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by liability 6y ago
Cats supposedly fail the mirror test, but I think they're just disinterested. There are a lot of videos of cats being shown live video of themselves and their owners, with the owner's face modified to look like a cat. In many of
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by liability 6y ago
Assuming I could keep my homicidal impulses in check, I think the rage would still surely impact my productivity.
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by liability 6y ago
It's a kangaroo court. America and the UK are both banana republics.
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by liability 6y ago
Only when I can see it..
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by liability 6y ago
I haven't tasted cola in years; back when I drank it I believed I could tell the difference but today I doubt I ever could. I can tell a pilsner apart from a stout. All whiskey tastes like whiskey, but whiskey doesn't taste li
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by liability 6y ago
Yeah. American homes do have 240V across a split phase but this is virtually always used only for heavy appliances like electric ovens. Split phase 240V for countertop appliances isn't a thing and NEMA 14 outlets aren't installe
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by liability 6y ago
I did with my family using blindfolds and we all failed. Either seems to demonstrate that perception of wine has a strong visual component.
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by liability 6y ago
Nope. Nor can I tell the difference in a blind taste test between white and red wine. Probably most wine snobs can't either, and probably most coffee snobs couldn't really tell the difference in a blind test.
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by liability 6y ago
I don't think these devices save time at all. In the time it takes me to navigate the through the touch-screen UIs of these fancy toys I can microwave a cup of instant coffee and start drinking it before the fancy machine starts brewi
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by liability 6y ago
If I were made to wear such a device, all it would have to report is the murderous intent I would have for the jackasses that made the device, and those that made me wear it. I think most bosses are probably not stupid enough to think this
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by liability 6y ago
Lex Fridman is to tech interviews what Reviewbrah is to cheeseburgers.
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by liability 6y ago
True, though a noob wouldn't know how to invoke it like that.
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by liability 6y ago
The P and V operations on semaphores are from Dutch. I find this difficult, "The V kind of looks like a down arrow.. but wait no that's increment. The P could mean plus.. wait no that's decrement..."
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by liability 6y ago
Nov.el is my favorite ebook reader.
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by liability 6y ago
Vim drops noobs straight into normal mode, meaning the moment they start trying to type they get confused. I know that's what happened to me. The arcane nature of Emacs doesn't make itself apparent nearly so fast.
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by liability 6y ago
As an Emacs newbie (less than one year of usage) I could not disagree more. I disagree with basically everything you just said. If somebody wants notepad++, they should just use that instead of trying to turn Emacs into something it never
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by liability 6y ago
I can't say I'm a fan of the GUI (part of this is me not needing most of its many features, which are doubtlessly useful for others) , but the Calibre command line tool `ebook-convert` is fantastic and handles conversions pandoc
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by liability 6y ago
Or just don't whitelist javascript on bloomberg, since the site works just fine without it.
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by liability 6y ago
A cheese medallion seems like a fitting award for a rat.
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by liability 6y ago
Rayiner, I wrote this response to you before you deleted your comment: If the US were targeting the House of Saud then I might believe what you say, but those guys going untouched undermines claims that the US is combatting radicalization
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by liability 6y ago
If radicalization in these countries works anything like it does in the west, then the missiles would be more effective at preventing radicalization if pointed at social media tech executives.
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by liability 6y ago
Why should we believe that? Why do you believe that? Who is to say the people targeted have affiliations to the organizations claimed? The US federal government has little credibility. Usually we demand they back up their assertions i
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by liability 6y ago
> Wikipedia says they can remember up to 100 people. Damn, that might be more than I can.
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by liability 6y ago
Well if they're just going to make up shit, I'd expect something like "Vikings met the Aztecs and taught them civilization and were then worshipped as gods" , not "the Vikings got their asses kicked by Mayans and
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by liability 6y ago
> The unforgivably outdated info is the part about mesoamerican nobles living in Chaco. That's a super old and kind of racist narrative you typically see from people writing in like the 30s-50s. You'd have to ignore half a cen
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by liability 6y ago
Maybe it was 'trespassing' I suppose. I don't know much about this subject but from what's been described in this thread, assuming there must have been violence seems like a leap.
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by liability 6y ago
Or maybe they were just incredibly antisocial and felt compelled to leave by their desire to not live near other people. Such a seclusionist mindset might explain why they were there in the first place...
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by liability 6y ago
I don't think white supremacists would have much interest in some yarn about Vikings getting their asses kicked by Mayans.
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by liability 6y ago
It was originally a Greek name, so probably not many before the Romans showed up. Maybe a few though.
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by liability 6y ago
> While the particular mural may be in good shape It isn't, it's gone. The image in the article is a watercolor reproduction made in the 1920s-30s. And even when they found it, it was as deteriorating fragments on the floor

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