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by user982 6y ago
Zoom dodged this bullet.
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by user982 6y ago
When you say “the original versions of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales,” you mean as compared to modern (Disney) adaptations, right? I know the Grimm tales were self-sanitized in later editions, but haven’t heard that of Andersen's.
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by user982 6y ago
This submission hit #1 on HN for a few seconds before being disappeared.
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by user982 6y ago
TLDR: « Va te faire foutre. »
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by user982 6y ago
I've wondered before if Japan's love for hot, daily baths has played some part in its low birthrate.
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by user982 7y ago
For more on the Newark Athlete of the opening: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/25/edison-labs-18...
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by user982 7y ago
Without any modifications to the pelvis, Graham should still avoid putting his feet on the dashboard. https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/f1xjb6/ha...
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by user982 7y ago
"I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God..."
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by user982 7y ago
The unedited post originally called them "feral people."
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by user982 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver
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by user982 7y ago
Agreed. The article is overthinking a popularity driven by movies that are just pro wrestling tropes with budgets.
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by user982 7y ago
"The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries. At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now a
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by user982 7y ago
Times are tough.
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by user982 7y ago
I know, I'm just providing a counterexample to phoobahr.
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by user982 7y ago
Python 2.7.17 (default, Dec 31 2019, 23:59:25) Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.strpt
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by user982 7y ago
A line in one of my Python daemons has been crashing it repeatedly all day: isotime = datetime.strptime(time.get('title'), '%a %d %b %I:%M:%S %p').replace(year=YEAR, tzinfo=TZ).isoformat() ValueError: day is out
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by user982 7y ago
That link should be a top-level comment to preempt further dumb takes.
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by user982 7y ago
Lies to your face are preferable to lies of omission?
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by user982 7y ago
Not really.
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by user982 7y ago
Pigmentation costs energy, which could be better apportioned toward stopping whatever is stressing the animal.
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by user982 7y ago
"Peter Jackson comes from New Zealand, says to me, 'Sir Ian, I want you to be Gandalf the wizard,' and I said to him, 'You are aware that I am not really a wizard.'" - https://youtu.be/7DtlTeheC
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by user982 7y ago
> Some people whistleblow, while others develop software, and many lecture and teach people. And most have no problems with what they saw or did, and many used the contacts and knowledge gained from that background to further their civ
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by user982 7y ago
"I became increasingly unhappy that Clark was writing for the blog in 2015. That unhappiness was a result of a number of factors, including the content he wrote here, which I felt reflected badly on the blog and on me, both in terms of
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by user982 7y ago
This thread is about mobile. Mobile Safari doesn't.
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by user982 7y ago
> Safari and Firefox show the whole URL, truncated on the right by the lack of space. Safari doesn't.
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by user982 7y ago
"Race-conscious" is a handy euphemism.
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by user982 7y ago
I was confused until I realized that you think 1160 was a good score.
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by user982 7y ago
Given only the above values, how many students took the SAT this year?
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by user982 7y ago
According to the article that percentage dropped to 45% from 47% last year, but since ~100,000 more students took the exam the absolute number of college-ready graduates rose by ~3000.
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by user982 7y ago
You can read some of these posts and chat logs yourself: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/exclusive-in-200... It's difficult to reconcile the image of Snowden the idealistic whistleblower with

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