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by alxmng 4y ago
Tipping in the US isn’t tipping. It’s a fee that’s not included in the price. You’re expected to “tip” a certain amount and employees can get quite upset if you don’t.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Enjoying life. Having fun.
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by alxmng 4y ago
My father gave me sage advice: Choose your battles.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I put everything in a folder in iCloud. Ideally, I would prefer the USA had universal medical ID cards which store medical history, like Taiwan does. That way I could just bring my ID card to any healthcare provider and know it will contain
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by alxmng 4y ago
I might be the odd one out, but I don't want diverse news sources and perspectives. I want a source I trust to inform me about things that matter from a shared perspective and ideology.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Seconded! I use Turbo with Haskell and Rust web apps. SSR with Turbo is the sweet spot for me.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Not really. Here’s a study that measured hexane in various oil brands and didn’t find any problem. “The hexane residue was detected in thirty-six out of forty examined samples, ranged from lower than LOD to 42.6 µg/kg. However, in all
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by alxmng 4y ago
The oleic acid group, the group that didn’t see an increase of metabolites, was given high-oleic sunflower oil. I brought that up because it’s a chemically extracted seed oil, and one of the most common seed oils. “Seed oil” is not a signif
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by alxmng 4y ago
That study also shows that a diet high in chemically-extracted high-oleic sunflower oil did not have increased urine metabolites compared to control. So that study actually works against the hypothesis that seed oils or chemically extracted
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by alxmng 4y ago
Vegetable oils do not require chemical extraction. But even so, what does that have to do with the oil? Oil extracted with solvent shouldn’t have any significant solvent left in it when consumed. Linoleic acid is not “toxic” to humans. It’
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by alxmng 4y ago
Humans did not evolve eating olive or coconut oil. Seed oils do not require modern technology. Soybean, sesame, sunflower, etc. can be extracted with stone pressing and were extracted that way prior to any chemical extraction process. Where
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by alxmng 4y ago
It’s a simple theory (omega 6 = bad) but the evidence is not clear. Plenty of studies demonstrate benefits from Linoleic acid: https://www.drchristianson.com/blog/are-omega-6-fats-bad-for... I see talk about seed oils
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by alxmng 4y ago
That’s interesting. Did anyone actually choose to swap wealth? I can’t imagine why one would choose that option.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Categorizing oils like this seems counter-productive to studying the effect of consuming certain fatty acids, as oils from the same category have wildly different composition. Coconut and olive oils are both from fruits, but contain differe
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by alxmng 4y ago
Push-ups are great for strength, muscle growth, and health. But their usefulness for strength and muscle growth drops off once you are able to perform many standard push-ups. At that point you’d need to do harder variations (like archer pus
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by alxmng 4y ago
Agreed. Clearly there are huge chemical differences between coconut oil, sunflower oil, and tallow. The science is too shoddy to draw any conclusions. It’s hard to take seriously studies that don’t consider olive oil a “vegetable oil”.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Just have three separate drop downs for year, month, and day. Problem solved. Unambiguous. Bug free. Works without any extra JS.
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by alxmng 4y ago
It has happened. My child got a resistant strain of Shigella causing severe dysentery. After a stool assay it was found only 3 kinds of IV antibiotics were effective, with only 1 being safe for children at effective dose. And it still took
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by alxmng 4y ago
RSS + webmention (standardized ping back) with rel=“in-reply-to”, known as the “indieweb” stack. ActivityPub is more comprehensive though, with a standardized vocabulary including followers/following.
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by alxmng 4y ago
That’s a neat way of obscuring the id. I don’t see how remote generation is an upside. If you’re using UUID as a database key, you’re hitting the DB anyway, so it doesn’t save a trip to the DB. There are plenty of uses for UUID like peer-to
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by alxmng 4y ago
Disagree. UUIDs are a waste of space, and they aren’t sorted. Use 64-bit ints. Prefer not exposing them to users, but it’s not a problem for most software. If you ever get so big you need to shard, use Snowflake or a 64bit scheme that e
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by alxmng 4y ago
Ha yes, I meant to say opposite philosophy, ugh. Vim is command -> object but Helix it’s the other way around. In Helix you select first then do something.
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by alxmng 4y ago
This is really great. I’ve recently switched to Helix editor after 10 years of vim and haven’t looked back. If you’re looking for something a bit simpler, zero configuration, but with the same philosophy as vim (select -> action) give it
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by alxmng 4y ago
I use Safari's built-in "Read Later" action. If I want to save a page forever, I bookmark it. If the title isn't descriptive I change the title or add keywords. To find a bookmark I search my bookmarks. I don't orga
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by alxmng 4y ago
New money is created through bank loans, or monetizing government spending, or emergency asset purchases by the Fed – none of which are the typical source of VC funds.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Interest rates are for banks borrowing from the Fed, affecting interest rates on loans issued by banks, and the rate of bank lending. But I don’t think VCs fund themselves by taking bank loans. These crypto companies are primarily capitaliz
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by alxmng 4y ago
The Fed doesn’t give VCs money.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I use https://sumi.news so I can read everything grouped by day.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I don’t think so. The site died when everyone moved to using Facebook events and groups, which is still where all the parties get posted today. Events/groups is the only thing keeping me from deleting my Facebook account.
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by alxmng 4y ago
GalaxyRaver. It was the goto place to find raves in California in the years before Facebook became the norm, after mailing lists died (~2006 - 2012). It ran on phpBB with custom extensions for calendar and chat (using flash). It was invite

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