dropit_sphere

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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
The reverse, however, could also be true---how did you get all those fireable white females in the first place?
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
>No culture is static, indeed, the dodo would agree
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
This is a great discovery! Have you tried tying developer pay directly to these metrics?
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
lower-priced housing often has unacceptable attributes simply by virtue being lower-priced , as crime rates and schools are worse.
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1609972258725892097
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
I feel like the qualifications should just be "competent Civilization player" or something. Actually I think...a lot...of jobs could be filled that way?
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
>Second, nothing useful taught by religion actually requires religion itself. This hinges very much on your definition of "useful;" if you don't believe in God or the resurrection of the dead, then talk concerning them is
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
caveat emptor...
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
I love Alastair MacLean's stuff! What was it called?
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
lol holy shit you guys are a rough crowd
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
it's "rational" if you don't factor in the complications
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
This is more a disagreement about fact than it is a threat. "Take care of your body or else it will grow weak and sick" has a directive and a warning of consequences---is it a threat?
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
Really is insane. Started dating a girl with Type 1 and started researching it. There's a group in Oakland called the Open Insulin Foundation doing some good work: https://openinsulin.org/ Somewhat mystifies me why a
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
There are some assumptions here: - you made marines - they are accessible to a-moving banelings without having to go around terrain and/or through tank fire, marauders, mines It's quite possible to do low-apm styles in SC2, but yo
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
This (or, the experience you're looking for) is available now , by using compositions more suited to it and adjusting your play, but it does require departing from the meta (which I agree is over-focused on micro). It tends to mean mo
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
lolwhat, replicated w/Linux and Chrome just now.
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
I certainly sympathize, but I'm not sure what this has to do with land tax. If cities can't efficiently provide infra to certain building patterns, they should either reduce their guarantees ("You can build there, but you&#x
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
Economically advantageous sprawl, though---or it would have to be, to meet the owner's goals of not being a financial burden. I think the idea is that in that situation the owner sells, though.
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
>They could recognize that joining NATO is a ultimately the choice of the states that choose join NATO, and respect that. It is that simple. Empirically, it's not!
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by dropit_sphere 4y ago
Eh...you won't find a nicer guy than Charles Murray, or less of a Stormfront nazi than Curtis Yarvin, but both are basically unmentionable. In both cases no one objects to their presentation, but to their (alleged) material. I'm
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
"Engineer" sounds like kind of a moving target. The only "real" engineers design...engines. So it's worth asking what the actual value is of "engineering." In my mind, there are two: making stuff, and to
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
A world governed by patch notes. Hoo boy.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
>Out of curiosity, do you believe the NYTimes should have the right to censor its own comments section? No, no I don't, not as a "comments section," anyway. To an extent, NYT is riding on users' past experiences with
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
Hmm, I will have to keep this in mind.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
It's exactly the kind of thing that should be on HN.
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
It's not that Tucker's an oracle. It's that sometime in the last 30 years the tenets of the journalistic priesthood have changed. In the past the (aspirational) goal was to provide the public with the facts; now it's t
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
It feels insanely presumptuous to hear this stuff. Democracy? Since when are we a democracy? Oh, because it's a popular term used in media and vernacular? So are Fruit Loops, who cares? Let me try an alternate framing: democracy is
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
> No one cares if you enjoy programming or computers as long as you act relatively 'normal'. It's not that nerds care about intelligence more than popularity (trust me most aren't) it's just that the nerds have a
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
I successfully turned my mom from someone who often needed computer help, into someone who was pretty self-sufficient, when I told her that "The solution to any technology problem will only have two ingredients: Google and pain. If y
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by dropit_sphere 6y ago
It's a work in progress. :)

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