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by zyxley 11y ago
Good point. I should have said, "an allegedly dead guy".
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by zyxley 11y ago
> This is, inevitably, for the worse. Why?
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by zyxley 11y ago
Given Kaufman's brand of humor, he might have found this hilarious. People paying to go see an imaginary version of a dead guy!
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by zyxley 11y ago
> does it have consequential effects on ordinary Japanese To quote the article: > Though generally considered offensive, the term Eta is still in use today. One of the letters received at the abattoir expresses sympathy for the animal
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by zyxley 11y ago
Do you really trust any significant number of people to do that without killing the person?
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by zyxley 11y ago
The most interesting new feature to me, beyond the UI itself - there's now some algorithmic generation in the movie/TV screens. It looks like the Movies screen will automatically offer up unwatched movies with recent release dates
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by zyxley 11y ago
It seems to work... not amazing, but okay, in windowed mode (settings, disable fullscreen). It still needs a "not ten foot" mode and proper scroll wheel support, but the mouse actually works with it by default, and it seems to hav
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by zyxley 11y ago
After Coffeescript, it's really hard to go back to excess brackets everywhere. I really wish there was a Coffeetypescript.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I would suspect something to do with farming, given that that was the usual job of the majority of the European population at the time.
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by zyxley 11y ago
If it's not (legally) a wheelchair, it doesn't need FDA approval, and from what I understand FDA approval is an extremely expensive process (as in, "increase unit price by hundreds of thousands of dollars" expensive).
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by zyxley 11y ago
I think that last one should just be "You are the brute squad." That is to say, it's not an expression of shock, but an insulting quip.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I don't get it.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Birth control pills can be taken for many reasons other than actual contraception.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> I found the profile of a man whose name is probably Matt and told him I’m new to this Tinder thing and asked him how it works. > "You match with a bunch of people, no one ever messages each other, and no one ever has sex,"
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by zyxley 11y ago
It's easier to train a professional and prepared candidate in some fraction of job skills than is it to train a very skilled candidate in business proprieties, especially for an interview that starts with a multiple-choice test.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> she believed I'd been subjected to ageism I would suspect more "we don't want to hire someone who thinks it's appropriate to show up in a literal school uniform to a professional interview" more than ageism, pe
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by zyxley 11y ago
It seems to me like the company is caught between a rock and a hard place: the only way to make the card popularly accepted enough that the high-end "status" cardholders can use it anywhere they like is to dilute the brand by conv
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by zyxley 11y ago
The AmEx brand is—or, at least, originally was —aimed at people who don't care about the cash or discount rewards most other cards offer, and would rather have massages in airports, on-call concierges, personal shoppers, and so on. Ju
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by zyxley 11y ago
2.5% transaction fees instead of 2%. The average grocery store has a profit margin of 1% to 3%, from what I understand.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> I always just assume the brand will have the color I want in their collection of swatches. The problem comes when you need to do a patch job on the drywall for whatever reason (lost cat in the walls, wiring problem, whatever), and when
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by zyxley 11y ago
Pantone uses coded colors (e.g. things like "#106U Bright Yellow"), with each having RGB and CMYK values, physical ink-mixing proportions for custom printing, paint standards, etc. From what I understand it's pretty popular w
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by zyxley 11y ago
Every car I've ever driven with cruise control has had basically that same behavior, with the only major variation being if you can set a new base speed without flicking cruise control off and then on again.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Now imagine trying to get something from a freezer or off of a top shelf without having to put the kickstand down and then up again after over and over and over.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Bicycles may not be allowed on the sidewalk, but you'll still see plenty of them on the sidewalk anywhere there aren't good, separated bike lanes.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Take that and multiply the width by a couple of times and you've got Heinlein's rolling roads.
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by zyxley 11y ago
From what I understand there are differences in the quality of the components, but it's impossible to tell which brand has which set without doing a teardown on it.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I doubt having your back out is ideal condition for riding a device where you may have to hop a couple of steps to catch your step if you mess up anything.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> and maybe even wheel their bike through stores as they shop, with a sleeping baby in the bike carrier, or use the basket to hold groceries Anyone who has ever actually had a bike for more than a week and who actually shops for their ow
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by zyxley 11y ago
I suspect that arrangements or elaborations of other popular music would do pretty well. Video games are easiest, though, because they've often got orchestral or quasi-orchestral music already, along with having tons of easy-to-sell me
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by zyxley 11y ago
The modern perception of "the brand" of the stereotypical classical symphony, with formal attire for performers and audience, completely silent audiences, etc, is the biggest reason that symphony attendance has been on a long, con

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