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by blfr 4y ago
What is most countries alternative to allying with the US? China? Russia? With their spotless record on human rights?
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by blfr 4y ago
Commuting by bike isn't going to happen. It's not practical for most business and personal purposes. Electric scooters have a better shot than bikes. (Still not going to happen.) The only alternative to cars in cities is working p
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by blfr 4y ago
The point about providing a better alternative and not just poking holes is very good and I actually agree with you but still, the people saying "the science is settled" are almost always trying to manipulate the public. In fact,
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by blfr 4y ago
Nah. This is the glass and steal aesthetic that routinely creates buildings hard to navigate by people who are impaired (even just buzzed), older, or in any way out of shape. Not because no one on the team likes to have a drink but because
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by blfr 4y ago
But you do control your kids genes massively through mate choice. This is what Plomin captures with parents matter, but they don’t make a difference .
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by blfr 4y ago
It's citizen-soldier. Roman farmers took over a good chunk of the ancient world before having a professional army, American clerks and tradesmen landed in Normandy.
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by blfr 4y ago
They were certainly quite good at least at keeping numerically dominant helots down.
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by blfr 4y ago
The almost unreasonable effectiveness of citizen-soldier over the ages is often underappreciated. It takes life-long dedication and a whole martial culture for professionals to keep the upper hand (medieval Europe, Sparta)
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by blfr 4y ago
For personal needs, I settled on a single email account (Google Workspace) that pulls emails from all my other accounts (acts as an email client) plus Signal which also handles texts. As for people who use Facebook/Messenger, WhatsApp,
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by blfr 4y ago
OK but longboarding is not essential like general transportation. Why ban helmet-less longboarding instead of the whole thing?
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by blfr 4y ago
Income streams on the other hand are not nearly that fungible. You can either work full time or not at all most of the time. So unless you can turn crypto trading into a full time (or more precisely minimum salary) gig, it is a marginal act
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by blfr 4y ago
So the crypto gains will be taxed at 42% because these are presumably on top of your salary.
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by blfr 4y ago
Almost certainly what you see in Poland is not persistence of old but fresh settlement. After WW2, Poland recovered these western lands from Germany but lost others in the east to USSR. A lot of people moved from there. https://t
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by blfr 4y ago
The thing I don't understand about luxury goods is why people outsource their taste to these massive corporations like LVMH for so much money. For the price of an off the rack Armani or Prada suit you can have one custom tailored from
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by blfr 4y ago
While it's silly that academics rely on a commercial company to maintain their commons, the fact that this company knows which articles you open strikes me as completely normal. Any library does that. That they know which IPs you used?
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by blfr 4y ago
The difference between having a tractor and not having a tractor is much larger than between having a computer/gps-guided tractor and having an old school tractor. While it's certainly an improvement, it's a smaller improveme
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by blfr 4y ago
I didn't miss the massive progress in IT. I mean, obviously I didn't, we're having this conversation on HN. However, progress in IT, in bits, while fine and useful, is simply not as powerful as progress in more basic industri
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by blfr 4y ago
I think this is completely backwards. We are not risking enough and the progress has stalled as a result. During the 1880-1950 we were causing massive disasters all around, literally nuking cities. But that period is also where we came up w
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by blfr 4y ago
Banks routinely offering a better account than basic minimum is to their credit and expected in an even slightly competitive sector, not a joke at all. That in other countries it needs to be legislated is weird.
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by blfr 4y ago
It's not useless. It forces the attacker to expand all the effort to get a SIM for your number. While certainly possible, it's not that easy.
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by blfr 4y ago
Kinda but not really. First, you can reuse and even steal material heavily. Second, you can rely on props, whatever happens around. Third, you don't need to be that good: you're competing with six other boring dudes she went out w
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by blfr 4y ago
> You learn about shared interests, job, which college they went to, their friend group. This is the prime mistake I see my friends make. As a guy, there are pretty much only two things that will seriously and negatively affect your dati
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by blfr 4y ago
Most women are now in worse shape than the generations before them were at the same age. They may be obsessed with their physiques but mostly because this is a major failing point and obesity epidemic is real.
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by blfr 4y ago
As a decade+ loyal Linux and Android user I gotta go with "you're using it wrong" on the MTP point. You really should buy (get from your employer) an iPhone. They actually work together pretty well and when they're not a
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by blfr 5y ago
Killing good (funny) accounts from various anons and even small celebrities, like Nick Mullen. It stifles discussion (people are worried about getting locked/limited/banned) and makes for a much less interesting scroll.
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by blfr 5y ago
Having people you trained and armed turn around to fight against you is obviously not ideal but also the Taliban is much less of a threat than the Soviet Union so it might have been a good trade.
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by blfr 5y ago
> Maybe the best strategy is a hardware key with printed backup code? Or register more than one (preferably three) hardware key. It sidesteps all of these issues. They are very resilient and act as backups.
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by blfr 5y ago
Then again HN would automatically remove the 'how' from the title, making it even worse.
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by blfr 5y ago
When did you make this agreement? Did you sign a contract? You make this agreement every time you accept dollars for good and services. And most people do or would.
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by blfr 5y ago
I have been drinking raw milk from one of these machines[1] and various grey market sources for years, routinely order steak tartare or make it at home, almost always with a raw egg yolk, not to mention raw fish, and never had an issue. The

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