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by tdfx 5y ago
And when you give a central authority permission to dictate these "inconvenient measures" to the population, what is the recourse when those authorities act in a contradictory, dishonest, or incompetent manner?
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by tdfx 5y ago
Best way to handle situations like this is to not reply. You're not going to appease the far-left social activists and the right wing culture warriors in any situation. You can't lose if you don't play. Just update docs si
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by tdfx 5y ago
Have worked in bars and can confirm no one is going to recognize the Angela thing without additional context. It's just a feel-good memey thing.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> Not catching Covid is great, we're all hoping for that. I don't think that's a long term option at this point, unless you continue to quarantine yourself for the rest of your life.
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by tdfx 5y ago
Meeting people and making friends are very different. I've found many people put way too much stock in their friendships at work when they really have nothing else in common except the job. Unsurprisingly, as soon as people switch jo
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by tdfx 5y ago
It's still a major selling point if you're raising money for your company. "Ex-Google engineer" somehow still makes rich people want to throw money at you, deservedly or not.
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by tdfx 5y ago
It's not limited to HN. Even in a local dev Slack community, I often see people expecting companies to flagellate themselves just for a chance to hire the unique, special talent that they believe and need constant reassurance that the
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by tdfx 5y ago
This should be the top voted comment on this post.
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by tdfx 5y ago
Yes, it's now the second very visible example of the censorship model failing to correctly inform people (many examples, but 2 really recent major ones). The lab leak theory being the other egregious example.
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by tdfx 5y ago
Actually, it's west (not sure how I messed that up). Yes, it's a fully functioning town/city of ~60k people with all the major things you're used to (convenience stores, grocery stores, etc.), though you might need to g
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by tdfx 5y ago
I thought it was astounding that the media wrote this off so quickly and thoroughly. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. As soon as it might be "Russian disinformation", everyone except the craziest far righ
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by tdfx 5y ago
I would recommend visiting and getting a short term accommodation near Roma Norte. There's a few peripheral areas around there that haven't had as much price inflation, but you'll want to identify them by physically being th
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by tdfx 5y ago
I should clarify: the pollution in Mexico City is particularly bad for a city of its size because of its geography (although it has been getting less worse in the past decade due to regulation). It's in a valley, trapped by mountain
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by tdfx 5y ago
Mexico City would be a great choice for your budget if you stay clear of the foreigner areas (Polanco, Condesa, Roma), as rent in those areas seems to be approaching US prices due to the influx of Americans. The metro is good, coworking op
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by tdfx 5y ago
But even globally, most of the financial acceleration in the developing world is only happening for the top quarter (or less) of the population.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> No FEIC if you don't pay taxes in the country where you earned the income That's technically only true for one of the two possible tests for FEIE. The presence test doesn't require any taxes to be paid anywhere else, an
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by tdfx 5y ago
I would also add that there's nothing worse than being a landlord of a single unit/property. Pretty much all of the functions that you'll need to fulfill as a landlord take the same amount of time for 2-3+ units as they do f
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by tdfx 5y ago
Yikes. Imagine being the drone operator. You probably develop a certain mental wall against the people you're targeting and it's possible you can rationalize "just following orders", but you'd have to try pretty h
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by tdfx 5y ago
Just want to echo that I believe this to be true, as well. Jobs involving menial, unskilled labor can be almost therapeutic if you're only required to do it 2-3 times a week. I did night jobs while I was working full time as a develo
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by tdfx 5y ago
If you show the police officer a live location of your stolen property moving on a map, that's usually enough to motivate them into action. I've seen two stolen phones recovered this way. If you tell them your bike is stolen and
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by tdfx 5y ago
In many areas of the US, that trigger happy cop will be the difference between you recovering your property and you being severely beaten when you show up in a rough neighborhood trying to get your bike back.
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by tdfx 5y ago
I think it's safe to change "becoming" to "has become", it's no longer in transition.
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by tdfx 5y ago
> N95s or basic cloth masks are a relatively straightforward way to get a population on the other side of that threshold, even if some people wear them incorrectly were just unlucky. Controlled tests (with correct fitting) show cloth mas
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by tdfx 5y ago
We are fairly certain that the real-world use of cloth masks and face coverings can only supply limited benefit, so the threshold for harm to make them not worth it may not be that high [0]. You can support wearing masks for adults in moto
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by tdfx 5y ago
Unrelated, but one thing I've been curious about for a while is: what useful treatments are actually available when you're hospitalized for COVID-19? Is there anything besides intravenous fluids/vitamins and oxygen that is r
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by tdfx 5y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't re-live these moments? I see people constantly interrupting special moments to capture them in photos and videos, but I have trouble finding anyone who derives a meaningful amount of satisfaction from the
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The Impact of Community Masking on Covid-19 [pdf](poverty-action.org)
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by tdfx 5y ago
Lots of diligently masked up, vaccinated people have spread coronavirus to others. Are they murderers in your book, too? Can you quantify how much effort (or virtual signaling) is required to escape the murderer label?
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by tdfx 5y ago
> If those 5 states weren't doing even the minimum of vaccines/distancing/masking that they're doing today, they would be at 0% capacity, without question. Is there evidence of that? From my limited and non-expert pe
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by tdfx 5y ago
> What we generally identify as white or western civilization has dominated economically during the past few hundred years, and arguably during the Roman Empire. "Most cases of human history" was too broad. I was referencing s

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