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balsam

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    Comment #35627652

    It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.

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    Comment #35627497

    Can always move on to Koselig, even shorter distance to ‘cozy’

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    Comment #35440399

    The essay seems to be predicated on the mistaken notion at the time that the electron has no mass (the proton had not been discovered yet). Of course today philosophers of physics …

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    Comment #35417454

    According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena. From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympia…

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    Comment #35268531

    Think of it as an upgrade from no bels to a single bel. The next milestone is weird, ten bels.

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    Comment #34677418

    From the banner it looks like Zhang Lennon plays the lead.

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    Comment #34677264

    https://archive.is/pH4xK

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    https://archive.is/EbhE9

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    Comment #34642721

    >He beat the nanny, Sandra Rivett, to death with a lead pipe. One wonders if the Etonians of earlier decades were hit as hard by lead poisoning as by a misplaced sense of impunity.…

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    Comment #34447053

    Code: https://github.com/mosuem/knotportal

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    Do YC no longer pay the mods’ salaries? That’s odd, I was under the impression that HN exists to serve the interests of YC. If you look carefully at the behavior of the largely neg…

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    In the comments: “Ostrich eggs are a spider repellent (this is such common knowledge that authors may not feel a need to clarify this detail) and spiders are sacred in Islam becaus…

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