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by squigz 11mo ago
They do seem like responsible people. I'm sure that'll be fine.
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by squigz 11mo ago
How do you know they're non-trivial if you're not familiar with the material? Can you provide some examples? How long have you been doing it? Do your kids like it? Just curious, not trying to attack you :)
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by squigz 11mo ago
45 minutes of CPR sounds like it would be really rough on both you and the patient. Better than dying though :)
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by squigz 11mo ago
"Some aspects of the Formula One handover were not transfer- able to the medical handover process. When the consultant from Formula One went to GOSH and looked at the whole handover process, he said it would be best to engineer out par
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by squigz 11mo ago
I think the concern most people have is not necessarily the long-term health effects of nuclear vs other forms of power, but the risks of a catastrophic incident
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by squigz 11mo ago
> I know people can simply grow their own food Small thing, but this is not simple or realistic at all. How does someone in an apartment grow enough food for their family?
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by squigz 11mo ago
> Edit: Given I've been a reader of HN for some time, I am perfectly aware that on Kindle you don't own the content, just a license to the content. Don't need any more people pointing this out! Lol. In my house we still ca
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by squigz 11mo ago
But if I want to jump ahead and read the last page of a book first, is it reasonable for an author to tell me I can't do that?
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm an avid reader. I'm reading The Silmarillion right now. There have been countless times where a short summary of an area/character/etc has been helpful. Luckily, in this particular case, there are very good Tolkien f
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by squigz 11mo ago
So not only did they make a scifi show to cover up any leaks, not only did they put another scifi show in the first one as an extra cover, they conducted psychic experiments as a further coverup?! There's clearly something here.
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by squigz 11mo ago
Now? Tab completion has been a thing for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_completion Tab completion being a thing does not take away from short, memorable names being easier to use. You'd likely
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by squigz 11mo ago
> which could have perhaps eaten Adobe's lunch MANY years ago. That "perhaps" is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence. GIMP has never, even now, been a serious competitor to Adobe's products for professionals. T
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by squigz 11mo ago
Your grandson is getting little people? That's a lot of responsibility for a 2 year old!
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm extremely visually impaired. I'd rather see (ha) good public transport. I also sincerely doubt (and hope so) that I'd be legally able to drive a car simply because it has "self-driving" - what if I need to take
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by squigz 11mo ago
> You never hear about “starving athletes” I guess is what I mean. I mean, just because this isn't a trope doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you know anything about trying to get into pro sports of literally any type, you&
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by squigz 11mo ago
They're good names because they're short and easily recognizable
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by squigz 11mo ago
It's the plot of an episode of SG-1 [1] A TV show comes out that is practically the Stargate program and instead of stopping its production, the Air Force lets it go on as a cover in case the Stargate program has a leak https:/&#
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by squigz 11mo ago
Rule 34 suggests there is demand, yes. The various rule 34 commision artists suggests there is supply. I was mostly making a joke, as the idea of this deal causing a load of Disney princess porn to pop up and causing a sudden surge in peopl
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by squigz 11mo ago
Ah okay. I think this would probably be pretty tricky, security-wise, no? One of my first thoughts that might help would be writing a simple tool that parses history from your browsers to categorize it. Other than that, there are things lik
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm always happy to be reminded that HN users are not part of "people"
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by squigz 11mo ago
It's not a conspiracy - this is why Stargate exists!
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'audit', but teach them critical thinking, and show them the strategies the media uses to manipulates them. Teach them there's often more than 1 side to a story. Things like this wi
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by squigz 11mo ago
> They are a half step from flooding the market with Disney Princess porn. I would think that whatever demand there is for that is already filled.
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by squigz 11mo ago
> Strange, I remember trying the Silmarillion a few times, many years ago, and finding it very hard reading. Whereas I re-read the Aubrey-Maturins every few years and find them easy, if not always light weight. So the difference, to me a
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm pretty happy to say I've read somewhere between 20-30 books this year*. Right now making my way through The Silmarillion finally. I also read the entire Aubrey-Maturin series, which was incredible, even if they were probably t
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by squigz 11mo ago
Fitgirl and Anna (of Anna's Archive) are modern day heroes.
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm talking about other citizens.
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by squigz 11mo ago
> When you say “…any such system will be easily circumvented.” What do you mean by “circumvented”? I mean... bypassed. Ignored. Fooled. This might be with fake IDs, it might be by compromising the system itself, it might be something els
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by squigz 11mo ago
We don't live in those times anymore. Just because something was a certain way for most of history doesn't mean anything about how we should shape our future.
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm afraid that this will lead to no change to the issues it purports to fix, and then we'll... do nothing with that information.

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