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by tenpies 10y ago
It will depend on your city, but public libraries are usually fantastic. The wifi is free, the seating is spacious, and everyone is there with a purpose. They also cost nothing and you never get the "am I loitering?" feeling tha
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by tenpies 11y ago
Isn't that more of a Google/Alphabet thing?
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by tenpies 11y ago
There was an interesting Norwegian documentary that looked into this[1]. The overall observation was that societies where women were extremely free, usually ended up with the same gender distributions as societies in which they were less f
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by tenpies 11y ago
> the term nerd is often considered a badge of honor N = 1, but in my experience this stopped being the case when being nerdy was deemed cool and anyone with glasses started proclaiming "I'm so nerdy". I suppose this sort
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by tenpies 11y ago
In many ways this sounds identical to the process of becoming a medical doctor. Fail (to either perform or get lucky enough to get a slot) at any stage and you wasted X years + Y amount of money.
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by tenpies 11y ago
> Google, a company whose motto is, still, do no evil. Seems to have been changed to "Do the right thing" to some extent when they changed to Alphabet [1]. Interestingly enough, I think that restructure also helps obfuscate whe
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by tenpies 11y ago
> I live by myself and barely even speak out loud at home. It occurs to me that the background noise in your home actually reveals a whole lot about the self: - What you're listening to and when - What you're watching and when
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by tenpies 11y ago
> The World Health Organization has recently suggested cutting the recommended sugar intake for adults in half, to about 25 grams, around 6 teaspoons, of sugar for a normal weight adult a day. The interesting thing about this sort of gui
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by tenpies 11y ago
Ditto. The minute the official Twitter client started sending irrelevant notifications I uninstalled and switched Twitter clients. Interestingly enough one of their 5 things this quarter is going to be "improved developer support&quot
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by tenpies 11y ago
I noticed several replies talking about Snapchat's practices, but no one commented on the huge number of applications that exist to download Snapchat content permanently and without triggering Snapchat's screenshot detection. It&
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by tenpies 11y ago
> The income of low-income workers is spent back into the economy I think this statement vastly underestimates how much money is remitted back home by foreign workers - even low-income workers. In Canada, we lose about 24 billion USD ev