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by occz 5y ago
The honest truth is that there is no good alternative here - there are only alternatives that are terrible in their own way. Electron: Bloat, non-native, highly questionable language Other cross-platform solutions: Obscure, (most often) non
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by occz 5y ago
> I think that the threat posed by covid, and the necessity of the vax, has been exaggerated. You think wrong. Please stop spreading misinformation.
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by occz 5y ago
Agreed. I don't bother filtering my water, the tap water where I live is pretty great though. I imagine that might not be true everywhere. Some mention about the mineral content of the water would have been appropriate, ad you mentione
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by occz 5y ago
If you're just into caffeine, there are pills to be had on the cheap. They are arguably more effective at waking you up, as well.
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by occz 5y ago
I've spent a decent amount of time and effort getting better coffee, and I can still enjoy a cup of instant from time to time. You do you, though.
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by occz 5y ago
All good advice, but the delivery could maybe have been a bit nicer. I imagine that this article might be a bit off-putting to people who are not into coffee as a hobby, so to speak.
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by occz 5y ago
Lotteries are quite frankly more honest than this.
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by occz 5y ago
I wish I could believe that, but it's evident that it's just not the case - at least not by all actors advocating against rent control. As mentioned in the article, the prime minister and his government was struck down because the
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by occz 5y ago
I wish the media stopped propagating the cycle of pump-and-dump baiting the general public. Someone is going to stuck paying off a check they probably can't afford in the end.
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by occz 5y ago
I know that the observable properties of economic systems happen regardless of belief. It's just seriously strange to equate them with 'laws of nature'. Next thing you know someone is going to call something like the law of d
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by occz 5y ago
Your entire comment leads me to believe that you did not even read the article.
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by occz 5y ago
I was wary of trying to go down the rabbit hole of explaining more of the situation, as I don't feel that I'm enough of an expert in the subject. I was merely critical of the lack of nuance in the analysis ("it's just su
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by occz 5y ago
>the laws of nature, such as supply and demand. This has got to be satire, right?
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by occz 5y ago
> How is something as simple as basic supply and demand still a shocker to so many people? Rent control is just the government picking the winners and losers, with those who are corrupt, play dirty, and generally antisocial being the win
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by occz 5y ago
I do. Given that it's a native app, it behaves a bit better on mobile than its web-counterpart. Links to Wikipedia open in the app, so the experience is not that disrupted when switching from web (or other apps) to the app.
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by occz 5y ago
> Right, MORE air conditioning will solve our problems with global warming… I'm not sure that it will be optional, given where we're going with the climate crisis. We can probably mitigate most of their impact by reducing the i
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by occz 5y ago
> GraphQL simplified the frontend by making the backend 100 times more complicated. So many fewer requests, though! Problem solved. Big names made and books sold. As opposed to making the backend simple, by making the frontend complicate
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by occz 5y ago
I'll be damned. Thanks for the correction!
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by occz 5y ago
ISKs (Investeringssparkonto, Investment savings account) are taxed at a flat amount of the account value per year, replacing capital gains taxes. In 2021, it will be 0,375%.
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by occz 5y ago
>His co-founder had a degree in civil engineering (as roads and water infrastructure) I think this might be something that got lost in translation - at least according to Wikipedia, Martin Lorentzon studied Industrial Economics at Chalme
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by occz 5y ago
What a shame, I liked 1Password in particular because of the high quality of their native apps.
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by occz 5y ago
When the world is thrown into complete chaos by the climate crisis, at least we will have saved the damn economy, right?
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by occz 5y ago
Growth is already projected to peak at around 10-11 billion, though. The general trend is for countries going towards replacement rate, or even below, as they become wealthier.
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by occz 5y ago
>The thing is it just doesn’t seem like the average person is willing to give up single family houses to gain walkability. As other comments have mentioned, you can have both. In addition to that, the reason that people choose single fam
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by occz 5y ago
I like what Peopleware says on the matter - the market has squarely selected low quality software over high quality, but if you try to drive your teams to build low quality software you will lose because you will be unable to retain good de
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by occz 5y ago
From what I've understood on the subject is that it's not super-well understood yet, with the common advice early on having been to avoid exposure to common allergens for young children (because potential anaphylactic shock being
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by occz 5y ago
>Gas flames can just get pans quite a lot hotter than electric or induction, generally. This claim doesn't really pass the smell test for me. My induction burner gets plenty hot really fast, much warmer than I could ever practically
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by occz 5y ago
Depends on the material, really. Switch to multi-stream recycling and reclaim the material as well as possible on a per-stream basis - that's what happens in Sweden, afaik.
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by occz 5y ago
I wonder if this fact makes it easier to attain some form of early retirement in countries with more extensive public health care. I guess it would have to be weighed against the (assuming here without numbers) higher earning potential&#x2F
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by occz 5y ago
Well, outsourcing has been tried and has arguably been a failure in the past. Are you suggesting that vicinity was the sole reason for outsourcing not being successful?

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