benzin

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by benzin 3y ago
In all seriousness, if you have the patience and glasnost you should reach out to a scientist or related professional who can document this behaviour via bloods, x-rays, genomics or other means. I study oral history and you’d be surprised w
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by benzin 3y ago
It might be the narrative bias of revisionist history but it seems like there’s a trend of bombastic good-for-nothing leaders against get-stuff-done lackeys and quiet leaders. I almost despair at hearing what i want to hear now because it p
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by benzin 3y ago
This is actually on my current todo list - replacing textedit with Helvetica to make notes on MacOS, with Featherpad and ??? font on Debian. Didn’t seem important but the default is so damn ugly.
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by benzin 3y ago
These are the kind of books I aspire to write eventually. Incredibly niche but indisputably authoritative to those that care about the niche.
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by benzin 3y ago
Seen and confirmed (before the author removes it - if they care to)
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by benzin 3y ago
They’re usually the first comments in these posts - perhaps stuck in traffic?
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by benzin 3y ago
It seems very simple, more romantic than a dating app and would massively recoup my net worth because I’m sharing expenses, being motivated by my soulmate, and married people out-earn single people statistically especially over a longer tim
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by benzin 3y ago
I have a ten year old laptop - bought a replacement battery, good as new - for 15 minutes. Now it dies in 2 minutes when unplugged. Maybe a trustworthy brand will emerge to handle the different battery sizes available.
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by benzin 4y ago
It’s a nice counter argument but the comment you’re replying to is essentially a slam-dunk on this entire MBA discussion. Confirmation bias truly is a juggernaut.
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by benzin 4y ago
I'm pro-everything. From my flawed knowledge of economic history, energy rules all and is the single best thing to invest in for a country or civilisation's future. [1][2][3][4][5] Any advantages individual technologies have in en
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by benzin 4y ago
The jaw-dropping moment for this point is the section about bees, even if the author himself said it was very hard to understand. It reframed my understanding of a 'queen' bee at least.
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by benzin 4y ago
Until paint was produced commercially during the Industrial Revolution (circa 1800), painters had to make their own paints by grinding pigment into oil.[1] Photography drove painting deeper towards abstraction. [2] I'm not unsympatheti
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by benzin 4y ago
My tech company's office is close to the BT office in London. I can see arguments for (separation of environments) and against (job market liquidity) office-working but the hybrid model for offices in the middle of London is a Hobson&#