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by shard 4y ago
> Consider that surviving severe overpopulation is trauma Recently there was an article posted on HN about how trauma experienced by parents are passed down to children through (a term that means it's related to activation of genes,
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by shard 4y ago
It sounds like they had put some thought into which methods cause the least suffering. It doesn't sound like they were trying to skirt the edge of what the ethics committee would allow, which is how I read your comment. Please let me k
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by shard 4y ago
Yes, that statement by itself is a bit extreme, however I believe the person on twitter was combining it with the other aspects. I did find that, at least for South Koreans, they sometimes use "Okay" in a way that would be conside
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by shard 4y ago
I often keep my video off, but there are a few cases where I make sure I am presentable, and have my video on: 1. Meeting someone online for the 1st time. I have a video on to create more of a human connection. 2. When asking for help. I do
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by shard 4y ago
I'd love to hear your techniques. I haven't had success with trying to negotiate telecom contracts. When I balked at the price, the salesman would sometimes offer a contract with lower levels of services along with the price redu
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by shard 4y ago
I use Authy, which allows the app to be installed on multiple devices. It's currently on 3 devices, so I never have to redo choices because I changed phones.
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by shard 4y ago
I can't speak for the parent comment, but when I use such a grammatical construct, I mean that although it is suboptimal, I am putting up with it. It does not mean that I think it is ok.
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by shard 4y ago
The cynical word for that could be "family".
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by shard 4y ago
There's artists like Merzbow, but I find his music non-condusive for sleep.
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by shard 4y ago
> you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off There are many sleep videos which have a dark screen for this reason, you can add "dark screen" to the search terms and see the choices. Although it&#x
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by shard 4y ago
Along the lines of an optional thing removing freedom, I have had tremendous trouble waving down a cab sometimes because all the cabs that were coming to the area have been hailed through apps.
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by shard 4y ago
For a quick-and-dirty conversion, I do F=2C+30, C=(F-30)/2.
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by shard 4y ago
This is cultural, believe it or not. In Korea, bicycles are expected to be on sidewalks and not sharing the road with cars, and there are often bike paths on pedestrian sidewalks.
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by shard 4y ago
Going the opposite way, here's a story of an electrical engineering class I had in college. The class subject was a slightly off-the-main-path course, taught by a visiting professor from overseas. It involved deep analysis of electrica
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by shard 4y ago
I still have my Thomas Guide from the 90s in my car. Looks like Thomas Guides are limited to LA and San Diego only nowadays, but it's not going away soon: "California state legislation says that every police and fire vehicle must
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by shard 4y ago
When I had a back injury and was laid out for a few days, I used a computer stand similar to this: https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-RAINBEAN-Portable-Workstat... The stand was adjustable enough such that with my thin lapto
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by shard 4y ago
Yes, I called anyone and everyone I could at Better, our bid was contingent on those issues being resolved. I could not get anyone with decision making power outside of 9-5 business hours (and it wasn't easy even during business hours,
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by shard 4y ago
Doesn't that just increase resistance to your walking, thus is equivalent to you converting calories to battery energy? Wind and solar would be additional energy over what you brought as stored calories or food.
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by shard 4y ago
I had issues with Better last year. Advisors were hard to reach, away on vacation without notice, completely unreachable before 9AM and after 5PM, and unable to adjust to the highly competitive market that was going on last year (needed 15
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by shard 4y ago
People don't seem to be aware of this, but most of the dulling of disposable razors are due to it staying wet. If you dry your disposable razor after use, shaking out the water then drying it on a towel, it can last much much longer.
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SEC Proposes New Rules in Response to GameStop Trading and Related Volatility(natlawreview.com)
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by shard 4y ago
If those are indeed loss leaders, what would be the reason for the addition push for the products recently? Nowadays there are Costco employees bringing pizzas to the checkout lines and trying to sell them. Are these overproductions due to
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Apple Sues SoC Startup Rivos for Poaching Employees and Stealing Trade Secrets(macrumors.com)
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by shard 4y ago
Sample size of one, but in my younger and less careful days I have managed to injure my shoulders overdoing both push-ups and dumbbell bench press. I managed to injure my shoulders much faster doing push-ups, likely because there was no way
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by shard 4y ago
I think the core point is addressed: Based on the ruling, a teacher calling someone's son "Ma'am" should also be protected speech. The ruling makes no judgement on what the student can say, as the student is not an emplo
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by shard 4y ago
Maybe he just misses the mild buzz from the alcohol.
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by shard 4y ago
It certainly can count as both hostility and free speech. Often the most contentious examples of free speech are highly hostile: hate speech, for example. Therefore the context is rather, is this protected speech? A private company can disc
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by shard 4y ago
It could, if the 10 pages are fed through a automatic feeding scanner which gives the same skew to all scanned pages.
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by shard 4y ago
Additional features could be the inclusion of coffee cup stains, such as offered by these scripts for Latex: http://legacy.hanno-rein.de/hanno-rein.de/archives/349
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by shard 4y ago
Well, we can quote statistics and cite studies, but the point is that the entrepreneur himself attributed his failed marriages and heart attack to the entrepreneurship.

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