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by Balgair 3y ago
Exceptions exist, that's why we have courts, to figure it out. You can't put up a sign on a rollercoaster that says it's going to kill customers if they ride and then get away scot-free when someone dies. Though it took a cou
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by Balgair 3y ago
Personal anecdote: Quit caffeine. Worked wonders for me. Seems that I have some big sensitivity to it, so when I quit my sleep was better than it has ever been. Not going to work for everyone, and yes the headaches are pretty bad, but it&#x
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by Balgair 3y ago
The Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen, editor of Empire magazine, goes into the 'why' of the 80's action movie stars. Great book, well worth a summer read. TL;DR: Unique factors of the stars themselves mostly growing
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by Balgair 3y ago
Before everyone goes asking : Source?, I want to caution one thing. Smoking increases testosterone levels[0]. Like any drug, nicotine has a variety of side effects, and one of them seems to be increasing testosterone levels (the exact measu
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by Balgair 3y ago
I think that the author belies his true poverty in the piece then. If a middle class lifestyle is seen to the author as 'rich', then he must be really really struggling. Knowing a few friends that are in the situation that the aut
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by Balgair 3y ago
Speaking of styropyro, he's very adept at sourcing less than savory laser parts and has no qualms putting those extremely high wattages to crazy uses. I'm still not sure the guy isn't blind and just faking it really well. No,
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by Balgair 3y ago
Oh nitter works again? Nice
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Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by Balgair 3y ago|15 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
Outside of the 'tech' realm: China's path in International Relations. The next decade is decisive for China's future. She must make her moves soon or is very likely to be shut out of any path to hegemony for the century.
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by Balgair 3y ago
The median salary for a teacher in SF seems to be ~$70k +/- $9k [0], so about half you guess. Which, I mean, how the heck are they living anywhere near SF on that salary? Jeeze Louise... A better breakdown of the '21-'22 budg
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by Balgair 3y ago
Like a lot of education, California's is so tied up in so many ways that it takes books to understand. The first issue that springs to mind is the funding. Most funds in California do not stay local, they go to Sacramento and are then
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: Do you really just use ChatGPT to comment, or is it just a username? Like, what's the deal here?
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by Balgair 3y ago
I read the first one as OP meaning that Twitter is hostile to users, not that users are hostile to each other
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by Balgair 3y ago
> your thesis supervisor just bumped you off primary author to contributor in your own paper. I mean, woah. Even that's a little too far for phd-land
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by Balgair 3y ago
Here geriatric doesn't refer to the average age of first birth, it refers to issues that the mother and child will experience during gestation and delivery. Isuues such as : High blood pressure and preeclampsia Gestational d
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by Balgair 3y ago
What field?
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by Balgair 3y ago
As I'm sure you've probably guessed, it's not about the bots. It's that his contract with Google for servers ran out on July 1st. So now they have to pay a lot more. Absurdly, this is a cost saving measure. And yes, I&
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Ask HN: Happy July 4th What are some thing you like about the US
3 points by Balgair 3y ago|4 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
The law of large numbers would indicate that yes, a cross section of the 'smartest' should have the same racial make-up as the population. If it doesn't, then something is rotten in the state of Denmark, so to speak.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, the author has a doctoral degree in science communication. It's his job and the point of the channel to try to make things easy to understand. The opposite is true with fiction. You're intentionally trying to have the audi
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by Balgair 3y ago
To be suuuuuuper pedantic here: Relativity tells us that time is a dimension, one that is a bit unique. In that it has a constant attached to it. So, the 3 dimensions you're used to are just normal, they have no constants. (x,y,z) Mete
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by Balgair 3y ago
Nice article. However, the relationship is a bit more of a 2-way street than the author admits to. The mice in the maze are studying the scientist too. Meaning, such a manager would have a difficult time managing devs that know what tricks
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by Balgair 3y ago
I guess that's the magic of a marriage. You both change and you find out another way that you love them. Yo can look at it as a downside or as an upside.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Good one I heard: Marriage is not a capstone, it's a cornerstone Meaning that you build a life together. You don't 'have it all figured out' and then cap that off with a wedding to someone from central casting, riding of
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, you don't marry someone that is going to do that, right? It's not like you have a coin flip chance at a happy life or an unhappy divorce. You can influence the odds here. In fact, you can really stack the deck in your favo
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by Balgair 3y ago
Quantity has a Quality all it's own
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by Balgair 3y ago
Well, Donny's long awaited come-back to twitter may be longer delayed then. I can't see this decision standing. The traffic drop is going to be immense. Advertisers, already wary, will not like it yet again. Plus, a long weekend i
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by Balgair 3y ago
Already, r/all is now a lot more of strange subreddits (trurateme?) that really shouldn't be there and were founded on much smaller communities. If what the mods say about their tools is in fact true, then: Next, you're going
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by Balgair 3y ago
Even if it did happen, it would immediately become useless. What's the old adage? Once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. Such a matrix would only become a goal for those wanting to get their kids into schools. I
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm going to assume positive intent on this and that it's not a troll comment. Race in the US is horribly complicated and tied into so many parts of life here in the US. Full Stop. HN comment sections aren't really the place

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