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by swalling 4y ago
idk lowkey seems like when u txt with yr besties its not hella similar to Moby Dick or a college essay thass on some fire Noam Chomsky game u feel me?
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by swalling 4y ago
This is a healthy skepticism but the difference was that using Messenger chatbots was a disjointed, clunky experience that felt slower than just a few taps in the OpenTable app. Not to mention that their natural language understanding was o
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Yes. And the endowment is also moving off Tides now that it has its own approved 501(c)(3) status. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/26/governance-updates-for...
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by swalling 4y ago
If there are issues with a specific viewport width you can always file a bug at https://bugs.wikimedia.org/
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Executing a major redesign or feature launch in an open source, consensus-driven project like Wikipedia is an exceptionally difficult and often frustrating experience for any design/engineering/product person. The team that worked
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This is approaching the status of truism to anyone who has worked in journalism. It’s not just the macabre dopamine rush of car crashes and natural disasters. Critiques involving total and complete destruction of the restaurant/play&#x
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by swalling 4y ago
I can assure you that your number was recycled. In the last few years I got a new number from Verizon after moving from one state to another, in the hope that it would combat robocalls. Not only did I experience what you did, but received a
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by swalling 4y ago
Except if you look at mortgages as an example, the government already has a huge impact on who gets loans (via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, plus programs like USDA home loans). That influence is largely to expand access to people who would o
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by swalling 4y ago
From https://www.muji.com/us/feature/whatismuji/ : MUJI’s goal is to give customers a rational satisfaction, expressed not with, “This is what I really want” but with “This will do.” I think half the time I go
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by swalling 4y ago
Botany is fun in part because it has its own arcane descriptive vocabulary. One of my favorite botanical words is "arborescent", meaning resembling a tree. There are whole genera where some of the related plants are trees and othe
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by swalling 4y ago
The location of the home (Fairhope, Alabama) is in a humid subtropical climate where the average humidity is above 70% year round. I couldn't find any data but seems possible that the net average interior humidity is not actually that
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Annie Sweeney, Karate Granny (BBC Archive)(youtube.com)
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Philip Tibehnam reports on Dundee pensioner Annie Sweeney, who took up karate to keep fit in her late 60s, and who now — pushing 75 — is probably the oldest person in Europe to hold a black belt in the sport. Originally broadcast 12 June, 1
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by swalling 4y ago
Declaring that strident criticism of an opinion or perspective is the same as a personal attack on the person who holds it is your assumption, not mine. Good, kind, intelligent people have objectively wrong opinions all the time. This kind
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by swalling 4y ago
Describing a set of societies that featured large scale human sacrifice as in any way communal or egalitarian is bordering on deranged. Even examining them purely economically, they were often heavily based on extracting and centralizing re
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by swalling 4y ago
Suggesting the Americas were some communal relic of Ice Age cultures before European arrival is laughably wrong. As far north as modern St Louis, the Mississippian city of Cahokia was larger than contemporaneous London 1,000 years before co
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by swalling 4y ago
The sentiment is understandably scary and totalitarian in nature, but the consequences of the extreme American predilection toward individual choice has indisputable negative consequences at the population level. Video games are a leading e
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by swalling 4y ago
Apparently young children have more REM sleep (the stage when dreams and nightmares happen) than adults. Babies actually spend half their time in REM sleep ( https://www.sleepfoundation.org/baby-sleep/baby-sleep-cycle )
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by swalling 4y ago
I would pay money to see a video of Pinker forced to make his “everything is better than you think” argument to a room full of teenagers. No one growing up today cares if they're better off on average than 100 years ago when they'
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by swalling 4y ago
Don't assume that these particular owners are the norm. They are highlighted in the article because of the unusual situation with the takeover by a developer. The more typical condo buyer looks more like a senior on a fixed income look
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by swalling 4y ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. They honestly need to try tweaking the recipe too if they want to move upmarket again. To me the amount of sugar in Campari seems high compared to other aperitivo and amaro.
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by swalling 4y ago
Artificially limiting production on a secret recipe liqueur is a great tactic for turning what could be a commodity into more like a Veblen good. The opposite has happened to Campari, where you can now buy a ton of different red-hued craft
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by swalling 4y ago
This is egregiously bad advice. There is zero evidence that keto or low carb/high fat diets improve running performance. There's actually consistently reproduced evidence that it impairs performance at high intensities. Studies:
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by swalling 4y ago
Condos are yet another example of how being poor in America is expensive. While condos are attractive for people who can't afford regular homes, mortgages are harder to get for them. Even if you have a perfect credit score and 20% down
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by swalling 4y ago
This TED talk warned us about local warming years ago. https://youtu.be/waO8KKtVgaQ
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by swalling 4y ago
This is very similar to the scaling problem with Etsy. What started out as a way for creative people to make money from their quirky local crafts is now a marketplace filled with duplicative factory-made junk you can often also find on eBay
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I have also encountered this in Spain, and my counter was to refuse the cash extortion after I had arrived and had the keys in hand. They will grumble or threaten you, but they know they can't force you to pay since it violates Airbnb
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by swalling 4y ago
This is why they're called an antihero. The absurd, frustrating, and sometimes hilarious experience of the characters in Mad Men reminds me _a lot_ of the chaos of working in tech startups the last 10 years during the boom economy. A l
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by swalling 4y ago
No, quite the opposite. Cycling is a very low impact activity, especially compared to running. Many runners get on a bike to develop or maintain aerobic fitness when they are healing from overuse injuries like stress fractures.
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by swalling 4y ago
Addictively fun. I'd love to see a leaderboard for this or at least what the score distribution is.

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