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by meowfly 5y ago
I see all the negative comments but I'm asking this with genuine curiosity. Do high school students not really work any more? Maybe they legally can't at a Beer Garden, even if it's washing dishes? When I was in high school I
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by meowfly 6y ago
I somehow lucked out and was able to find an appointment on my first try. My friend, in contrast, couldn't find anything and ended up driving to Yakima from Seattle to get a shot from FEMA. I don't understand this. Why would a lar
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by meowfly 6y ago
I went back to school to take a couple classes at a public school in a red state. It definitely has changed but it wasn't that bad. My observations around this: * Lots more platitudes. Nearly every teacher in the CS department had sign
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by meowfly 6y ago
I can accept a definition of scam that includes fiat. Though it definitely doesn't track the same way with cryptocurrency. I associate nootropics with scams but I definitely don't think all nootropics are scams. If someone said,
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by meowfly 6y ago
The comment from the article echos my own sentiments: > Speaking solely as a person who is really into encrypted messaging, it terrifies me that they're going to take this really clean story of an encrypted messenger and mix it up w
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by meowfly 6y ago
That doesn't address my point: Couldn't Google just have increased the rank of pages with minimal Javascript and faster load times? I think you might be strawmanning why some HN folks don't like AMP. To me, at least, it looks
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by meowfly 6y ago
I'm still confused what problem AMP was fixing. Google could just make page speed more important in their rankings. They probably don't because page speed isn't as important as content quality in regards to what people are lo
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by meowfly 6y ago
I realize given how much hardship other people have experienced so this comes across as rather callous, but for this reason 2020 has been one of the best years in my career. In-person interactions add stress on top of my normal work stress.
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by meowfly 6y ago
I mean it isn't that people actually think "stocks only go up", it's that the donor class own stocks and that then means political landscape is designed to always bail them out. I'm closer to your age and experience
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by meowfly 6y ago
I should have said "engage in illegal activities" to be more precise. If I wanted to, right now, buy drugs online, engage in illegal online gambling, ransom someone's data, etc it will most likely be done in BTC or maybe Mone
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by meowfly 6y ago
I'm skeptical of crypto but the strongest case certainly seems to be for funding illegal activities and capital flight. If you had to flee your country gold/silver will be far more trouble than BTC.
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by meowfly 6y ago
Is this snark or is the difference between what free-speech looks like today and 30 years ago not apparent? What people are nostalgic for is the ability to have semi-anonymous semi-ephemeral speech. For example: The ability to have a privat
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by meowfly 6y ago
You touch on a good point. The irony here is that "cancel culture" only works because labor's power is poor. If it is expensive (e.g Joe Rogan - Spotify deal) or difficult (e.g Steven Pinker - tenured) to fire people it seems
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by meowfly 6y ago
I had a stopover in Amsterdam and ended up sharing drinks with a Norwegian who was there to party with friends after graduating from a prestigious school in Bergen. I was actually taken aback at how negative his views on weed were. He made
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by meowfly 6y ago
You perfectly described the reasons I don't have children. I'm a bit older and my spouse is reaching the age where she hits her fertility cliff. We both see a society that makes having children more akin to a luxury good. Many of
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by meowfly 6y ago
There is a book titled Shadow Divers (I would recommend) that goes into this a bit. The book tells the story of wreck divers who find a U-boat not far from New Jersey. The story echos your friend's concern. Wreck divers will remove any
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by meowfly 6y ago
I'm very skeptical the censorship is working. Censorship has created a whole class of "intellectual" that is using alternative platforms (e.g Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin) to espouse their points of view. Those podcasters have en
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by meowfly 6y ago
I think most of the California gear grinding is probably more politics than anything. Most people I know who don't love SF have no objection to living in a city like San Diego. I think in regards to these specific stories the issue is
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by meowfly 6y ago
This was a very unconvincing argument. 1. Apple's analogy with nutrition labels was strictly how transparency is a good thing. The food pyramid add-on analogy felt like a straw man argument. 2. The Apple video of someone broadcasting t
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by meowfly 6y ago
I wish there were better options for people to travel with their pets over long distances. There are plenty of horror stories of pets who have died in cargo. I would be willing to pay for a seat, or even a row, to take my dog on a cross cou
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by meowfly 6y ago
I don't see how people think that it isn't dangerous. Ezra Klein wrote the following on Vox. > A few years ago, it became popular on feminist Twitter to tweet about the awful effects of patriarchal culture and attach the line #
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by meowfly 6y ago
I lived in Taiwan and the comparison you are making with masks isn't a very strong one. Wearing masks in Taiwan was normal even before the pandemic. Scooter travel is the most common form of transportation and it's very normal to
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by meowfly 6y ago
This reddit thread makes it sound like FBE isn't particularly secure once the bootloader is unlocked. I'm not an expert on this but the more I looked into security around LineageOS the more I realized losing my phone would/co
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by meowfly 6y ago
I've read this is a very easy way to brick your phone because the bootloader will check if the signature matches the one from the OEM.
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by meowfly 6y ago
I'm currently using LineageOS and I'm not going to use it in the future. The issue I have is that unlocking my phone creates a security trade off that doesn't seem better than the privacy gains. I'm more afraid of losing
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by meowfly 6y ago
When I moved over from WSL to WSL2, WSL2 was extremely slow. I quickly realized my mistake. On WSL2 IO on the Windows filesystem is actually extremely slow. I moved my projects to the WSL2 filesystem and run my IDE on WSL2 with VcXsrv and I
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by meowfly 6y ago
I moved from a much smaller city to Seattle for a job that paid more (even after a CoL adjustment) but ended up moving back because I felt poorer in Seattle than I did in my old city. A big part of it is that most of my acquaintances were p
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by meowfly 6y ago
That law already exists. I'm not aware of any recreational state that allows public consumption. It just seems to be rarely enforced.
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by meowfly 6y ago
I'm still not sure what the VPN fallacy is, and I'm asking genuinely trying to understand. If someone goes into private mode (and tor becomes enabled) and visits a site, wouldn't the owners of that site have less information
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by meowfly 6y ago
I've lost about the same amount but have since regained about 12kg and have been sitting about 7kg more than I would like for some time. I've been asked what I did to lose weight but I really don't have a good answer for it.

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