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by tristor 1y ago
> What have you done in your own home? I’d be curious to know. I've gotten rid of anything in my kitchen that I can that contains PFAS or is produced with PFAS or PFOAs. I use cast iron or stainless steel cookware, glass and silicon
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The only way to escape PFAS is to go to a different planet. 3M and Dow have poisoned the entire world. It's shocking how much effort and money I have had to invest to try to mitigate this problem as much as possible in my own home, n
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Honestly, when I was doing it, I didn't really find any of that difficult. The biggest pressure was from other people who I met while traveling to go out and party or do fun activities while I preferred working. I used time zones to
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by tristor 1y ago
I am not the OP, but traveling in a nomadic way is often significantly cheaper than you would expect. When I was doing this, I had roughly $4000/mo in expenses, and more than half of that is because I kept a house in the US while I wa
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I recently got informed that my Game Pass subscription is going to go from $19.99/mo to $29.99/mo, paid annually, which is a $10/mo or $120/yr increase for the exact same service. I wonder how much of this price increas
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I wear very little black, but I have tended towards darker colors. I've found that using earth tones blends well, similar to a capsule wardrobe, and you can incorporate greens, blues, and khakis along with darker colors like navy and
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That's weird, because I am still wearing the same Icebreaker t-shirts I bought in 2015, a decade later, through many many washes. They have thinned out some, and I've added more new shirts over time to my rotation, but the very f
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I also feel the same way. I travel with the absolute minimum of synthetic fabric clothing, I have found that by far the best material is wool, especially merino wool, and if that's not an option something that is natural fiber derived
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by tristor 1y ago
I spent 18 months doing this as a digital nomad. When I started out I had a rollaboard suitcase, a checked 60 inch bag, a pelican full of camera gear, and a 28L backpack. By the end I had a 28L backpack only. All that said, there were th
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by tristor 1y ago
This was a really interesting read, and really makes me appreciate how much medical technology has improved. I have been considering getting ICL surgery or similar for years, but the improvements are still happening and I find that I wait
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> Some percentage of any population will be shoplifters. This is only true in ways that don't matter, because you count "any population" being large enough to obviously include miscreants. Most people do not shoplift, and
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It mentions in his Wikipedia article that he had money although the source was unknown. The issue with vagrancy throughout history is not the vagrancy itself primarily, but the problems of theft and anti-social behaviors that go with it.
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> Love it. the previous two parent comments place the cognitive dissonance of Anglo-Saxon economic narratives in stark relief. For sure, the cognitive dissonance between those who understand basic economics and those who don't. Tho
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> Obviously white people are extremely privileged and also have a different culture. Why is this obviously? It's like /you've/ never lived in America, not outside of some coastal city. Go to anywhere in the Midwest
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> As in, why are they choosing to lose all that money? Executive egos and market hype
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> Rather, the phenomenon is more like a diffuse productivity gain across a large team or organization that results in a smaller headcount need over time as its final net effect. In practice, this materializes as backfills not approved as
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by tristor 1y ago
This, so much. As an engineer turned PM, I am usually sympathetic to the idea that doing more discovery up front leads to better outcomes, but the simple reality is that it's hard to try anything, make any bets, or even do sure wins w
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by tristor 1y ago
Podman is really painful if you do anything interesting inside of a container, it's great and simple if all you're doing is running nginx or a scripting language runtime or something in a container, but for folks who write actual
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by tristor 1y ago
> As someone who has a side job doing repairs And how did you build the skillset to do this as a side job if it wasn't by making the attempt yourself using available information and learning? Isn't your position just ladder-pu
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by tristor 1y ago
This absolutely works, and was the key selling point for Rackspace when I worked there, "Fanatical Support". Unfortunately it got purchased by private equity and subsequently ruined, eliminated almost all US staff, and offshored
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FWIW, Audio Hijack and Loopback are core software for my work setup to process a boom microphone input and make it ready for use with video conferencing/collab software. These two pieces of software are some of the best things I'
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by tristor 1y ago
As someone who started on Android but switched to Apple many many many years ago, I still find things like this that are quibbles for me, but in general my preference for Apple is because of security/privacy, battery life management, p
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by tristor 1y ago
This is a completely unsurprising outcome to anyone who has actually been poor and spent considerable time around poor people. Being poor is both a mindset and an actual socioeconomic status. Giving enough cash to marginally change socioe
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Or just sell it to Kitco, and only buy bullion coins of high quality provenance, probably also from Kitco. No real issues other than the logistics costs associated with shipping via registered mail.
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by tristor 1y ago
> See industry analysts like Gartner, IDC, etc. who all ask tech firms to "pay to play" for better rankings in their reports. Do you have any evidence of this happening? I've been involved on the side of the firm in many
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As one of the people that helped start CCCP and was involved extensively through almost its entire lifespan, I think you misunderstand what it means to be "free" in this case. CCCP was "free as in beer" but not "fr
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> If I do nothing to my property, my taxes stay the same. I wish that was the case, but in both counties I've owned houses, the tax appraisal increases every year regardless. They don't even drive by, they just use automation
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by tristor 1y ago
The Fujifilm GF63 f/2.8 R WR (50mm effective) prime lens weighs 405 grams and takes a 62mm filter. The Nikon Z 50mm f/1.4 weighs 420 grams and takes a 62mm filter. As far as I'm concerned, the primes aren't particularly
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by tristor 1y ago
Weirdly, I feel the same way as the author still in 2025. Flickr is much more niche now than it used to be, and has way less activity, but I still actively post my photography there and find it to primarily be a place full of positivity an
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Their racing pedigree and long standing in the hot hatch category disagrees with you, so do the basic facts of the matter. You've now written yourself off as an idiot with an axe to grind rather than any form of good faith interaction.

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