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by lai-yin 5y ago
As an American working in politics who's jacked into the daily Politico/WSJ/Twitter grind it warms my heart to briefly imagine that all Canadians get their news from quirky, local newspapers like this.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Any good synonyms for 'thanks in advance' to mix it up? "Look forward to your thoughts" etc.
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Ask HN: Is there a comprehensive guide to the self-publishing industry?
3 points by lai-yin 5y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Coolest fact I've learned today. Thank you!
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Fair point!
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Would be interesting to have a catalogue of endangered protocols/knowledge bases - similar to the endangered species list. Bit of a tangent: just occurred to me that part of the story arc for the show 'Mr. Robot' is hackers t
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by lai-yin 5y ago
The part about the extinction of the Punic language made me wonder - what would it take to utterly erase an entire branch of knowledge today?
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by lai-yin 5y ago
I love kefir and ryazhenka, but never had it without also having pasteurized milk mixed in the diet. Will definitely try it now I've been off dairy a few months. Raw milk sales in Texas are tricky, until this summer you could only buy
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Alas - as much as I enjoy dairy (especially goat milk), I can't drink it without causing a psoriasis breakout. How the heck does a trait like that make it down the tree?
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Lots of things. To name a few - printing literature, building a website, salary for a coordinator to schedule the hundreds of meetings that will come up, and salary for a communications expert who can strategically articulate your position
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Lobbying is a beautiful mechanism of democracy. Anyone can register to be a lobbyist. Any organization's members can pool money together to form an association which represents its interests to legislators. I worked as a Congressional
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Thank you! Anyone know why the original audio isn't available?
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by lai-yin 5y ago
5 years ago my therapist handed me a sheet of paper titled "Checklist of Cognitive Distortions." Ten negative modes of thought. I didn't immediately grasp how ingrained each one was in my mindset and habits - it took years an
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The Declaration of Independence as a Defense of Equality (2020)(youtube.com)
1 points by lai-yin 5y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
You're overestimating what these private member briefings are really like.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Is it just a state of mind? I've been perfectly happy and even proud to do menial work on nights and weekends when it was for a cool cause.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
That fish sticks episode of South Park is so good. Can't wait to watch it with my grandkids and admire the puzzlement in their faces.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
I was a student at Trilogy. Not sure what they mean. The course was fun. The good students leveled up in their careers. I certainly did.
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JPMorgan to Offer Actively Managed Bitcoin Fund(coindesk.com)
1 points by lai-yin 5y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Sorry but you don't get to discount wind turbines' ecological damage just because no more mining is involved post-construction.
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by lai-yin 5y ago
Land AND resource use. Just because a single wind turbine takes up a small patch of land doesn't mean it's not extremely resource intensive. Case in point: https://twitter.com/extrachelle/status/986599367
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Yes, you need to read millions of tweets. Have a nice weekend.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Taleb dumped bitcoin because he couldn't stand seeing its community almost unanimously oppose the COVID lockdowns, while he was taking his precautionary principle to the extreme. You could see the divergence playing out on Twitter for
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by lai-yin 6y ago
I thought I hit rock bottom, but then I realized there were more rock bottoms beneath the rock bottom. It's rock bottoms all the way down.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
I've heard Bezos' approach with Blue Origin compared to the 'tortoise and the hare' allegory. Slow and steady may work when your talented opponent is taking naps along the racetrack, it doesn't work when they are as
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Every alternative to suburbs has its own serious problems. People like living in suburbs. I like living in them. And maybe if we rebrand trailer parks as tiny home communities it will change attitudes about cheap, affordable homes.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
This article's webpage displayed a few rug ads. I was shopping for rugs a month ago. The rug ads haven't stopped since. I don't care though tbh.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
I majored in Finance over 10 years ago and this was common knowledge then. A recruiter even warned us about it. Graduates still applied for the program. It's just bankers larping as Navy SEALs in BUD/S training.
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Are wind turbines a significant threat to birds?(abcbirds.org)
2 points by lai-yin 6y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
America is worse off after months of BLM protests. So you could argue that being broke, woke, and violent can make a difference.

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