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by nelblu 5y ago
> A lot of people don't like the traditional Microsoft products but all of the products just work and are being used for tens of millions of customers around the globe every day. I have never spent a dime buying a MS product (direct
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by nelblu 5y ago
Another anecdote: In my home town, a doctor took the government funding to open a covid centre. She then only admitted patients that were mild cases and had chances of survival, for those who had little chance of surviving she would not adm
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by nelblu 5y ago
Wow. You described my experience exactly! I used to love earlier when I dream solved complex problems, but now I don't like it. My technique to get good sleep is to fantasize that I am in a spaceship flying through the galaxy or observ
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by nelblu 5y ago
Where I work, the UXD teams are so deep into their Apple ecosystem bubble they don't even try things out on windows machines, so forget users with special needs they don't give a damn about the significant majority of our users wh
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by nelblu 5y ago
THIS! I had similar problem with watching a movie trilogy on Google play movies. The movie won't play on my computer but only played on android app (no i didn't have any firewall or special ad blocker on my PC). I called google cu
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by nelblu 5y ago
I find kids overwhelming, in fact, if I had kids (I don't yet) I would be constantly worried about making sure they get the best of life. I have a dog and he is already a lot of work, I even feel bad on days when it rains and I can&#x2
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A possible planet candidate in an external galaxy detected through X-ray transit [pdf](chandra.harvard.edu)
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by nelblu 5y ago
I am probably an outlier but I can't stand shows that are too gory or violent. I prefer the old school shows where even when someone was murdered you could hardly see a drop of blood. These days almost any show that involves any kind o
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by nelblu 5y ago
I thought gravity slows down time, so shouldn't time travel slower at the feet than in the head?
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by nelblu 5y ago
Tangerine recently launched 2FA but it is SMS based only.
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by nelblu 5y ago
My wife and I discovered columbo in 2014ish. Ever since then we have become crazy fans. I have all the episodes from 1968 thru 2003 on DVD, ripped with subtitles and backed up on multiple SSDs and also backed up to Amazon glacier just in ca
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by nelblu 5y ago
Covid showed us that we are generally inclined to act collectively but very easily fall to conspiracy theories. I hope we ACT, although the pessimist inside me is not so sure.
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by nelblu 5y ago
The pricing chart on that page is for customers who are not smart enough to shop around. I have lived both in the US and Canada and in the US I used to pay 120USD for 6 lines with 2.5GB data per line(T-mobile). In Canada currently I am payi
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by nelblu 5y ago
https://www.carboncure.com/
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by nelblu 5y ago
Dollarama also doesn't accept returns. Not sure about the US stores, but that is another reason why they must thrive.
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Defeating Covid-19: A True Story of 20 Survivors with Challenging Circumstances(wisethalamus.com)
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by nelblu 6y ago
https://archive.vn/VIHaa This was posted by someone else in the comments.
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by nelblu 6y ago
Same here, it worked after enabling js.
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by nelblu 6y ago
60K a year is more like a salary for a resident. My friend made approx 60k a year for 4years of residency and one year of fellow ship and then his first job paid him 250k a year. He even had an offer for approx 400K a year from an unethical
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by nelblu 6y ago
"If you're using F-droid, however, you have Bromite and ungoogled-Chromium as prime candidates." I can't seem to find bromite on fdroid. Why it not there anymore?
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by nelblu 6y ago
I still buy DVDs because I like classic movies and for those movies it doesn't matter whether you watch in dvd quality or Blu-ray. Plus DVD rips are significantly smaller in size and even though I have Blu-rays for some movies I don&#x
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by nelblu 7y ago
It took my spouse 3 months to get an appointment with a specialist in the US. She definitely didn't shop around but it was a miserable wait time considering we lived close to some of the best healthcare facilities in the world and had
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by nelblu 7y ago
I have wondered the same. I use both fdroid and signal, but never really understood why signal isn't on fdroid. Can anyone please comment?
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by nelblu 7y ago
> Do doctors typically suit up in full biohazard gear when confronting flu? This was posted earlier on HN Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU - https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/reporters-notebo.
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by nelblu 7y ago
I am not sure whether that is true. I don't have Chrome on my android and firefox is my default browser. So all apps load firefox in app Page when they are navigating to an outside url.
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by nelblu 7y ago
As a matter of fact, i picked up woodworking as a hobby last summer and made some really good friends. You don't have to be good at it, just the whole process of going through it is rewarding. Look up "Mr. Chickadee"s channel
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Volla Phone: Freedom through simplicity and security(kickstarter.com)
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Had a similar experience with some people I studied with (full disclosure: i went to one of the top b schools) who ended up going there. I was sitting and having dinner with them about their internship and how they liked the job etc, and th
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by nelblu 7y ago
Ugh. This upsets me so much, humans are the worst of the animal kingdom :(
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by nelblu 7y ago
I have a friend and she believes that obesity is a made-up disease by doctors to marginalise fat people (she calls it fatphobia). She refuses to acknowledge that obesity actually causes health issues, instead she defends obesity by citing t

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