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> Feels a little disingenuous to quote this line and not the full section where OP was just asking you to know your local representatives. [...] you have to almost actively not pay…

> and you've definitely never called your Congresspeople to complain about their votes Or, you know, you haven't lived at the same address for twenty years. In your imagined world …

I actually can enjoy being the digital janitor, when I'm allowed to. What's frustrating is when things are dirty and they don't even let you clean.

Are you saying they already had a warrant for his arrest but needed an excuse other than a warrant to pull him over? That makes... no sense? Or are you saying they wanted to catch …

> The pretext is that his travel to another state was assumed to be to buy weed. [...] > Unless they have direct evidence [...] it's a pre-crime judgment. But how does it being pre…

I'm so confused, how is this creating a pretext ? A pretext is a false reason. Like if they searched for one reason but they really did it for a different one. But that's not what …

> Per Cambridge Dictionary, it means: to be unwilling to do something You agree balking means being unwilling, right? So not balking means being willing, right? He did not balk, th…

> Merriam-Webster has balk as to stop short and refuse to proceed . To understand the intended meaning, put the emphasis on the first part: If the mayor did not balk, he did not st…

If he did not balk that means he did not refuse. Which means he complied. What he did not do was comply/capitulate/etc.

By "balk" did you instead mean "budge"? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant?

> Haha I guess we discovered the mysterious country you were referring to when you said, "Elsewhere in the same country." I wonder why you didn't want to reveal it? Reveal what? Th…

> Big Dairy got to you, huh. Common sense did, not Big Dairy. > There’s nothing wrong with referring to other kinds of milk as milk. There very much is. For most people, if they go…

When people ask for chicken do you also introduce them to your timid cousin? Or when they ask for meat, do you also show them the meat of the latest math problem you were working o…

Perhaps you should visit more of the US, or visit different types of restaurants? Neither meaning is as dominant as you make it sound. You see both within five minute walks of each…

> or, just let people call things what they want, and focus on real problems instead. Even this comment as I’m typing feels like too much time committed to the subject. If a proble…

I've seen the meat version plenty of times too, it's not like I couldn't understand that either. That was the entire reason I checked the ingredients, which had never failed me unt…

Just replied to the parent, linking so you see it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165769

Sorry for the late reply. > If you use recursion, both the absolutely necessary state and the temporaries are pushed onto the stack (along with the stack frame the language runtime…

You might be surprised, I had a similar kind of confusion myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164552

Anecdote: I asked for the "mushroom burger" on their menu at an airport years ago -- I didn't want meat and it had nothing indicting meat in the listed ingredients that I checked -…

> After all, a cheesesteak is not a steak but a sandwich. I don't know if you're not seeing the obvious or deliberately ignoring it, but the rather-salient differences between thos…

> You should know the top 5 dishes of the 10-15 most popular cuisines of the world, at least. Leaving aside how ridiculous these numbers you pulled out of nowhere are, what godsent…

Usually, when I travel, it helps me to better understand and respect that other people may have different perspectives or experiences than me. This is probably the first time I'm s…

That was terrible, I used to always turn it off. It's like speaking one word and the person interrupting you based on the prefix you had uttered so far... every single darn word. I…