mFixman

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by mFixman 5y ago
The part I miss the most from high school were these kinds of competitions. Having to study random fun things and being rewarded for it was peak happiness for teenage me.
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by mFixman 5y ago
The entire point of moving abroad is the possibility to immigrate permanently to a better country, not to have a working holiday in the Caribbean.
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That was one joke that was blown out of proportion by the media. https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/boston-celtics/kyrie-irving...
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by mFixman 5y ago
I was part of the Flat Earthers' group in my previous job and used to participate in Flat Earth internet forums. 99.99% of Flat Earthers are internet trolls that succeeded in creating a moral panic similar to Momo or the Blue Whale Cha
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by mFixman 5y ago
> they have infested most of AAA space If every company has a certain chance of selling out every year, then by the time you get old most companies you grew up with will make bad products. That's a pattern that happens with everythi
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Is it me, or does this article look suspiciously like an ad?
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If you already bought a home then selling it and moving to a new one with the same price is extremely expensive, specially if the housing market increased its prices faster than your salary (which is true for almost all UK homes since the 2
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by mFixman 5y ago
Amazon and Facebook are by far the largest competitors in the area, and Google and Apple have more stable ecosystems since its users cannot easily move between Android and iOS. There's nothing like that for Netflix: its amount of uniqu
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I think a lot of negative issues regarding housing in the UK come from the government charging a stamp duty when buying a property instead of property taxes like almost every other country on Earth. Paying 5% of an entire property price is
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by mFixman 5y ago
Have you tried a Reform community? You can get the religious structure and meaning while also not being shunned for loving whomever you love.
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by mFixman 5y ago
I create a new dated file every day and edit it on Vim. I think this is the ideal middle point: I can easily go back and see old information, but I also don't feel that I'm "wasting" important space if I feel like writin
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This is a report based on a Facebook post by a random person telling a story about her repo friend who once told her that Tesla could help him get control of the car. Until someone reports this happening first hand, I'm going to assume
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by mFixman 5y ago
I read to sleep, so it depends on how tired I am. Usually it's in the 1h±30m range.
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Actual data points at millenials and zoomers actually reading more books than other generations [1]. This seemed weird to me until I figured out how few books my parents actually read. This thread is full of social media as a generation-des
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by mFixman 5y ago
Why could social media be a factor and not video games or movie streaming? You are believing things without evidence and falling at the same old-person moral panic as "video games cause violence" or "D&D causes suicide&qu
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by mFixman 5y ago
I wish the site explained _why_ this particular journal was predatory. Right now it seems to easy to convince the site to add $rival_journal to the junk journal list.
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by mFixman 5y ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about web development. My understanding is that Log4Shell vulnerabilities come from parsing `${jndi:ldap:path}` files coming from HTTP requests, which raises the question of why wasn't that input sanitised in
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by mFixman 5y ago
2 billion people consuming as much as the average American does right now gets you in a much worse situation than the current one. The only solution is strong government action to reduce emissions and environmental consequences of consumpti
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by mFixman 5y ago
I don't know what you are talking about. I can tell you the rough plot of Stranger Things, Squid Game, and Tiger King despite never having seen a single episode of those series. Shows are still part of popular culture, it's just s
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by mFixman 5y ago
Is there any product being developed by a giant company for >10 years that isn't a bloated mess at this point? I see feature creep and sloppy functionality in the core as a symptom of the usual tech project management style, where t
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I'm actually curious whether that is always the truth. I've been in the industry for several years and made enough savings to cover my current lifestyle for a long time while also paying a significant stipent to a university. Woul
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I used to work for Facebook until a couple of months ago, and I know for a fact that a lot of FB employees still post here. The problem is that presenting yourself as a Facebook employee gives you a deluge of angry HN responses that are nor
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by mFixman 5y ago
I always thought "big Ο" was uppercase omicron. That would make it consistent with Θ and Ω.
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Different sets of neurons fire for different people on the same stimulus. Does that mean you don't feel pain in the same way another person feels pain?
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The Australian practice seems fair though. If you force cash and credit card transactions to be the same price then the extra 0.5% is charged to everyone, and outside of extreme cases like this post there is little incentive for credit card
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R has a few advantages over Python for data science work, but Python has a big one: it's also widely used by software engineers who are not data scientists. I found it easy to jump from the software side of things to the data side of t
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My biggest argument against nuclear is that there are no incentives for decommissioning unsafe plants in the far future. The usual pro-nuclear argument says that nuclear plants are only unsafe if managed incorrectly. However, the West doesn
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I bike on cold winter weather, and the solution to the cold is using a coat, a nice pair of gloves, and a cute little hat. It's really not nearly as big of a deal as it seems. A lot of people use balaclavas for preventing cold air on t
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A lot of people spend $20k to buy a low-mid range car. A top electric mountain bike seems like a better choice.

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