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by rsanek 2y ago
which isn't currently available, and will only be for French + German sources when it is released i hope they succeed but this is not currently a usable alternative
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by rsanek 2y ago
never experienced this as a us citizen and I travel often. usually it is a polite "welcome home", otherwise it's a bored "ok you're good"
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by rsanek 2y ago
is 3 week old milk that old? usually when I buy milk the best by date is 2-3 weeks away
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by rsanek 2y ago
looks like that is a bit of blogspam, ultimate source is https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...
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by rsanek 2y ago
>Once tech [...] started being a source of wealth and power this happened "in the early 2010s"? I don't think so. Software engineers have no power, and in comparison to finance, quite limited wealth.
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by rsanek 2y ago
You don't have to add it to your resume, right? If you want to mention the work in future interviews, you can easily talk about it as short-term contracting work. I'm not sure what's wrong ethically about it though? Is it tha
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by rsanek 2y ago
As the adage goes, time in market beats timing the market.
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by rsanek 2y ago
Seems unlikely -- Amazon Basics already have razor-thin margins, I struggle to see the motivation of someone counterfeiting such a budget brand.
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by rsanek 2y ago
I don't think I should be paying for others to study simply because they prefer a different modality of learning, especially when it has been found that learning modality selection has nearly zero impact on actual learning outcomes.
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by rsanek 2y ago
should we be looking to Japan for advice on how to grow an economy?
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by rsanek 2y ago
rare Earths have a pretty big downside of having huge swings in the supply when there happens to be a discovery. you want a pretty stable supply for a reserve currency / backing commodity. oil is fairly difficult / expensive to tr
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by rsanek 2y ago
income inequality today is about the same as it was 100 years ago. https://ourworldindata.org/how-has-income-inequality-within-...
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by rsanek 2y ago
> We need to put as much effort into helping every other country develop and thrive - and by doing that we'll create many more customers for the products/services produced in our own countries, and everyone can end up richer. t
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by rsanek 2y ago
which is a win! less concentration in a single country, particularly a hostile one, is a positive outcome
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by rsanek 2y ago
low net profits margins are simply how retail works, it's not news that retail requires scale. and in fact both target and best buy did see record profits shortly after the pandemic started.
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by rsanek 2y ago
Really? I have heard of alot of FUD around plassing in particular, see e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/blood-mon... / https://archive.is/kXRef
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by rsanek 2y ago
at least in the capitalist model things improve over time for everyone
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by rsanek 2y ago
how are high capital gains difficult to implement? we have clear 15/20% federal rules on them now. we can just change those numbers to whatever we want, like many states already have (NY, CA)
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by rsanek 2y ago
this is a meaningless metric. if you have a positive net worth, you hold more wealth than the bottom 25% combined. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/whats-your-net-worth-25-of-a ...
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by rsanek 2y ago
i doubt it. $100 in AAPL and $100 in VTI are counted the same way in the stat.
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by rsanek 2y ago
I'm happy that it sounds like Login.gov is better than the broken solution we had before. At the same time, I do not think a basic functional login system is something that should be celebrated as a success.
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by rsanek 2y ago
Looks like MGL c. 266, § 120 is the source here. It does say that as long as the land is "improved or enclosed" and has signs posted, you still can't trespass. It's unclear to me if "improved or enclosed" is me
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by rsanek 2y ago
>Electric buses make rides pretty cheap and comfortable how much public transit have you used in the US? in NYC, busses are somehow even worse than the subway. in SF, same kind of story. I'll choose to walk, bike or taxi to avoid th
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by rsanek 2y ago
Appreciate your vulnerability. Awesome to hear your good fortune along the way, receiving positive feedback. Working a year heads-down even with that though does sound quite difficult. I think about all the time how one doesn't have to
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by rsanek 2y ago
is it that unbelievable? unless you're interested in history, i think many adults could be fooled as well.
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by rsanek 2y ago
> Technology is inherently neutral especially when it comes to media, Postman would pretty strongly disagree here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034
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by rsanek 2y ago
pretty negative social score on the boiled egg
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by rsanek 2y ago
source for those 'real' inflation numbers? CPI says ~20% cumulative inflation since start of 2020.
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by rsanek 2y ago
i think your examples are actually fantastic. a home ec class where kids actually cook something is much better than just reading a bunch of recipes. a CPR class where you practice on a dummy is better than just watching a video on it. fwiw
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by rsanek 2y ago
eggs aren't that high in saturated fat. they're less than a third of total fats.

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