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by vharuck 6y ago
>Democrat cities Large cities usually lean Democratic. This is like saying "cities run by male mayors." It's the statistical reality, but not necessarily related.
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by vharuck 6y ago
If you join a volunteering group, you should decide after a couple meetings if it's worth staying with that group or finding another. It's not just whether you agree with their mission but also their social dynamics. There's
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by vharuck 6y ago
What I took away from the Amazon pageant was that companies choose locations mostly by access to natural or social resources (educated workers, in Amazon's case). Same as always. But big companies can humor more towns to gin up biddi
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by vharuck 6y ago
For me, it's either to youtube-dl music onto my phone (mostly stuff from CDs I had bought but were stolen or lost), or run a small Python script to cheat at word games (finds all combinations of letters in a dictionary file). Things th
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In my experience of reporting data to non-data-saavy people, I've learned people love maps. Maybe because they like finding their home state/county/city. For whatever reason, they love maps. I've also learned the harde
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by vharuck 6y ago
For others that don't know "sealioning", it's unreasonable harassment under the guise of a civil debate. The term comes from a webcomic: http://wondermark.com/1k62/
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"Shibboleth" might be the better term. It's a word or phrase used to signal membership in a group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
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Evolution is a random and long-term process. What you're thinking of is natural selection. Even that does not guarantee things will get better. For example, there was a worse second wave of Spanish Flu. Natural selection only impli
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Kitchens are a notoriously cruder and harsher working environment than most. My wife went to culinary school to be a chef. While she stuck with it and graduated, she is totally against ever working in a kitchen. Instead, she's a day
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It's easy to take extreme positions on issues that likely won't bother your base no matter how they turn out. It's like international immigration: a life-or-death matter to some, but a distant matter to a vast majority. If
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>Also, a year ago we buried my brother-in-law at age 53. He was diagnosed stage 4 at age 48. DO NOT DELAY your colonoscopy. I think 50 is too late to wait. The rate of new colorectal cancer diagnoses has been increasing for those under 5
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I imagine it'd still be like stealth on Earth, but at much greater distances. I can always see a stealthy spy plane when standing next to it in a hangar. But it's purpose is to fly high above the ground. If heat signatures are a
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I'm not familiar with the mechanics of web crawlers, so hopefully somebody can shed some light. Would there be value in a search engines for specific topics? For example, movie reviews and blogs. Assuming you had a way to determine if
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>I also wonder if making these public, detrimental and unnecessary, is just a cynical ploy before an election to give the appearance that this administration has been tough on Russia, when actual toughness on Russia would mean not just i
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by vharuck 6y ago
>For abbreviations, it's simply know your audience I've learned to avoid abbreviations and acronyms whenever possible in writing. If it's fast back-and-forth messaging, that could be fine to save time typing. Otherwise,
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>The last few times I listened to NPR they seemed to be pretty deep into the horse race style reporting, distracted "Breaking News!"-style reporting, and lots of speculation. Print media as well. As a dedicated listener to NPR,
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It's almost the inverse of websites being too powerful to compete with. The people scraping data are too small to bother with. It might be a problem if it becomes too widespread because of the legislation. The music industry survive
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I have the same problem with my mortgage bank. Not to mention the emails and physical mail I get from them, which I don't even consider until my mortgage agent confirms they're legit. Hilariously, the best online credit payment I
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by vharuck 6y ago
Going by their news releases page, it doesn't seem like even 2020 has more listings than most years: https://www.who.int/news I'm now leaning more toward my hypothesis that they haven't changed behavior much,
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by vharuck 6y ago
Definitely. If 230 gets repealed, and somebody who had a forum wants to keep running it, they might consult a lawyer for advice. And that lawyer would say, "Don't allow user-created content. It's not worth the risk."
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by vharuck 6y ago
I remember reading about a study from long ago where they asked people their opinions on smoking and then had some start a smoking habit. Afterwards, the opinion on smoking was much more positive for those who had started smoking. Nicotin
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I've always thought of the WHO as serving an audience of public health experts for the member nations. Then those nations can decide what the best response is within their borders. When I remember back on the news about the other rece
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To focus on another point the person you're replying to thought was the focus, limiting length of stay in the hospital would be valuable, even if it didn't affect mortality. Especially when one of the potential problems with COVI
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>The Bay Area has amazing weather, unbelievable scenery, world-class recreation, and tons of music and culture. The weather will persist, but the rest are qualities of cities with large populations who have lots of disposable income.
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A packed stadium rally in Pennsylvania would have about the same number of attendees as a packed stadium rally in Wyoming or Rhode Island. You couldn't just rely on predictable "safe states" won by voters going straight-part
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Everyone thinks they're Galileo. Who would ever stay with the side they think is wrong and cruel? History (i.e. future opinions) will assign the labels.
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>The simple expression of an idea w/o the intent to cause harm to another party, and the sole intention of discourse should be protected no matter what. The point is Holocaust denial is often used as a foot in the door to spread rac
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I don't see a difference in this regard. In my opinion, punishment that isn't intended to reform the criminal is done so three rest of us can feel good. I consider it sadism, but can understand if others object to that term. &gt
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If somebody finds it easier to do this process using Excel than with a scripting language, I wouldn't expect them to know the differences between file formats. I would be surprised if they understood the concepts behind file formats.
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Let the child molester work in a bank and the fraudster work in a daycare.

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