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>f one thinks that some corporation--any corporation--owes "faith" or loyalty to their customers If you don't think it is well past time to start forcing ethical behaviour on corpo…

>Lead pipe but instead of a dozen people in the pipe factory it's a few hundred You haven't been in a factory lately, or toured one from 100 years ago? Its exactly opposite to how …

>Could they prove that I copied that single line from them? Would anyone care? A year from now, you could decide to write something, and the obvious appears in your mind, and you t…

It sounds like the author is part of a wonderful community.

Most people's internal alarm for self preservation starts yelling long before endurance is truly tested. Nobody sprints for 24 hours, but I am certain that even the average couch p…

Depraved, even.

This this^^. Anything that can stay coherent and on topic longer than a typical human is useful. I'm a stochastic parrot at some level too.

There aren't enough Catholic priests to go around anyway. So the priests are often hopping back and forth between parishes, figuratively and actually. So its no real surprise they …

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Lick 'em and stick 'em, got it.

So happy for those two devs.

Bunch of twaddle. I'm not doing it for the engine, I'm doing it so the windows thaw out, and partly so that the passenger compartment is warm. I'm doing it so I don't get in a frig…

Sure, but there has to be stray wolves forming new packs. Every pack in existence started that way. While there is no fight for who will be "The Alpha", obviously there is a patria…

Exactly. This is why it is dumb when people say "The odds against life arising at random is astronomical." It did happen, therefore, the convoluted path to life wasn't what the ske…

That's similar to how it works in my Canadian workplace. My employer has a pool of workers, and when a project is coming up, the manager phones around and fills his or her labour r…

"Forget everything you know about slipcovers." I also had no expectations about something called Perfluorocubane.

>So: why should we--why should anyone--care about your half-arsed opinion? I don't think you effectively critiqued yakshaving by repeating what he said about the commentating art c…

Thank you for this.

And lamer than I had anticipated. While the actors faces are intrinsic to our memories of those films, there is nothing in the films existence intrinsic to those precise faces and …

I don't know either, but in English one definition/sense of para is "beyond", so it is "beyond language symbols", which shapes up to be something in the sense of a sort of programm…

The world is bigger than the USA. The chances of getting caught in a mass shooting are lower than you are estimating, and pedestrians are more impacted by automobiles. We have thos…

>why are they not using it in situations where it would be clear, to any individual with that knowledge, how useful it would be? Who is to say it is not? By analogy, if you are lay…

I remember when this was knew, thinking, "Its so cool, but too technical for me to do!" Now it would be, "meh, I've done harder". Thanks for the wonderful memories.

I agree!