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by michelledepeil 8y ago
The ELI5 I always tend to fall back on is the example of the Dutch Jewry. The tale goes that The Netherlands had a beautiful list of all its citizens, their names, addresses and their religious statusses neatly tucked away in a locked filin
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
That's just because tea drinking is currently socially acceptable. As examples, in a western context: what if it wasn't tea bags but used condoms? In a middle-eastern context: empty beer bottles? Worse, you can't predict what
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
...and the same thing continues in these comments: something totally mundane posted on the internet being dissected to within an inch of its life. The whole point of the article is that random stuff on the internet becomes world news, but t
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Incredibly well written piece. I think a great point is made that even though we are becoming, on a worldwide level, more culturally liberal (slowly albeit), generally a good thing because we move away from violent misogyny, it is in fact a
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
except they are not representative of an entire society - specifically they are only representative (usually) of a subgroup of society that _cannot_ work.
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Yes, but there is an implied preference by companies to have more focus on work and less on private life, which is why it's also an implied penalty for the inverse (= having kids as a woman). And the unfairness here is that only women
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I've felt that expensive (> $300) phones should have more than basic functionality for a while now. In fact it does work the other way: for less than 300 euros, you can get a totally _normal, functional_ phone. See moto c plus, moto
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I read it on its own, on an ebook reader where the annotations don't work (bad android app). Generally I only have to look up the occasional word or two to get some of the word jokes (my favourite being "[making his exam by] a sin
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I was likely wrong wrt my argumentation. However, Eddy currents (TIL) make seperation _fairly_ easy if you have the right equipment, and comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18702317 seems to think "cleaning&qu
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I read Infinite Jest for the first time this year, and it's incredible. I recognise at the same time it's not for everyone, but the story, writing style, humor and sheer specific knowledge on so many subjects employed in this book
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I believe cans are more easily recyclable, in part because they're so easy to seperate from other trash (using a big magnet).
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I've decided to quit as much as possible the big 5, given I can find common sense, functional alternatives. Then I've also made the exception for work, which relies heavily on Google services (Gmail, cal, drive), and GitHub. As fa
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I think I read on HN, including a source, that the concept of early smoker death was propaganda from the tobacco industry. I will look it up.
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Wait, what? You don't gain extra natural light in summer due to DST. The days become longer naturally due to the angle of the earth wrt the sun. DST makes you get up earlier to "enjoy" that longer, sunnier day, but that one h
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I learned to type on Dvorak for fun during my CS degree, and realized very soon that it would be perfect for 2 thumb phone typing, as it focusses on left-right-left-right action, versus the left-left-right-right of Qwerty. But on a work com
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Yes, you are correct that "a majority of the push for more environmentally safe products [is] a result of the market demand", but as we read in the parent article, environmentally safe products are not making a significant differe
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Surprise surprise, corporations (in this case commercial fishing) are doing major damage to the environment, and even after realizing that straws make up only 0.03% of the oceans plastic waste, the attention is still (even in this comment t
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
The original post is yet another example of taking to personal blogs to get proper customer support for critical services. I find this concept terrible. The eventual, theoretical end-point is that only the elite, social-media connected indi
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I feel some very valid assumptions about an uber driver were made in the initial comment, that might explain this behaviour. These comments were made with regards to his income situation. I agree with you though that it might not be for mak
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Thinkpads might not be as bad as you think. I have an X230 at home, which runs many flavors of linux extremely well and is dead silent, and a T440s at work which is also an excellent choice albeit slightly more expensive. You can pick up re
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
I too have been using cash almost exclusively lately for this reason, unless it is not possible to pay with cash in a store, which is happening more and more frequently. Other benefits include: - Paying back other people is easy; - Shops
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by michelledepeil 8y ago
Except they're not taking freedom away from users, they're taking freedom away from corporations. Freedom that many corporations have been abusing. This is a key difference in perspective. Your example where you "want to give
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A note on the social media fallout(whatshouldyoueat.com)
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by michelledepeil 9y ago
I've recently moved to wire after looking for a chat app capable of exactly this. It's quite good, sync is fast an effective and even group calling is acceptable. Only problem is that it currently doesn't allow you to send yo