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by hopler 8y ago
Or you invest in making driving safer on average.
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by hopler 8y ago
For insurance, punishing an individual is improving risk modelling. Insurance companies are also involved in promoting technologies that reduce the risk of claims, as that expands their addressable market by lowering prices without lowerin
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by hopler 8y ago
The MS in MSG is for sodium, so yeah a large dose hurts. "MSG good or bad?" isn't the main question. "MSG vs salt" is.
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by hopler 8y ago
I read a comment years ago about a chef who stays that msg makes water taste like soup. So yeah, it improves the taste, but not in a good way. It's similar to drinking tea with a cup of sugar mixed in. msg isn't as bad as sugar w
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by hopler 8y ago
Nitrates are unhealthy, even if vendors are intentionally misleading about celery.
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by hopler 8y ago
Then everyone gets MSG if the chef wants it. Chef is not telepath.
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by hopler 8y ago
Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. 4 separate iPad lines, plus extra screen size variation? How is an "Air" variant useful? Why does the iPad Pro have a screen size choice, but the mini is a separate line? It should be iPad
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by hopler 8y ago
For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. Why draw the line at age 3, and not 9 (Age of Reason) pubescence (Coming of Age), or post-pubescence? People under the age of maybe 30 universally have terrible misconc
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by hopler 8y ago
We are old. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by hopler 8y ago
FYI, international calls are essentially free thank to VoIP. If you can download a DVD iso, you can make a phone call for the same price , plus the cost of accessing a local phone line at the terminating end. You pay for monthly access for
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by hopler 8y ago
Consumers prefer super-thin soldered machines, sadly. The proof is in the shopping.
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by hopler 8y ago
The LG Gram teardown on iFixit was amazing. It's "moderately difficult" to remove almost everything including the trackpad and parts I forgot existed. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/LG+Gram+15-Inch+Repairab
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by hopler 8y ago
People who use phones instead of PC are handicapped on ways they may not even notice. People who have PCs notice the plunge in personal productivity when they try to do all their activities with a 5% size screen and typing with 20% of the
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by hopler 8y ago
I'm a scooter owner, and your comment made me fill my one gallon gas tank with tears.
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by hopler 8y ago
Social expectations vary by social class. The low education religious people you describe are a different social class from educated business and technical professionals
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by hopler 8y ago
Many many jobs today that require a college degree used to require a high school diploma. Yes those require intelligence and studiousness in varying degrees, but these skills can be assessed by interviews and hiring people in entry level po
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by hopler 8y ago
Princeton math (and other?) department specifically advertise that their research-only PhD program is unusual or unique. https://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate Generals/Quals require 1-2years of graduate level study,
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by hopler 8y ago
This is what insurance is for, to smooth out risk. UBI is a concept, not a specific dollar amount. You don't need universal healthcare, just regulation of the risk pool.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's common everywhere I've traveled in USA to use "poor" to mean unable to afford something. That's the dictionary definition of the word.
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by hopler 8y ago
You are referring to having children, which is only one example of having family.
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by hopler 8y ago
College doesn't teach those soft skills. Jobs and skill training teach those skills You don't need college to write years of bad code. Internships or hobby projects do fine.
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by hopler 8y ago
> Anyone who used this to argue that a degree wasn’t a strong useful signal Reread the title of the article. The question is whether an individual would benefit from college even if everyone's college was enrollment/graduation
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by hopler 8y ago
It's amazing how this comment thread is full of people who do they comprehend the reasonable person standard of law, and think law is invalid because they can invent some pathological corner case.
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by hopler 8y ago
What? Telling someone you intend to enforce the law if they continue to break it is in no way blackmail.
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by hopler 8y ago
In the UK it is. Truth is not a defense to libel/defamation in the UK.
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by hopler 8y ago
He wouldn't be the richest man in the world for long if it was legal for everyone to blackmail him.
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by hopler 8y ago
You don't have a right to prevent someone from telling secrets they know either.
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by hopler 8y ago
Not really, they are under economic coercion.
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by hopler 8y ago
The objective of fertility work is sperm/egg/embryo/whatever, not orgasm. If they could efficienctly stick a needle in the gonads and extract the reproductive cells, they would.
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by hopler 8y ago
Doesn't matter if the devs know it's broken, if the managers decide it's not worth paying to fix.

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