bigbacaloa

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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
Everyday people ... sing a simple song ... mama's so happy ... mama starts to cry ... papa still singing ... you can make it if you try ... That song helped me survive an awful childhood.
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
I would be less of an a*** and a bit braver, but otherwise mostly the same.
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
Most students see education as a video game - the goal is to score as many points as possible in a framework controlled by some apparently arbitrary rules. That educators fail to distinguish school from video games is mostly the fault of ed
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
I did not see much fear. I was at work and it took about two hours for us to realize the outage was not just local. The cafeteria had gas burners and served everything they could to empty the refrigerators. We all at lunch and discussed whe
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
"Bar" doesn't mean the same thing in every country. In Spain although a bar serves alcohol of all kinds it is also where one eats breakfast and lunch and gets a coffee. They are indispensable social centers and even a tiny to
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
While it may be true that margins are independent of the buyer at a given scale , margins certainly do depend on scale. If 15% of the population is buying 75% of the alcohol (these are not ridiculous numbers), cutting that 15% out would pu
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
These percentages are similar to those that one sees for alcohol consumption or problematic gambling. The business model of the casinos and the drug dealers and the alcohol venders is the same - you need a huge pool of unproblematic recreat
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by bigbacaloa 1y ago
"Good reporting is presenting facts about all sides." Nonsense. Good reporting is about carefully filtering the evidence and reporting the essential stuff. Sometimes that's heavily skewed to one "side" or the other.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Folks used it to clear old tree stumps too.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Some of those fbi agents are active participants and true believers too.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
That's because a bar is generally required by law not to serve someone already drunk.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
You're ignoring the costs of buying and selling and supposing incorrectly that property always appreciates on a relevant time scale.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Students often produce this algorithm by mistake in first year programming. It works in spite of the fact that they don't know what they are doing.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
If you have to count on the military to save you, you are lost already.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Folks who don't run may not appreciate how ridiculous this is. For most normal people this speed is near an all out sprint ... for 21 km. Most folks you know who run 10ks can't keep up with this guy for more than about half a km,
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
VAT is the most regressive sort of tax and gives the lie to the myth of Europe as a socialist paradise. In Spain it's used because it's much easier to collect than are income taxes, which lots get away without paying.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
For those that don't know, Wang hunting wrote that in 1991! Now he is one of the top dogs in the Chinese government ....
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
This kind of strategic, war is always possible, thinking is deeply embedded into US institutional-governmental culture and in US education. It's part of the quasi-fascistic thinking that was assimilated by the entire population - indep
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Better to make it law and enforce the law than to trust large companies to do anything ethical.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Realistically no if you think about how teen social groups work.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
People own mobile devices because they must in order to function in contemporary society, not because they trust the agents behind them. I can't do banking, park my car, buy transport passes, etc. without a mobile device. That doesn&#x
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
In Spain by law all eating establishments have to provide tap water for free if asked.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
That's true if the cohort is MIT grad students. It's probably not true if the cohort is Random Western State Institute of Technology. On the other hand the relatively high percentage of postdocs who survive according to the cited
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
It's like being a professional athlete. Until you get to the first division you don't know if you have what it takes and no one else does either.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
I think there is some requirement of a sort of good faith in the popups. What you describe is essentially deceptive behavior, and in a good legal system that should be seen as circumventing the law so itself actionable. Obliging clients to
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
When plate tectonics was first proposed the low quality of the original models of the underlying mechanism led many very good geophysicists and geologists to reject it or to express well founded skepticism of the model. They knew the detail
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
In the US one is not taught about US support of dictatorships in the past and present.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
But it's a bad nonsolution. The problem persists. It can be fixed by decent form design.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
When I was a kid I had to keep several quarts of oil in the car in order to replenish when necessary. Also a bottle of antifreeze and several bottles of water.
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by bigbacaloa 2y ago
Genocide is always motivated by simple things like theft.

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