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by caeril 4y ago
Marriage is, unfortunately, not a rational decision for many of us. In my specific case, she got pregnant, and I "did the right thing" for the sake of a stable home for my child(ren). And on that specific front, things are fine. T
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by caeril 4y ago
> Her treatment of you is absolutely disgusting I mean, this is par for the course for nearly every married man in the West, myself included. We are objectified as wallets, we are treated very poorly, and when they inevitably leave to &q
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by caeril 4y ago
Thank you. Although I think the risk of #4 is greatly overblown. We watch the sun constantly now, and detection of an X20+ class flare aimed at us gives us about 10 hours or so to disconnect as much as we can, limiting damage to maybe only
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by caeril 4y ago
> The payout on swaps is easily calculable and the range of outcomes knowable. While this is technically correct, it's the solvency of the counterparties that is not easily calculable or knowable. Derivatives must be viewed in the
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by caeril 4y ago
I think this is very human reasoning. People laugh at Preppers and call them crazy for taking prudent preparedness steps as insurance against future risks. It's a very human thing to do. During the early days of COVID, some people st
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by caeril 4y ago
This is a good overview, but I have yet to hear a compelling reason to use JWT. String session tokens generated by a CSPRNG and stored in a cookie work fine for every use-case I can think of. What specifically is the argument for JWTs?
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by caeril 4y ago
Depends on the nature of the business. Speaking for us specifically, with COVID, supply chain issues, and rapidly rising rates hitting one after the other, it's a simple matter of not being able to afford it. We're granting option
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by caeril 4y ago
> It's not a screensaver, because it's not the 90s What's funny is that screensavers may end up coming back into vogue if OLED displays continue to have burn-in issues. Ray-traced flying toasters may be in our future.
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by caeril 4y ago
> literally [...] destroying the world Left-wing ideology is trying to drive five billion people, as fast as possible, to first-world living standards (via either open borders fanaticism, direct aid, or economic globalization), with the
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by caeril 4y ago
Not the same. I pay for YouTube premium but the algorithm continues to push: 1. Political content that is not only unaligned, but diametrically opposed to political content I've previously consumed. 2. Random "Free" movie and
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by caeril 4y ago
Fair point, but if all accounts were given a standard default policy modeled around current moderation rules, and users were permitted to edit the policy from that initial point, this would be an effective solution.
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by caeril 4y ago
Yeah, maybe. Even so, the dangers go beyond the lipid profile, specifically, take care of your nuts. The HPTA is a delicate system, and ostarine is pretty much the only SARM that doesn't cause suppression of natural testosterone produc
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That's a really good yield, so you're only losing 4.3% annually on a real basis.
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by caeril 4y ago
Most SARMs are far more suppressive and LDL-promoting than you'd believe. Please, please, please, if you intend to run SARMs, get pre-cycle, mid-cycle, and post-cycle bloodwork done. Have plenty of enclomiphene, HCG, Nizoral, and stati
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by caeril 4y ago
Costco Merchant Services did exactly this to us way back in the day( 2007-ish?). We switched from our previous merchant account bank due to better rates near the beginning of that year. Everything was fine, up until right after Thanksgiving
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by caeril 4y ago
> no good jobs Remote work is definitely a thing now. > where the climate sucks Like Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and countless other hellholes that the Urbanite loves nonetheless? The weather sucks, in different ways, pretty much everyw
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by caeril 4y ago
This is precisely the crux of the issue. The people screaming the loudest about the need to build are exactly the same people who recoil at the thought of living more than 100 meters from their heckin' microbreweryarinoes. Life is all
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by caeril 4y ago
> it's just a part of the calculus The argument seems to be "a little discrimination is okay". So, I guess the question would be, what is an acceptable coefficient for the race variable, for it to be okay? "Part of th
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by caeril 4y ago
> And there was no way to find out who accessed what. This is not normal, it's a huge red flag One can argue that it shouldn't be normal, but I assure you that it is extremely normal in most companies. Shared root credentials
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by caeril 4y ago
> and nonmale candidates This is hilarious in the context of white-collar work, considering that women absolutely dominate college degree issuance, and have for quite some time now.
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by caeril 4y ago
A broader question is why streaming services UX is so bad, universally? One obvious example, is trailer auto-play that cannot be disabled, prevalent in nearly every streaming service I can think of. Streaming services are extremely user-hos
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by caeril 4y ago
This appears to be a "whoosh" moment. OP's "better than eight mice" is referring to the rigorous experimental standards used for the safety study to greenlight the BA.5 omicron booster.
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Don't hold your breath. One example: Coronary calcium deposit scans are cheap and extremely effective at giving a probabilistic window of possible future heart attack, but doctors don't order them prior to a CVD event, and insur
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by caeril 4y ago
The real meta-question here is why does everyone want to write SPAs in the first place? This is an era of ubiquitous 100mbps+ connections, CDNs, and edge-computing-two-hops-from-the-customer hosting. The whole reason we invented SPAs (ban
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by caeril 4y ago
> as we tune our headlines to match what people expect from an irreverent technical title. Except you're not irreverent at all anymore. You're basically Ars and CNET. Why on earth you'd abandon your readership to attract
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by caeril 4y ago
It's 2022. If you, as a man, don't accede to every single demand your wife has, you are, at best , emotionally abusive. If she doesn't give enthusiastic consent to the operating system you install on the device she asked yo
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> What's "bloody awful" about Gmail? Telemetry, activity tracking, etc. NeoMutt doesn't send everything I do to a persistent log accessible to data broker parasites and NSA functionaries. Not being turned into cattle
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> It's not like we can just store energy right? Yes, you can purchase lithium-ion-phosphate batteries, charger/inverters, and high-gauge conductors readily on Amazon and Aliexpress. > Stocking up on foods if the prices incre
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> Just curious, why would you get buttons instead of sensors? Two things: 1. Long hair. If your hair is in the way, you have to brush it away before the sensors will correctly register your input. 2. Beanies. If you wear an acrylic bean
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by caeril 4y ago
The WF-1000MX4s are absolutely PERFECT with the sole exception of the non-tactile controls. If they replaced the touch sensors with actual buttons, they would be the best earbuds on the market.

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