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by sosborn 7y ago
> plain text listing of facts Coca-Cola tastes great! Coca-Cola gives you an extra pep in your step! Coca-Cola will rot you teeth! These are all true statements (the first one is subjective, I'll admit), but I suspect that many beli
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by sosborn 7y ago
> You aren’t allowed to harm yourself. You could argue that you should but under current laws we protect people from that, mostly. There is a law against committing suicide, but there aren't any laws about harming yourself. If there
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by sosborn 7y ago
Why do we assume that they wanted a status symbol?
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You can call arbitrary scripts from Automator and pass in arguments.
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It doesn’t “fall over.” It gives you the option to choose.
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Online ad metrics tell people “what” happened, but people expect it to tell them “why.”
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by sosborn 7y ago
This is not limited to the tech sphere, nor is it limited to people over 40. It’s actually really simple. Some people are great managers and some are awful. You know only know where people fall in that spectrum once they have been given a c
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by sosborn 7y ago
Analogies aren’t meant to be 100% perfect. They are meant to provide a framework to understand a problem.
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by sosborn 7y ago
> In capitalism the market is supposed to correct for bad acting like poor customer service. That only works when the public knows that the customer service experience is poor. I'm no fan of Twitter, but putting this stuff in the op
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I think says volumes about how our social norms have changed. Remember, today’s decision makers grew up on the Simpsons.
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I've had two Airports in my life. One I bought in 2007 and one I bought in 2013. Not one failure.
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by sosborn 7y ago
Costco is good, but next time you are in Hawaii just go the fish auction.
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> Also a dead planet means the idea of the Monotheistic God kind of remains. I don't follow why life on another planet would have any bearing on the idea of a Monotheistic God.
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by sosborn 7y ago
There is a wide range of professional photography and a good smartphone camera can fill some of those needs. Shooting for a magazine? You’ll want a dslr. Shooting for social media in a professional context? The phone is great.
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by sosborn 7y ago
Personally, I think this is a strength of StackOverflow. I think most people read through all of the answers, and this particular one keeps people who know nothing about regex from trying to evaluate regex with regex. And for those with a d
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by sosborn 7y ago
Something I've observed working in education: All educational acronyms eventually become SCHOOL.
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Vast majority of the outrage is from people who would never consider getting an Apple credit card to begin with. They just look for any reason to turn their nose up at Apple. In this case, it a CYA support document.
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Present to them a buffet and see what they come back with on their second trip through the line.
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Or some butter.
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The first Kiwami has it too and I was hooked for quite a while.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
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Or, perhaps, Gruber was just adding in some humor.
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> it confuses me why people keep using the inferior external keyboards. Because many people actually like the keyboards, and they don't stink at being a keyboard.
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Reddit really did a good job of moving the masses away from site-specific forums.
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I think it is a mix of both, but I also feel that we are much better at nurturing than we used to be.
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I would bet that the higher rates are about mental health issues becoming more widely known and less stigmatized.
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That’s not a windows issue, it’s an unfamiliar software issue. Take a weekend to learn how Postgres handles accounts. It takes a little getting used to but it is very much worth it.
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Our own survival takes precedence in the situation you laid out.
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That’s because CarPlay is essentially a second screen for your phone. Everything runs on the phone, which already has your contacts.
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It isn’t about minerals. You become food for the critters and microorganisms and your resources are placed back into the natural cycle.

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