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by whymauri 6y ago
Here's one fun use: replacing egg whites in shaken cocktails. Particularly useful for vegan friends (or anyone who feels squeamish about raw egg as an ingredient). As long as you have good shaking technique, the foam and mouthfeel get
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by whymauri 6y ago
Airbnb reimburses hosts for black swan events like these pretty often. My parents are super hosts and some local legislation shut down their Airbnb. Similar to this situation, they got a pretty generous reimbursement (but not complete). At
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by whymauri 6y ago
Christchurch shooting in New Zealand. It was stomach churning, don't watch it.
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No 'obscene usernames' is actually hilarious to me. The bastion of free speech won't even allow users to choose their own handles.
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I think this discounts the power of Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting. I agree it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, though.
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>The President of the United States has the same venue for disseminating information as his predecessors: White House press conferences. Pretty much. The President has had access to the bully pulpit for over a hundred years. The decision
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by whymauri 6y ago
This copypasta is incorrect. See more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268
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by whymauri 6y ago
This reads like hackerman fan fiction. Not sure if I buy it. Is there a better source? Edit: OK, I just read the Twitter feed of the poster in the screenshot. This is a massive misinterpretation of what the archivists are doing. They'r
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by whymauri 6y ago
Any more details? I know one major red flag for me was all the verification Parler was requesting. SSNs, and all that. There's no way that can end well.
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The flu (and news of the flu) spread much slower than COVID. The decision to keep dorms open was most likely made with limited information. To put this into perspective: many Harvard/MIT students didn't realize there was a deadly
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by whymauri 6y ago
Yeah, they might have mentally flipped Bogota and Medellin. Bogota is a lot like SF's climate, but even steadier throughout the year.
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by whymauri 6y ago
I turned off uBlock origin and didn't get ads (it also claimed to not block any ads). It does have embedded sharing links to Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, though. Not sure if these matter to you, but that's what I'm seeing
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by whymauri 6y ago
Before people start flagging this because it has the scary bearded man's name attached, it's actually a really accessible introduction to fundamental economic ideas without much political musing, if any. It does this with common,
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You don't need 70 million people for organizers on Parler to be dangerous.
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by whymauri 6y ago
So you're telling me there was more thoughtfulness in the risk assessment for the Area 51 Alien Raid meme from 2019 [0], than real threats on the U.S. Capitol? Fascinating. The FBI was knocking on people's door for that joke. [1]
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that's why it's called security theater
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by whymauri 6y ago
We'll see. Parler (two years old) in particular is especially young. I'm not sure if Gab (four years old) has the funding to survive another few years. Voat lasted six solid years before running out of cash, so that's going t
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by whymauri 6y ago
I'm willing to bet it'll go the same way as Voat. Except Voat actually had a diversity of topics to discuss when it founded (although it turned to garbage in a few weeks), this website is laser focused on one demagogue.
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by whymauri 6y ago
>I'm generally against the idea of banning subreddits because they just move elsewhere. The alternative platforms tend to die off, though. Like Voat.
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I think that's what adds to the humor.
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Interesting... I went from MEGACORP to startup, only for the startup to have, literally, an order of magnitude more meetings.
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>The violating content they removed was trump repeating the same stolen election crud he's been saying for a month and then __urging the protesters to go home peacefully, preserve law and order, etc__. There were two more tweets tha
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by whymauri 6y ago
Just wait until you ask them to define what exactly 'politics' is. You'll either get no response or it'll boil down to 'the things I don't like.' And to clarify, this is actually a really important questio
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by whymauri 6y ago
I know the immediate priority is to reduce human harm and violence, but the resulting security fallout from this breach is going to be a giant headache.
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Why do these threads get getting flagged, but other protest threads from 2020 were not flagged at all? This is historic.
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C SPan just reported live fire in the building?!
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by whymauri 6y ago
>My fiancée has cancer, and we regularly joke that dealing with insurance companies is worse than the actual stage 3 cancer she has. You know what's crazy? This isn't even the first time I've heard this. Literally had the
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by whymauri 6y ago
Sorry if the title sounds clickbaity. I'm trying to use the same language Justin uses to describe the Twitter thread.
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A few years ago, I used Brickr during research for a large-scale Lego mural that I built. It was pretty useful for getting a high-level estimate for the quantity of bricks I needed. I ended up doing my actual mural management on a spreadshe
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Justin Kan's Biggest Lessons from Founding Atrium (YC W18)(twitter.com)
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