Alex3917

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by Alex3917 6y ago
Yeah in the two years before COVID, I had exactly one person ask if I stole the baby, presumably as a joke. I took her to the playground every day, to the grocery store multiple times per week, picked her up from daycare all the time, took
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Is this overdramatized? I took my daughter everywhere before COVID and never experienced this, even when she decides it's funny to scream things like "Help, this isn't my daddy!" But she also looks exactly like me,
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Social media damages everyone's mental health it seems. Does it? I've been using social media extensively for almost 30 years now (and now building social platforms for nearly a decade), and a lot of the biggest opportunities
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Most high-level rowers develop back problems, but these aren't primarily from the rowing machine, and your chances of developing the same kinds of problems while casually working out to meet your daily fitness goals are basically zero.
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> Everyone will instinctively throw the damper to setting 10, then throw their back due to bad posture. The people who do that normally only row for a few minutes at a time, and aren't really at any significant risk of injury. The o
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> C2 is the standard because they're very consistent across machines and are by far the best made allowig for many thousands of hours of use without failures. Most experienced rowers won't touch anything other than a C2. Most c
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> Also do software engineers fall into upper middle class or high skilled labor? The same ladder that telephone users fall on.
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Not for RDS (or beanstalk).
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> Has anyone here made the jump? Waiting for the t4 instances.
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> I don’t understand why there aren’t ghost groceries, similar to ghost kitchens or warehouses. There are. FreshDirect has a state-of-the-art facility in the Bronx, and I'm sure Amazon has several ghost groceries also -- e.g. they j
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> In the US, the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) has basically said that employers can require employees to get vaccinated. Once they're FDA approved, sure, but none of the vaccines currently being distributed are app
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by Alex3917 6y ago
If you were a big Bitcoin miner and you knew that there was only $2,000 flowing into the ecosystem for every Bitcoin mined, which would you rather?: - Selling each Bitcoin for $2,000 to pay your electricity bills? - Selling each Bitcoin for
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Magic mushrooms, in particular, love cow dung as a growing medium. This is a myth. Most magic mushrooms grow in wood, moss, dirt, etc. The media just likes hyping up p. cubensis first whatever reason.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The bigger problem with email is that messages are not as easily addressable, unlike links on the Web. You can format email messages for display on the web and generate permalinks for each message. E.g. look at what we do for https:&#
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> After a archive-worthy discussion in email, you forward the thread to "archivebot@my-company-domain.com". The script will parse the email chain and generate a static web page hosted on a local server. Unfortunately there isn&
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by Alex3917 6y ago
We made FWD:Everyone ( https://www.fwdeveryone.com ) for this exact problem. It works via a Gmail add-on, so you can upload an email thread after it's over without having to grant OAuth access to your inbox. It makes these th
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> And somehow, without access to Twillio's API, they defaulted to not do any check at all? I guess you could imagine user accounts being created with `authenticated=null`, and then having `authenticated=False|True` set in the in the
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> But yes, fancy desserts are hard. They’re not that hard, the issue is that most of the recipes online are lying to you. A lot of tips and tricks for working with pastries and chocolate are basically an oral tradition and aren’t well do
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by Alex3917 6y ago
The key to understanding roasting is that every cookbook and Google result is lying to you. Roasting doesn't mean just putting something in the oven on high heat, the things you're roasting need to be far enough apart on the tray
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> That's actually Tesla's only source of profit. So do they get hit 2x then, if not only will they stop getting the credits but the other automakers will start getting the subsidies that Tesla will no longer be getting? Right n
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In those cases the defendants didn't know they were talking with government agents, whereas in this case they knew the person telling them to do this was the president. And it's much harder to claim that these people were criminal
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> protesters outnumbering cops "100 to 1" That's the relevant point, not whether or not the cops removed the barrier. The cops knew that hundreds of protesters were planning in on breaking into the capital building to assa
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The capital police helped them break in, so they don't exactly have much reason to believe otherwise. If Trump told them to this, which pretty much the entire media has been saying, then it then wouldn't it be entrapment to charge
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On Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines(blogs.bmj.com)
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> I can't think of any sport where players are expected to become coaches. In amateur sports it's common. E.g. in rowing, cycling, fencing, cross country skiing, etc., people are generally expected to coach at some point. Albei
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If you type in different plants and animals into GIS, you don’t even get the right species half the time. If GPT-3 has solved this problem, that would be substantially more impressive than drawing the images.
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Scientists usually use active placebos for psilocybin therapy, so the difference isn't necessarily going to be obvious.
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It's not hard, it just takes a long time, which costs $$$. That's why it's very very unlikely to be sponsored, because no CPG company is going to spend 100k to commission a writer to spend several months working on an art pie
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It’s hard to imagine any writer who pitched doing a piece like this to the marketing department of a pasta company not just being told to fuck off. If it was possible to make money writing articles like this, there would be a lot more of th
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Having driven someone to the ER from a drone accident, just because they're not "sharp" doesn't mean they won't cut straight through your arms, hands, or wrist if you touch them while they're landing. When the

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