mFixman

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by mFixman 4y ago
For all of its problems, the UK government is fantastic at providing useful information in a clear and readable way.
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by mFixman 4y ago
The BBC is the most biased media channel if you don't count all the rest.
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by mFixman 5y ago
You just described UKIP, the mostly-single-issue party that directly led to Brexit and mostly disintegrated afterwards.
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by mFixman 5y ago
That's how you know you are talking about a first-world country. My dear home country had an official (likely underreported) inflation rate of 5.5% in March alone.
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by mFixman 5y ago
I can't believe people are pearl clutching about sex parties in San Francisco of all places.
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by mFixman 5y ago
You cannot really prevent those kinds of cheats. Even if you use the most insidious spyware a coach can advice the interviewee from a different device. The only way to prevent those kind of scams is to put all employees in probation for the
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by mFixman 5y ago
If you think 60m per day is a lot of cardio, you need to improve how you get your heart rate up. Treatmills and stationary bikes are boring; going for a run or hopping on a bicycle works much better.
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by mFixman 5y ago
I don't see it that way. As far as I'm aware there's no way to switch to one of your iTerm screens using the keyboard without raising all 50 up to the foreground. In most cases I have several windows open but I want to cycle
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by mFixman 5y ago
As someone who grew up with Windows XP, the first thing I do when I get a new Macbook is install Hyperswitch [1] which makes Cmd+Tab cycle through all windows of all applications of the current desktop. The regular OSX workflow seems to be
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by mFixman 5y ago
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by mFixman 5y ago
Your friends were wrong. Opening a bank account in the UK is fast as of ~5 years ago.
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by mFixman 5y ago
As another gay man, I cannot help but compare the hypothetical case of a male birth control pill and the fast expansion of PrEP. Extrapolating from that I would guess that saving unwanted pregnancies will make most governments and healthcar
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by mFixman 5y ago
We even have Unicode codepoints for alphabets like Shavian or Deseret which were never in widespread use but currently exist as linguistic curiosities.
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by mFixman 5y ago
If you are an Amazon driver and everyone else keeps engine running, then your results will always be below your peers unless you break the rules. If the city cracks down in idling then either Amazon will relax the targets or nobody will fu
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by mFixman 5y ago
I wish there was a similar system in London for cars parked in cycle lanes. Ths city's boroughs spent millions of pounds marking and building cycle lanes which are useless if there's no penalty for using them as a disruptive free
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by mFixman 5y ago
Why is internal search in giant companies so hard? Meta's internal search, bunnylol, is also nearly useless and a big productivity hog.
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by mFixman 5y ago
I had the choice many years ago of working in London or somewhere in the US. I chose the first, and comparison to my friends who chose the second I know I made the right choice. The UK is the best of both worlds: you have much higher salari
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by mFixman 5y ago
That's the same moral panic there used to be about Photoshop. It turned out that people don't believe tricked imaged without any context.
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by mFixman 5y ago
How is this worse than the last 30 years of Photoshopped war images?
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by mFixman 5y ago
If you are mathematically inclined like a lot of people in HN, the best way might be getting an app like MyFitnessPal to figure out the maximum amount of calories you need to each every day to lose X kg in Y days, and commit to logging ever
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by mFixman 5y ago
Maybe "violent fights" wasn't the right phrase here. I was talking about the usual boy light violent play.
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by mFixman 5y ago
As a meta-comment, I'm surprised at how good the answers in these kinds of Quora questions, specially when compared to most other internet forums. Even comments in this HN thread (including this one, sorry) are uninteresting and confro
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by mFixman 5y ago
Did we have different childhoods, or do you not really forget yours? Children used to steal trading cards and have violent fights over them. Only a few dedicated nerds played the game; the rest just collected the cards and showed them as a
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by mFixman 5y ago
I'm sure my parents would disagree that Pokémon trading cards weren't a giant money sink designed to take their money. I can see a lot of problems with giving children access to credit cards, but I honestly fail to see how loot bo
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by mFixman 5y ago
Bikesharing makes visiting cities cities much more enjoyable: instead of having to choose between travelling underground or having to keep track of a rented bike, you can enjoy cycling with a shared bike and not worry about locking it or ha
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by mFixman 5y ago
I'm in a similar situation: the pandemic destroyed my ability to be comfortable in the office. I like keeping the windows in my flat open, and two years of working from home made me extremely uncomfortable breathing the bad air of an h
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by mFixman 5y ago
My 2020 new year's resolution was to stop doing that, and it improved my relationship with the news and social media. Rubbish articles generate rubbish comments from people who just read the headlines, and by only loading the page and
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by mFixman 5y ago
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by mFixman 5y ago
How would you prevent the fraudulent transactions you just posted if you accept 0 conf proof?
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by mFixman 5y ago
If Russia wins the war the government will probably not claim that Ukraine is part of Russia. They can make a couple of puppet states that take Ukraine's old debt plus the cost of the Russian invasion.

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