AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I am both a motorcycle rider and a bicycle rider for decades. While I never-ever got on the motorcycle without a helmet, half of my bicycle rides on the road are without a helmet and the only reason I wear one ever is because it has better
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
> car centric here need to focus on whether the critical mass effect is actually a real thing Anecdotal evidence: in my country in the summer there are less accidents between cars and motorcycles per miles ridden than in early spring or
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
The tricks for MySQL and Postgres are very different than MS SQL; some exist in a different form, some have no equivalent. It would be useful to have a side by side for all major flavors of SQL, Oracle included. LE. Almost nothing is applic
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Or even contribute with code: https://github.com/BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-...
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I saw cars with remote start back in the 90's. All manual, in Eastern Europe, where automatic transmission is extremely rare.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
In Europe there are many brand new cars that have BT for connecting locally to the smartphones for handsfree calls, but no access to Internet. I love that. We use Waze a lot for navigation, with Android Auto your phone can show the map on t
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I never had a firmware upgrade for any of the compact digital cameras (Canon) I had between ~ 1998 and 2012. I did not even think that this should exist, they worked well from the beginning.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I did, in the past. The worst for me was people that bought big "adventure" BWM 1250GSA motorcycles that cost a couple of kidneys and never get offroad or on any adventure. But I learned to live and let live.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
There were a couple of very undesired side-effects that manufacturers hate because it was making the consumers angry: 1. Burning the color of clothes. 2. Irritating the skin (hand-was was very common, it still has some use cases even today)
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
20 years ago in my country overuse of powder detergents was well known by all the manufacturers; this is when fixed serving sizes were developed as a way to contain the problem and they are also considered more convenient by most consumers.
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I did not say that in any means, shape or form. I said that all people need someone to help them when they are old, so all people have some responsibility these "someone". The "someone" are children of people, so society
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I don't have the source to share, but I read that some types of STDs are more and more resistant to antibiotics, to the extent that they need combinations of multiple, last-instance antibiotics to cure it.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Your money will have to be worth something and nursing homes to still exist in a world without children. Imagine everyone stops having children tomorrow and make a point for that case, then accept some will have a few kids - that is an impr
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
> Should an individual opting not to have children be expected to have negative consequences in old age? IMHO, no. The question is then who will care for these people when they get old? Other people's children? So other people shoul
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Sedentary: yes. A couple more reasons are clothing (stretch pants) and behavioral (society is on a fight against testosterone manifestations and sperms depend on testosterone).
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Most probably nothing to with Covid as the measurements started 40 years ago and the decrease was present all these years.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
I think there is a widely accepted view that children have limited rights, that may include free speech - porn included. They have no right to vote in all countries, no right to drink in most, no right to own guns (looking at USA mainly), s
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Does Telegram have a branch in India? What is the teritorial limit of the Indian court decision? Internet is very tricky in this regard, but an Indian court has no jurisdiction over entities that are in other countries (this is also a very
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Yes. There were a bit more women than men hired during that period of time for my department and about 4 females for each male for another department I helped recruiting.
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I did IT recruiting for half a decade and hired dozens on women during that time; that is a lot more data points than one roommate.
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
For example, Romania. Equal opportunity is a reality here.
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> still prefer to hire one gender over the other for some functions, and especially for executive roles Have you considered maybe they hire based on qualifications only and not gender? There are 2 implications from such thing: - genders
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
There are some people easy to find on Internet pretending* that if you leave the people to do what they like most, gender inequality per roles is increasing because of different preferences. In that context, gender balance means forcing peo
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
My company started this policy internally for more than 10 years. What is the situation 10 years later: - the last 4 senior directors of my department were all females, the last 2 were fired for incompetence, the previous 2 moved out with d
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
EU is leaning towards German-style management of regulating everything in excess. Most people in my country don't realize what is going on, there is only a minority that is making a bit of noise, but they are too few to be believed (w
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Very brief and unremarkable article. Not worth reading.
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It is not the speed that kills, but the sudden deceleration hitting a tree. Joking aside, acceleration can be a real problem. I ride a lot my motorcycle to work, shopping etc. I am closing to an intersection, I see a car that has to yield a
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
Most of the productivity increases in the past 50 years landed in the pockets of the employers, not the employees.
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Dealership in Europe is not so good either. Real example: I bought a motorcycle from one of the 2 dealers in the country. I had to do the first oil change at the dealership in order not to lose the warranty (in my country, in US you can cha
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by AdrianB1 4y ago
The Constitution was meant to give people rights and protections and it was clear in many places "should not infringe". Then people of all political colors started to walk the slippery slope of "we don not infringe, we regula

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