colmvp

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In practice, I think what matters a lot though especially for guys is ones ethnicity, especially for Asian men. I think that rarely gets mentioned in these discussions. This Asian male model's story of online dating is pretty much my e
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When I was younger, I believed all we needed was to give people information to get a better grasp on reality. That was my optimism about the potential good of the internet: the ability to access a wealth of information. Now that I'm ol
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Dang, Kijiji is actually really solid in Canada. For me, it was like Craigslist except with some pretty good UI/features.
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I currently live downtown. Life is semi-normal, but most of the reasons why I'd want to live down here are disrupted. Concert halls are closed indefinitely. Meetup.com groups are now all remote. Restaurants will soon allow people to ea
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If what is reported is true, then that is really sad. Saleh's assistant Tyrese Haspil stole tens of thousands of dollars from him and instead of reporting him, he instead created a payment plan to be repaid. Saleh showed compassion and
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On the flipside, I find IntelliJ causes my computer to go into overdrive while VSC is pretty snappy. A shame because I love using their software. I guess I just need to get a new computer lol
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Haha brilliant! Haven't read C&H in decades and I forgot about how he inadvertently accomplished his goal.
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It's weird, when I was I younger I used to love shortform syntax like that as well as removing unnecessary punctuation But now that I'm older, I appreciate things being more descriptive and orderly, including strict use of semicol
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Vietnam has very few cases of Covid-19, especially given its population and proximity to China. One of the reasons why was because they had some of the strongest containment measures in the entire world. One of the strategies they did early
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> Why would having a larger pool make dating harder? FWIW, I have found online dating way harder than dating someone I met through friends/work/school. YMMV but my theory is having access to that many more people leads one (inc
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Designers? From my experience as a designer, it's almost never the actual designer who wants it. It's competing stakeholders.
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I made the same argument as to why we in Ontario should've been more prepared, people here told me "Yeah but SARS was over a decade ago." Meanwhile, Taiwan literally cited SARS as being a major reason why they were prepared t
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I think languages like Python (and IMO Javascript) are perfectly fine as first languages, since it's easy to setup and the basics are easy to learn which is important in not discouraging people from hating coding. That's what I re
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Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I'm kind of surprised that your comment actually 'fooled' people. It was very obvious sarcasm.
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The fact he has Gloomhaven to the right of him made me chuckle. I've only had one chance to play it, and it took hours of fumbling around with the instructions with my friends (who also hadn't played it) but once we got the hang o
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The delivery was very engaging and a good example to other engineers on how crafting a compelling narrative can help drive home the importance of your work.
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I've definitely noticed that I"ve had to add "wiki" to my search results to see Wikpedia articles to certain subjects I'm searching for whereas in previous years, Wikipedia was almost always the number one result. I
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Okay sure, but try not seeing any friends AND having no partner/children. There are literally consecutive days in a row where I spend 0 minutes in a day talking aloud to a living person. Less so now that the restrictions have been lift
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Zombie satellite hunter finds 53-year-old signal in the noise(coastreporter.net)
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I feel like that's an important distinction. In Canada, our officials said in January that asymptomatic individuals were not main drivers of epidemics. And while that may have been true with something like influenza, a more accurate st
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How does anyone expect food delivery services to survive with only 5% fees? That's insanity. Uber has to also pay for engineers, sales/marketing to get customers/restaurants onto the platform, online infrastructure, customer
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I feel like what's often overlooked is how much so many of these delivery services have lost money over the past few years. UberEats is more popular than ever, but it's not even close to helping Uber as a company avoid mass layoff
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I tend to agree. I hadn't heard of this company and my immediate thought was it was something related to marketing/advertising.
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In an ideal scenario, agreed, but very few countries have enough tests to test non-essentials workers or people who are experiencing minor symptoms.
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I live in Canada and our response between January - mid March was in line with the U.S. where the government said things like "the risk to Canadians was low" and "asymptomatic people are not main drivers of epidemics." T
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And that's recorded cases. There might be people who died from Covid-19 who weren't tested post-mortem, especially in February when the virus was flying under the radar. NYTimes had an article which showed a number of places aroun
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My prediction is if more cities around North America did post-mortem Covid tests of people who passed away in February, there's a good chance we'd find some deceased actually had Covid-19 similar to what California revealed earlie
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For me at least, I learn a lot faster by actively doing something (i.e. working on a toy problem/algorithm) than just reading the docs.
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As a Canadian, I'm shaking my head at our officials who said "we do know that asymptomatic people are not the key driver of epidemics" as a response to concerns back in January of the potential for the virus to grow in our co
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I tried the 13' laptop but after getting used to the extra space around arrow keys on Macbook's for a decade, the tight configuration of keys on the 13 which have PGUP/PGDOWN adjacent to the up/left/right keys ended

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