chosenbreed

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by chosenbreed 8y ago
How did you get rid of them? :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> and lifestyle-wise the bay area is just unpleasant. aggressive homeless people. abysmal dating environment. awful traffic. Mmm...could you elaborate on the abysmal dating environment? :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> It's definitely useful but with caveats. Your measurable iq isn't constant, people can have impairments that lower it temporarily and there are also certain drugs that can raise test scores. What!? Where can I get a hold of t
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> We can literally just stop crypto mining forever and very little of value is lost. Not if you have any crypto assets/positions :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Interesting...there a few comments putting forward the case for energy expenditure to provide heating and cooling. Can't really argue with any of them. However, I wonder how much of the need is driven by the modern lifestyles we have n
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> And you think moving to Japan will alleviate that? :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> I've actually found it relatively difficult to even find good, pure, coconut oil (for a reasonable price). A general sign that it can be completely avoid without any harm. I think in general anything that's hyped up by celebr
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> Additionally I'm glad .19 finally came out. But 18 months was really long. On the basis that nothing was actually broken 18 months is not that long. I think there are benefits to be derived from working with a language/platfo
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> Presumably this is Project Fi (fi.google.com) rather than Google Fiber... Interesting. Hadn't come across it before.
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> We run ads, Sir to quote a certain guy during a recent hearing. Gold
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> I turn up on the day, but then these interviews asking difficult algorithm question seem to be a rarity in the UK, thankfully. Perhaps...I've seen a few share of those in interview situations or in pre-interview screening tests. I
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> Why would you want to work for a company which asks these question in the interview? Presumably because it is one of the big five (I didn't know there was such a thing). I suspect it looks good on your CV. You'll always be a
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> Very disappointed in EU here! Such a disgusting habit that kills and leads to large quality of life loss later in life I agree in part but the libertarian in me thinks that people should be free to do what they want to their bodies pro
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> Well, there's a darker side to that as well. Obesity is a problem for low income people - because cheap food is usually terrible for you - high calories, high salt, high fat and easy to eat a lot of. Think of your typical fast foo
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> It's kind of funny because, in retrospect, "What You Can't Say" almost prophesied how this all went down; his only mistake was not seeing the storm coming. Thanks for mentioning. I hadn't come across that essay
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
I think it is naive to expect someone to be better simply because they hold public office. Politicians are as fallible as anybody else...but I don't think that's a big problem in the long run. In the long run they will reflect the
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Okay...but how would that work? Where are all these people? China had a one-child policy which they've recently reversed because the ratio of old people/young people has basically reversed. On the plus side it seems that with educ
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
The politicians largely reflect the people they govern. I don't think we can expect much better from them as compared to the general population...not to mention of course the vested interests and lobbying capability of corporations. An
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Yep. That could be a bit of a problem. The land mass affected appears to be huge...
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> The effective action is to greatly reduce the number of births worldwide. It seems to me all other options are not effective. Good luck with that ;-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Good points. I think even if we could muster collective action it would be required on a global scale. Related to this is that in many cases large emitters of green-house gases are largely divorced from the consequences. Ultimately most peo
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
> but i think you should also not elect people who are fucking STUPID about climate change. Sure...but that would require getting enough people who are not "fucking STUPID about climate" to vote appropriately :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
To be fair though the corporate tax rates in the US are relatively high. I dare say anyone company in their position would do the same. Another point to mention is that I don't think they're as profitable as the other giants Apple
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Interesting...the simplicity of the language appeals to me. If the tooling and ecosysstem is as great as you say it is I'm in ;-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
I couldn't access that the article...are they saying that people who work for Amazon paid no income tax?
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Mmm...interesting idea...a bit Utopian...I'm not sure the world works that way...good luck to anyone investing their time, effort or other resources to get this going.
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Okay...but presumably people can just opt out of their products. They make an amazing amount of margin on the devices. A lot people know that and are more than happy to buy their products :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Okay...in this particular instance you can find and you can opt out of certain things but not a lot though. Something that rarely gets mentioned in the discourse is that Facebook is offering a product to 1billion+ people for free. At somepo
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Have considered the fact that the skin is edible? Or that you could boild/roast the potatoes and then peel them by hand? If you're making fries you'll hardly notice the bit of skin at either end :-)
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by chosenbreed 8y ago
Okay. But not so long ago people had to pay for WhatsApp, no? Has the user base grown tremendously since it became free (i.e. because it became free)? One of the points made earlier is that before being bought by Facebook WhatsApp was a pro

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