Erik816

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by Erik816 3y ago
I have owned my current dishwasher for about 15 years, and I have never once cleaned it. It's working just fine.
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by Erik816 3y ago
I feel sad hearing about parents who can't stand to hear their child cry for a few a few minutes, a few nights in a row, and instead have children who take years to learn to properly sleep, causing sleep deprivation for the entire fami
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by Erik816 4y ago
If it can generate working code, does that mean that asking students to produce working code was bullshit? Or does it just mean that AI can now do a lot of things we used to asked students to do (for probably solid educational reasons) at a
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by Erik816 4y ago
Long Covid is extremely similar to ME/CFS, but affecting far more people. On the plus side for those of us living with ME/CFS, we can now explain to people "it's basically Long Covid." On the downside, this can be a
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by Erik816 4y ago
Not sure about the cultural dig at the English (that was probably very context-dependent and an in-joke for Germans/German speakers). But in general, Nietzsche probably meant something like "Man strives for power" by which he
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by Erik816 4y ago
Inside the US most people don't carry guns.
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by Erik816 4y ago
If you can't work with people who don't share your progressive politics, you may be the one who is hard to work with, not them.
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by Erik816 4y ago
Your map only appears to show the expected output of panels in those locations, with dark red and red obviously showing higher output. It does not support the claim that putting panels in the "wrong place" will produce negative ec
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by Erik816 5y ago
Orphans and widows were also important legal categories. Children without a father needed a legal guardian until they turned 18. Married women (at least under British common law) were not separate legal entities from their husbands. So each
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by Erik816 5y ago
Nope. If you can afford to live on the waterfront and enjoy the view, but never use your boat, are you morally obligated to sell your house to someone who will be out there fishing or skiing every day? Land is bought and sold on an open mar
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by Erik816 5y ago
Since the beginning, I have been using N95s when I'm actually worried about catching the virus and think I might be able to prevent it (like grocery shopping early on, flights, etc.) I use cloth masks pretty much everywhere else for co
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by Erik816 5y ago
I'm getting old, but at least 15 years ago, law school admission was almost purely LSAT score + College GPA (weighted by perceived difficulty/prestige of College).
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by Erik816 5y ago
What motive would you need beside "a higher score gets me into better schools"? Surely someone smart enough to get a perfect SAT score can figure that out pretty easily.
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by Erik816 5y ago
It is very easy to use reddit that way. I use it multiple times a day and only ever visit the subreddits I have subscribed to, and that's all that appears on my main page.
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by Erik816 5y ago
To be fair to her siblings, they didn't know they were Native American because they were not in fact Native American.
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by Erik816 5y ago
A "Republican" who has previous run as a Democrat and has voted for Democrats in all recent presidential elections. This says less about any shift in the electorate than it does about the extremism of the Seattle left.
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by Erik816 5y ago
Real pain would be buying an overpriced house that was bid up by Zillow or other similar companies and then needing to move. Missing out on that overpriced sale would actually be great!
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by Erik816 5y ago
The example was used car dealerships. You can always buy/sell your vehicle in a private sale without requiring a used car dealership.
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by Erik816 5y ago
A few seconds each day, unless you have a really bad or poorly maintained watch.
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by Erik816 5y ago
Drone pretty clearly implies to me "a craft piloted remotely by a human." A UFO/UAP is an aerial phenomenon we can't currently identify. It could be a human piloted craft, it could be something else yet to be determined.
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by Erik816 5y ago
I'm not clear why it is assumed this is a "drone." From the article, it sounds like all that could be identified was a single green light. This seems like a classic UFO/UAP. Maybe it was a drone, but I don't see the
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by Erik816 5y ago
Genealogists tend to be an older crowd for sure, for a mix of reasons. I'm just entering middle age, so I can only speak for myself. I remember as a very small boy doing an elementary school family history project and finding it captiv
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by Erik816 5y ago
FamilySearch is excellent and has a ton of primary sources once you get used to how to find them. Ancestry.com's main advantage is that it provides "hints" that suggests sources for your ancestors. It's super easy to add
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by Erik816 5y ago
The best way I have been able to do this is to write a book as I am doing my research. I organize an outline for the ancestors, fill in the details I can find as paragraphs, and pretty much have a footnote (or sometimes two) with every sent
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by Erik816 5y ago
Treating our dead with respect is probably one of the oldest signs of human culture. People care a lot about the bodies of their deceased loved ones. See Antigone by Sophocles. You're welcome to your views, but most people have strong,
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by Erik816 5y ago
It's been a while since this was updated (2014), but it indicates that over 50% of people consider religion "very important" in their life. Only 11% said religion was "not at all important." So while you could imagi
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by Erik816 5y ago
Only 19% think they are more religious than average. I find that very interesting. Not sure if it's an artifact of the kind of people who have taken the survey so far, a statement about how people want to be perceived in our culture, o
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by Erik816 5y ago
I'm confused how my neighbors devices would be connecting to my secured WiFi network without my knowledge. Is that correct?
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by Erik816 5y ago
She appears to have made that up: https://www.worlddata.info/average-bodyheight.php
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by Erik816 5y ago
The difference is that flank steak is still flank steak, while the veggie substitutes may have improved in quality over time.

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