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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
That's how my Japanese friends get around when in Taiwan. According to them, they understand ~95% of everything that's written, but have no idea how to express any of that verbally.
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
Just to clarify, I'm not going to look up drug dealers and risk a charge forbidding any future international travel, etc. Also, if I would, it wouldn't be in the 'get high' dosage -- 20 mg for amphetamines, 10 mg for me
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
An excellent goal! I too hope that it will be possible to experiment and improve the performance of a human with tested, verified substances, known concentrations of active agents in them by legal means. As it stands now, in my country in E
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
So it's not a $200 bike! It's a used $900 bike. The $200 bikes people are talking about are the $200 MSRP bikes.
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
Shittiest and heaviest bikes are really unpleasant to ride. And if you don't enjoy the ride, you don't ride. Additional point: shitty bikes usually have really terrible geometries and will fuck up your health if you decide to us
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
Good to hear! I wonder how car drivers would react if an uber delivery guy would park a bicycle in the car lane next to a bicycle lane to make a delivery. And while I do agree that it isn't uniquely unfair for bicycles, it seemes that
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
>And like for deliveries... what do you want people to do? Not stop in front of the place they are delivering? When you make a delivery, do you just stop dead in the middle of the lane you were driving on? If yes, please proceed. If not,
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
Well, the US seems hellbent on shipping one journalist who broke no law in US to their torture chambers. Until that's sorted out you just can't claim moral superiority.
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
>1.) when you stop exercising, it does a lot for weight. Yes, if you also don't downsize your meals at the same time. Which a lot of people don't. >2.) If you start exercising, it does nothing for weight loss. Yes, if you
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
>consumers go to aggregators because they want to, not because they are forced to. Recently I wanted to buy 10-ish dead tree books in English and get them shipped to an eastern EU country. Going through the first 20~ DDG results of onlin
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
I still think the original analogy works here - if you make sure that in the moment of panic the windows don't open to prevent voluntary and quick death, the person now has to suffer the agonizing pain of the flames for the rest of the
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
What the fuck? There should be a payment to me set by me for seeing an ad. In general, an ad is an attempt to modify my behaviour in the future and I suffer damage by seeing it. My fair compensation €5 per ad. If you don't conside
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by quantum_magpie 5y ago
Exactly. For the most part I'm also immune to the ads, but not because of the ads. It takes a huge mental effort to constantly stay aware of all the bullshit that these scum are trying to manipulate me into buying. And it's even m
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by quantum_magpie 6y ago
>I can spend the time saved on things that actually matter. Because that literally was the sole point of benefits in the GP post!
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by quantum_magpie 6y ago
That's an insane workload to put out during a PhD. 5 Papers including 2 top-tier ones in 3-4 years? Is ML really full of such low-hanging fruit where that is possible? In my stints around Denmark and Japan (Computational Chemistry) you
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by quantum_magpie 6y ago
What value system? You still have legal slavery!
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by quantum_magpie 7y ago
1password operates on subscription model. From their support ( https://support.1password.com/frozen-account/ ): You received this message because your 1Password subscription has lapsed. While your account is frozen, you
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by quantum_magpie 7y ago
Yes, Miami.
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by quantum_magpie 7y ago
When I leave my backpack at home and realize I need to visit the grocery store I do make a detour home first, and then move on to the store just to avoid getting plastic bags. It adds maybe extra 15 minutes but I feel it's worth it. I
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
Fitbit are quite accurate (and it seems they're the most accurate right now), but they're real scum and don't allow chronologic data export. I got one since they have that as a feature, but it's such a shitty dataset tha
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
You hear the out-of-touch people the most, because [usually] only the people with negative opinion (tiny minority; otherwise the business would go bankrupt) that are vocal about things. Neutral people don't care, people with positive o
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
>Advertising has real value in making markets efficient. If Bob's Bait Shop has a 50% off sale, or if a new shop opens in a town, a lot of people would really want to know, and advertising fills this gap. The businesses get more pro
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
Those are data-only. You can't get a real SIM card without contract.
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
You can rake from the bottom then, downhill. The reach of a rake, foot-to-rake is ~4 meters, that's as far as a leafblower goes too.
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
In my experience, the best way to do good front page is to blacklist all the crap with RES, so you might still find something new from time to time, but in general enjoy much more clean experience. This also works well in reducing time spen
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
That makes you a customer!
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
What would be a non-rude approach in you opinion? > can we have your phone number? >Yes. walks away tThe initial'no' as presented was completely valid, polite response.
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
You can use i.reddit.com on mobile, it's even better.
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
Pretty much all of the predictions that got released to public media are unduly optimistic. They are consistently the result of the most conservative models.
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by quantum_magpie 8y ago
>Though I sometimes enjoy Berry, he's wrong. We can't be 'at war' with nature. We are nature. Human destruction of ecosystems is a natural process - it's not fundamentally different from introduced flora & fa

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