throwaway22032

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by throwaway22032 2y ago
It's simple really, many people don't see it as a "free home". It's your home. It's no more free or unfree, earned or unearned than anything else. The home that I grew up in is.. hell, I'd consider it to b
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
In my mind, the main issue with the pandemic response is that it became an exercise in crowd control rather than a discussion amongst equals. Had the Government at the time said - hey, look, we have two options here - we can lock down for a
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
FWIW it has been illegal to use lead piping in the UK for at least 50 years now. Of course it's still in older properties.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
The second screen flips all the way to the back like a tablet conversion laptop. I suppose you'd have to make sure it was turned off to not be broadcasting your screen to the world.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Yeah, it's odd. I have more time to do those things the more I earn too. Earning more doesn't have to mean working more.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Headshots are pretty vulnerable because no-one really cares if it's fake, as long as it actually looks like you. But there are a number of areas of photography that don't really have to worry about AI because the entire point is c
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
The issue with this is that it's illegal in a bunch of places. I would love to drive for Uber when I have a bit of free time, but I'd need a licence from my local authority, and taxi insurance which is unrealistically expensive to
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
My use of the term "socialist" was lazy. I think that the main issue is that it tries to come up with a metric that works across every country which is basically pointless because a lot of them are failed states where income infor
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
A company, not the same company. I don't think that social mobility can be measured statistically, because it depends on people actually trying. I actually think that the UK does have fairly high social mobility _but_ the vast majority
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Old world aristrocratic mindset. It's not just the European Union, the UK is the same. There is a heavy bias towards what works for the incumbents. One of the ways in which this plays out in Britain is that almost everyone is culturall
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Agree with this; I forgot to include in my post that the directionality isn't necessarily guaranteed!
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Because a business context is not seperate from the personal context. If it were, then sales wouldn't exist.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Heterosexual women definitely respond to the physical attractiveness of other women. So do men on men. All else being equal I'd definitely prefer to work with a more attractive coworker regardless of sex.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
It feels like this sort of thing is heavily ideological. A classic "nerd world vs. jock world" thing. But the reality is somewhere in the middle. Basically, if you take the axiom that physical appearance and genetic qualities shou
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
The term "car-free" seems designed to create engagement via rage bait rather than being any sort of assessment of reality. Obviously people are going to use cars to get to the Olympics. They'll park around the block and get t
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
I don't think that this is a fair comparison because at some point the nature of the craft actually does change. To give an analogy, a carpenter might be happy with hand tools, happy with machine tools, happy with plywood, and happy wi
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Well, I've certainly earned the plumbing system that supplies the water to my house, I pay for it and my labour indirectly supports the building out of that system. WiFi isn't some sort of aether, it is created.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
I don't agree that it is insufficient, it's not 100% absolutely fool proof, it doesn't have to be. A kitchen knife isn't foolproof, you could convince someone with a sufficiently low IQ to stab themselves with it.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Sure. The law also states that crime is illegal. I wouldn't walk around Compton late at night with a £5K camera though. Even with insurance.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
If you upload your data to a third party without first encrypting it with a key known only to you it is no longer yours. Everything else is just wishful thinking. Like trying to keep a secret whilst only telling one or two friends.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
> The only way I can think of squaring this circle is for Apple to sell two different SKUs of every iPhone: one that can sideload (and allow apps such as alternate app store apps to install other apps), and one that cannot. Then users ca
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
I feel as if the fundamental issue with speed limits is that they often feel arbitrary and infantilizing. If the roads are designed properly then you don't really need them except perhaps as a warning (e.g. the German autobahn isn&#x27
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Wouldn't it be substantially cheaper to basically just grind a channel into the pavement and then have people charging put a rubber mat on top of it? I feel like I could do this in a couple of hours with the tools in my garage. You don
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Sure. If you have a couple of short outages in a year and say 2% of your customers view the website during that time, half quit and never come back over it, that's it. You've lost 1% of your customers. You seem to be stating that
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
WFH is fast food. It's more convenient and cheaper but worse for you.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
I don't believe that your concise form follows from the original form. Furthermore I think that this specific misunderstanding is a huge conflict point in politics, and contributes significantly to things like the left-right divide. Th
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Hey man. Consider that it's useful to get perspectives from people who are in situations different from your own. They're not telling you that you suck for not being in their position.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
The strange thing is that the same argument is true for seeking in general. Going back from frame 500000 to frame 499999 is in the limiting case as complex as seeking from 1 to 499999, and in most cases far better. I think the forum thread
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
An investment purchase? To be honest I want as close to instant as possible. If the FTSE100 drops 15% then I want to be there to buy it before it pops up again.
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by throwaway22032 2y ago
Brit here so not exactly answering your question but I set things up so that the money is in the right place a few days before. i.e. for simplification, try to get all bills to come out on the 1st, then make sure that $20k hits the account

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