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by vzidex 6y ago
21-year-old here, I do that pretty often. Most days when I wake up I feel super groggy and/or have very little motivation to get out of bed, so mindlessly scrolling Reddit/Facebook or reading the news gives me a slow start to gath
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by vzidex 6y ago
I've always wondered what the learning outcomes were like for homeschooled kids vs. those that attended school (public or private). My assumption has been that homeschooling is less successful than sending the kids to school.
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'm saying that the interview linked to is an interview of a person who is the main writer for a site [1] that doesn't pass the fake news smell test. Therefore, if you want us to believe the material she presents in the interview,
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by vzidex 6y ago
> I don't think humans are made for vegan diets I've been vegan for around 6 months now, and haven't dropped dead yet. If anything, I feel the same as I did before - on a vegetarian diet - and before that - on the standard
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by vzidex 6y ago
Is the song that plays on this website commonly known? The only other time I've heard it is in the video that the New Zealand mass shooter recorded, and it makes me uncomfortable that it's the same song if it is indeed not common.
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by vzidex 6y ago
> And then the media blasts protestors as right wing gun waving people who want haircuts. Except ... they are? From what I've seen the protestors are all for increased policed powers (Thin Blue Line type supporters), just not when i
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by vzidex 6y ago
Nope, complete FUD that shouldn't be on HackerNews. Whitney Webb writes for The Last American Vagabond, and I didn't have to dig deep on their site to find material on "Metaphysics" and Illuminati et al conspiracy theori
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'm guessing that for most people it's one of the two following: a. They're used to iOS/integrated into Apple's ecosystem, and this gives them a way to cheaply get a new phone that keeps them on that model. b. This
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by vzidex 6y ago
Gave me a smile and a quiet chuckle, thanks for this little bit of fun OP.
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by vzidex 7y ago
Hah! I've never actually heard that joke but it's a good one. And yes, that is definitely what they'll do - every time something major happens in our society I've observed the mass media following the playbook from Choms
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by vzidex 7y ago
This is a good point, but I've been getting the feeling that the working class is getting more and more fed up with our conditions as we're squeezed for every last dollar of surplus value. At the end of the day "the people in
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by vzidex 7y ago
> I truly have no idea what will be left behind for me and my peers, when all of this is said and done. I'm in the same boat, as a new grad about to enter the labour market with a computer engineering degree. While the situation may
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by vzidex 7y ago
There's actually a term for those "normal" foods that are vegan but not labelled as such - you'll often see them called "accidentally vegan" foods in the vegan community. Oreos are a famous (and my favourite) e
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by vzidex 7y ago
This makes sense to me, doesn't "based" or "base" mean that the food is _mostly_ made from plants. As someone who's trying to follow a vegan diet I am very happy about "plant-based" food generally bei
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by vzidex 7y ago
I get the feeling that's because gluten-free food is - for some people - medically necessary, while people with, say, allergies to some animal product e.g. eggs will usually just buy normal food and be careful not to buy anything conta
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by vzidex 7y ago
Agreed, I think it's somewhat industry-dependent. I work with FPGAs and while we don't deal with assembly on a regular basis I'm confident everyone on my team would be able to develop or debug it.
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by vzidex 7y ago
Ah yes, in times of crisis we should all be yanking on our bootstraps and "hustling", trying our best to profit from panic and fear.
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by vzidex 7y ago
I'm glad this article came out. When I first started hearing about the first few cases in January I picked up a small supply of N95 masks, hoping that I wouldn't need them. Since then, all of the points in this article have been s
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by vzidex 7y ago
> won't the price instantly and automatically update to reflect that during the opening auction? Yes, this is what is referred to as a "gap down" - it produces what is almost a discontinuity in the graph of the price. This
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by vzidex 7y ago
Agreed, I've switched my work computer to use it by default and the only place I've noticed it falter is when searching domain-specific niche technical information. Otherwise it works fine, though I still need to switch all my per
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by vzidex 7y ago
> Forcibly removing someone's money and transferring it to another person can never be justified Except that almost everything government does involves removing someone's money - through taxes - and transferring it to another p
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by vzidex 7y ago
Yup, this combined with the difference in income for couples vs. individuals mentioned by another commented smells to me like the program had a lot of means testing built in. I wouldn't be surprised if this skewed the results of the ex
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by vzidex 7y ago
You've hit the nail on the head - means testing is the killer of any social program. Means testing makes social programs challenging to access and frustrating to use, leading to them being unpopular and unsuccessful.
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by vzidex 7y ago
Canadian here, the supply of housing depends on which part of the country you're talking about. As far as I've heard/seen the supply of housing is generally increasing with demand in most parts of the country - some of my rel
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by vzidex 7y ago
$60M is only a small part of what he spent too - by the end of February his advertising spend was ~$400M [1], with who knows how much money spent on hiring staff, renting offices, etc. Bloomberg is a great example of how hard our world&#x27
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by vzidex 7y ago
Canadian here, it's pretty much the same. All of our political parties are quite bland and effectively different flavours of centrism. Trudeau was re-elected last year despite failing to meet some major campaign promises - most people
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by vzidex 7y ago
The big (Fortune 500) company I work at already has an environment that is conducive to WFH - most people on my team do it ~1/week on average. I'm very curious to see if/when we all get instructed to WFH though, because altho
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by vzidex 7y ago
Yes, but the fault lies with both personal decisions and large corporations. The argument you've made is most often made in bad faith to guilt consumers into ineffective actions, shifting the blame from the systems that mould wasteful
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by vzidex 7y ago
#2 is a great idea for them - lets them dodge the UberEats/Foodora/etc fees I guess. A shawarma place near my last job did the same with Ritual orders, whenever the owner noticed a regular he would ask them to just call the restau
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by vzidex 7y ago
> I love people who call capitalism evil while doing so on computers and phones that exist because of it, while surrounded by products, from their clothes to their desk, furniture, construction materials, cars and more that are the produ

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