Apfel

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by Apfel 5y ago
Yeah, I'm afraid you're definitely wrong on this. I've used Modafinil extensively at several different doses. Even at a quarter pill (50mg) you will struggle to feel even remotely tired if you take it after 9am (assuming you
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by Apfel 5y ago
As someone who has just gone through the ADHD diagnostic process in the UK - previously abusing stimulants is a risk factor they have to consider before prescribing you anything. I have previously used Modafinil fairly extensively and consi
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by Apfel 5y ago
Jevons' Paradox would also apply in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by Apfel 5y ago
The book "Practical Vim" is written with this exact use case in mind. And it's great
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by Apfel 5y ago
https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Zybourne_Clock.html I assume this is the RPG you're referring to?
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by Apfel 5y ago
They're already all over Quora and Reddit.
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by Apfel 5y ago
This is a pretty unpleasant response. Your app very strongly fits my interests but your replies have put a bad taste in my mouth.
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by Apfel 5y ago
Absolutely agreed - their game about spacial repetition is my go-to conversion tool for friends and family: https://ncase.me/remember/
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by Apfel 5y ago
Agree strongly with this. The Spoonfed Chinese deck is so good that it's worth actually paying for. I think it's only $3 or so now.
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by Apfel 5y ago
This story is just a lie. As others have said, council houses and benefits in the UK are not a pleasant experience, or easy to get without jumping through means testing hoops constantly
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by Apfel 5y ago
Depends on both local climate and lighting method. LEDs output very little heat nowadays
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by Apfel 5y ago
My current (government) employer blocks installation of Firefox and Chrome setup exes, but it's still just a hardcoded block on Chromesetup.exe and can be bypassed by calling it literally anything else.
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by Apfel 6y ago
The TV in the article has two microphones built in!
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by Apfel 6y ago
Obviously this isn't a permanent solution, but noise cancelling headphones have gotten really good recently. Sony xm1000 models and Bose could potentially go some way towards helping you deal with this.
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by Apfel 6y ago
This is a great idea and I'd love to have a go with it, but I'm struggling to submit my information for the beta - getting a 500 error.
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by Apfel 6y ago
15% of those who test positive die. Most infected people are unlikely to be tested in the UK unless they are admitted to hospital.
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by Apfel 6y ago
It should be pointed out that life in Hong Kong is definitely not markedly better for young people than it was for their parents.
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by Apfel 7y ago
Their analysis actually only focused on two centres in the east of Scotland. There were ~1500 jumpers in 5 years across the two centres, of which 174 (11%) were injured at a cost of £3751 per injury.
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by Apfel 7y ago
This is a very interesting article, but hijacking middle mouse click to scroll made the experience of reading it pretty annoying.
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by Apfel 7y ago
I live in Glasgow - isn't it closer to 600k?
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by Apfel 7y ago
I think the only city around that population in the UK is Birmingham. It is notoriously a pretty rubbish place.
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by Apfel 7y ago
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3042991/chin... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3042122/chi... These should cover it. Most
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by Apfel 7y ago
I hate meetings with a passion, and I work in HR data for a very large (40k+ employee) government employer in Western Europe. I got myself in a bit of trouble by attempting to produce an automatically generated "meeting cost" repo
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by Apfel 7y ago
I do most of my of work in this realm, using Python. I pull data from multiple databases each day with selenium and bs4, clean and transform using Pandas then generate pretty nice reports with ReportLab. It's given me a lot of opportun
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by Apfel 7y ago
Sidenote: isn't it a bit odd that they have a merchandise page? https://www.cafepress.com/deadmalls
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by Apfel 7y ago
It's a lease, I think. He mentions it in the article.
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by Apfel 7y ago
It's a testament to the sheer breadth of Arrow's work that he essentially created the field of health economics and it's only given a cursory mention in the intro. The below (not excessively mathematical) paper was light year
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by Apfel 7y ago
The discussion being entirely banned on Weibo also implies that it's deliberate. Try searching "李嘉诚发声" and you'll get a message saying "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, this page is not found&qu
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by Apfel 7y ago
Homelessness in China is visible and universal, but you have to know where to look. There's a lot of shame associated with it, just like disability (I'm sure you've probably noticed you don't see many disabled people in
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by Apfel 7y ago
It's extremely easy to find a job in Chinese cities, generally speaking. There's lots of jobs for jobs sake - most restaurants have far too many staff, and there's lots of security guards everywhere who run away at the first

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