J-dawg

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by J-dawg 9y ago
Ugh. Did you go back later and delete it fully?
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by J-dawg 9y ago
The point of my post is that I literally can't delete Facebook right now because I'm locked out of my account. I'm not one of those people who thinks I can't live without it, my account has already been deactivated for
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Yeah, now you mention it, it may have reactivated after I gave the correct username and password, but before the 2FA step. I still think it's insane that you can reactivate an account without actually gaining access to it.
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> I'm surprised there's not a whole lot more discussion of it. As someone from outside the US who views "The Valley" as some kind of incredible utopia (ok, apart from the housing costs), I'm also very surprised b
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Tell HN: Failing to log in to deactivated Facebook account has reactivated it
107 points by J-dawg 9y ago|20 comments
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And yet you guys go around kissing each other all the time. I enjoy hugging both male and female friends, but I find French-style social kissing painfully awkward. So much potential for clashing faces, or accidentally planting one on their
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> one of his two phones rang > he kept his phones in a Faraday bag—a pouch, of military-tested double-grade fabric, designed to block signal detection. I guess he doesn't keep them in the bag all the time.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Do “dockless” bike hire systems actually work anywhere? There seem to have been so many stories like this. Docked systems seem to work really well (e.g. London), presumably because you can’t take a bike without leaving your credit card deta
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Ask HN: Technical skills versus people skills
1 points by J-dawg 9y ago|2 comments
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Depressing in the sense of "it's depressing that it's true" or in the sense of "it's depressing that some people think that way?" Personally I think it's a mixture of both. And also that it doesn&#x27
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I agree with the distinction between mens rights activism and the red pill. These and other male subcultures (MGTOW etc) always seem to get lumped together by people who want to discredit them. A documentary about men's rights being ca
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by J-dawg 9y ago
There is evidence from OKCupid etc (and, y'know, the real world) that the two assertions you quoted are true, broadly speaking. What has this got to do with "putting on his MRA hat"? Does this invalidate the assertions someho
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I'm just beginning to realise that a bit part of mental "toughness" and resilience is actually self-compassion. Striving directly for toughness can lead to you feeling bad or angry at yourself for having certain feelings, whe
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> even when they're make more of an effort to be pleasant than those for whom it comes naturally Have you got a source for this? It sounds plausible but also difficult to prove.
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Thanks for the reminder! I think my employer's medical insurer also recently started offering this. I'll have to give it a try next time I need a doctor. It's interesting that the insurance companies have noticed the weakness
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by J-dawg 9y ago
This to me seems like one of the fundamental problems with the NHS. (Compulsory caveat: we're very lucky to have it and it's way better than the American system, etc etc) But the primary care side of things basically has to be a
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I haven't heard of this before, can you expand on this?
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I've noticed this dismissive attitude as well, and I'm a generally healthy adult who goes to the GP very rarely. People go to the doctor because they don't know what's going on with their body and they are worried. The
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Prosecco is a good example of that. At least in the UK, anyway. Many British people are absolutely obsessed with the stuff, to the point where it forms part of their identity (See [0]). The Prosecco industry have done an astonishingly good
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I went vegetarian a couple of years ago, and friends keep asking me whether it's been hard to adjust. Truth is, 99% of any difficulties have been social rather than related to my own appetite. Giving up meat in itself was much easier t
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by J-dawg 9y ago
When will 'have fewer children' become a socially acceptable answer to this question?
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I didn't mean to make you feel like that. My reply was trying to say, I feel the same as you, and I'm curious to know how other people manage to be fully aware of climate change yet remain positive and happy. Diederich's repl
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Recently I've been reading various books about how to avoid and control excessive anxiety. One piece of advice that I keep seeing is that I should not worry about things outside of my direct control. This idea is also a central compone
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Could you explain what you mean by mortgage interest deductions? Does it mean that mortgage interest can be deducted from taxable income? Even if that income is unrelated to the property? In the UK landlords are allowed to deduct mortgage i
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by J-dawg 9y ago
That chart seems to directly contradict the oft-repeated advice of “never try to time the market”.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Although the post-increment (x++) operator was part of 'JS 101' for me, I've never knowingly seen the pre-increment (++x) operator before. TIL.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
wouldn't that return the value of currentChunk before it was incremented? So it would need an additional line to be equivalent to the example (making it a bit more readable in my opinion): currentChunk++; this.chunks[currentChunk
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I think his definition of "retired" is pretty simple: his family could cover all of their living expenses from investment income alone. When you think about it, this is pretty much what we mean by "normal" retirement a
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by J-dawg 9y ago
I've found myself saying that phrase in response to a lot of MMM's posts.
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It seems needlessly cruel not to allow the contractors to access the free amenities provided by (other low paid staff at) the company. Having access to a free bike service or haircut is a nice perk for a developer, but for someone on minimu

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