scarby2

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by scarby2 3y ago
> It’s had things like instant, free, payments between personal accounts for almost two decades. Thanks for making me feel old I was thinking "it hasn't been anywhere near that long, I remember the rollout like it was yesterday
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by scarby2 3y ago
i'm late replying but i'd argue that emotional eating isn't entirely self inflicted. It's partially biological (our bodies naturally crave higher calorie foods during times of stress), partially down to learned behaviour
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by scarby2 3y ago
the german green party is not very green. They actively opposed nuclear energy and got it shut down before there were other low carbon energy sources available to replace it. Which led directly to more coal and more gas being used. More eco
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by scarby2 3y ago
That common secret is usually an ssh key which is held somewhere secure hopefully with auditable access. For bootstrapping you can bake a bootstrapping key into your installer which is removed after the system is configured.
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by scarby2 3y ago
futures contracts work somewhat well for farmers. There's a level of certainty provided and they are reducing their risk so that a low price at the end of the season doesn't ruin them (however they also don't profit from a hi
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by scarby2 3y ago
> Something my therapist pointed out to me is that obesity is directly linked to childhood and intergenerational trauma; calling it self-inflicted is not accurate. Even if we're focused on healthy eating, food deserts exist. No man
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by scarby2 3y ago
> Of course, the problem isn't really the rich. There aren't enough of them to strain the assistance budget even if they do all take the free lunch. The problem is the people who are richer than the ones who are eligible, but a
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by scarby2 3y ago
well.. I have no issue about ugly on the outside if the quality of the accommodation is adequate. If you actually knew anything about soviet buildings this was pretty far from the truth. Multiple families were often assigned to share kitche
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by scarby2 3y ago
i bought some chips somewhat recently and the serving size was listed as "6 chips".
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by scarby2 3y ago
> Avoid social media until at least age 16 I think it depends which social media, and this needs to be audited. I was using forums/IRC from about 14(and these are pre-cursors to social media) and there was benefit to being able to d
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by scarby2 3y ago
younger me was never denied videogames/consoles/pc games. I'm now an engineer with a bunch of friends and socially well adjusted. But then each child is unique and each situation is unique, most kids in my neighborhood weren&
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by scarby2 3y ago
Fiduciary responsibility isn't entirely about returns, it's about the best interests of the investors. And if you've invested in a company with a certain mission it would be said to be in your interests for that mission to co
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by scarby2 3y ago
I think this is where you're wrong. I can't remember the last time I watched any non-Netflix content on Netflix. They're also adept at funding international content at a fraction of the price of US content. Assuming AI doesn&
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by scarby2 3y ago
Market failure is a thing with insufficient oversight/regulation. But it's just as easy to cripple something by nationalizing and over regulating it. Take the housing market, when there was no regulations we ended up with inadequa
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by scarby2 3y ago
sadly it's often misused. When there are things like BMI qualifications on medical interventions or where jobs have physical requirements. I knew a guy who really wanted to join the fire service but couldn't meet the BMI requireme
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by scarby2 3y ago
> Not sure if you read the history section of the wikipedia article but it was intentional: you're mis-reading the history there. Water was diverted into the area to use as irrigation for farming, at this point there was no sea nor
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by scarby2 3y ago
there's a lot of people who visit palm springs party at night and sleep through the heat of the day.
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by scarby2 3y ago
AFAIK Plumbing tends to run beneath the floors in either construction model. Electrical in brick buildings is a pain as it runs in conduit behind the plaster but this doesn't compromise the viability of your structure and has a fairly
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by scarby2 3y ago
It's not necessarily about strength but brick buildings will survive both fire and water much better than wooden buildings, they don't burn or rot. Brick buildings generally last hundreds of years with minimal maintenance (assumin
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by scarby2 3y ago
>And yet, most residential construction is basically the same, whether it's going to be built in Palo Alto, upstate NY, Kansas, south Florida or Portland This was the case but it's not really true any more. Building codes have
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by scarby2 3y ago
It will be very difficult to build a waterproof phone with a user replaceable battery
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by scarby2 3y ago
>Police are hammer. I'm just asking you to reconsider funding bigger and bigger hammers when we need some other tools. I'm all for increasing spending on other tools but sometimes you still need the hammer. Ever try to hammer a
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by scarby2 3y ago
there was a pretty big feature gulf between it and K8s when it first launched. I found myself wishing i had a number of kubernetes controllers initially (Jobs (with restart policies), Cronjobs, volume management etc). From what i've he
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by scarby2 3y ago
Nobody thinks more policing will fix poverty. What it might partially fix is people trying to rob me.
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by scarby2 3y ago
So how do we fix the actual problem? A functional police service is a useful thing to have and a moral imperative. American police are sub optimal so we have to stop working with them and get rid of them is a non-sequiter
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If you overshare with the police and none of it is evidence of an actual crime they are going to stop looking. They simply don't have time to watch thousands of videos sent in by paranoid old folks.
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by scarby2 3y ago
I'm a bit late replying but it depends what your out of pocket maximum is. Mine I think is $2000. It's usually high deductible health plans that have high maximums, generally I'd refuse to with for a place where that was all
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by scarby2 3y ago
Airports in the rest of the world tend to be more impressive and have better services (restaurants, lounges, bars, shopping). It largely comes down to different ownership models where the airport is trying to get you to spend money on enter
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by scarby2 3y ago
Except medicine never stays with the ultra wealthy. It only usually makes sense as a mass market product. Unless by ultra wealthy you may mean entire populations of developed countries? Then yes maybe
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Except the high end will actually be the majority of the US population who don't have issues affording healthcare. Would I like to make things better for the bottom third? Absolutely. Am I happy about progress made that will improve th

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