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by eyko 5y ago
I don't know about adverse effects, but I've always considered the environmental impact of sparkling water. I still don't get why some people are unaccustomed to the taste of just water.
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by eyko 5y ago
Most craft I drink is 4.5% - 6% for IPAs, 2.5-3.5% for Session IPAs. DIPAs are generally 7-9%, which I avoid. I normally go for Sessions.
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by eyko 5y ago
> This experimental repository contains software which is still being developed and in the alpha testing stage. It is not ready for production use. Not sure how much you'll want to invest in being essentially an alpha tester. That b
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by eyko 5y ago
I've met many supporters of Brexit in local pubs here in London, I don't think it's that uncommon. I've had work colleagues that argued for and voted for Brexit, here in London. We had fun conversations on the topic, cha
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by eyko 5y ago
> you can't get full "viewpoint diversity" and full "identity diversity" because some viewpoints are hostile to some identities. I've heard variations of this idea and I personally disagree. Yes, some ideas
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by eyko 5y ago
The number of white armed men shot by police in 2019 was, according to the Washington Post database[1], between 388 and 398. The number of white unarmed men shot by police in 2019 was 26. According to this source, the number of black unarme
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by eyko 6y ago
I saw this really interesting idea a looong time ago: https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-04/trans-atlanti... and, personally, $175 billion felt like a lot back then but if it's still in the bal
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by eyko 6y ago
This ignores the fact that train lines crossing multiple sovereign countries and their respective borders is more complicated to negotiate. If you're a country with access to the sea, you need to build a port, and ships, and you have a
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by eyko 6y ago
By that logic, Egypt would still be occupied today.
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by eyko 6y ago
I'd say it's complicated. Corruption and nepotism is a fact of life in E. Guinea. It's a society with many layers, all in service of the Nguema "dynasty", if I may describe it as such. The elite tend to send their c
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by eyko 6y ago
Apologies for the broad generalization (as I said, correct me if I'm wrong, and I stand corrected here). That being said, if what you say is true, it's a pity that either the main stream media's reporting doesn't reflect
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by eyko 6y ago
As far as I know, that is correct. However, apart from real estate being built, there also seems to be some heavy investment in infrastructure and they're trying to attract investors. I've also heard that there are plans to grow t
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by eyko 6y ago
> Do you or anyone in your family keep in touch with E. Guinea in any way? We have relatives that have returned, and we've kept in touch with some that never left. My mother last visited in the late 80s* but we always talk of return
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by eyko 6y ago
My late grandmother worked with Atanasio Mdongo as part of his inner circle before his assassination, and later had to work for Macías Nguema. She was Bubi, working for a dictator that was carrying out a Bubi genocide. My mother escaped dea
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by eyko 6y ago
As a black guy in London, I've not been stopped and searched in over a decade, so I do think that profiling tends to happen more the younger you are (and fit a particular profile).
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by eyko 6y ago
Whilst I agree that they should pay their taxes, let's not get confused here: no matter how much the budget is increased, education will not be properly funded because it's not a political priority. Most countries with better educ
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by eyko 6y ago
DSA isn't no-quotes-left. It has gone full steam into identity politics if you ask me (I'm not American, but this is just based on what I've been seeing from them, correct me if I'm wrong). I don't mean that in a ne
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by eyko 6y ago
My apologies. When I added the "blindly lump ..." sentence, I didn't wasn't replying directly at your comment, but rather in reference to the worrying trend amongst anti-gmo movements to lump any GMO related practices in
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by eyko 6y ago
> They are typically made to improve profit in some fashion, not to improve human health. The main goals of GMOs are to increase yield and protect against disease / pests, which is practically the same goal we've had for thousa
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by eyko 6y ago
They're not doing all the coke, but they're paying for it. In any case, it's still a lot. $40k would sound more believable.
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by eyko 6y ago
I've also used both Flow and TS and love Flow, but the tooling and community in TypeScript is in a different league. Right now I feel like picking Flow over TypeScript on anything other than personal or individual projects is a disserv
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by eyko 6y ago
Homemade vaccines are not contagious (just stating the obvious).
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by eyko 6y ago
> Not sure if AstraZeneca corroborated. Apparently so https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/head-of-astraz...
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by eyko 6y ago
I'd reckon because a private company is getting paid to manufacture and sell the vaccines, at "Cost of Goods" initially, then at a profit after an agreed period, in exchange for funding and, eventually more profits. These are
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by eyko 6y ago
I'm also curious about what dates were agreed. Looking at the document, here's what they state regarding manufacturing and supply (emphasis mine): "5. Manufacturing and Supply. 5.1. Initial Europe Doses. AstraZeneca shall use
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by eyko 6y ago
Accessibility is a non-issue unless your intent is to become the morality police. You don't get to decide for others what speech they have access to. It's actually absolutely none of your business what conversations others are hav
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by eyko 6y ago
It would be useful to clarify what "follow the rules" here means, in the USA (for us non-USA audiences). It probably varies in different countries, but in most cases doesn't it simply refer to fair usage? Make your payments i
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by eyko 6y ago
Interesting response considering your gnusername! :-) (sorry, couldn't help it!)
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by eyko 6y ago
I honestly didn't notice the author's gender until you pointed it out, which led me to check the name. I simply read the article and agreed with most of the points, then came here to see the comments. In fact, I never attach a gen
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by eyko 6y ago
From the article: "It has hired hundreds of journalists to staff a newsroom that is now 1,700 people strong — bigger than ever. Its stock has risen fourfold since Trump took office, and the Times has consolidated its Trump bump into a

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