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by randlet 9y ago
I am not "anti-gun". I don't own guns but I did grow up in rural Canada and had plenty of exposure to guns, hunting, and have enjoyed skeet and target shooting myself etc. Guns are a tool which can be useful. It's the
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by randlet 9y ago
"You implied that cartoonish violence like Contra will have substantially negative psychological effects on children." I do believe they have negative effects on children but I don't believe that extends to school shootings.
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by randlet 9y ago
"None of them grew up to be school shooters." Please don't put implications in my post that aren't there. I'm not aware of research that suggests video games are or are not a factor in school shootings and similar
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by randlet 9y ago
I was mouth agape through the whole article. Call me old fashioned too, but I don't want my 5 year old killing things with swords when their grasp on what is real and imaginary is so blurry. It blows my mind that most of the kids in
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by randlet 9y ago
Fairly irrelevant but I've only ever heard boats referred to in feminine terms and he called his yacht a "he". Is this more common than I've been led to believe?
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by randlet 9y ago
I am totally with you. I recently did an unscientific "apple tasting" experiment. While Honey Crisp are a good apple, they are just sweet and crisp but with no complexity or character. I deemed Granny Smith and Pink Ladies to be
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by randlet 9y ago
"Mackintosh (remember them? usually for pie)." No "k" in Macintosh, but this is a weird statement to me. Macs are very popular in Canada and virtually every grocery store that I've been in carries them (in Ontario
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by randlet 9y ago
That's awesome! I'm too much of a chicken to take mine apart... I couldn't stomach the replacement cost if I bungled something up.
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by randlet 9y ago
I feel like I comment this on every hearing impairment thread on HN, but for me invisible hearing aids are an anti feature. I prefer to wear behind the ear models as they provide a visual clue to people that I'm hearing impaired and t
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by randlet 10y ago
I think the author is in the UK where I believe cash bars at weddings are more socially acceptable. I've been to a few weddings here in Canada with cash bars. Some people really frown on it, but it's not a big deal to me. Some p
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by randlet 10y ago
Yeah, $100 an hour for contract COBOL expertise sounds very low, but maybe I underestimate the number of COBOL people still around.
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by randlet 10y ago
Same scenario for me. FWIW I switched to using http://www.ighome.com/ which more or less replaces the functionality (not affiliated in any way, just a user).
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by randlet 10y ago
Do people think this is OK generally? There are some products I would really like to know the price of but pretending to be a customer to gain competitive information seems ethically questionable.
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by randlet 10y ago
I guess after today I should amend my original comment to specify that the door must have a lock too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5A1wg5FA-g
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by randlet 10y ago
I guess I'm not sure what your argument is then. Yes childcare can be tough to find and it can be very expensive depending on where you live, but if you're saying its okay to hold a full time remote job and care for your child a
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by randlet 10y ago
Sorry but I don't believe you can look after your kid all day and work from home at the same time. It's not a matter of privilege, it's a matter of practicality. If you have a full time job, you need childcare whether you wo
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by randlet 10y ago
Yes, sorry I should have mentioned that. You need to track your weight along with counting calories and make adjustments to your caloric intake based on the weight you are gaining/losing. You don't need to be within 2% accuracy (
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by randlet 10y ago
"screaming their head off on the other side of the home office door" Whoever is looking after the child should not be allowing them to sit outside the office door and scream! If you're home alone with a kid, you shouldn&#x27
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by randlet 10y ago
Spend a couple of weeks/months preparing your own food and weighing everything. Use an app like MyFitnessPal to record and count your calories. It doesn't take very long to develop an intuition that's "good enough"
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by randlet 10y ago
I've been doing this for a couple years now (only coffee/water before 12pm and no food after 7-8pm). It's a very effective method of calorie restriction for me. Only eating before 1pm would be absolute torture for me!
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by randlet 10y ago
I think you misunderstand. There is obviously another caregiver looking after them. I can't have a 24 hour open door policy with my kids while I'm working from home, just the same as anyone who works in an office.
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by randlet 10y ago
Sorry, I thought it would be obvious that there was another adult looking after the kids. It's not really possible to work from home and look after kids at the same time obviously. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on wheth
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by randlet 10y ago
They're with their caregiver. If you're looking after kids yourself you're not working from home.
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by randlet 10y ago
I agree they make some noise, but having them in your lap during a conference call is over the line imo. If you have kids in the house then you need an office with a door. I've worked from home for 3 years now with 2 kids aged 0-5 an
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by randlet 10y ago
I love email. My only problem with email is that it's too difficult to reliably run your own server with a Gmail quality interface. I have Fastmail for email on my own domain and it is quite nice but the more experience I get the les
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Fido is blocking texts that contain the word “Uber”(reddit.com)
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by randlet 10y ago
"If you're a young male, doctors don't want anything to do with you. I usually Google things" I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but as a young man who had recent health issues this wasn't my experience at all
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by randlet 10y ago
Alcoholic drinks taste great (some), but the important bit is alcohol makes you feel really good. Temporarily. It also helps people who struggle with small talk, or interacting with others in general, to relax and loosen up.
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by randlet 10y ago
No. The majority of vegetables I buy (in Canada but it's the same in the US as far as I've seen) are not pre-packaged. Self checkouts have a scale built into them that you weigh your own produce and punch in the code to say what
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by randlet 10y ago
"For example, many farmers were leaving produce out with price tags on and relying on an honour system for payment" FWIW this fairly common in rural Ontario and probably other parts of Canada too. I imagine it happens in parts of

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