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by eloisius 6y ago
Every one of them had a history of their kids having an adverse reaction to vaccines, you mean? That's quite a different circle than I've swam in. The anti-vaxxers I've known all adopt their beliefs based on some quasi-religi
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by eloisius 6y ago
Bankruptcy isn’t supposed to be punitive. A company clearing up the books and then being able to generate a profit again in the future is better for creditors than destroying the company completely.
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by eloisius 6y ago
From what this description sounds like, the foreground pigment would only remain at the forefront so long as a charge was applied. Doesn't this defeat the energy savings of eInk in that once you have updated the display it doesn't
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by eloisius 6y ago
It’s so bad that I can’t understand why LINE is only popular in Asia. It has all the good parts of WhatsApp plus a bunch of silly goodies like stickers, open groups, mobile payments, etc. Businesses have “official” accounts that can be oper
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by eloisius 6y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not a way around any of those things.
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by eloisius 6y ago
So, in your opinion, the world would be better off today if textiles were still manufactured by hand, by highly skilled artisans? I’m not necessarily a fan of Forever 21 throwaway fast fashion, but I like being able to buy a shirt without i
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by eloisius 6y ago
Luddites were opposed to advances in the textile industry, like automated looms. This does not strike me as a technology that made life worse in the long run. Affordable access to decent quality clothing for most of the worlds population so
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by eloisius 6y ago
Taiwan hasn’t been integrated with mainland China since the Qing Dynasty. It goes further than unfinished business in 1949. Korea and Vietnam also used to be integrated with ‘China’. The Taiwanese have had plenty of time to forge their own
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by eloisius 6y ago
First of all, there is no ‘reunite’ because Taiwan has never been united with the PRC. It has been governed by the Republic of China, which predates PRC by many decades, since Japan’s defeat in WWII and subsequent surrender of its colonies.
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by eloisius 6y ago
It is hell, but there are also millions of contractors that still sit in that webmaster space between designer and developer who will do it cheaply.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Many people absolutely do believe that abortion is state-sanctioned murder and in fact there have been terror attacks against providers [1]. The ones that aren’t carrying out terrorism like this still believe that clinics and doctors are co
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by eloisius 6y ago
It’s kind of like being hated by everyone on all sides might mean you’re an asshole or something.
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by eloisius 6y ago
The terms of the treaty state anything about the relative strength of each nation?
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by eloisius 6y ago
They all just shadow banned you by setting the privacy settings on everything they post to exclude you.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Latin isn’t some neutral communication protocol the entire would or could easily adopt. Why not Classical Chinese? More people spoke that and it also underpins numerous modern languages.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Maybe back in the 70s. I have KMT friends who openly say that there’s no likelihood of unification with mainland China. For the most part they like the status quo, they love their Chinese cultural heritage, and don’t really care that it’s c
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by eloisius 6y ago
To a large degree, KMT supporters don’t even want unification. They’re happy with a de facto independent ROC. Only a disappearing fringe consider themselves to be a province of China in 2021.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Reddit has always been a few steps ahead of HN in its slide toward redditism, but I agree with GP that it feels like there is more disagreement-downvoting and replies that add nothing to the conversation. Not to the same degree as Reddit, b
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by eloisius 6y ago
I tried scavenging expensive brands of clothes from Goodwill to sell to a consignment shop. I wasted bus fare, only sold one pair of jeans, and ended up with a bag full of clothes that didn’t fit. 2/10 don’t recommend.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Taiwan didn’t weld anyone’s doors shut, though, or even have lockdowns. The “us” culture here is just that people don’t come up with insane, I’m-smarter-than-the-experts conspiracy beliefs. The government says wear masks in public and peopl
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by eloisius 6y ago
Fully automated space communism has yet to provide automated self-repairing roads, agriculture equipment, etc. so not sure why we’d argue about that yet. The best it was able to produce was famine and the starvation of millions last century
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by eloisius 6y ago
What the hell. How do you suppose energy, transportation, raw materials, fertilizer, paved roads, markets for distribution, etc. would materialize to allow for that 1% agriculture worker population to feed anyone?
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by eloisius 6y ago
Thanks. Your comment feels like the most important one here. I know I’m kind of self-diagnosing in a folksy way by finding a diet that works for me, and that’s probably not a good idea if I do have celiac’s. I’m gonna see if I can find a do
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by eloisius 6y ago
I don’t know if there are “degrees” to celiac severity but I only get diarrhea, gas, tummy ache as far as I know. Definitely nowhere near as severe as the flu.
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by eloisius 6y ago
This makes me wonder. I suspect I have celiac's disease because anytime I consume gluten I have all of the unpleasant symptoms. I asked my GP whether I should get tested so that I could treat it and he said that if I've already so
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by eloisius 6y ago
Oh my god. I love it when I learn there is a term like this that perfectly explains what I’ve been trying to say about things like why I used to love It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We get it, Dennis is probably a sociopath, Mac is gay a
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by eloisius 6y ago
It’s also often more dangerous for the cyclist anyway because drivers pulling out of parking lots, alleys, side roads, etc. nose their way into the crosswalk as long as no pedestrians are in their immediate way. They aren’t expecting a bike
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by eloisius 6y ago
They’re also not _settings_. They are unwelcome clutter that are not there to make my device serve me better while I go about my life. Just send me a marketing email so that I can mark it as spam.
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by eloisius 6y ago
Yup. I was very disappointed to discover that with the purchase of my My iPhone, the Settings app, the damn settings app, had ads plastered at the top of it. Two of them trying to sell me subscriptions to Apple Arcade and TV+. I’m very disa
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by eloisius 6y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by blind stupid malice.

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