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1) Your name is green, which (as I googled only just an hour ago, coincidentally) means it was created in the last 5 days, and 2) Clicking your profile shows "created: 9 minutes ago" edit: formatting
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3 of the 4 comments older than mine are from brand-new accounts whose only comments are on this post, with only > Pretty awesome idea > amazing > awesome I'm suspicious... edit: another > This is awesome!! Wish I'd had
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12y ago
I don't have anything of substance to add, but author, if you're reading this, I enjoyed your writing style a lot.
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"Hey, who's your pick in the superbowl?" "I'm actually more of a golf guy, myself." "Oh really? What's your favorite club?" "I love my MegaPutt 20x6 Owninator" "Oh yeah that's
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12y ago
We only brushed over how hashes work in college, so I may be totally ignorant, but-- wouldn't rearranging the order of the data (rotate, flip, etc) necessarily change the resulting hash?
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12y ago
In the US, a "mobile phone" is a cordless phone with a base.
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Businesses exist to make money, not just to give people in power a place to harumph about. More productivity IS important, because without that, businesses are losing out on potential income, and that's not what businesses like to do.
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12y ago
What do you mean? What stops that from happening now? Does it have thrusters that burn now and then to maintain its orbit?
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12y ago
I can't even imagine that. What was it you wanted to do?
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How did each of those conversations go?
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12y ago
Well I'm glad you're still here. Thanks for sharing.
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Can't believe bthomas hadn't encountered that abbreviation in the wild before!
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12y ago
What was your mindset like during that time period? It sounds almost adventurous, the way you wrote your post.
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12y ago
So do we know yet what sort of diet cultivates a microflora biome that encourages healthy weight loss? I'm asking for a friend... It's easy to find diets for losing weight in general, but I'm curious if we know enough to crea
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I don't know about the others, but mint being "easy to grow" is an understatement. Left unattended, it can take over a garden like the legions of Rome.
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Again, you having garbage print handwriting doesn't mean everyone does. My printed handwriting got a compliment just this Sunday, and mine pales in comparison to that of most people's I've seen. If print, on the whole, was im
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12y ago
> And don't come back and say, "it's perfectly fine for them to use print." I'm going to do exactly that. You having garbage print handwriting and pretty cursive hardly means that everyone is the same way. With t
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12y ago
> very hard life As in "physically demanding", or "lots of technical knowledge needed"?
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I love Dungeon World with all my heart. I'm a newbie GM as well, and it's the first game I ever ran (like a year and a half ago). I love the philosophical approach it takes to the game --a rules-light, minimal-prep collaboration b
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How tough would it be to learn R, then get hired at someplace that uses SAS or Matlab or something, and try to learn that? It sounds like R isn't used quite as much as other options
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If I just want to learn Statistical Programming, is R good for that? I can't afford/not willing to buy SAS or Matlab.
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I'm on Chrome and Win7 and it was fine for me (aside from the text column scootching rightward, starting at 175% zoom, but just scrolling to the right fixes that).
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> I was addressing the question regarding the compulsion to rebrand I'm not sure "rebrand" is the right word; "Friendsgiving" is a deviation from the well-established norm of spending Thanksgiving with family, so
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Without exaggeration nor sarcasm, I don't think a single person in the US past 5th grade is celebrating Thanksgiving to honor those events. You learn about the pilgrims in elementary school, and the origins of the holiday. Then, once y
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If I remember right, it's a very time-consuming, grind-y process, pretty out-of-character with the rest of the game. Just gotta be persistent through it. The feeling of success from finally beating that puzzle is great, though, due to
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Didn't cross my mind to check there. Thanks for the link.
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> Americans certainly have no problem talking about an English accent as if Cockneys sound anything like Scousers. To American ears, of course, they actually do As an American, I wouldn't say that; while I would say "English ac
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What do you mean by "thick American accent"?
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So it wouldn't feel boiling-hot, just weird and bubbly?
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That's insane, I had no idea there was any improvement, let alone that much! I just casually assumed the number would be growing along with our total global population, but to know it's actually decreasing as population increases?
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