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Where do the people working the retail live? Up or down the corridor I assume?

If you shoot something back at the same speed you're traveling to keep it "stationary", that's just called propulsion!

Are you sure that the "so-called" was addressing the claim of statehood, and not of being Muslim?

As long as "no cash value" means they don't get summed in topline total comp, and that they can't be used to circumvent minimum wage, I don't see an obvious problem. If it's a bad …

Well the courts said they need probable cause for a search, so they needed an on-demand probable cause generator, or else they wouldn't be able to do pretextual searches on "random…

If anything, that would lead one to assume that it over estimates typical length.

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

Some painters can't paint if they can't sell.

Basically, if you're vegan because you object to industrial farming practices, and value animal welfare, eating animal products (or even meat) that you personally produced, while p…

> the main difference between myself and my peers is that I chose to live with my parents and save for a house instead of moving out It was very clever of you to choose to be born …

I mean it's used by editors in headlines, but the article itself says "has described a new Colobus monkey species," and goes on to discuss the locals (relative un)familiarity with …

> The British government have a strong, well-established (since ~1950), and arguably inflexible attitude towards "right to self-determination". > Meaning: the people who live in a …

It's interesting to me whenever developers say "actually this framework/language/library/platform that's popular and lauded for how accessible it makes development has great perfor…

Do you consider the historic Arabic expansion across the middle east to be colonial, or is colonialism when boats?

Of course there are, but women tend to be inconsiderate assholes in different ways. While a population of 300 million means you could probably find plenty of counterexamples, obnox…

I've been a fan of continuous time change for a while now. In theory, to get a similar result to the hour change twice a year, you only need ~20 seconds of change every day, though…

Right, because nobody has killed millions of people while representing themselves with a pentagram. The comparison falls flat.

One great "hack" I've discovered is that most hotels are more than happy to stow your luggage behind the counter, or even in a luggage room if you arrive before check in times. Thi…

Sounds like a local maximum to me. Did you maybe mean a global maximum?

~1.5 Mg of sugar.

Could you ask him for a video of himself 3d printing it?

Part of this is defacto deregulation allowing suppliers to overcharge smaller stores with less purchasing power than big chains. (The policy not to enforce https://en.wikipedia.org…

I think it would still be a vast improvement if online shopping was relegated back to only a narrow set of specialty goods. And this is ignoring the possibility of ordering less ti…

Or your watch telling you the room is 98 degrees because it's only ever measuring your body temperature

I suppose that would make "Botanical Computation" the use of plants to perform calculations.