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What was Alex Roman's lie? I'm having a hard time figuring that out.

You can start with fried items from McDonald's: https://querysprout.com/what-oil-does-mcdonalds-use/#:~:text=For%20some%20people%2C%20it%20may,of%20its%20main%20cooking%20oils.

As a man, is there anything I can do or avoid doing in the workplace to make it easier for coworkers like you? Let's assume I don't know and don't suspect anything specific about m…

This wouldn't be Hacker News if someone didn't comment that ACTUALLY a random walk of n steps will get you sqrt(n) in some direction, which is much better than log(n). I guess my s…

This yields the same result: when did neil armstrong set foot on poop

There's a good chance Netflix is behaving rationally. Shows are like startups. The payoff is a very skewed distribution, i.e. median and mean are vastly different. After one season…

Here's another list of them: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~field/holzer/living.txt

The opposite is true. If you are a freelancer, healthcare premiums are an above-the-line deduction, which practically has the same effect as a business expense. This is better than…

Yes, just click in the nasal cavity above 'lip' and 'hard palate', respectively, to get [m] and [n].

You're right. It sounds to me like [s] with lip rounding, where the teeth don't contribute as much acoustically, but it does indeed sound like an [s].

This is amazing. I can get it to make almost any speech sound, but one I can't get is [s], because the model lacks teeth!

Toilets work the same way! When water in the bowl rises to above the highest point in the drain, everything (hopefully) siphons out.

How about searching the web? I'd rather most queries take 1 second, and 10% taking 10 seconds, than every query taking 5 seconds. I don't understand how you can be so confident abo…

Captchas are useless for their intended purpose if a bot can get it right better than every other time.

"currently unavailable" http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

"Neurons, brains, space … these are just symbols we use, they’re not real." Such bullshit. Yes, they are symbols, but "just" symbols? They don't approximate reality at all? If so, …

Something's going on that's more than just network effects. Google was arguably not the first dominant search/advertising company, and Facebook was not the first social network, et…

I would love to read an account of the games that administrators play, or of how businesses use universities to "launder money", if you know any. We've all seen numerical analyses …

The pictures stopped loading halfway through, but up to that point, I was entranced. Even the writing, by itself, is fun to read. It's rare to see someone with talent in both visua…

I generally sympathize with homeschoolers, but these parents seemed pathologically unable to doubt themselves or admit to mistakes. They were unable to see that their son, James, n…