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THE PROBLEM: Cuzco's scenic beauty currently attracts more tourists than the infrastructure can accommodate; however, building more stuff for the tourists will damage the scenic beauty that tourists come to see. THE SOLUTION: Cuzco should destroy its scenic beauty even more. Building more stuff (e....

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I came out to my mom as trans! It went pretty well.

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Tim Conway

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Is it just me, or is it not obvious that how you get these things to happen is to get enough people interested that you can pool your resources and go try to make it happen? So basically let the free market handle it? I mean ok sure that's an option. It seems like a poor one since the change that i...

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But YOU proposed the “solution” on how to solve journalism. People are criticizing your solution because we cannot see how to enact not. No one is arguing the solution you proposed isn’t good in and of itself. No one is debating that non-profit news organizations are bad or ineffective or that inde...

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I think fundamentally, what distinguishes between "thought" and "evolution" as processes is that the former involves simulating the environment and predicting the consequences of actions, and the latter involves no simulation, just stochastic trial and error. There are circumstan...

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Pfhorrest wrote:Is there a Sagittarius A without the *? Is that just a star? Is Sagittarius A* near the Sagittarius A star in our night sky, and that's why the black hole gets that designation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A

Doesn't seem to be a link to it from the Sgr A* page.

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elasto wrote:It's the right these days that are sceptical of scientists and other 'experts' whereas not so long ago it was the left.

What's this referring to?

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Have a control group of climate sites in rural areas that shouldn't be affected by the effect you're testing for?

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They will collide at almost c. Relativity ensures they can't be approaching each other at greater than c. How does that work when a stationary observer watches to objects hit when both are travelling at near-C? Can I not observe a single object travelling left to right at near-C? Observer in the ce...

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Could you draw a picture?

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You also might want to check out Altra shoes too. https://www.altrarunning.com/why-altra.html The wide toe-box is one of Altra's trademark features* across all their shoes. Altra shoe toes look more like a paddle than a point. I am a casual runner and I have a wide foot... I discovered Altra a few ...

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Soupspoon wrote:Not-news-but-apropos-to-the-suggestion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

If it's one continuous glass wall, shouldn't it count as only one window?

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Twitch Stream of the Union

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Eebster the Great wrote:They would die.

How quickly? Would they gradually lose energy over a longer period of time, or just suddenly pass out dead?

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What would happen to a person if all of the mitochondria in their body magically disappeared?

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Most animals touch the mark to try and remove it/ figure out what it is. I think it should be noted that this isn't true. Very few species have passed the [mirror self-recognition] test. As of 2016, only great apes (including humans), a single Asiatic elephant, dolphins, orcas, Giant oceanic manta ...

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Looks like wood glue is polyvinyl acetate. I can't find any mention of it being used as a structural material, so I feel like it would just be a poor-quality plastic chair.

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If Trump goes down for election shenanigans then Pence will probably go the way of Spiro Agnew—he will get replaced and then the replacement will likely finish out the term. If they both get impeached/removed from office at the same time, would Pelosi become president (assuming she wins the Speaker...

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I was looking for houses, and found a street where the high-income residents had platforms built on the sides of the house along the roof for snowblowers. The platforms were attached to the slanted edges of the roof, so that someone could push the snowblower across the roof and remove the snow from ...

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That seems to invoke a circular definition—any current is also going to have a specific voltage, and the volt is defined in terms of amperes and Newtons—the Newton itself being defined in terms of kilograms. They're using the current* definition of the kilogram to accurately measure Planck's consta...

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Stan Lee

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This gives "juvenile court" a whole new meaning.

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The real solution is to let go of the assumption that HTML should be stored and manipulated as plain strings, and only convert it to a string at the very end when the page is complete.

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Patriotism is chanting "U-S-A!" when the USA team walks onto the field.
Nationalism is chanting "U-S-A!" when the other country's team walks onto the field.

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wumpus wrote:But trying to keep out somebody with a soldering iron and an oscilloscope is essentially impossible.

You can probably beat that by putting everything inside the processor itself (can't trace what you can't see without destroying the thing itself), but even that has its limits.

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There was a mail bomb attempt on George Soros, fox news commentary is hard at work trying to make it sound ok to terrorize Jews. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/explosive-device-found-at-george-soros-home-report&ved=2ahUKEwjKkvfp4ZzeAh...

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I think there's a reason said "sun" resides in what is called "Paradox space".

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somitomi wrote:I'm probably going to explore the possibility of modding the existing one though, because the programmable ones are not that cheap anyway.

Fancy color touchscreen ones maybe, but ones with a simple LCD and buttons are fairly cheap

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Long story short, if you think adult media is better than child media, then you are logically required to think porn has aesthetic valuable. This is proof reductio as absurdum that adult media is not inherently better than child media. There seems to be an unstated assumption introduced between the...

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Coming out has went spectacularly so far. I'm currently out to close friends on facebook (most of whom I see in person frequently), and at work. Haven't come out to family yet, as my mom is currently my landlord, so I want to be in a more secure place housing-wise in case things go south.

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Hey, I'm a trans girl! I've been on hormones for 4 months now, and just came out at work last week.

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Dr34m(4+(h3r wrote:
doogly wrote:Have you tried plugging it in?

Right, but then something is acting on it.......................................................................................................

Brains don't work unless they're plugged in either.

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adamrobbins2018 wrote:And aparently the doctors gave the people wheely-braces for their backs so they could walk around bent backwards or something.

You'd think it would be easier and more comfortable to just give them wheelchairs like everyone else.

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gd1 wrote:Best Coding Language (or operating system I guess):
ThanOS
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."

You'll never run out of hard drive space! As the hard drive gets too full, half of the files are deleted to make room.

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Imagine you are driving to work and suddenly remember you forgot to do the dishes last night. What pops into your head is not a picture of you doing the dishes or of the dirty dishes themselves, but rather the words 'I forgot to do the dishes'. I'm pretty sure this is not true for everybody.

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If the only way you believe safety can be improved is by restricting and punishing non-criminal gun owners, then you occupy a position roughly similar to the anti-abortion crowd. That's how safety regulations work? By adding restrictions and punishment for violations thereof which apply to everyone...

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Sounds like a Jeopardy answer.

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I've always understood e.g. 89th percentile to include only the 89th-ranked 1/100 of the group, so in a group of 1000 values, the lowest 10 are in the 1st percentile, the next 10 (11-20) are in the 2nd percentile, etc. Rather than the nth percentile containing the lowest n% of the population, each...

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It looks like the percentile rank is the percentage of values that are below a score (so, just a number), while the percentile is the group of all of the values that are below a given percentile rank. If your mass is at the 89th percentile (89% of the population has less mass than you), then the per...

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