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by xref 5y ago
Was that a Carlin bit? Think he also said “why is it a ‘pair’ of underwear but only one bra?”
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by xref 5y ago
> China is doing what it can to stop from becoming an American vassal. More accurate would probably be China is doing everything possible to create its own vassals via soft-power initiatives like Belt and Road, predatory debt lending, et
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by xref 5y ago
I use pelican, mainly because it was the top Python SSG at the time and thought maybe I’d hack on it. I never hacked on it, just used it. I’d probably pick something new if choosing today, like Hugo which has a larger ecosystem
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by xref 5y ago
“Some people like peanut butter and jelly, some don’t, but both viewpoints are fascist.” You used both “toxic” and “sjw” incorrectly, I don’t think these words mean what you think they mean
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by xref 5y ago
Also the SC regularly overturns its own precedents. Similar concept to Papal Infallibility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility
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by xref 5y ago
On a site like HN I assumed everybody’s birthday was Unix epoch 0
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by xref 5y ago
Much more common is “expert” or “mastery” for that level of understanding, when I hear “grok” it means they read the Wikipedia page or did the tutorial or something.
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by xref 5y ago
> If the body cleared the virus, then what it chose is effective whether that’s the spike or the nucleocapsid. It is actually more likely to be robust than vaccine induced immunity. Where’s the research showing there is more effective im
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by xref 5y ago
Definitely can’t reference other places to buy an item from your eBay or Amazon posting. Hell Amazon won’t even let you sell at a lower price elsewhere, and they have web scraping automation setup to catch you and hide your listings if you
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by xref 5y ago
Hah, had to look you up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Brings back memories of tcl/tk eggdrop bots, buying shell accounts to keep your nick held while you were offline, and automating server j
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by xref 5y ago
Waterford is leaded glass, often just called “crystal” because of its clarity and to not call attention to the lead content which is minimum 25% lead oxide powder by weight https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass &g
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by xref 5y ago
Just says “tweet unavailable” for me, and I don’t understand how a 2mb block means a government can “seize” Bitcoin where they can’t with a 1mb block
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by xref 5y ago
Will this new architecture make it so sharing banking login credentials with Plaid is unnecessary? Similarly, will it change how much data Plaid scrapes from those bank accounts and shares with “partners” as described in the privacy policy?
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by xref 5y ago
your faulty line of logic, that you can’t both serve an individual and a group, just condemned most vaccines. Why bother giving kids a chicken pox vaccine when the infection is usually mild for them. Or from the GP, why give them rubella va
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by xref 5y ago
What nyse/nasdaq stocks are over $5k? I see Lindt & Spruengli AG but it’s listed in Switzerland in CHF Swiss francs
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by xref 5y ago
> But what if you have bad knees or live in a dangerous neighborhood or simply don't like walking? Then your health insurance billings will likely be higher, and you’ll be more expensive to insure, which pushes up the company group
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by xref 5y ago
Everyone is focusing on the bonus part of the story but man, I really enjoyed the computing history about working inside DEC in those days. Anyone got other good computing history books/stories to recommend? I really enjoyed Masters of
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by xref 5y ago
Sure, you’re paying 50 for the one thing you want and the rest is effectively free shit you don’t have to watch.
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by xref 5y ago
> Fact 3: No, it's not a myth, systemd is truly a huge monolith > In his blog post "The Biggest Myths", from January 2013, Lennart Poettering says: “A package involving 69 individual binaries can hardly be called monoli
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by xref 5y ago
Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt) Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and impleme
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by xref 6y ago
Judging by the stock market, not tech companies...
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by xref 6y ago
Huh? The number of people who died of sars-ncov-2 compared to how many died of it...before it existed?
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by xref 6y ago
There’s no coronavirus genetic material in any of the vaccines, so no
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by xref 6y ago
They conveniently don’t include any data about how these numbers compare to the population at large.
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by xref 6y ago
You just hand-waived sexual harassment away as not “the right kind of weird” and speaking out against a serial perpetrator of it as “Puritanism”
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by xref 6y ago
No, the Philippines don’t have more mass shootings than the US. Not even close. People seem to define “mass shooting” quite differently but no, your unsourced claim the Philippines isn’t the leader. https://www.washingtonpost.com
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by xref 6y ago
Is that second “very” supposed to be “realistic” or “fake”? Think I’ve heard people say “realistic” before
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by xref 6y ago
Had no idea Knuth ever contributed, looks like he did just one time in 1957 when he was only 19? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie#System_of_measuremen...
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by xref 6y ago
People throw out this 70% number but it’s really undercut by the fact France hasn’t built a new nuclear plant since 1999, and has decommissioned quite a few in that time. The average plant age is now 35. Nuclear output is actually down from
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by xref 6y ago
Prime Video has already dipped their toe in that pool, showing trailers for other series instead of starting your show. Feels like the DVD era all over again, just waiting for the FBI warning screen to appear

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