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by npsimons 8y ago
> find some other way to make money In this day and age of things like Patreon, there's really no excuse. I've taken the initiative and pay for Youtube Premium, on top of which I pay through Patreon to channels I view a lot. I
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> Please don’t apply these steps to non-technical people’s browsers. They will result in an endless litany of broken banking websites, annoying support calls, memory issues, and in general a terrible user experience for others. I apply t
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> original retail price $118 for just season one Where, precisely, did that number come from? It doesn't happen to include marketing, does it?
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> Now you can present almost any idea, no matter how ridiculous, harmful, or "bad" it may be and there will most likely be audience. Like anti-vax, or AGW denialism, or white supremacy, or flat-eartherism, or creationism, or tr
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As to the "no comments section" policies, I'm gonna be honest: I don't blame them one bit. No one owes anyone a platform, and considering how easy and cheap it is to host your own content, why should anyone be forced to
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Same reasons I take issue with the phrase "best practice". Besides my cynical POV that when people start talking about "best practices", they are about to tell you that whatever you're doing is wrong, and here, let
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> There's a barrier to entry and a requirement in regards to education that are intrinsic in the stock market. This right here. While the audience here should be able to invest, based on income and education levels, the sad fact i
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> We learned quickly to approach education with a high level of scepticism and get your info from more than one source (textbook) and find out which ones were reputable and which ones were garbage. Ironically, I think this is one of the
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> "whatever, they're all soft, tattooed millionaires anyway" Despite my disdain for spectator sports "soft" is never a word I would use for their athletes. If anything, I would expect those who have had to work s
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> You mean like the "Random" links on Wikipedia and Reddit? I consider clicking the random link on Reddit analogous to firing a gun into a bookstore, or randomly flipping channels on a TV: no discernment whatsoever, and very sh
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> Gently, I would suggest that we are neither original nor should we find our identity in material goods. I wouldn't be so gentle; I definitely think we are harmed by finding identity in material goods. It's destructive. As for
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> That was my take away, that's pretty heavy drinking, surely? Yes, that is the impression I received. > Per your last para though, we can address more than one health situation at a time My main point with my last paragraph is t
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In relative terms, going from 1% to 2% would be a 100% "increase".
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And if the risk was 1% naturally, but jumped to 2% with drinking, it would be a "100% increase". So?
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> One of the more easily interpreted statistics given is that American women on average have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of about 12%, while women that consume 2-3 drinks per day have a lifetime risk of about 15%. I find
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> a similar state of mind can be achieved by physical exhaustion, whether it's at the gym or from a run or a swim. Try that, it's far better than being sleep deprived. It's not complete physical exhaustion, but a heavy s
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> That means, I continue reading, but I think about something else triggered by what's in the book. Then I switch back to the book realizing "Wait, where was I? I have no idea why I'm reading this, and now I skipped a whol
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> While Jefferson neglected to read newspapers, he read many books and was arguably one of the most important figures in the Enlightenment. This is my goal. Well, at least being more erudite by reading books and research papers and ignor
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> seeking comfort in various forms of isolation/depressed behavior (watch TV as a distraction, try to take a "nap", etc.). The most insidious thing about this was how it seemed to happen so quickly that it was practically
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For me, a big turning point, in learning anything really, came when I started looking at the bibliography/references. Any text can be considered "introductory", and I believe all classes are. If you really want to go deeper
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First and foremost, what evidence is there for Hamming's claim? > is worth a single disrupted morning. We're not talking about a single "disrupted" morning. We're talking about chronic depression, which can lead
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> This can take a heavy emotional toll on people over time and gradually make them more unhappy. This is precisely why I stopped paying attention to news and am not on social media.
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> Just give me an opinionated ${LANG}fmt utility to do it for me so I don't have to care and don't have to waste time arguing with other zealots. Let the tool be the zealot. So totally this. I despise indenting with tabs with a
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> I'm not working on an 80x24 terminal anymore. Even with 80x24 (don't ask), I fully agree with Allman style braces.
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This review reminded me of "How to Read a Book", specifically the getting more out of it with each reading. It might be hard to fathom with most of today's mediocre fiction, but there's a reason some books are classics a
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Thirded, only with qmail. I know mine is a tiny private server, but scaling up would only require more hardware and minimal increase in hours working on it. OTOH, I manage hosted mail solutions for three other domains, and those all require
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> Oh I suppose you could argue about the environmental cost of producing the extra calories consumed by the cyclist. The human body is very efficient. I'd be extremely surprised if my 15 minute bicycle commute to work burned more th
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> I‘m sorry, but 99% of the population will prefer a random shiny device that plays their cat video I'm sorry, but fuck 99% of the population. They're not the makers or creators, they are already well served by what's out
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> With maximal inlining, there's a risk of constant propagation resulting in a lot of computation happening at compile time rather than run time. Without even reading TFA, this was my first thought, remembering back to implementing
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> The author is essentially saying that criticism is a tool to hurt others. Interesting opinion. Criticism takes effort, something I am not willing to waste on those I don't consider worthy of my time. If I want to hurt someone, I i

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