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Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... That said…

> who are more likely to find themselves abandoned at a time when they are increasingly unable to cope on their own That often happens rapidly, and in many cases putting the Alzhei…

RenPy is the VN software that gave us, among others, DDLC and Katawa Shoujo.

Interesting. I've used a notepad++ "spellbook" of one-liners and useful commands (Cisco & Juniper especially). What would this offer that a well-backed-up N++ doc doesn't? Sell me.…

dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805315

This has been a discussion thread I've heard of before. I.E. the mountains full of rare earth metals, lithium, etc. in Afghanistan, and how we need to secure it ASAP before the Chi…

For the folks who have web filters that block reddit: ----- Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activitie…

The case study at the end seems overly modest. Even relatively unimpressive internal promotions can bump you up 7-8% or more; jumping ship to new jobs can often add 50% or more.

> GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks, a specific kind of deep learning algorithm that can train a neural network to generate realistic imagery. Whilst GANs are not integral to cr…

Nitpick: I believe that's "lede" as in "burying the lede".

I do consulting work. My role originally promised 40-60% travel to customer sites. For a while, that was true. Now 95% of my work is webex or hangouts or go2meeting, etc. If I need…

More like his neighbors became "those people"

> Wtf is going on in California. Forreal. As someone in Canada watching the weed thing play out, my prediction is that Cali would legalize and then utterly dominate. Like the medic…

That is debatable; burning leaves or burning anything can mess you up with extended amounts of exposure. Firefighters have above-average rates of cancer, including lung cancer. Thi…

Helping to stimulate the economy of the next county over...

Buying a house with an HOA to keep the property values up, setting up NUMBY committees to keep new developments out, google buses as someone mentioned, corporate recruiting pipelin…

> I am on 100% remote team now for past 3 yrs and remote teams lack any human connection, team culture or shared struggle. Sure I know where everyone lives and how many kids they h…

Deleted it in 2008 -- before it was cool! ...but ended up creating 2 accounts for businesses in ~2015-2016. Still on linkedin, reddit, HN, twitter, and tumblr. No whatapp or insta.…

Fairly certain the notion of an Ivy League University has to do with college football; the elitism came more from being "college boys" at a time when most folks didn't go to univer…

> spending the largest portion of its budget on undemocratic means That is just simply not true. The largest part of the US budget is ~1.25 trillion USD spent on Social Security an…

The planning equivalent of Thoughts and Prayers. To speak to the parent's points -- WW1 happened and the League of Nations failed to prevent an even worse conflagration. Say what y…

In VA that was $2.13/hr + tips, with tips to be declared at the end of the shift. Obviously, you could declare lower tips than what you made, but if the customers paid by credit ca…

"In [Father of The Bride, George Banks [Steve Martin] heads to a local market in order to cool off after having had a bit of a meltdown over his daughter’s impending wedding. While…

> cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms are far less destructive than alcohol Alcohol is tied, heavily, to crime. As much as 70% for domestic abuse issues, and closer to 30-40% for fatal ac…

I'll echo this. Keto did wonders for my skin. But it's a hard diet to maintain, both in terms of managing cravings and consumption, and also because we put carbs (corn syrup, et al…