malteof

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by malteof 7mo ago
Did you not read the parent? Talking through your problems with another human being alleviates the feeling of loneliness.
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by malteof 3y ago
What. They were so good! What did you not like about them?
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by malteof 3y ago
Well, the Buddhists are more optimistic than that! They have lots of techniques and ways of thinking to reduce suffering. I recommend reading up on their life philosophy, they’re far from nihilists.
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by malteof 3y ago
You’re talking about mobile games. I have to kids, 4 and 6, and the only games we’ve introduced them to are 1) board games and 2) Nintendo Switch games. This largely avoids the problem (for now!)
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by malteof 4y ago
[Citation needed]
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by malteof 4y ago
The world is controlled by the Illuminati. Prove me wrong.
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by malteof 4y ago
They need to explain themselves to shareholders (why did they hire so many people in the first place, expensive) and employees (so that people want to keep working there also in the future).
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by malteof 4y ago
I’ve been using Keepass for a while, it’s great.
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by malteof 4y ago
> Elon is the wealthiest man in the world Second wealthiest now…
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by malteof 4y ago
Same! iPhone 12 on latest iOS.
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by malteof 4y ago
It sounds like you really want it to be vaccines even though not much seems to be pointing towards that conclusion, be careful to avoid a bias. The article mentions cancer and cardiovascular chronic diseases.
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by malteof 4y ago
> No, I can't be bothered to learn piano scales. I expended my mental capacity for it on guitar already. It’s a lot easier on the piano. The keys are laid out as sheet music, very convenient if you know a bit of music theory.
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by malteof 4y ago
Can confirm - our daughter started walking to Kindergarten about 9 months ago and she just turned 5 a few weeks ago. She’s very proud of her independence, you can see it does something good for the kids.
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by malteof 5y ago
You can also read the post as “out of all Indian devs (who on average tend to be cheaper than devs from most other countries), hire the bottom of the barrel”. I doubt they meant that all Indian devs are bottom of the barrel.
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by malteof 7y ago
> Many people and brokerages went broke in a matter of a minute. I was here then as well, I somehow doubt many people went broke... It only went from being pegged at 1.2 dropping to around 1.0 as far as I remember. How would this cause a
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by malteof 7y ago
> Warren Buffet is wealthy for a reason. Is it because of luck? Not trying to be silly, but how would you truly know it isn't just luck? E.g. read Fooled by Randomness for more background.
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by malteof 9y ago
That's fine as long as you don't try to draw any conclusions from your anecdote :-)
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by malteof 9y ago
What's the rationale for 1-3? I don't understand why they would be good ideas.
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by malteof 9y ago
Not what he said though... He said it has no value for him - presumably since he doesn't have AIDS.
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by malteof 9y ago
Scuttlebutt?
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by malteof 9y ago
Surely you're the one getting this backwards somehow? You're talking about privatisation, but the OP discusses deregulation. You don't mean to say that deregulation leads to more regulation, do you? EDIT: Also, your thesis th
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by malteof 9y ago
Hey, I work in insurance too - as a non-life actuary for the last almost 8-9 years. Your description is not at all how insurance works, and insurance is not a form of betting or gambling but really distinctly different. What it's reall
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by malteof 10y ago
https://riot.im/ has an IRC bridge! It works quite nicely.
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by malteof 10y ago
Have you tried Matrix (e.g. riot.im [1])? It even has an IRC bridge, for free. [1] https://riot.im/
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by malteof 10y ago
Not sure if this is true for Go. I'm not sure, but it seems to me that at some point a problem becomes "too complex" to solve. I.e. Go has about 2.08168199382×10^170 legal positions [1] and the number of atoms in the observab
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by malteof 11y ago
Econtalk on interest rates are quite on topic, check out here: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/04/scott_sumner_on.htm...