anon84598

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by anon84598 5y ago
> it isn't American culture to be that overweight > hispanics and blacks are considerably more overweight than whites Are these people not American?
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by anon84598 5y ago
This is not an actual consideration in Taiwan -- the three options are "independence", "becoming a part of China" and "status quo". I think the mentioned preference for joining the US is more likely to come fro
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by anon84598 6y ago
I assume it should have been "per hour" but autocorrect got creative
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by anon84598 6y ago
If that's it, you could just save it as a bookmark: javascript:alert(performance.getEntriesByType("navigation")[0].nextHopProtocol)
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by anon84598 6y ago
It's ironic given that one of the services they apparently offer is website development
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by anon84598 6y ago
Murdoch already has his news distribution systems in place in Australia -- the less other outlets can gain visibility the better as far as he is concerned
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by anon84598 6y ago
For a small company it matters, but for a FAANG interview the person rescheduling your interview is completely disconnected from the people making the hiring decision so it would literally not make a difference.
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by anon84598 6y ago
"schizo" seems like a pretty rough term here -- makes sense if you replace it with "conspiracy theorist"
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by anon84598 6y ago
Sweden isn't performing a lot of tests for one: https://www.thelocal.se/20200414/understanding-swedens-figur...
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by anon84598 7y ago
I've taken to calling this phenomenon (for a lack of a better word) "Popaganda" -- beliefs that are spread and mutually reinforced throughout popular media and the general population. If something seems believable, it makes i
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by anon84598 7y ago
Agreed -- what kind of psychopath overrides default scroll behavior? As mentioned above, there is a better article that covers this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/science/solar-energy-powe...
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by anon84598 7y ago
They're called "half dollars" (which follows the US mentality of defaulting to fractions where possible): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_dollar_(United_States_coi...
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by anon84598 7y ago
But actually, anyone who held a large amount of debt would benefit since the value of their debt would shrink
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by anon84598 8y ago
This is interesting, but I feel like it isn't as thorough as I would like. Men and women speak differently in ways that can't be masked by voice modulation and I suspect that phrasing, choice of vocabulary, intonation etc. also pl
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by anon84598 8y ago
I agree and I think this is why OP said to be careful -- there are so many engineers out there who do not separate the ideas of code and functionality. When these people write unit tests, they are essentially just checking that the unit beh
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by anon84598 8y ago
I think most people would agree with your reasoning here, but there is a difference between a country voluntarily gifting their artifacts / artwork to other countries as opposed to other countries obtaining them through morally questio
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by anon84598 8y ago
Just to totally nitpick your last point, it's worth noting that the BART cost probably includes the entire infrastructure maintenance cost whereas Uber essentially has infrastructure subsidized (i.e., they don't need to pay for ma
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by anon84598 8y ago
It's worth noting that most Australian mortgages use variable (i.e., non-fixed) interest rates, so when rates go up, everyone's payment increases. High interest rates in the US are beneficial to mortgage holders because most peopl