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willhinsa
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willhinsa
4y ago
The universe is already thinking for itself! It wrote this comment and built this website, after all.
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4y ago
That sounds phenomenal.
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The ISP in general isn’t going looking for your torrent traffic. The DMCA groups are, and when they find it, they contact your ISP to enforce it. If it’s a private tracker, there’s a decent chance the DMCA groups’ tracking bots aren’t able
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4y ago
The piece of advice I can give you is: Get an attorney! It will only cost you 30% of your SSDI benefits for the first year, capped at $6,000. It's well worth the cost.
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4y ago
Good old sensitivity analysis! :)
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4y ago
> No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are. I would add this corollary as I've seen the reverse problem a lot too: No one is as impressed with your frugalness as you are.
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4y ago
“Don’t Be Evil” turned out to not be better than nothing.
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4y ago
This sounds like great advice. Thank you for the ideas!
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4y ago
https://archive.ph/CHBTo
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5y ago
Thanks for the laugh! So true.
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5y ago
This makes me think of an interesting story from an article [0] about MIchael Bublé's latest album, and his work on it with Sir Paul McCartney. > “It was a long day, we were playing live, and he was really calm and patient with me.
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5y ago
what.cd had a really solid model as a user, but I've certainly been pleasantly pleased with musicbrainz.org
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5y ago
So funny! > RESULTS Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury (0% for parachute v 0% for control; P>0.9). This finding was consistent across multiple subgroups. Compared with individuals screened but not enrolle
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5y ago
On the difficulty of testing lifesaving treatments, there's a great paper on this topic: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials"
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5y ago
You're right, my mistake! I didn't play the video today before I linked it, and I didn't remember it had sound! That was definitely not a GIF! :) I've now updated my original comment to read "video" instead o
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5y ago
I saw a video of this on Twitter earlier this week, and it was impressive to say the least! https://twitter.com/horacezhl/status/1503436584212828164
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5y ago
Agassi's autobiography, "Open" is fantastic, by the way.
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5y ago
“What do you call your act?” “YouTube!” * a reference to The Aristocrats joke, and how YouTube removed publicly facing downvotes on videos. Great for concealing negative sentiment!
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5y ago
Is there an example of this being done the "right" way? I'm interested in learning more about this.
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5y ago
How did you decide which ones to send your CV to? It's been so overwhelming for me as a career switcher (from actuarial science) to know what I would want to do.
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5y ago
What reasons made the FTX ad a big mistake?
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5y ago
Personally I find Latin phrases to be more accurate and succinct than their English replacements. Plus, there's a lot of phrases that you're probably super familiar with that you just don't think about their origin being Lati
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5y ago
That's literally a plot point in Glengarry Glen Ross. Al Pacino made a sale the night before, but the buyer gets cold feet and wants to back out!
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5y ago
I believe in “death of the author” because I know how GIF should be pronounced! I hope this comment is a gif t of laughter to you in your day.
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5y ago
And they will figure out ways around this, while the average user will get screwed out of being able to make a new account.
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5y ago
> When Apple removed Magsafe ...and F-keys!
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5y ago
FYI, the word I think you meant to use is 'yoke' https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yoke (definition 3a)
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5y ago
Built by Andreas Kling[0], who regularly streams his development process for Serenity OS on his YouTube channel[1]. [0] https://awesomekling.github.io/about/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/andreaskling
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The thing that's been around the longest that always bugged me was: Getting endorsed for skills by people who have no ability to evaluate my competency at those skills. It's so shallow and badly designed at its job. But like every
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5y ago
$99/year, AND you have to do your development on a Mac!
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