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by sersi 7y ago
I would naively say (and this is why I made that point about having two different numbers) that life expectancy after in later years is also influenced by Violence, Wars and Addiction whereas infant mortality might be more influenced by hea
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by sersi 7y ago
> In the Mankhurd slum in Mumbai, where the average life expectancy is 39 I wish articles didn't use life expectancy which is always misleading and confusing since it's severely affected by infant mortality. What would be more
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by sersi 7y ago
Well, I didn't have a choice back then to fly ryanair, they were the only flight that flew from where I was to my destination. I just assumed that they followed the same rules as every single other airlines I had ever flown.
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by sersi 7y ago
I flew only once with Ryan air, my experience was that I was forced to pay 80 gbp because I hadn't checked in online (when no other airlines force you to do that) and they had us all wait on the tarmac under the rain for 45 minutes bef
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by sersi 7y ago
I have the same issue as you with mic and sound on my brand new macbook air. It seems restarting fixes the issue for a few hours so it might be a software issue but regardless it'a. huge problem for me... Unfortunately my trusty 2013 m
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by sersi 7y ago
Well, the problem is that the same could be said for Shanghai. Talk to any taxi drivers in Shanghai and ask what they think of the economy nowadays, same for people working in unskilled jobs, the gap is so big that it's extremely diffi
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by sersi 7y ago
And somehow completely fail to listen to their users when their users tell them that a working keyboard is a necessity in a laptop :)
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by sersi 7y ago
Germany isn't the same at all, there are multiple paths for kids to have a decent life. A kid who is not admitted to a Gymnasium and goes to a Realschule can still hope to get an apprenticeship and have a decent life. In india, because
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by sersi 7y ago
What would be interesting would be to see if this was typical of many societies that practiced polygamy. I could imagine that men taking more dangerous risky occupations and having higher mortality might have been a constant during much of
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by sersi 7y ago
That seems like a very rosy self serving view of outsourcing and reads more like an advertorial for their services than an actual guide to outsourcing software development. Not really sure why it gets so many upvotes
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by sersi 7y ago
Yes, I agree, it's not only rubygems, npm had the same problem not so long ago and it is a general issue in all repos. One thing that would be inconvenient but would protect against that would be to have the api work as usual, but need
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by sersi 7y ago
I think that rubygems should consider automatically enforcing multifactor authentication for popular gems. So any gem with more than 50,000 downloads should force to gem maintainer to have MFA set up before they can publish a new version or
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by sersi 7y ago
Firefox containers work well
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by sersi 7y ago
Another reason I fully agree with you is that mandatory paternal leave would help reducing discrimination against women of child bearing age. Right now, employers are worried that women would take maternity leave and so are less likely to h
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by sersi 7y ago
Wired should be more careful when saying "He did, in a separate incident, exploit flaws in a college admission software to change his admission status to "accepted" " when in fact he found that security vulnerability and
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by sersi 7y ago
Side-note but I rather disagree with placing Mandarin and Cantonese on the same level. Cantonese is definitely quite a bit harder than Mandarin... As for Japanese being harder than Mandarin and Cantonese, I think it's true if one consi
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by sersi 7y ago
I really would love buying that yeast eventually to experiment with it, good business opportunity for them if the lab tests they are doing pans out.
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by sersi 7y ago
Isn't it irresponsible for pen test partners to publish the maps with the location markers with such details as they did in London? It's a good example of how concerning this is but they should have shown fake data there since thi
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by sersi 7y ago
While it's purely anecdotical, in my experience vpns are blocked differently depending on where you are. It seems that vpns always work better in Shenzhen...
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by sersi 7y ago
x) appointing Steve Balmer as CEO
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by sersi 7y ago
Great! Maybe next year I can finally get a new mbp :) I've been staying on 2013 mbp because of that but it's getting long in the tooth (plus affected by staingate but apparently too late for Apple to fix)
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by sersi 7y ago
Seems they don't have comments though which is a pity since comments are 90% of what Slashdot was about
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by sersi 7y ago
Trade sanction seem counterproductive to me, they breed resentment in a generation of young people, they breed poverty and that ultimately is what breeds extremism and fundamentalism. Shouldn't trade sanctions be more fine grained? Hav
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by sersi 7y ago
I was going to say this, I used to take notes the first couple of years of university and eventually stopped when I noticed that I learned better when not taking notes. It was preventing me from concentrating on the content... (plus I don&#
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by sersi 7y ago
I like Pigeons and don't mind them except when they visit my balcony at 7am in the morning and wake me up (we only have single pane windows and no way to change it since we're renting).
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by sersi 7y ago
Thought this article was interesting in the context of the replication crisis and issues with peer reviewed journals. Books from experts tend to carry a lot of authority but fact checking is not something that most publishers do.
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Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re realizing they’re full of errors(vox.com)
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Why not self publish? Given how well-known you are in your target market, you probably don't really need the marketing help from Penguin.
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by sersi 8y ago
I don't necessarily hate all GMO but I'm very dubious about GMO crops that are engineered to withstand Glyphosate better and I prefer not to eat such crops because they are more likely to have been treated with this herbicide.
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by sersi 9y ago
This is key. I strongly believe that legalization is the only answer to the problem. Driving things underground is only going to cause more issues and abuse to the sex workers. It's kind of ironic when in France, for example, a law get

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