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by xsmasher 7y ago
That should be read anti-adult-content, not anti-adult.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
What if carbonated / acidic drink removes the fat/sugars from your tongue and make your body think you haven't eaten?
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Not by itself; but if the high-speed crash rate drops to almost nothing we can make cars much lighter and lower; reverse the SUV arms-race that has made the streets more deadly than ever.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
That study was WIDELY reported on, and most of the reporting was faulty. For example this article says 'around 90% of all the plastic in the world's oceans flows there through just 10 rivers.' But that isn't what the stu
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by xsmasher 7y ago
That study was WIDELY reported on, and most of the reporting was faulty. Now this river factoid is stuck in millions of heads.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
something like let map = {{ x:7, y:13 }}; where the double-brackets promise you're only going to do JSONish stuff in there
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by xsmasher 7y ago
You optimize for what you can measure. Food and consumer products will have to change greatly when hand-held tricorders let you compare nutritional value of two foods, or the amount of harmful chemicals on the surface of an item.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I'm not talking about running full tilt 24/7; I'm just saying don't be that guy that gets assigned a ticket, makes a comment on the ticket for clarification, and then spends the next four hours doing god-knows-what inste
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by xsmasher 7y ago
This reminds me of the Steve Jobs janitor story: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference... Except that line should kick in WAY before the VP level. Getting out of the "schoolkid mentality" is
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by xsmasher 7y ago
While I 100% acknowledge that senior employees / academic folks can be as dogmatic and stubborn as anyone, the phrase "the constant attempts to gaslight me" throws up some flags. It sounds more than a little paranoid. What is
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Stress was neither necessary nor sufficient to produce the ulcers; it may have been involved in some cases, but it was not the "cause."
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Stomach ulcers were thought to be caused by "stress," and increased acidity in the stomach caused by stress, and diet. It wasn't until 1982 that the bacterial cause was found, and it took years for the medical community to ab
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I don't think that's right. As you gained weight, your basal metabolic rate would also go up until you reached some equilibrium. If a pound of body fat consumes about 2-4 calories per day, then your extra 38 calories is only enoug
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Find out what you can do to create habitats for native bees. Keeping non-native bees (honeybees) would add competition for resources with local bees; that's not what you want. Colony collapse is mostly related to agricultural bees (hon
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by xsmasher 7y ago
No, before that he was swiping left (rejecting) everyone. > The first time I swiped right, I matched.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
#1 and #3 can be solved by using TypeScript types to define the schema of your JSON. IMO they're readable enough to serve #2 too. Before someone mentions "JSON schema" - I've tried to use them, and they're difficult
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by xsmasher 7y ago
No, the goal is to allow people with a different set of skills (content creators) to create content, even though they don't have database or engineering skills. I'd used systems like this at every game company I've worked for
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Do you mean you don't want it to handle 1k concurrent requests (you want some to be rejected or queued instead?) or do you mean that the concurrent execution causes some other problem? (honest question, not snark)
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by xsmasher 7y ago
> Companies in JBS’s supply chain are potentially responsible for the destruction of between 28,000 and 32,000 hectares (280-320 sq km) of forest each year for exported beef I don't think "greed for meat" is aimed at poor
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I had some Borage in my garden for the bees - turns out I have an allergic reaction to borage. Itches like crazy.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
If developers made the call they probably wouldn't do any marketing before the release of the game - "Just wait until it's finished, otherwise the marketing material might be inaccurate!" Their game would fail, but they
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I think that falls under "if the player didn't see it, it didn't happen."
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Aside: as far as I can tell, the factoid as usually stated is not true. It should be "90% of Ocean plastic that comes from rivers comes from just 10 rivers" and not "90% of all ocean plastic comes from rivers." There&#
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by xsmasher 7y ago
> Meta comment3: We absolutely need to do this exactly as it is. Because otherwise bad thing happens, which you probably won't see until it hits production. This is the highest purpose that a comment can fulfill - telling why you ar
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by xsmasher 7y ago
I have always read that as "The good people are paralyzed by doubt (right now)" - a bad thing for them and for us. The context is a list of ways the world is falling apart.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
> I enjoy it for about an hour or two before I am screaming in my own head: "GET ME THE #$@# OUT OF HERE!!!" You don't need to beat yourself up about this - if you have a low social drive and are satisfied after an hour o
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by xsmasher 7y ago
The word refers to a belief fate or destiny; but the usage here implied negativity or pessimism of some kind. A "pessimistic outlook" is probably closer to what they wanted to express.
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by xsmasher 7y ago
It sounds like you are defining troll as "someone I don't agree with," but that's not how I read it. I read trolls as bad actors; people acting in bad faith just to get a reaction / cause someone else pain. Trolls a
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by xsmasher 7y ago
What constitutes a "road sign"? Do they mean traffic-related signs only, or also street markers, or billboards as well?
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by xsmasher 7y ago
Yes. If you buy in the app and consume in the app, Apple wants their 30%. That's why you can watch videos in the amazon prime video app, but you can't rent or buy movies there. You need to rent or buy the video on Amazon.com, then

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