skorpeon87

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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Even if you make egg freezing cheap, it will still have an abysmal success rate (particularly if a woman waits until her 30s to have the eggs freezed), and should rationally be viewed as a hail Mary of last resort. This should not be view
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Both the Pulse and Pocket acquisitions look like corrupt favors done by Mozilla executives for their friends, so it makes sense to lump both together.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
That's nothing to do with school though, just youth. Kids who get into fights in the summer months away from school aren't sent to jail for it like adults. Being at or away from a school isn't a factor in that difference.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Nah, that doesn't ring true to me. I got into plenty of scraps during the summer when I was a kid. Nothing that rose to the asymmetry I would describe as bullying, but certainly it was violence. And besides the overt fights, many o
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> In America there is a concept of "zero tolerance" that keeps the bullied compliant and the bullies in charge. It was not until I started to get very violent that the bullying stopped. Exactly my experience as well. Fighti
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> It's super expensive to buy healthy food. Fresh veggies are the cheapest thing in a grocery store. And you don't need to buy the organic/exotic ones to "eat healthy" from the perspective of losing weight. Y
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
A mechanic taking a car for a ride is at least plausibly productive; the mechanic tests the car out to make sure it's running well, no weird noises/etc. Of course if you just brought the car in for an oil change and not asking t
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
What's the point of any mask mandate anymore? When you fly into town for the con you'll be on an airplane with dozens of unmasked people. Same thing every time you go to the grocery store or virtually anywhere else. Just give i
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Since they don't need it, they shouldn't even be asking in the first place.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
That's an upgrade option now? It used to be standard, I think even suggested that you remove your drive before sending in your thinkpad. Granted, the last time I had to do that was 2009 or so.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Sounds like a bug, I'd try it in a fresh profile and see it still behaves that way for you. I just installed the extension a few minutes ago and it's translating manually when I click the button.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
That's certainly crass, but it shouldn't be illegal to say. If people don't want to support their country's military and servicemen, that should be their business; it's a legitimate political position to take. Not
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Did you accidentally press the "Translate this tab automatically as you browse" button? Maybe try in a new tab.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
It seems to work brilliantly with Russian. Less than 5 seconds to translate a medium length wikipedia article on my computer. This exceeds my hopes and expectations.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Absolutely brilliant! I hope they eventually ship this with firefox by default. I doubt I would have heard of this extension if not for this HN post; shipping it by default would probably be useful to many people.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> What do (did) 7000 people do at Twitter? I don't know, but Discord has a small fraction of the employees. They have hundreds of millions of active users, handle tons of live audio streams in addition to the text traffic, and t
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> "the story" But it's not a singular story, it's many thousands of independent stories. That link only provides the other side of some of them.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
When I talk about class I am talking about income, not moral conduct. That should be obvious from the context. Cops push the races out of high/medium income neighborhoods because that is where the cops live. And street races are unqu
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
I didn't get the impression that it was said as a negative critique of film, but if you want citations in that direction it's easy. Just look up all the crap the Kodak plant has been found to dump into the water/environment
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> We also could use some dialing down this aspect of pop-culture (movies and music in particular) Some politicians tried this back in the 90s and were widely derided for it. The matter hasn't really been addressed since; the pub
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
It's a trendy hobbyhorse for the past couple of years: Every problem with cities is because of car culture. And the problem with rural areas is they aren't cities, because of car culture.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Are you sure it's actually easy for police to stop illegal street races without starting dozens of high speed car cases? These street racers have fast cars, little regard for public safety, and no desire to let themselves be arrested
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
I'm not the one who framed it as a race issue, am I? The issue is almost certainly one of class; cops are paid well and are likely to live in middle class neighborhoods. The drag-races likely most common in lower income neighborhood
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> they don’t care about the (mostly black or Latino) residents of the residential neighborhoods in which these happen. From wikipedia: > As of 2019, the Los Angeles Police Department had 10,008 officers sworn in. Of these, 81% (8,1
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> Similarly, the US cut off oil and resources to Japan. The US ""cut off"" oil to Japan by having possession of the Philiphines, which was situated directly between Japan and the Dutch East Indes. The Dutch East
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
NeoVim devs earned that 'Neo' by rapidly adding features that were in demand for years (and were subsequently implemented in Vim, in response to NeoVim's new pace of innovation. Anyway, adding Neo was enough to differentiate
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
Sorry, it's not clear what you think I'm wrong about or what you're trying to say at all. Can you please clarify? Preferably without the insults and layered sarcasm.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
A lot of Americans are American because their European ancestors got sick of European affairs and wanted a clean break from it. Nonetheless, a lot of the anti-interventionist rhetoric seen on the net today feels very astroturfed. Anybody a
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
> China's gov't has a hand in every company in its borders, or so it is suspected Not merely suspected, it's a matter of Chinese law that the Party is represented in any company large enough for them to take notice of.
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by skorpeon87 4y ago
It's national security, what do you expect? Even if specifics are known and they're not operating under a general precautionary principle (maybe they are, but so what?), the specifics would be classified, not broadcast to the pub

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