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by lqet 6y ago
Fully agree. Parenting gets a lot easier as soon as you accept that you don't have any clue what you are doing. The child must be loved, fed, washed, and dressed. Everything else is improvisation. E: I remember sitting in antenatal c
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by lqet 6y ago
Not so sure this is necessarily a western thing. When I was a kid in Germany in the 90ies, school started at 7:30, and ended at 13:00. Once a week you had afternoon school from 14:30 to 16:00, and my parents wanted me to have piano lessons
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by lqet 6y ago
I would like to know what small children (1-2 years) dream, but we can of course never really know for sure. My daughter (2 years) definitely seems to have nightmares. She also seems to have conversations in her dreams, as she often speaks
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by lqet 6y ago
> I got stinking headaches for a week, but not an overwhelming urge to drink caffeine This is exactly my experience after not drinking coffee for 1-2 days. Headaches that make the thought of drinking coffee slightly disgusting.
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by lqet 6y ago
But certainly it is much harder for an alcoholic to stop drinking, than for me to stop putting sugar in coffee or tea? I actually did that 15 years ago because I was too lazy to buy sugar. It tasted strange for 4-5 cups, then I was accustom
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by lqet 6y ago
> One of the major reasons people can’t overcome it is because we’re not very good at treating addiction in this country. I am often wondering about how addiction "feels". I don't consider myself being addicted to anything
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by lqet 6y ago
> There is no known, credible evidence that a banzai skydive has ever really occurred https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_skydiving
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by lqet 6y ago
> They advertise to people from their infancy to their adulthood. I grew up in Europe, my family had zero farming background, and even I remember playing with small John Deere tractor toys [0] as a kid in the 90ies. [0] https:/&#x2
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by lqet 6y ago
While I agree that OSM is great and highly accurate, I would be careful using it in remote locations where your life may depend on a correct trail. It is very easy to edit OSM (changes are propagated into map tiles after a few minutes), an
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by lqet 6y ago
TIL I live in "southern Europe" (Germany).
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by lqet 6y ago
Key points: > Much of what appears to be Chrome (or Chromium) functionality is, in truth, provided by servers in Google's data centers. These include bookmark synchronization, the safe-browsing feature, search suggestions, spell-che
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Psychiatric Interview with Paranoid Schizophrenic (1983)(youtube.com)
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by lqet 6y ago
> But buying shares and forgetting about them got the best results. This is the strategy most advisors advise. It saves time, stress, and it works. I chose my very boring and traditional local bank to trade stocks. Their online trading p
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Great Polish Map of Scotland: the world's largest terrain relief model(en.wikipedia.org)
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Many HN threads and articles (including this one) about Jeff Bezos link to interviews or speeches where he tells the primary reason he chose books as the first articles Amazon sold: because you could not build a physical book store offering
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by lqet 6y ago
> So, while archaeologists still have much to learn about the people who built the pyramids and how the work was organized and executed, it is easy to throw out this basic misconception. The pyramids were built by Egyptians. There are ov
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by lqet 6y ago
> If the premeditation involves writing down plans with maps etc, then... Just add a preface: "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental."
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by lqet 6y ago
> what seems like such a simpler, happier time I am regularly watching historic news footage (1950s and 1960s) from the archives of my local TV station. While the people are indeed friendlier than today (and much more eloquent), they don
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by lqet 6y ago
It's actually just changing the hash.
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by lqet 6y ago
According to Wikipedia: > There were no drugs present and the only alcohol was a small flask of medicinal alcohol, found intact at the scene. The group had even sworn off cigarettes for the expedition.
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2002 Überlingen mid-Air collision(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lqet 6y ago
Here is the origin of the term: http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png
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Emotet malware botnet disrupted by international police operation(zdnet.com)
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The email exchange is surreal. Goodman : [...] If you could represent our interests “enthusiastically,” per our deal – and honestly – that would be appreciated. We’ve all worked too hard to see this fall apart now. Dean Goodman. De Chiara
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by lqet 6y ago
> the best long running decision I've ever made I feel exactly the same way, although initially, this wasn't a conscious decision. I just did not understand the hype and ignored it. For me, as a 90ies kid, social media was IRC,
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Recently found replication-critical structure may enable novel COVID-19 therapy(pnas.org)
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by lqet 6y ago
> Now if I could just find a nice SXGA+ screen... Took me a few months to find one on eBay, a replacement part of a X61s. Fitting this thing into the X61 was... interesting. It involved a few hours of Dremeling. I am convinced it was p
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by lqet 6y ago
> These were not libraries in the modern sense so much as private archives, owned and controlled by religious orders or royalty and only available to a select few. Isn't this exactly the modern definition of a library? > A librar
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by lqet 6y ago
Two close family members (twins) were born in the late 1950s. An emergency baptism was immediately administered, their mother was told "there is nothing we can do" and the twins were given to her. They both survived.
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by lqet 6y ago
This is the main reason why I will stick to my modded Thinkpad X61 [0]. Small, classic trackpoint, no touchpad. [0] https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/

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