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by smelendez 4mo ago
Exactly — they should have just offered a lease until the end of the licensing agreement: “Pay $X today and watch this movie as many times as you want through June 2026!”
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by smelendez 4mo ago
Interestingly Greene’s Dictionary of Slang cites more than a century of US use of “jab” for injection. Seems like it must have died out in the US and revived a bit lately. https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/i66n7hi
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by smelendez 4mo ago
In the UK, I believe jab has long been equivalent to shot in the US (complete with nonviolent connotation despite the word meaning something violent in other contexts).
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by smelendez 4mo ago
Another one is that you can tell “professional” from “personal” email addresses or that every address even cleanly fits into just one category. A lot of small business owners use gmail or a longstanding ISP account. A lot of people have per
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by smelendez 4mo ago
Images are also a huge part of messaging. For memes obviously, but also other communication (here’s the flyer for the event, look what the teacher wrote on my exam, should I get this gift for mom, look what my significant other sent me — wh
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by smelendez 5mo ago
What confuses me is that the education system, especially the college track, was designed for men and boys. Lots of colleges didn’t even admit women, and they were largely excluded from learned professions like medicine, law, the ministry,
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by smelendez 5mo ago
> As Scott mentioned on his blog, what if someone stumbled upon the agent’s post? What if they believed it was real? It could have serious consequences for Scott’s personal or professional life. A recruiter could deny him a job, and a po
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by smelendez 5mo ago
Fact-checking and editing a mediocre piece of writing be way harder than writing from scratch. Proving that something isn’t true or can’t be substantiated is hard work, and so is arguing that a word choice is subtly inappropriate. And makin
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by smelendez 5mo ago
The ADHD patients aren’t necessarily the ones doing weekly talk therapy. They’re meeting occasionally for a quick chat with a psychiatrist. I agree, if you’re just doing talk therapy it seems overkill. But they may have concerns about emerg
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by smelendez 5mo ago
I definitely know people who prefer online therapy because they have a busy schedule or live far from a therapist who meets their needs (e.g., people in rural areas). Some people also prefer online visits for other care, usually things they
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by smelendez 5mo ago
I was trying to think what the least intrusive option here would be. You need to verify that the patient has ID matching their name and face, which could be done offline by a notary or other trusted party if a patient prefers. But you also
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by smelendez 5mo ago
Probably medication fraud. They mention heightened scrutiny around controlled substances (with amphetamines for ADHD as an example) on the FAQ. https://help.headway.co/hc/en-us/articles/29673299878676-Doc...
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by smelendez 5mo ago
I see these kinds of stories here a lot, and I'm curious whether they reflect a steady stream of need for AI coding, or whether a lot of companies have a burst of AI-appropriate coding work now that the technology is available and then
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by smelendez 5mo ago
Well, travel booking is one of those things every company wants to get involved with because it's just straight referral fees. I get advertisements to book travel through my phone company (T-Mobile US) and a slew of financial services
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by smelendez 5mo ago
Sometimes I'll be in a large used bookstore, like the kind of cavernous ones you find in places with cheap real estate, or at a charity sale and there will be a book with a title like "Learning J2SE 1.4" or "XHTML for Du
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by smelendez 5mo ago
> Like my dad biked around the same block so why not let me and there was not much more thought given to it. I’m convinced that’s more of the explanation than we realize. Adults in a lot of places move about almost entirely by car and of
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by smelendez 5mo ago
It feels more complicated. Some kids getting access to booze here and there with planning and coordination is different from kids walking into a liquor store or bar whenever they want.
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by smelendez 5mo ago
That seems like it should be enough to suspect you but not enough to “convict.” Your explanation makes as much sense as cheating.
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by smelendez 5mo ago
It makes some sense just to have a backup, especially if you’re dividing papers and recombining them. It’s not impossible that one could get misplaced or damaged. Also, you could have an issue where the exam somehow becomes relevant again a
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by smelendez 5mo ago
The best was when the carousel rotated on its own with no user controls, so you had to wait for it to get to the content you actually wanted.
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by smelendez 5mo ago
I would say just the opposite. Think about all the serial killer and urban crime movies in the ‘80s and ‘90s, or the film noir of the postwar period. TV is more complicated, but cop shows like the early seasons of Law and Order and all of S
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by smelendez 6mo ago
Yeah, you also have to remember that someone has heard every possible joke about their name and their appearance a million times. I do think Dale Carnegie overemphasizes the importance of saying people's names, and in fact saying peopl
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by smelendez 6mo ago
> Because Railway stores volume-level backups in the same volume — a fact buried in their own documentation that says "wiping a volume deletes all backups" — those went with it. Is that buried? It seems pretty explicit (althoug
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by smelendez 6mo ago
MIT Press’s Platform Studies series is generally pretty good as well: https://mitpress.mit.edu/series/platform-studies/
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by smelendez 6mo ago
People here are talking about two kinds of laws: minimum bag charges and outright bag bans. In some jurisdictions, a grocery store isn’t allowed to give you a traditional disposable bag at any price. In others, there’s either a bag tax or a
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by smelendez 6mo ago
I wonder if there would be any way to fix this with the right messaging. With infinite funding and the right agency cooperation, I bet you could include this in a state parks app that you could also use for other useful purposes, like pulli
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by smelendez 6mo ago
I'm pretty leery of criminalizing possession here, especially if it's material produced before the law was passed, but even in general. It's not like the material is depicting actual abuse, where you can argue the participant
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by smelendez 7mo ago
It’s kind of funny that business etiquette has moved much more to scheduled meetings even for short discussions, and social life has moved in the opposite direction.
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by smelendez 7mo ago
A ton of companies use agent/agentic to mean AI that does something with external effects, as opposed to a chatbot. I’m not sure if it’s overused per se or companies are just really pushing their AI features in general.
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by smelendez 7mo ago
US has gone to a minimum age of 21. I actually think that’s enough, along with raising the price and reducing the number of places people can smoke. People generally start smoking by their teens or not at all. Making it hard for kids to get

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