JD?
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by shard 5y ago
By your statement, it would seem that you would find advertisements in response to your requests acceptable, is that correct? For example, you don't want a Samsung S22 Ultra Edition, but if you searched for car insurance, you are ok wi
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by shard 5y ago
When I was talking about summarizing your point, I was looking to summarize your main arguments, as the statement "your analogy is poor" is fairly content-free. > One is a response to a request, while the other is unsolicited a

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