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by Tharkun 9y ago
That's a ridiculous price to pay for ketamine. Though I'm hoping that cost includes a doctor's supervision and stuff? $6000 would buy me enough Special K for several life times ...
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by Tharkun 9y ago
The Belgian public neither knowd nor cares. The press should have made a fuss but didn't. I remember a couple of very short articles about it, which kind of sort of maybe said the British might have potentially but not likely been invo
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by Tharkun 9y ago
> People at Google might be the smartest under the sun, but they don’t understand email Oh no, they understand email very well . They're just arseholes who want to force "regular joe" and small business to use their servi
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Here's a fun fact: when the US abolished slavery, they lost out on a lot of cheap/free labour. Guess what bridged the gap? Forced prison labour. Guess who filled the prisons? Former slaves. The old bait 'n switch. Guess who&#
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by Tharkun 9y ago
My thinking was similar but a bit more cynical: if I'm going to be paying someone for company, I feel like I'd get more (pardon the awful pun) bang for my buck with a sex worker.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I'm one of those people who shouts in anger and frustration any time the subject comes up. Self hosting email is a pain in the arse. Google and MS are deliberately making it a pain in the arse. Spammers are making it a pain in the arse
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I wish that were the case. I've been administering mail servers going back over 20 years and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The last 4 years or so, things have gotten a lot worse. Google and Microsoft are actively and delibe
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Assuming you're running your own mailserver because you like the idea of a decentralized web; isn't it kind of odd to then rely on Amazon?
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Step 4: wonder why the hell people aren't replying to your mails. Step 5: realize you've been blackholed by gmail and hotmail with no bounces and no explanation. Step 6: frustration. Step 7: tell people to add your e-mail address
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by Tharkun 9y ago
FB have taken out huge newspaper and billboard ads in Belgium, pretending to care about your privacy. They're trying to divert attention from their real privacy issues, by saying "you can choose who can see your stuff".
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by Tharkun 9y ago
You don't need conventional disposable nappies/diapers. You can get washable ones. Will save you a shitload (heh heh) of money and trash.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
The legal alternatives are good? What a joke. That might be partially true in some parts of the world, but is plain wrong in most of the world.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
If you're interested in figuring out the costs, they sell devices —— called calorimeters i think -- which you can stick on the storage heaters and will make pretty decent estimates of the amount of energy released.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Nope, that's the upside of a draughty old building, all the air leaks keep the place well ventilated and pretty dry. 14C is not too low, in fact it was pretty common before the age of central heating. Additionally, I'm on the grou
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Tangentially related anecdote: I remain convinced that it's the occupant, not the building that matters. I heat my uninsulated 1910 era flat for about ~150EUR/year. Of that 150 about 100 goes to hot water (showers, mostly). How? B
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Mozilla has plenty of money. If they truly cared about an open internet as they claim, they would be taking better care of Thundebird. It is by far the most popular open source mail client, and email is something that needs to be saved from
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by Tharkun 9y ago
What are you basing that last paragraph on? It's my website, I'll damn well deny access to anyone I please.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Years ago, I got to watch a Japanese movie narrator (benshi) in action. They're a dying breed who narrate silent movies in real time, on stage, next to the big screen. It's a mixture of narrating, voice acting and improvisation. T
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Migraine a 'risk factor' for cardiovascular disease(medicalnewstoday.com)
2 points by Tharkun 9y ago|1 comments
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I wasn't saying they do, though I guess I should have been more explicit about it. I was saying that people are already being harassed based on their presence at demonstrations.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
> Were you in the Women's March last weekend? Well, congratulations! You've won the "extra screening at the airport" lottery. This is already happening. In the UK 'forward intelligence teams' (FIT) have been
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Paracetamol comes with its own set of problems. It's somewhat dangerous to people with a variety of liver conditions.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I was referring to Apple devices running OSX. Guess I should have made that a bit more clear.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
A lot of FreeBSD development is done on Apple devices these days.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I live in the middle of the giant cancer of light pollution that is the Netherlands/Belgium/Germany triangle. Most of Belgium is on the white-ochre spectrum. There are no dark spots to speak of within any reasonable distance. It&#
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Ask HN: Support/service desk tools and tips?
1 points by Tharkun 9y ago|0 comments
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I can assure you, I feel a lot better after 800kcal worth of alcohol (about 3 beers) than after 800g of protein (a small chicken).
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by Tharkun 9y ago
The odd bit of anti-competitive behaviour (and billion-dollar lawsuits that come with it) is also something of an advantage...if an unfair one.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I lose things. Frequently. Key fobs have fallen off my key chain. Someone once snail mailed me a flash drive which I'd lost (and which contained a single scanned invoice). I don't like physical access tokens. House keys are kind o
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Relevant quote: "We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice." - Mamoru Oshii

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