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by jly 9y ago
After trying a lot of digital list/note-creating products, I now primarily use paper and haven't looked back. Writing the grocery list on paper is much easier than fumbling around with (and dropping) my phone while I'm shopp
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All of their listings are roundtrip. I have personally booked sub or around-$400 return trips to Europe from the US using this service.
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by jly 9y ago
Awesome writeup. It's great to see companies that can make this work without taking any funding. I had no idea there were so many people behind this. I have nothing to add except that I've been a very happy paid customer for sev
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I would definitely agree with that.
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> Uhm, glyphosate doesn't affect pollinators. It does affect pollinators, show in some examples of recent research [1][2], and effects on other non-insect animal species like frogs [3] and fish [4][5]. We may not know why it does y
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by jly 9y ago
I disagree with your argument that we should push back on policy intervention for glyphosate, because it might be non-carcinogenic to humans or it compares more favorably against another chemical in our food. My comments were other reasons
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First, research is showing it has sub-lethal effects on many species of animals, particularly pollinators like bees where field-realistic doses can significantly reduce colony performance. Second, glyphosate persists and drifts easily from
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by jly 9y ago
The idea of cultivating yeast for brewing is critical. Before people had any concept of microbiology or yeast, they were still able to maintain a quality yeast strain. The same material was used for successive beers, and excess yeast woul
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by jly 9y ago
I opened this up just for fun. I'll start by saying I do think Apple is doing quite a bit in this regard and are pushing things forward towards better working conditions. Having said that, what is still considered "acceptable&qu
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I would look also at the seriously distorted property and land taxation system in California as an additional contributor along with zoning. A few decades of Prop 13 have done an amazing amount of damage to the housing markets all over the
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by jly 9y ago
In my opinion, the best news sources I read regularly are ones I pay for directly, with content hidden behind a paywall. This kind of reporting and investigating costs money to produce and is worth paying money for (and not just advertisin
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by jly 9y ago
This is minor depression, related to your work. I would emphasize that your thoughts are not irrational or misplaced, no matter how much money is on the table or how the situation might look to an outsider. The fact that you are currently
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I disagree, although obviously this kind of manipulation and even ultimately what is being manipulated is going to be complex and fraught with false steps and unknowns. While you may be right that our current genetic state, attained through
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I strongly agree with you on this being one of the most impactful technologies the world has ever seen. In fact, it may be the only thing that prevents the destruction of our species from our own selfish actions. Humans are proving to not
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Yeah but who really cares if the plane is a loss? If you pull that lever, you are doing it because you would otherwise probably die. I'd say that's worth a total loss.
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by jly 9y ago
Something really has to seriously go wrong for you to want to pull that lever. Once you do, as you said, you are totally at the mercy of this parachute system. It will land you where it lands you, and if something goes wrong with it, you
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by jly 9y ago
They made a deal with the devil (went public) that made many of the employees and shareholders wealthy, and now the price is being paid. The rules have changed and the primary goal now is maximum profit above everything else, no matter how
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by jly 9y ago
I think this is more true than many would like to admit. Maybe 'most work' as meaningless isn't the way I would phrase it, but I know many including myself that are often creatively and technically challenged, work an averag
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by jly 9y ago
I'm not going to speculate on whether this is good or bad, but it's not exactly as simple as trading one buzz for another. Many drink alcohol because they enjoy the taste of what they're consuming, plus any other positive ass
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by jly 9y ago
A business I used recently for some tree maintenance in my town had a 1-star Yelp review which was perplexing. In this case, the business and owner are well-known in the area as one of the best at what they do and top subject matter expert
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by jly 9y ago
My wife is an expat kiwi and we visit NZ every year since most of her family lives there still. We have also been contemplating a move back from the US, but housing prices (especially Auckland, but everywhere that isn't rural farmland
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by jly 10y ago
> The primary issue of inequality is largely the result of the fact that...global economic systems push wealth to a few. I shortened your statement to draw the conclusion faster. Global economic systems in this case are neoliberal free
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by jly 10y ago
I regularly use Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon and I disagree on the far superior UI experience. Amazon and Hulu have done a great job in recent days and I think has Netflix currently has the worst UI experience, at least on Apple TV. The Netf
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by jly 10y ago
Same thing for me. I took an extensive array of mathematics and physics courses while pursing an engineering degree. More than 10 years as a practicing software engineer and I remember very little of it today since most never comes up in
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I can't disagree with what you said. It's certainly not just Monsanto. I think the original article focused on Monsanto because of their potential role in manipulating research and investigations into a chemical used widely by m
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by jly 10y ago
There have been many studies in recent years examining the sub-lethal effects of agricultural dosages of glyphosate on honeybees. Newer research is showing conclusions of long-term negative consequences. Renewed studies have been done in
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The issue I have here is that research data can often be falsified or biased when there are billions of dollars on the line, and there are so many unknowns with some of these things that it's hard to make absolute safety conclusions. W
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> needless endangerment of the health of ~tens of thousands of farmers This affects an incredible array of life. Roundup is used on millions of perfect suburban lawns and landscape plants, impacting countless wildlife, pets, and humans.
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by jly 10y ago
The textbook prices are ridiculous. I buy a lot of textbooks for personal library/study, and I have found for 'classic' texts that have many editions, going back 2-3 revisions can be super cheap. I have purchased many used fr
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by jly 10y ago
Windwaker at 720p is still one of the most amazing looking games I've ever played. Nintendo has always had this right, with a priority on style and look rather than pushing maximum polygons. They know how to make good games that look

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