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by bernawil 4y ago
I'm from Argentina, even now with 100% inflation YoY I wouldn't call it "hyper-inflationary". We had hyper-inflation in 1989 and that was 79% monthly. People in general won't accept doing $1,000 in work and by t
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by bernawil 4y ago
of course I'm not talking about pugs. I mean dogs, average dogs, as a model for wild animals our hunter gatherer ancestors might have hunted long time ago. Again I'm not saying it's "literally" impossible. Just not
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by bernawil 4y ago
my point is, can a human reasonably stay within viewing distance from a dog that is running away from him? the dog can just run at top speed, gain some distance, take a little rest and maintain that distance at a comfortable pace. I used to
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by bernawil 4y ago
> distances that would overheat other animals what other animals? I used the dog example because it fits perfectly here: they don't sweat yet it's impossible to catch up to them if they are running away. Even if they overheat t
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by bernawil 4y ago
this somehow always comes up when anybody mentions human sweating or how good we are walking large distances. But whoever thinks it's feasible to hunt any animal worth its calories just jogging behind it has never chased a playful dog.
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by bernawil 4y ago
It's not that unique, really. It's quite the same as India. I guess it's harder for us westerners to appreciate Chinese diversity because they don't broadcast so much English content about themselves. If the European Uni
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by bernawil 4y ago
> Svelte just changes the relevant bit of the DOM, Because Svelte is mutable state galore. I thought we all agreed to say no thanks to that.
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by bernawil 4y ago
People laugh at web development, especially the frontend, for changing libraries every week that's a 2016 meme. Things have been remarkable stable since.
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by bernawil 4y ago
But that's not a real conversation between a group of actual humans. Nobody talks about easily checkable facts. An actual group conversation I had last week: - Remember early 2000s when that team had that insane defense? - Yeah, what w
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by bernawil 4y ago
"Infiltrating animal rights groups" sounds like a plot by the cops to rake overtime and get laid in the meantime. I can't even begin to imagine how they sold it to their superiors. They all must have been in the scam.
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by bernawil 4y ago
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in the year ending June 2020, an estimated 673,000 people emigrated from the UK. This includes both UK-born and non-UK-born individuals. Of the total emigrants, approximately 316,0
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by bernawil 4y ago
Maybe, many of those natives leaving every year do so because of the extra competition with the immigrants: bringing people over causes lower salaries and higher costs of housing. What's worse is that, those leaving presumably are capa
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by bernawil 4y ago
Well that makes more sense. Having a couple of senior-looking people come once, drop a bunch of fresh grads "taking notes" to rake up the billable hours, then come back to deliver a "report" -and by come back I mean just
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by bernawil 4y ago
a 21 year old grad I hope this is hyperbole or using the term "consultant" when really meaning "pawn from a staff enhancement agency" (as is often done). Because the accusation seems to be that consultancies sell
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by bernawil 4y ago
Interesting, it's the other way around for me with screens. Glossy screens have better colors and text looks crispier to me, something about the lack of diffusion around character's borders. I honestly don't know how matte sc
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by bernawil 4y ago
> fundamentally the incorrect claim that banks lend out their depositors funds Typical arguments against this always end up in "they do lend out their depositors funds" with extra steps. deposits go to their balance sheets as a
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by bernawil 4y ago
the automobile didn't make horses more productive, it (almost) totally replaced them. Maybe this time, we're the horses.
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by bernawil 4y ago
"Here's a very weak pattern" is the base of lots of modern memes like /r/starterpacks or 90% of twitter.
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by bernawil 4y ago
> Only apple nailed it. it used to be true, but sleep sucks now in the M1 line. When I leave my 14 inch mbp on sleep with 20% battery before bed I wake up to a dead battery.
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by bernawil 4y ago
Rioplatenses, then :-)
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by bernawil 4y ago
> I'd say English precisely excels on how well it handles ambiguity and certainty. I'm curious about this. I mean, English doesn't even have different words for singular/plural "you".
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by bernawil 4y ago
what's cool is that regional dialects have different vowel/consonant pronunciation but the differences are almost completely consistent internally and between the dialects. Like, Peruvians pronounce anything with "y" or
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by bernawil 4y ago
The point is that would be illegal and prosecuted. A competitor could also shoot them with guns but we don't worry about that, don't we?
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by bernawil 4y ago
Grids have more parking because there's more streets and therefore more curb, it's not a matter of width. Also getting off the arterial road and into the grid neighbourhood looking for parking is more feasible because in a non-gri
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by bernawil 4y ago
> four-way stops are really inefficient at processing them This is a non-issue. Where I'm from, grid neighbourhoods are the norm and stop signs are not a thing. First, the grid spreads out traffic inside it. Then, you're suppos
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by bernawil 4y ago
vote for Genghis Khan of the Green Party!
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by bernawil 4y ago
it's the other way around. Grids are made for cars. And buses, trucks (garbage trucks too), semis. They are ok at moving vehicles from houses to the highway, but you can walk them too. Non-grids are for people and (few) cars. They are
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by bernawil 4y ago
>Still, we earn 1/3 in dollar terms per Capita compared to the US or Germany. How could that be if Germans already make 1/3 dollars compared to the US.
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by bernawil 4y ago
> Cooperatives aren't nonprofit entities – they can be, sure, but many of them are profit-driven. A tech consultancy cooperative works exactly like most non-profits: they don't post a profit and distribute everything as salarie
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by bernawil 4y ago
it's true for everything. You can even more so control the lighting and orientation of a desktop. Matte screens are the industry's worst mistake and I just can't understand why everybody hadn't ditched them already.

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