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by sparky_z 3y ago
Just because something is done in the name of "safety" doesn't make it unimpeachable good. In fact, it's often quite the opposite. Ask anyone who's had to get on a plane at a US airport in the last 20 years.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Another benefit I've heard (perhaps an extreme version of the third type) is that it cuts down on impulsive suicides. It's easy to throw back a whole bottle of pills and take a month's worth of doses in a few seconds. The bli
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Poker-specific term. In one sense it's a loan, but really it's more like "investing" in a player, giving them the money they don't have to buy into a game ("table stakes") in exchange for a percentage of t
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Another one that's actually true: the original Shazam service was a phone number you could call and leave a voicemail of the song playing, and then it would text you back the name of the song.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Not a doctor, but blood pressure is not just a proxy measure, it can be a dangerous condition in its own right that needs to be reduced. It puts stress on the circulatory system and raises the likelihood of strokes, for example.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Too late to edit, but the [1] link should be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU
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by sparky_z 3y ago
On the contrary, what you can see in the Zapruder film is comletely consistent with the bullet trajectories lining up. [0] This documentary I watched recently is long, but it puts all the eyewitness testimony of Oswald in the depository bui
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by sparky_z 3y ago
The substance of your comment was performatively pretending that someone else was too dumb to know the difference between RFK and RFK Jr, when obviously they do. Literally nobody has ever confused that anti-vax moron for his famous father w
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by sparky_z 3y ago
RFK Jr is RFK's son, not his nephew. You'd think the name would give it away...
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by sparky_z 3y ago
You may be relieved to know that Edison never killed an elephant. The elephant's owners killed it and held a barbaric public event. Employees of the Edison Film Company filmed the event, as a sort of early newsreel (one among many arou
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by sparky_z 3y ago
But not at sunset.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
It may be a mistake, but does it that make it a "syndrome"?
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by sparky_z 3y ago
In the New York Times obituary desk universe. As the article introduction states, "Overlooked" is part of a regular series that goes back and writes obituaries for people who, for whatever reason, didn't get one at the time o
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by sparky_z 3y ago
They mean "overlooked by the New York Times obituary section", not overlooked by society in general. It's part of a series where they go back and write obituaries for people who didn't get one written at the time of thei
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by sparky_z 3y ago
No, brittle materials like concrete are famously weak in tension and strong in compression. Ductile materials are generally equally strong in both. I can't think of any material offhand that's stronger in tension and weaker in com
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Do they actually explain why anywhere?
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by sparky_z 3y ago
They're referring to pirate tube sites.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
I presume they're referring, not to blog comments by visitors, but to Chen's own comments (or commentary , if you prefer) in the footnote at the end.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
But, is there some legal requirement or regulation they were failing to meet? Or did they falsely advertise their cars as having immobilizers when they actually didn't? I'm struggling to understand where their legal liability for
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Not really equivalent in terms of leverage. Generally speaking, no matter how good a writer is, they can be replaced by another writer with the same level of talent if necessary. The vast majority of the audience won't even notice. (Ex
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by sparky_z 3y ago
That would be practising "relative pitch", which is a standard part of ear training. "Perfect pitch" means being able to identify the 2nd note when played by itself, without hearing the 1st note to reference from.
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by sparky_z 4y ago
They can lend the book, they just can't make a copy of it and lend the copy instead.
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by sparky_z 4y ago
Trump hasn't been on Twitter for years now. I assumed this was a recent bug, as Musk recently complained that his own tweet engagement had plummeted.
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by sparky_z 4y ago
It says the plane was being towed at the time, so ATC may not have been involved.
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by sparky_z 4y ago
Not sure why it says that Mystery House is the "first game with an ending". Hunt the Wumpus from 6+ years earlier certainly has an ending (you catch the Wumpus). Colossal Cave Adventure and mainframe Zork certainly do too. Adventu
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by sparky_z 4y ago
Sure I can.
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by sparky_z 4y ago
Beverly D'Angelo
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by sparky_z 4y ago
The entire crew of Apollo 7 were essentially blacklisted from ever flying again after the crew had some heated disagreements with ground control during the mission and ended up forcing changes to the schedule. The top brass saw it as mutiny
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by sparky_z 4y ago
Presumably the wife and kids told them what happened
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by sparky_z 4y ago
But we're not going to delete everybody's account and mix them all together, are we? If I took a bunch of "minor" writing and mixed it together under one fake name name, but some of it was written by a famous author unde

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