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by cvsh 9y ago
>has retweeted someone's description of his article as "The Talented Mr Ripley, but with digital nomads" Everyone who watched that movie felt a pang of longing to live that way; it's still selling the experience to th
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by cvsh 9y ago
Using Sam Harris as an example is way too charitable to the average person. Most people are not first-principles thinkers about politics. They are self-interested. Where that motivation is considered unsavory, they will deny it, even to the
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by cvsh 9y ago
Its backstory is famously that it was developed by some guy as a side project, and that guy's tacky username is in the title. I mean, what did you expect?
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by cvsh 9y ago
Please. Don't. Scrolljack.
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by cvsh 9y ago
>I fully expect the short-length, autodidact or mediocre students to be entering a saturated market within the next five years. That cuts against every labor demand projection. Frankly, even mediocre programming jobs are a great option f
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by cvsh 9y ago
As we have seen in recent elections, replacing politicians with non-politicians has been a disaster for the country. Why is a scientist running better than a science-aware politician running?
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by cvsh 9y ago
It doesn't with IE10 though. And there's no way to fall back to flex or another column system. Which means, if you need to support IE10, you need a whole parallel set of styles. There's no graceful degradation when it comes t
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by cvsh 9y ago
It's a real thing but it can't physically reach some of the places the victims were said to be affected and it's not known to cause many of the specific symptoms suffered by the victims.
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by cvsh 9y ago
It'd be one thing if the use of torture was increasing over time across our society, or all societies. But using "torture was recently brought back" as a data point to rebut an overall statistical decline makes no sense. It&#
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by cvsh 9y ago
Based on casual observation of what other customers are ordering from my frequent visits to Chipotle, it seems like queso has been a complete failure. I don't understand why they thought cheese would be something people would pay extra
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by cvsh 9y ago
Interesting. So salting your plates skirts reflectivity and plate obstruction laws because a) the plate is still visually unobstructed, and b) the laws apply specifically to the reflective coating rather than infrared visibility more broadl
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by cvsh 9y ago
I just really can't imagine, given the progression we see in AI image recognition on a daily basis these days, that medical fields like dermatology or radiology that revolve around scrutinizing things visually will continue to exist in
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by cvsh 9y ago
My mom is a radiologist nearing retirement and from the time we were old enough to seriously consider career paths she would tell us "Do not become a radiologist". As she tells it, the reason is outsourcing. Radiology is probably
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by cvsh 9y ago
The guides on places like /r/DarkNetMarkets do actually recommend shipping to your own address, under your own name.
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by cvsh 9y ago
The color scheme here is really poor. It took me too long to realize that bright orange was not a step down from bright red, but in fact dark red, pink, and dark orange were between them. So the brighter red indicates more violence, but t
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by cvsh 9y ago
>why is ether course virtually identical? Because many people that hold it bought it together with BTC as speculation and decided to sell simultaneously
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by cvsh 9y ago
>I tend to overplay them because I feel like doing otherwise would be gloating. A lot of life events are the same way. When someone asks how work's going, I don't want to be honest and talk about how goddamn happy I am seeing t
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by cvsh 9y ago
>I'm actually surprised if it's legal for a bank to refuse to provide cash withdrawals There are online-only banks now like Simple and Ally; they obviously can't provide cash. If they can deny cash why can't other ban
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by cvsh 9y ago
Right but this part... >giving owner Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. an advantage in the race among technology giants to capture the next generation of internet users ...seems suspect. Most western Chrome users started off with Netscape, Inte
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Sure, you get some binge subscribers who exploit the system, but they're not enough to bring down the entire enterprise. Especially for movie theaters, where the marginal cost of additional filmgoers isn't as high. If I watch
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by cvsh 9y ago
Pretty annoying, though, that they hijack users' familiarity with the red dot to deliver the useless notification that "You are not logged in on this device".
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by cvsh 9y ago
That's actually pretty clever since it draws the viewer's attention and also associates good feelings (humor) with the brand. So it's a parody of product placement that also happens to be an extremely effective form of produc
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by cvsh 9y ago
>or for something unrelated but mentioning 'Hey Siri, tell me about [product being sold]'. What? Seriously? Commercials try to hijack your devices? Isn't this fairly clear-cut unauthorized access of a computer system, and
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by cvsh 9y ago
I feel like this may have been the last upswing this big. A lot of regular folks are going to get burned, and they're not going to forget. The societal consensus 6 months from now will be that Bitcoin Was A Scam, and that'll depre
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by cvsh 9y ago
What battles has linguistic prescriptivism ever won?
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by cvsh 9y ago
The median monthly household income in the U.S. is $4710. The difference is two orders of magnitude.
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by cvsh 9y ago
You should also never under any circumstances use Photoshop as a verb. Those horses have left the barn.
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by cvsh 9y ago
I don't get how one can be a self-proclaimed "HODLer" and also preach about how cryptocurrency is the future of money. Assets you can reasonably call "currency" and assets you speculatively buy and hold seem like fu
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Today the FCC does not impose rate regulation, for example, but maybe tomorrow's FCC will. Of course, now it is becoming clear that the rules will change whenever the presidency changes parties, so if anything it would seem that th
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by cvsh 9y ago
What's the point of applauding legislative initiatives like this that are obviously doomed to failure? It's a waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere. The only point of this is to make Maloney more marketable in the nex

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