FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
True but glass is very much "outside the body only". Don't want shards in your gut.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I maintain that "100x better" is an understatement for teflon eggs vs eggs fried in butter. Also, there's almost never a good reason to be so extremely strict about fat consumption that 5ml or 10ml or 15ml is a problem, espec
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by FredPret 2y ago
Why not just type 3.1E7 instead of the weird up arrow? Every software calculator I could think of to try understands this notation, it's easy to say and copy-paste, and the unit is clear from the context the original number is in.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I find with this and many other things, the answer is "butter". Even 2.5ml of oil and 2.5ml of butter mixed together will result in eggs that flip perfectly and taste 100x better than teflon eggs.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I read an article about "crunchy moms" https://www.wsj.com/style/rfk-jr-health-initiatives-crunchy-... They like steel and glass kitchenware only. I guess that makes me a crunchy dad (at least when it comes t
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by FredPret 2y ago
Compilers have this very same habit!
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by FredPret 2y ago
It's true that there are very good things that aren't products. It's also true that public goods come at the expense of private goods. I've lived in several places with "free" healthcare, including Canada right
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by FredPret 2y ago
Is it much of a scar? Only future archaeologists will know when they dig up rocks from our era 1000 years from now. And the payoff has been no major war since 1945, despite infinite animosity and huge defense budgets on all sides.
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by FredPret 2y ago
+1 for this feature
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by FredPret 2y ago
> A very small number of people decide where investments go, what tech to design, and what to buy. Baked into this is a certain kind of economic unrealism that you frequently see online. Rich people aren't endless fountains of capit
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by FredPret 2y ago
Who decides "what we need"? I say "we" do - ie, if people want to buy autonomous cars, then that's what's going to happen. Incidentally if there's a large number of autonomous cars available in a fluid and
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by FredPret 2y ago
Blue does make a nice contrast to sand and sandstone
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by FredPret 2y ago
Even for that to work you need a good random number generator
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by FredPret 2y ago
c is just crazy fast. But still slow compared to the size of the universe!
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by FredPret 2y ago
> a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”. Is this not what happens in case law?
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by FredPret 2y ago
You can’t easily dismiss the problem by pointing to history. In those historic times, stock ownership was much more restricted to rich investors (not a good thing) who are far more opinionated in AGMs (a very good thing) than some faceles
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by FredPret 2y ago
Index funds vote the way they think, and they control massive amounts of capital. Too many retail investors just vote with the "board recommendations" all the way down the ticket every year, if they even bother to vote.
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by FredPret 2y ago
What? The contention is that jobs had booms and busts before HN. Starting off the low base of 2008, of course the graph shows growth. It does not show the 80s, 90s, or the dot com boom, or the dot com bust.
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by FredPret 2y ago
You only need exponential growth to work once
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by FredPret 2y ago
Have you tried calling doctors directly? Sometimes there are information gaps between their capacity and the provincial bureaucracy.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I’m in business technology consulting. You’re right about tons of pain points and opportunity. But the limiting factor is not AI or any kind of tech, it’s getting these businesses to trust you with fitting into their existing systems and gi
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by FredPret 2y ago
There was once a billionaire in Brazil who blew it all. Instead of Netjets you can own your own jet(s). Instead of restaurants you can buy them or have the chef come to your house. At the extreme end, you can start a space program. The sky’
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by FredPret 2y ago
That book is wonderful
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by FredPret 2y ago
> Really, it could be much worse. These are the official names for Germany. It does get worse! My broader point is you can call yourself whatever you want, but you cannot tell others how to speak if they don’t agree.
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by FredPret 2y ago
An interesting one is Germany. Different people call them Allemagne, Tyksland, Saksamaa, Německo, Germany, and many more; of course none of these people ever went to Germany and asked them nicely what they'd like to be called.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Come up with a third space to rival the church of old and you’ll be hailed as a cultural hero for the next millenium. Starbucks has not cut it.
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by FredPret 2y ago
And Burmese / Myanmarians. Names are always bestowed, never picked.
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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s basically Amazon without the middlemen (who do add value by breaking down minimum order qty’s and shortening shipping time)
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by FredPret 2y ago
ipaddr has a point. The average person (non-scientist, non-technical) has replaced belief in the supernatural and the church with belief in science and the institutions of the state, and though there have been major improvements, we haven&#
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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s much easier to learn complicated things in one’s native tongue. OTOH, it’s a huge advantage to learn technical English early on. It’s the language of computers, engineering, science, math, business.

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