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by viewer5 11y ago
> camaraderie of poorness Would you mind expanding on that?
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by viewer5 11y ago
How are you going to STRONGLY disagree, then say "That's what I was told to do", and then "I have no idea how this applies to the population at large"?
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by viewer5 11y ago
Does that seem unreasonable? I don't have any experience with such things, but it seems reasonable to me. The company decided you'd be most effective in position Y, so they put you there and gave you a pay/benefits raise, and
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by viewer5 11y ago
From what I've read (I think in the most recent Ars Technica article on it, not counting today's 2.0 one), soylent has to sit for a while in the fridge after you make it or it's absolutely awful.
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by viewer5 11y ago
> Hang on: Autism is not a mental illness! Serious question: what do you mean?
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by viewer5 11y ago
What are you getting at? Neither of those pages mention the arsenic discussed by the article
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by viewer5 11y ago
You need I think around 500 karma to be able to do it. That's what's up with the grey and nearly-invisible comments are--they have been downvoted
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by viewer5 11y ago
> You've heard that it isn't a good idea to parse HTML with regexps? That does sound familiar... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
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by viewer5 11y ago
Same here, I picked up LaTeX to take notes in my computer graphics class because I didn't feel like writing it (my written equations were always pretty cramped, and my handwriting is garbage) and because it was a pain to represent equa
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by viewer5 11y ago
> I still help code for my friend's private server, actually What are you working on? I assumed everything was already in place to make it work.
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by viewer5 11y ago
What are you tracking about it, exactly?
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by viewer5 11y ago
I can still see your initial message, posted about 30 minutes before the one I'm replying to now.
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by viewer5 11y ago
> no moral compass That seems like a pretty bold claim, what's that referring to?
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by viewer5 11y ago
> and hope that even more talented programmers will enter the fray Where'd be a good place to start? And is it all statistical modelling and stuff, or what's involved in programming in the fight with cancer?
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by viewer5 11y ago
> Its a complete misallocation of resources. Where have the resources (people) been over-allocated to?
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by viewer5 11y ago
You mention obesity; would it be something doable if you're already fat? 113kg, 170cm Seems like your body'd be your own worst enemy in that situation.
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by viewer5 11y ago
The gen 1 we've had at work has lasted a year on tap water and half our floor using it, so far.
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by viewer5 11y ago
Glad to hear it. I'll buy a Keurig 3.0 when it comes out, with a smile in my face and a song in my heart, once they strip out the DRM nonsense. I'm happy to pay a company that can say "well that was dumb" and fix what wa
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by viewer5 11y ago
How much do people use that new word, instead of whatever they were using before?
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by viewer5 11y ago
> Lithium fires do not require oxygen I thought fire is by definition a combustion reaction, meaning some kind of material reacting with oxygen. What's fire, then? (I feel like a little kid, having to ask that...)
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by viewer5 12y ago
What's so significant about welding something above you? (Unless I'm misunderstanding 'overhead welding'?)
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by viewer5 12y ago
> Dyslexia-friendly typography (no justification, no hyphens, preferably fonts with distinct glyphs) That's fascinating, I didn't know that was a thing. Could you point out any good resources for learning about it?
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by viewer5 12y ago
A few times in conversations I've found myself trying to force "friendlily" (friendly as an adverb) out of my mouth. Aside from me tripping on my tongue trying to pronounce it, the people around me understood what I was sayin
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by viewer5 12y ago
What's so significant about GEB? I bought it on recommendation from a friend, but haven't gotten that far in my reading queue yet.
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by viewer5 12y ago
Any way to view what the article looked like before it was deleted?
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by viewer5 12y ago
I feel like that a lot. I don't have DID or anything like that, but my memory for experiences and conversations is absolutely abysmal, far, far worse than anybody else's I know. Any question of "Hey, do you remember-" I
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by viewer5 12y ago
Yeah, I'm sitting in my cube at work trying to choke back tears, and the best I'm accomplishing is keeping them silent. This hit me a lot harder than I expected it to.
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by viewer5 12y ago
"Ozymandias" will always be in his voice in my mind. It's one of the few poems I'm at all familiar with, and I like it a lot. edit: Here's the poem, below, for anyone interested. And for anyone unfamiliar with what
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by viewer5 12y ago
I have trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of being imprisoned for the remainder of your life. Why do they even do it, instead of just execution? Might as well, right? Especially for something like this. I haven't been followin
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by viewer5 12y ago
> If you're descriptivist, then one of the things that you should describe is people's bottom-up attempts to change language by, say, excising 47,000 uses of a phrase from a commonly read reference material. I don't think

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