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8,986karma·2,607submissions·July 23, 2020
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Just one decade left to stop being a loser...
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> Frankly, most people won't even wrap their head around simple conditional logic/algebra. What do you mean by this? I've met people who struggled with for-loops, but most people hav…
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Missing harm considered harmful.
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Spoiler: his favorite mask is the TIA BOTN from https://behealthyusa.net/BOTN-%EB%B3%B4%ED%8A%BC-%ED%99%A9%E... and overall prefers the (Korean) KF94's over the KN95's. His …
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For good reason: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/09/22/covid-... …
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This never made sense to me. If Donald Trump is locked up in a Chinese jail and powerless, he's no longer racist? A KKK member surrounded by a group of armed black police officers is not racist?
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Yes. I believe that.
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> She said Vitali traveled to Belarus “simply” to visit his mother, who is suffering from advanced cancer. After observing an obligatory two-week self-quarantine, Vitali stepped out to buy his moth…
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Does Blender even have any CAM/CAE functionality? Parts tree, version management, integration with CNC? It seemed like Blender is to CAD as MS Word is to Visual Studio. Different worlds that are …
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Spoiler: they don't know anything about it, no pictures and no specs. The company that worked on it is not revealed. Really the most notable thing is that it took only a year. The P-51 Mustang wa…
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Mine looked like hanging drapes closing in around me, but completely non-threatening. They were bright white, green, and brown stripes, and rhythmically pulsing, like breathing. I had the strongest se…
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This isn't a nationwide shortage. Everyone in Seattle has been calling every Home Depot, Lowe's, and they've been sold out for a while. My local one in Bellevue was cleared out of all f…
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Sold out until this Friday when this is all supposed to be over, unless it's a very weak filter that won't do anything for smoke. Show me where you can get genuine N95 masks (as a non-essent…
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> Why not order a few HEPA filter air purifiers? Everyone keeps saying this when they have been all sold out for the past 10 days.
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Missing from article is any causality between Facebook bot farms and any real world effects, election outcomes or deaths. It just says, oh there were a million fake likes on a post in this country... …
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The algorithms are motivated by ad impressions. Solution: seek out newspapers that are funded by subscriptions, not ads, the ones with stiffest paywalls. These would be Financial Times and WSJ. Chomsk…
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How does it taste?
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The money quote: > Study author Kristen Syme, a recent WSU Ph.D. graduate, compares treating anxiety, depression, or PTSD with antidepressants to medicating someone for a broken bone without settin…
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Yes, it's perpetually gloomy. No sunshine at all, it's raining right now. Terrible quality of life. You made the right decision.
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WA has no personal income tax. Also a bit of a libertarian flair overall, why MSFT is openly defense friendly, which means local government has allowed for building housing everywhere.
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Why does he have so many?
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
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I'm tired of these comments stating that the headline should not be surprising. Can you just accept that not everyone's life is fixated on the subject at hand, and that this still constitute…