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brokenkebaby

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    Comment #37001938

    I think it's pretty clear what it means if you start reading from your own comment. You claimed that a history of promiscuity means nothing (and even blamed it on the parent commen…

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    Comment #36998713

    >I don't think anyone believes being sympathetic or hot is sufficient to sustain a relationship. I didn't claim you do. The point made is about "How promiscuous either of you were …

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    Comment #36997407

    >How promiscuous either of you were at any time before you met will have no bearing on that whatsoever, if you are committed to each other. The problem is in the fact that commitme…

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    Comment #36955830

    Btw while cotton dries slower than PE, or wool in any case, it also worth to note that moisture wicking doesn't mean just drying quickly. It means water absorption happen in such a…

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    Comment #36955627

    The reason cotton is perferred is because it's way cheaper than all viable alternatives.

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    Comment #36954916

    You literally quoting a piece of commercial copyrighting (=ad) to contradict knowledge by experience. It's not like one data point, cotton is highly unpopular in hiking, and athlet…

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    Comment #36936796

    Not in my experience. Cotton takes your sweat, and makes you feel like you are soaking in it (and that's why it chafes more - skin loses elasticity in prolonged contact with water)…

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    Comment #36901006

    Yes, please: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23108937/ >Coffee is essential for my productivity, not for pleasure. For sure it is (for the reasons I described above). As for pleasu…

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    Comment #36891285

    It's guaranteed to be false for the simple fact of human organism adaptability to caffeine. You certainly feel increased alertness after a cup of coffee, so subjectively it may fee…

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    Comment #36890925

    Coffee really became common beverage in Islamic world about 3 centuries after the "golden age" finished

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    Comment #36887550

    Not in that way. Arabic expansion grew a new layer above cultural heritage of East Mediterranian region, and Persia, and its most important centers were exactly there, showing a lo…

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    Comment #36835606

    >Isn’t it widely recorded that handwashing only came to be a norm mid-1800s? You're mixing up two completely different modes of washing. The one related to medicine in XIX is about…

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    Comment #36795216

    Both doesn't work for me

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    Comment #36791811

    I don't know every Slavic language, but know a few. There are rules of transformation of sounds which can make -ph to become -f, or -p, while -v is very-very unlikely. And the fact…

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    Comment #36755915

    >I wish there was just a standard language for programming. Approved by a Central Planning Committee, I suppose?

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    Comment #36741285

    >This strikes me as very weird, since there is a Tocharian language group and Iranic languages don't belong to it. I guess it's because "Tocharian" as used for IE languages of city…

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    Comment #36688108

    I (quite obviously) talked about the description you posted. Unless you are the author it's not really yours wrt its content. If by chance you are, ok, I can see the reason for emo…

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    Comment #36685382

    Hey! The book can be better than the description you posted, but the description is what is open for everyone to see here. As for people downvoting you that wasn't me so I can't sa…

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    Comment #36676129

    Well, this excerpt has a buzzfeedy malodor

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    Comment #36648764

    Just a few days ago I found a bug in someone's code where a variable was introduced twice with slightly different name, like "var jobno", and then "var jobn". Made me think that Pa…

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    Comment #36631546

    I recently tried to search for my own web presence from late 90s early 00s, and I found the famous claim that nothing dsappears from the internet to be greatly exaggerated. A few s…

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    Comment #36585814

    It's not a feature exclusive for Twitter to be sure but the fact that herd behavior on background of social animosity is much more important driver than cat pictures is pretty much…

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    Comment #36528284

    Slogans like "good journalism requires good money" don't really bring any reasonable argument to the table, let's be frank. Neither good journalism nor good money is defined for ev…

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    Comment #36468890

    Incorrect claim. These nations actually invest into preventing such risky trips.

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    Comment #36426457

    I cannot help but notice that Perl used to be very popular in early web development, sys administration, and in a a row of scientific fields. And lots of people were enthusiastic a…