Tharkun

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by Tharkun 8y ago
As a non-American, can someone explain to me why the entire constitution wouldn't be applicable upon entering your own country? This makes no sense to me, but it seems to be the way it is?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I'll believe it when I see it. Sleeper trains have been on the out for a while now, because they're much cheaper and often much more convenient than high speed rail. Don't want cheap and good to compete with overpriced and pr
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by Tharkun 8y ago
How can you determine whether a patient has cancer before they show symptoms, if you require a tissue sample? I would expect people only get tumors biopsied after they realize they have one?
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Ask HN: How do you help your team “level up”?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's very common, and it often starts after an illness or health scare. In some people it gets worse and worse, they start going to the ER all the time because they feel something is wrong etc. It can be debilitating. If you feel like
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by Tharkun 8y ago
What you describe sounds like health anxiety. Please consider seeking help for that.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's not "insanely" high. And blanket statements like this can cause undue alarm. If you're worried about an elevated resting heart rate, go get an ECG done. Don't let random people on the internet talk you into hea
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by Tharkun 8y ago
And that's exactly why anyone who isn't a cardiologist shouldn't be making judgements about the state if your heart. The heart is pretty complex for being 'just a pump'. Things can and do go wrong in ~100% of the po
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Good. People have been driving too fast for too long. Too many people die in car crashes. Speed is often the factor that determines whether you (or the pedestrian they're hitting) lives or dies. Drivers have had plenty of time to moder
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I thought the race to suburbia was a deliberate attempt to spread out the population in case of Soviet nukes? Though I guess there is likely more than one cause.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> “Open-heart surgery, particularly in low-risk patients, is very profitable,” Dr. Herrmann said. Sheesh. For-profit hospitals are a foreign concept to me. Seems incredibly cynical to crack open someone's chest, leaving them with a
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by Tharkun 8y ago
This might finally get me to migrate away from awesome-wm, which I've been using for basically as long as it's existed. As far as I can tell, awesome-wm has been dead for a while, with only one release over the last two years or s
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's one of my favourite smells. Right up there with ripe tomatoes and freshly baked bread. I have very strong & happy associations with all three of those smells. Whenever I pick up a book, I automatically give it a sniff.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's hardly a surprise. It takes time for people to migrate to new protocols. Not everyone can just leave 20 years of engineering effort behind and switch to HTTP2 because it's a bit faster in some situations.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
The price of housing is only one factor. You can probably buy a nice, cheap house and open some office in the arse end of nowhere. And then you can spend your day driving around to get basic shopping done. Some cities are certainly more aff
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by Tharkun 8y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Getting rid of DST sounds like a good thing. Not messing time is patently good. But a bunch of countries on the western side of the EU ought to be on GMT instead of GMT+1. And appparently a ma
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. You don't have to create flash cards. Polar just makes it easy to turn notes into flash cards, that's all.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
You don't want to use a heat pump to blow hot air. You want to use a heat pump for low temperature underfloor heating. The heat is right where you want it, the heat pump doesn't have to work as hard (because of the lower temperatu
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by Tharkun 8y ago
You know that the holocaust was the deliberate and methodical extermination of people, right? The word does not apply here, at all.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Good news: social contributions are 20.5% for 2019, not 21% :-)
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by Tharkun 8y ago
He's Belgian. Belgian taxes are awful. If you want to accept 'donations' for software, you have to be self-employed. This comes with a boatload of hassle, including paying national insurance contributions of 20%. (which are c
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> It is very difficult to build a decent email client with IMAP Why do you say that? I've implemented a couple of embedded IMAP clients over the years and I always found it pretty OK to work with?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Latency is the sum of its parts. It doesn't matter if the latency from the cell tower to your phone is 1ms or 10ms if the rest of the trip takes 100ms. It's nice to keep some of the latency down, but it's not going to magical
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but while we're on the subject of graph databases: could anyone point me at some useful introductions to the subject? Thank you.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
True, but you could certainly charge a roomba over PoE.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
PoE seems pretty nice in that regard. Easy to use, lots of appliances run on it, cabling is easy and it can carry data.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Sushi dates back to before the invention of the fridge. It originated as a series of techniques to preserve fish. Sushi with fresh fish is a relatively modern take on it. Old style sushi is sometimes called edomae style sushi, and it used
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Indeed. I wanted to comment that sleep apnea can also cause irritability.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
That's not quite correct. Smart watches have gotten quite good at measuring heart rate . They are sometimes a bit slow to notice drastic changes (like going from sedentary to exercise), but they're pretty accurate when it comes t
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I stopped attending FOSDEM some years ago, as I felt it had gotten too big. Too many people, not enough seats, not enough toilets. Has that changed?

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