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by pkd 2y ago
I know somebody who relocated his entire family after 20+ years in the U.S and is loving it. People are not as monolithic as we are likely to believe sometimes.
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by pkd 2y ago
One additional bit of context on the Indian indentured labour is that crossing the seas was considered a great taboo among Hindus, leading to a loss of your "caste" because you had lost contact with the holy land. So only the very
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by pkd 2y ago
Is that because Democrats were running more campaigns in higher CoL areas that Republicans? The totals only provide one side.
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by pkd 2y ago
Here's another one: pre-Musk Twitter takeover, they had him on to make his point. Musk made an erroneous statistical comparison between Twitter likes and YouTube views to demonstrate that Twitter was shadowbanning his tweets. When in f
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by pkd 2y ago
> public transport (and vegan) advocates would like to force you to live like they do Is there a citation for this claim? > governments pass nonsensical bans like banning flavored cigarettes Is it nonsensical? There is research[1][2]
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by pkd 2y ago
This government's track record of passing radical reforms has been pretty poor (the Farm bills, labour reforms, GST implementation) so I am not holding my breath. It is not the supermajority that was hindering the Farm bills either - t
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by pkd 3y ago
Why was it "lies"? Had you seen the future and not found it better?
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by pkd 3y ago
I would hardly classify sexual and speech freedoms as vices.
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by pkd 3y ago
The which-key package helps a lot with discoverability, in my experience.
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by pkd 3y ago
Also important to point out given the headline: "Focus on the nutrients, not the food The study suggests that TVA could be used as a dietary supplement to help various T cell-based cancer treatments, although Chen points out that it is
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by pkd 3y ago
Was an Emacs package before that.
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by pkd 3y ago
I can believe that - hoping to experience it first hand in the near future. Still, was impressed by Paris in general (or at least, was more impressed than I expected to be!)
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by pkd 3y ago
I certainly did not take all of the lines and did not alight at all stations I crossed, but I was still prepared for much worse! To provide a point of comparison - the busiest stations in Ottawa all smell of urine almost all the time and th
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by pkd 3y ago
I was in Paris in July, and was thoroughly impressed with the metro system. I always had an impression that Paris was a dirty city by western-european standards but I actually found the metro stations incredibly clean (and I travelled on mu
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by pkd 3y ago
I was able to install the app to buy rolls of tickets (actually heavily discounted on the app vs in person) and use the app via NFC to pay. Never had to deal with paper tickets outside of the airport.
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by pkd 3y ago
"happened anyway" is always logic I see applied to government made advancements and not to private ones. A good read on the topic is "The Entrepreneurial State" by M. Mazzucato.
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by pkd 3y ago
The first season was the weakest. Seasons 2-4 are some of the best television ever IMHO. Once they stopped trying to make it Mad Men with tech, they freed themselves up to succeed.
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Working with stacked branches in Git is easier with –update-refs(andrewlock.net)
1 points by pkd 3y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 3y ago
Of course, I did qualify my initial comment with "linguistically", the intention was to be pedantic.
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by pkd 3y ago
Plosives are a big category. "k" is also a plosive, but does not sound anything like a <d> or <p>. d and p are plosives but are made using completely different parts of the mouth (dental vs labial). Perhaps some lingui
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by pkd 3y ago
Linguistically, I don't think d and p are close at all. But a sibling comment also links to the Wikipedia entry for this common fallacy.
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by pkd 3y ago
"both parties are same" is either an incredibly disingenuous interpretation or ignorance, and I can't tell which. Yes, they both ostensibly support the healthcare system in that the CPC doesn't want to say that they want
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by pkd 3y ago
Hey guy, I can tell you that a friend recently visited India and was told by the staff at the counter in the airport that the prepaid UPI wallet barely works and to not use it. Also since he landed in the night (like most flights from the W
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by pkd 3y ago
You could use something similar to the k-anonymity approach from haveibeenpwned: https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...
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by pkd 3y ago
Unfortunately it is the sort of meaningless SLO that's being competed on by various delivery companies in India. Nobody needs anything these folks can deliver within 10 minutes, but it sounds impressive on the ad.
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by pkd 3y ago
Healthcare in Canada has many problems but being "public" is not the cause of them. For decades conservative governments have underfunded the medical institutions in my municipality as a way of making true on their promise of lowe
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Yevgeny Prigozhin onboard plane in fatal crash, says Russia(theguardian.com)
12 points by pkd 3y ago|3 comments
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by pkd 3y ago
Fun but "dog not found in database" is a bit surprising.
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by pkd 3y ago
I agree that a better tool is needed! I like all the improvements you are selling the tool on, but one of my biggest gripes with code review experiences has been the inability to specify the ordering of the files in the diff. Most people lo
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by pkd 3y ago
Which ad blocker was it?

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