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by brigandish 4y ago
> Let me first say: impeccable article from The New Yorker. It's the only mainstream bastion of proper editing and spelling left (maybe The Economist, too). I don't think I've ever found a typo in their articles; as oppose
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by brigandish 4y ago
I agree, and magnesium is a key one. I certainly find I become sleepier easier if I use magnesium bisglycinate (or any magnesium really, but the bisglycinate is absorbed better and hence has no effect on my bowels!:) Coffee not only provide
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by brigandish 4y ago
I have used my credit card company to do this, but like I say, it wasn't that I was particularly unhappy with their service, just wanted to use a competitor (grass looked greener). Ironically, the auto renew was the first real problem
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by brigandish 4y ago
I'd tell you if it was in person, sorry. Just watch out for those settings! I wonder if there's a service that handles this kind of thing, it would be worth a subscription.
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by brigandish 4y ago
I'm currently subscribed to something for a year because of auto renew. The subscription is something useful but was going to use a competitor but once I'd paid it they made it so painful to back out I let it go, turned off auto
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by brigandish 4y ago
> atleast tries to be factual and neutral This isn't the Wikipedia I know, and hasn't been since long before the pandemic. If you want credibility, go to a real encyclopaedia like Britannica. Otherwise, let people fork and edit
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by brigandish 4y ago
Sourdough does use yeast from the air and feeds on the flour (often with help from a sugary friend like an apple), but fermentation of vegetables is usually from bacteria on the skin of the veg, for instance in sauerkraut the bacteria that
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by brigandish 4y ago
Speaking of which, a spec for recipes that was a previous Show HN[1], Cooklang[2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997309 [2] https://github.com/cooklang/spec
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by brigandish 4y ago
The part titled "THE BEST MILK TO USE" is not good advice. UHT (ultra heat treated milk) is far better to use for yoghurt making than normal milk (I say "normal" for someone from the UK where most milk consumed is pasteu
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by brigandish 4y ago
I'm going to assume that someone handing me their contact details is someone I probably don't know well enough to know whether those details are correct.
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by brigandish 4y ago
> everyone’s naked under their clothes and it’s no big deal Until the day you render human biological urges inconsequential to the one experiencing them, all that phrase adds up to is the kind of line a teenage boy uses to get his girlfr
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by brigandish 4y ago
Only heads of state are targets of black hat hackers? The proliferation of virus scanners, firewall products and spam filters either means we have a lot of heads of state or a lot of people rich enough to own several computers and not give
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by brigandish 4y ago
Mens rea is the standard for something to be a crime, the assumption being that I cannot call it a crime without there being intent. Without intent it is not a crime. Did he know that he was benefiting from using a false name? Was he of an
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by brigandish 4y ago
That's why subsidies bad and subsidies good are a false dilemma. "Spending money well" might seem like an obvious solution but it runs up against the problem of corrupt politicians, of which there are many. Hence, we have
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by brigandish 4y ago
> Do you not understand what the term ‘war torn’ means? Do you know how to conduct yourself properly in discussion? I’ll thank you for trying harder to from now on. It’s his homeland, regardless of whether it’s war-torn or not. If he has
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by brigandish 4y ago
If it implements the 8 fold path, an abstract framework, then it is Buddhism. If not, it’s not.
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by brigandish 4y ago
If we're looking for mens rea then the moment a child is over 10, if they don't confess to being an illegal immigrant then they know what they're doing. As to your other question, they would be a victim as they are a slave. R
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by brigandish 4y ago
> The harsher the climate towards immigrants in laws and officialdom, the easier they are to exploit. The anti-immigration voters who demand this harshness are shooting themselves in the foot a bit, and should reconsider. That ignores op
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by brigandish 4y ago
Quoting from that article: > However, skilled immigrating workers can bring capabilities that are not available in the native workforce, for example in academic research or information technology. Additionally, immigrating workforces als
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by brigandish 4y ago
He is a direct beneficiary though. Whether that is relevant in immigration law, I don't know, but it certainly is in other areas of criminal law (e.g. receiving stolen property, soliciting murder etcetera).
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by brigandish 4y ago
The problem is with the cheating , regardless of whether population growth itself can bring problems (which it obviously can, along with benefits).
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by brigandish 4y ago
Like some other types of pain (exercise being the most obvious, marriage being another;) tolerance to it can be built up. For example, I've done the fast mimicking diet twice in the past couple of months - a little bit ineptly at point
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by brigandish 4y ago
And yet they engage in mass surveillance, even of their own citizens.
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by brigandish 4y ago
There's also Teddit[1], which I use most of the time I want to look at Reddit now. It's been discussed on HN before[2]. [1] https://teddit.net/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
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by brigandish 4y ago
True but India does seem to be steeped in it. I once bribed someone in India accidentally and didn't realise what had happened till afterwards. That's how embedded it is in daily life. I can't imagine that happening anywher
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by brigandish 4y ago
Budder.
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by brigandish 4y ago
You've given a figure that is around a third of the entire population of the United States, so I think I'm on safe ground, even taking into account the Indian government's well known inability at accurate record taking, but t
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by brigandish 4y ago
From [1]: > Population > 2018 estimate > 1,352,642,280 > Official languages > Hindi > English [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
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by brigandish 4y ago
I think you missed a few, and it's not just consonants: Ay, see, ef, jee, aitch, aye, jay, kay, oh, kyuu, yuu, double-yuu, eks, why?, zed. It's because the English alphabet is not a phonetic lettering system. If I were American I&
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by brigandish 4y ago
It is for some people and that's probably a reasonable predictor of how well they'll do. Have you met people who excel at something who don't care about excelling? I can't think of one.

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