war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
> That...doesn't seem unreasonable? Financially, no it isn't unreasonable. But it's an added bit of friction to a decision we are already on the fence about. I think that's the entire point of the article. Adding fric
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> That's harm reduction. More technically, that's eugenics. After having flirted with that practice in the last century, I thought we'd decided that it was a bad idea. But I guess ideas are hard to kill.
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> sacrifice comfort particularly for longer trips. I guess maybe they are less comfortable than traditional car seats, but since car seats are basically build like lazy-boy recliners, that seems unsurprising. Our kids have never complain
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by war1025 6y ago
We ended up buying Diono Radian carseats [1], which are marketed as "the 3-across car seat" We can fit our three kids in the back of our Honda Civic perfectly well. But we've had exactly the same conversation. In order to ha
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by war1025 6y ago
> Americans should all remember that when the next election rolls around Unfortunately, for most people the truth is that they "like their representatives, it's all the rest that are corrupt" Plus Washington is close enoug
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Who would have guessed that kneecapping the service industry would be bad for the service sector?
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> So you have found a way to protect your wealth against inflation, That is generally known as investing. It's literally the entire point of buying stock instead of putting your money in a savings account.
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by war1025 6y ago
In US Politics, "conservative" often means someone who believes in small government and less regulation. Regulations tend to take a lot of money to comply with, making it difficult for small businesses to compete with larger ones.
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by war1025 6y ago
Just finished the podcast. I thought the husband had an entirely valid request of "Your tulpa can't be in a sexual relationship with someone else" Obviously I don't know anything about the situation beyond what is in the
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I think the Trump era emboldened a lot of normally quiet conservatives to be more outspoken in their views. Particularly in the tech scene, you can get the feeling that everyone is very liberal, and so you better just be quiet and keep to
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by war1025 6y ago
I would guess it's actually that HN has members who aren't from the major tech metros, and people outside of those areas tend to be more conservative (in a relative sense at the very least). For many, this would be the main place
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> essentially everyone consumes porn I'd be interested in how much of "everyone" this "essentially everyone" actually is. Maybe I'm an outlier, but my appetite for porn pretty well went away once I was in a
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This is very interesting...
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by war1025 6y ago
This headline immediately made me think of the "tulpa" concept I came across a few months back. It's basically creating an imaginary friend, except "different" somehow? Tried to find a decent representative article
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Why put the heat up overnight? That seems extremely counter-intuitive to me.
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by war1025 6y ago
Buy quality wool blankets and you won't need to worry about delicate underlayers. A thick wool blanket below you and one above you, along with standard cotton sheets will keep you quite cozy.
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by war1025 6y ago
I just looked up the yearly average high / lows for Berlin and London. I never realized they were both so temperate. They are both 10 degrees of latitude further North than me here in Iowa, yet they both look to rarely dip much below f
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by war1025 6y ago
> I've stopped using heating altogether > heating XXX cubic meters of air is a pure waste of energy Tell me how you feel about that when the water in your pipes freezes. Because that is sure as hell not a good time.
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by war1025 6y ago
I think it's interesting that PG seems to so often focus on the whole "nerd" thing. Maybe it was just a happy accident of my adolescence, but the whole "nerd" stereotype never seemed to apply to anyone or be used ag
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by war1025 6y ago
Trump increased his base with every ethnic group except Non-hispanic Whites this election, so I fail to see how that is accurate.
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Given that the parties are increasingly stratifying along class lines, and the working class is getting redder every year, I'd guess Hispanic immigration will trend in the Republicans favor and outpace upper-middle class migration from
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"They ideas are good, they just happen to be implemented wrong every time. But this time is different"
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And none of those things involve listening to the news and getting worked up thanks to their scare tactics to increase ratings.
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And it will definitely go away if we obsess over it without having any actual means to affect the outcome.
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What more is someone going to tell me that they didn't get across in the first six months of this?
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by war1025 6y ago
I understand using that number as a benchmark, but really at this point I've just turned off all news sources that bring up the pandemic. They are little more than propaganda anymore.
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by war1025 6y ago
I've always had good luck with Dell's Inspiron line. Have had three of them now that worked perfectly well. I always pick hibernate over sleep though, so I guess I can't say how sleep works on them.
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> I think we'd find that men juncture towards spending time alone sooner than women This is interesting to me because my dad was far more social while I was growing up than my mom ever was. I feel like I am also much more social th
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My Thinkpad is the only computer I've ever had hibernate issues with. At some point three or four years ago there was an article I saw where someone realized the way Linux handled memory layout during hibernate was way over complicated
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So looking at that list, We have group meetings to cover the majority of: - What's going well - What's not going well - Team priorities - Brainstorm My boss in general doesn't really give feedback. And the answers "Ask f

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