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by benlumen 6y ago
Interested in this claim that 1.6M in the UK have some level of alcohol dependence, because I’d be amazed if it’s that low.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Is anyone using website blockers? I broke a Google News habit by modifying my Windows hosts file once, but there are more sophisticated solutions now. Quick search reveals tools like "Freedom" and "Cold Turkey".
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by benlumen 6y ago
Western corporations should be fleeing China like rats from a ship at this point. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi...
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by benlumen 6y ago
It's hard not to find this Bluesky thing interesting, actually. Certainly leans into that sympathetic image that Dorsey is a hostage of what Twitter became and wants to do something about it. Of course the cynical view is that it'
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by benlumen 6y ago
Living up to the name.
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by benlumen 6y ago
I'm just getting in to Node, coming from only having used PHP and then Laravel. Is it a bad time? Using Sails.js for rapid prototyping.
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by benlumen 6y ago
If you're interested in ancient civilisation speculation, you must read some Graham Hancock. Or watch his interviews with Joe Rogan.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Very good point. I'm in my 30s and it's even come a long way since I was a kid. We didn't know until recently that there were planets orbiting other stars. We suspected that there might be, but we didn't know. The idea t
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by benlumen 6y ago
I've seen them too, I believe you. I think we're being visited and watched from a distance. Skepticism is normal and understandable but I'm surprised at the amount of uninformed skepticism on this topic here. It seems like
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by benlumen 6y ago
> This was the single most important thing to get right since 1945, by a large margin. Well said. It's obvious to me that the reason that the EU (and leaders of EU member states) are acting unpredictably at the moment is that they v
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by benlumen 6y ago
Understood, thanks for taking the time to explain.
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by benlumen 6y ago
The original comment, and this retort, sums up the argument in a nutshell. I see both sides of this one, offered both of these arguments to a friend last night. It's complicated, like most of these things.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Literally a brand new account shilling a US origin theory. This is the internet now.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Are you joking? > Account created 2 minutes ago Interesting.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26389690 (In 2018, US Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab - politico.com)
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by benlumen 6y ago
Thanks. Reddit is such a good example of how "progress" hasn't really been progress in web development. The new front-end framework site is so much slower and more buggy.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Anyone else in the UK thinking what a fine thing it would be to designate the space for a dedicated “HyperCard” machine? I practically operate a one-in, one-out policy for retro stuff like this.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Nauseating naval gazing from a company doing immense damage to our culture.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Interested in a dialogue now they helped put their guy in office. The power of this company is chilling.
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by benlumen 6y ago
I did a Networking BSc and so for the longest time, used aftermarket / open source routers. The last one being a Linksys running openWRT (ACS1900, or something). I spent countless hours messing with that thing trying to get decent perf
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by benlumen 6y ago
> My only regret is that I didn't do this 10 years earlier. It's not a bad thing to have a professional career before programming. I'd imagine that you'll have developed some non-technical skills that some developers
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by benlumen 6y ago
Sorry, yes - the context was that they were encouraging uptake of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the here and now. Prof. Sarah Gilbert (who developed it) did the rounds on TV explaining that they're tweaking it for new strains and booster
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by benlumen 6y ago
This was discussed in the press several weeks back, there was a Downing Street briefing that day about it - they hammered home two points 1) The data isn't in on severe disease and hospitalization - and they strongly suspect that it wi
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by benlumen 6y ago
An effervescent multivitamin drink (Berocca or equivalent), Omega 3 and a decent dose of Vit D should cover you. And if in doubt, have a side of steamed broccoli.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Yep - it's an interesting twist at least. If HN continues to grow, we all know where it ends. And there's a reason we're here and not there.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Yes. Governments that maintain their authority by oppression (as opposed to obtaining a mandate from their population) have a strong incentive to create an environment in which its easy to imprison people for things. This is quite basic stu
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by benlumen 6y ago
I think in authoritarian systems like China, loads of things that everyone does are illegal. They have something on everyone. And yes, yes - a bit of that goes on in the West too.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Agree it seems fun, but the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. Shared meaning - literally the foundation of language. The novelty of having to learn each company's made-up titles would wea
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by benlumen 6y ago
So true. I was thinking about Clubhouse recently and realized there are two basic forces that conspire against successful new platforms: 1) Going mainstream / mass appeal means the lowest common denominator drops, whether that's c
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by benlumen 6y ago
We're getting downvoted for this but I'm not convinced that most people read past the first few sentences. The article was clearly not really about NEETs. Anyway, yeah - to level these sorts of complaints against society's se

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