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by leksak 4y ago
You don't imagine being two years older than the majority of your classmates at that time is going to have immediate effects on their social life at that time or that employers in the future will note that they graduated later in life
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by leksak 4y ago
To track if people clicked on the link maybe?
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by leksak 4y ago
The world is allegedly running out of sand appropriate for use in concrete products. 99% Invisible (podcast) has a episode on the topic I suggest checking out https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/
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by leksak 4y ago
> In the first quarter of 2012, while many people were selling stocks during a broad market decline, one US Senator from Georgia purchased $180,000 worth of Cisco Systems shares. > As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent l
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by leksak 4y ago
Or people that don't think your comment applies very well at all or is a meaningful tangent to the subject matter of the article.
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by leksak 4y ago
For me, ADHD. I don't have a solution for OP. I'm going to go out of bounds with regards to the original question and maybe overstep but I would suggest that the mindset that this statement hints at > A person who i would envy
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by leksak 4y ago
Can't social media have played a part in 1-4 developing?
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by leksak 4y ago
> But if this is about perceived randomness shouldn’t people also guess which sequence was created by a human vs sequences created by some algorithm? It's about what the test person think another human will perceive as random so the
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by leksak 4y ago
They are equally likely, yes. But, the questions here pertain to whether or not an other person would perceive your sequence as random. It wasn't too long ago there was an article on HN (can't find it now) describing what feels ra
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by leksak 4y ago
Getting a mail-order bride seems inherently abusive somehow
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by leksak 4y ago
I don't have a US-context, so excuse my naivety but to me it'd appear as if government can't pay well for _some_ jobs. If the politician themselves make too much, then voters might not like that. If all government jobs pay &q
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by leksak 4y ago
Specialists are hard to get a face-to-face with even with socialized medicine (personal anecdote from Sweden). I assume that one thing that transcends national borders is that unless your symptoms suggest anything life-threatening care will
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by leksak 4y ago
That's the one. Yes, post buy-out it went poorly but that fallout was a given considering the company that purchased it.
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by leksak 4y ago
This deserves more attention as it does set a good precedent
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by leksak 4y ago
This comment made me think of a local online social network that was used predominantly in Umeå, Sweden. I can't speak for what happened in DMs but all the public facing content was very civil. And hardly any noise whatsoever. But I do
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by leksak 5y ago
> No obviously means no If only YouTube understood this
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by leksak 5y ago
I used to be one of the people that were ascribed the "talented" label. It opened a lot of doors, and I've had a career that initially was deemed as more successful than that of my peers. However, after burning out twice I&#x
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by leksak 5y ago
> latest generation of fitness trackers are reasonably accurate and can be worn 24/7. I've heard claims of 30% inaccuracy. Not sure if that applies to the absolute latest generation but I'd be happy to know if my understan
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by leksak 5y ago
For how long were you in a deficit before plateuing? There are some adaptations the body will make with regards to the thyroid that'll drastically lower your BMR
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by leksak 5y ago
I think you'd have to be more specific than "exercise" as heavy resistance training activates mTor and not AMPK. If memory serves they are mutually exclusive and cannot be activated simultaneously. Low intensity exercise, suc
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by leksak 5y ago
Probably a very low amount. When I was studying I participated as a student representative at the CS programme I was attending and this was something that was actively being addressed. The problem was multi-pronged. The courses had become i
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by leksak 5y ago
Those suggestions might hold up for some people but even those seemingly innocuous avenues might cause things to go awry when used as tools for emotional regulation. And, maybe my counter-arguments falls outside of the scope of the qualifie
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by leksak 5y ago
When phrased like this, > 4) You recognize that any request for support for the Program will be discarded with extreme prejudice. There is no way I'd even make a request for support.
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by leksak 5y ago
If the point of CS education is to produce programmers and software engineers as opposed to computer scientists, yes.
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Norton “Antivirus” Installs Cryptomining Software and Then Skims a Commission(twitter.com)
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by leksak 5y ago
I have ADHD and while I'm happy for the author that they've found something that works for them I do not consider my ADHD a superpower. I write this for anyone else that finds that their struggle is greater than any potential boon
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by leksak 5y ago
I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with social media. Mastodon too. I feel as if we've moved from long form content to essentially posting single words almost. Articles -> blogs -> microblogs -> tweets. I skipped Ins
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by leksak 5y ago
"Or Kurt Vonnegut, who famously advised against their use" is in the article
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by leksak 5y ago
Would you mind clarifying what a canary is? I understand it is referencing the idea of a canary in a coal mine but what does that look like in this context? Other than having a separate account to which you transfer most of your funds so yo
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by leksak 5y ago
Hi, I hope this doesn't come across as me not respecting your tiredness but could you link or anything to best practices if you don't have the energy to write it out yourself?

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