meowfly

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by meowfly 4y ago
Annually, sorry if that was confusing. $250k over their lifetime.
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by meowfly 4y ago
Elizabeth Warren's book The Two-Income Trap argued that dual income couples priced out single income families from the best locations. It makes sense that DINKs and childless single people are simply reacting to the same economic incen
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by meowfly 4y ago
Maybe I don't understand the question but of course a persons lived experience affects them. It seems like you've moved the goal posts. What I'm pointing out is that OPs moralizing on good media "Anime, Books" vs ba
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by meowfly 4y ago
I still listen to "gangster rap" and I'm doing well enough. It's entirely possible to listen to Trap and not drink lean. There are plenty of dorks (I use the word affectionately) watching anime whose fandom has subsumed
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by meowfly 4y ago
I usually make the case that 60% of the US federal budget is entitlement programs with the largest portion being Medicare and Social Security. Medicare is what I usually focus on on because a person will take out $3 for every dollar they pu
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by meowfly 4y ago
RMB is a terrible candidate for a reserve currency. If you are concerned about the US meddling with their currency, you will not pick a historically manipulated currency like the RMB. Moreover, in China transactions over 8k USD have to be r
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by meowfly 4y ago
Utah has a free range parenting law on their books. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/01/598630200/utah-passes-free-ra...
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by meowfly 4y ago
> Tangentially related but they have a history of drug misuse There might be a tighter correlation than it seems. What makes drugs addictive is that they work on the dopamine pathways. ADD medications do this directly. Drug abuse causes
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by meowfly 4y ago
My experience has been a mental health diagnosis, even from a professional, has the terrible byproduct of reifying the symptoms of that condition. It's perfectly possible that the environment that manifests something like social phobia
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by meowfly 4y ago
The people making it harder for you are college/highschoolers sharing it with their friends to cram for school or party through the night. The other problem is the low bar to get a script. If someone had to see a psychiatrist then be p
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by meowfly 4y ago
What you seem to be confused over is how poorly we talk about addiction. Alcohol and Benzos can kill you, so when people talk about physical dependence, they usually mean them. I feel like this is often used to obfuscate the fact that becau
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by meowfly 4y ago
China also put millions into poverty during Mao's Great Leap Forward. Note that your link refers to the last 4 decades. Just before that, the same government was decimating the countries wealth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by meowfly 4y ago
I fly a lot too and that (assuming this is not a joke) seems abnormally low. I agree it is often not worth it though. Reasons not to use in-flight wifi: * It might be broken, but the credit card processing for some reason works fine. * If y
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by meowfly 4y ago
I'm a DINK so I'm on the side of watching people with kids struggle to find time to do things without their kids. My observation is a person's free time all boils down to how both parents decide to divide parenting responsibi
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by meowfly 4y ago
From my own experience and my SO's, a 2-5 percent per year seems normal. What seems to happen is your manager's manager gets approval from finance to offer 2-5% raises per report. If your manager thinks that is unfair he/she
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by meowfly 4y ago
How is nuclear not in the set of "all the forces and means at our disposal"?
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by meowfly 4y ago
It's also that there are no guarantees your hardware is supported -- so when you do bother, you might find yourself in config hell trying to get your wifi to work.
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by meowfly 4y ago
The term "unprocessed foods" smells too much like the naturalistic fallacy to me. According to that definition weight loss bars, that are designed to be high-protein (hence high-satiety), would be considered a processed food simpl
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by meowfly 4y ago
1. This is a great PSA. I would absolutely buy this kind of cable not realizing it's dangerous. 2. What is wrong with our regulatory bodies that there hasn't been heat turned up on these marketplaces? Imagine going to CVS and sear
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by meowfly 4y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. Alcohol binds to the GABA receptor mimicking GABA, hence providing a calming feeling. It allows people to feel less anxious in situations they might normally feel awkward. That is definitely not cultural.
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by meowfly 4y ago
> The advice, or rather the plea, from both Hacker News and Reddit is not to abandon Firefox - but on the other hand there is also mounting evidence that MBNA isn't the only company writing Firefox off. I don't know about this.
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by meowfly 4y ago
There definitely seems to be a gap between what a certain subset of people want out of Signal and what I do. I like Signal because it is a fairly pure messaging app. Admittedly, introduction of Mobile Coin has marred that though. I want som
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by meowfly 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to this perspective, but the other side of this is that the most enjoyable time in my job is headphones on listening to music in a flow state. I've been accused of being a lone wolf on projects. It comes from the s
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by meowfly 4y ago
I suspect there is something going on with the number of people I see describe brain fog symptoms. If you look at google trends there was a marked increase in 2020 (probably covid related?). https://trends.google.com/trends&
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by meowfly 4y ago
The original RvW did overturn a law -- Texas state law. It absolutely would go to the courts. In the same way Obamacare went to the courts. SCOTUS makes rulings on the constitutionality of laws written by both state and federal governments.
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by meowfly 4y ago
It's clearly not hot enough to remove leetcode interviews as part of the screening process. I changed jobs almost a year ago and almost every company I applied to had a leetcode section.
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by meowfly 4y ago
> "Clearly we have to pack the court!" No. Clearly you have to pass a law. The reason people are suggesting packing the court is because there is a belief that a 6/3 SCOTUS can simply undo any laws you put in place. The ir
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by meowfly 4y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of this Taiwan invasion scenario I see floated around quite a bit. 1. As you said, and China is aware, a war between Taiwan and China will harm both countries and strengthen the US. 2. The world would react extr
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by meowfly 5y ago
This strikes home for me. I moved jobs recently after being at my last company for 10 years. I felt pretty overwhelmed at the beginning. Everything from the tech, deployment process, style guide, PR process, etc might have to be relearned.
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by meowfly 5y ago
I'm extremely critical of how governments have handled the pandemic, but I don't think underplaying the deadliness of Covid is the best position to make that case. Utah barely locked down, has their kids in school, no mask require

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