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by dustintrex 5y ago
Seems to be un-deaded now, praise the mods! And on closer inspection there was one naughty word in there, although technically it's a homonym that happens to have the same spelling. (And "homonym" itself is probably best av
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Yes, but this appears to be the origin of the pejorative: bundle of sticks -> an old woman collecting sticks -> a man who acts like an old woman -> homosexual.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
> The English word outrage is a loanword from French, where it was formed by combining the adverb outre (meaning "beyond") with the suffix -age; thus, the original literal meaning is "beyondness" – that is, beyond wh
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by dustintrex 5y ago
I posted a comment noting that some words can no longer be used because they resemble offensive words, even though they are etymologically unrelated. I am ironically amused to note that the comment appears to have offended somebody or somet
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The article does not mention this, but it's quite probably the unvaccinated child in question is from the fast-expanding Hasidic community in Jerusalem, many of whom are strongly anti-vax. This has led to measles outbreaks in the past
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by dustintrex 5y ago
An unmentioned subcategory is words that that sound or look like taboo words, but are actually unrelated: "niggardly", "Gaylord", "fag" as in cigarette (from "fag end", unrelated to "faggot"
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Yup, as long as the tin pot dictator is attacking some country we don't really care about.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Whenever I join a new team and need to inhale a new architecture or complex process, I take a stab at documenting what currently exists, and then share my notes with the team. Corrections immediately pour in, and this "wrong answer&qu
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Sure, the orchestra can fire or not fire the guy, and they can also do so on the basis of whether they think this will fill seats. What really rubs me the wrong way here is the performative "you're with us or you're against
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Yes, he appeared for a TV ad for Putin in 2012. Why is this suddenly a firing offence in 2022? Does he bear personal responsibility for what Putin's doing today? Denouncing McCarthyism in 1950, Truman said, "In a free country, w
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The preface was written at an odd moment in time when the UK and the Soviet Union were allied, for the simple reason that in times of war the enemy of my enemy (Hitler's Germany) is my friend. Two short years later the Cold War began
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by dustintrex 5y ago
My email is first@last.name. The ".name" domain is oddly underused and often throws people for a loop.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The Economist is old school liberal: let companies do what they want (US "right-wing"), let people do what they want (US "left-wing"), but unlike US libertarians, also have some regulation and support in place to prevent
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by dustintrex 5y ago
ACOUP has a great collection on ironworking and the generally insane amount of labor and fuel that went into premodern iron production, including nails: https://acoup.blog/2020/10/02/collections-iron-how-did-t
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Psst: co-sleeping won't stop babies from crying, but it makes it way easier for everybody involved to get back to sleep much faster.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Ah yes, a perfect term to image search at work while doing a little Valentine's Day shopping.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
> However, the voluntary migration period is closing soon. Starting March 10, 2022, you won't be able to play Minecraft: Java Edition unless you move to a Microsoft account. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The tax base in the Japanese countryside is rapidly collapsing and the public money used to prop up railways at the end of the day comes out of the same pot of taxpayer money that's used to fund schools, hospitals, etc. Personally, I&
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by dustintrex 5y ago
That's a lovely story, but it's also why JR is bleeding red ink. Here's a typical story about one line that was serving an average of 19 (nineteen) passengers per day and made a loss of about US$3m/year for decades un
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Facebook has been primarily displaced by Tiktok, which is considerably more addictive than FB. It's like zonking out in front of cable TV in the olden days, if the cable TV had access to an essentially unlimited content library of s
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by dustintrex 5y ago
"Stamp rallies" in Japan are so common that they invented their own pseudo-English word for them. The OG is the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, which requires you to collect stamps from 88 different temples, preferably by walking 1
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by dustintrex 5y ago
There's a classic cocktail party icebreaker related to this: when you ask the usual awkward intro question about what somebody else does, and they tell you "X", reply with "wow, that sounds really hard!". They&#x27
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Do you really believe that a 10-person company run by a convicted fraudster (Devasini) is managing $78 billion dollars in assets, making them bigger than Vanguard or Schwab, despite the financial world not being able to find any evidenc
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by dustintrex 5y ago
> When someone exchanges a real dollar for a USDC token You're making the very large assumption here that people are exchanging real dollars for stablecoins, which is almost certainly not the case. Tether, in particular, seems to
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by dustintrex 5y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. If more people sell fiat and buy crypto, money is going "into" crypto. If more people sell crypto to buy fiat, money is coming "out" of crypto.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
This. The amount of real money flowing in supposedly increasing by 5% per month is also not compatible with many real-world indicators of interest showing the opposite, including Robinhood's crypto revenue falling off a cliff. https:
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All My Homies Hate Skrillex – A story about what happened with dubstep(youtube.com)
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by dustintrex 5y ago
I'm sure there are lots of other people out there who could run today's SpaceX as a space cargo trucking company. But Elon deserves the credit for creating two wildly successful companies that revolutionized their respective indu
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by dustintrex 5y ago
FWIW, this is not limited to Indian or IT companies. Many if not most consulting/banking/law companies have an "A-team" that gets trotted out to woo the customer, and as soon as the deal is sealed, the actual implementa
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Thanks! Price guide $76,800 seems surprisingly reasonable when compared to $70,000 for a mid-range Tesla 3.

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