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by xnyan 3y ago
And if you don't have an orthopedic problem, or are just looking for therapeutic pain relief, or maybe trying to convince a family member not to subject themselves to medical charlatans, you can get all the benefits of a chiropractor w
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by xnyan 3y ago
The human body is ~36C only internally. I just used an IR thermometer, and the inside of my ear canal is currently 32C, plus a large portion the earbud is external to your ear canal. EDIT: Out of curiosity I also measured the temperature of
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by xnyan 3y ago
That is true only in a free market, which labor is not. Employers have far more bargaining power than any individual looking to sell their labor. To say workers thought it was fair to work "70 hours with no overtime compensation"
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by xnyan 3y ago
>probably not malware? Fundamentally, malware is about deception. If the user understands what is being done and why (we're tracking everything we can, then selling that to everyone) then it's not malware. The typical adware ho
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by xnyan 3y ago
I was in a similar situation right after I transitioned out of the military and was in really good shape. I got a physical including an accurate body fat analysis and the problem went away. Ended up costing me a couple hundred bucks, but we
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by xnyan 3y ago
Are you arguing that when a car parks on the street, there's no actual value to that parking spot? The article is just arguing that there are externalities related to car use, and I'm confused how you conclude these externalities
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I worked at an electronics retailer in high school for a couple years, my job was to sell laptops. I sold a lot of laptops. Nerds like us who post comments on hacker news can have a hard time understanding the mind of the vast majority of r
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by xnyan 3y ago
> this happens usually when you are a C-level executive I hope this not true for most people. I feel like most people I work with respond well to honesty as opposed to varnished corpo-speak. I’m a new senior engineer and have just starte
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by xnyan 3y ago
It’s clear from context, unless there’s a french learning app making over 5 billion dollars a year.
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>Other publishers get mad if Nintendo can’t keep piracy on their platform under control Maybe, but if that mattered we would have seen the consequences already because Nintendo since the gamecube has been uniquely abysmal at anti-piracy,
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by xnyan 3y ago
I'm fine with that as long as the definition of terrorism is objective and not ideological/political. What objective definition of state terrorism applies to Palestine but not the state of Israel?
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by xnyan 3y ago
I’m not sure how you’d like people to evaluate this claim without some examples. Yes, some people will try to nitpick, but many readers here will engage in good faith. What’s an example of a heavily editorialized article?
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by xnyan 3y ago
China's ruling and ruled classes have had an understanding for the last ~2300 years[1]: the legitimacy of leaders depends on the (real or perceived) performance of the leader. Under the CCP, China has had very significant (~8%) economi
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by xnyan 3y ago
Whatever you do, do not Google “switch prod.keys” because that would return hundreds of websites where you could download them.
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It varies a lot depending on location, but generally you can adjust by adding 5%. 15% is the new 10% and 20 is the new 15%.
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by xnyan 3y ago
Immagration is a factor of relative wealth and physical access. People who immigrate to Europe do so because 1) Europe offers a significantly better quality of life than their home country and 2) they can physically get there. Birthrate is
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by xnyan 4y ago
>"Shitty condtions" is subjective. I don't think it is. I worked as an electrician's apprentice for 3 years in school. Trade work absolutely destroys your body. Every day you are up and down ladders, squeezing through
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by xnyan 4y ago
>Even last week they were saying nothing would change If you want to be dishonest but not explicitly lie, there are almost always ways to do it. For example, "I believe access to healthcare is a human right" to a normal person
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by xnyan 4y ago
You’re saying “incorrect” like there’s universal agreement on the subject. One can (and many do) just as easily argue that the rate of return on capital investment always exceeds economic growth in the long run. Over time, the resulting inc
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by xnyan 4y ago
NPR’s target (or if not their target, the effective target based on their content) is an early/mid gen x or baby boomer centrist/center-left neoliberal democrat who also listens to FM radio. It’s a pretty specific audience. Additi
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by xnyan 4y ago
One of the biggest points of railway workers in the recent fight over contracts was safety concerns largely due to overwork and understaffing. According to both the government and the railway industry, the number of workers threating labor
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by xnyan 4y ago
>I'm not sure why you wouldn't want a market based proposal in this case. Because a market requires certain conditions to be true: equal access to information, many buyers and sellers, and that the products being exchanged are
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by xnyan 4y ago
Да, я нормально понимаю и читаю по-русски. Ссылки пожалуйста.
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by xnyan 4y ago
I don't know a single person outside of tech (and a handful of other fields like government and journalism) who uses anything besides the shortest possible pincode allowed. I believe most people would use no passcode if possible.
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>I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. My local bank requires 9 or above >Also... even if the app stops working, you can use a web browser still. It's not uncommon at all for banks to have a website that's
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by xnyan 4y ago
They meant fewer, as in "Android gets fewer official OS iterations than iPhone."
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by xnyan 4y ago
> The "executive" here is not a noun I understand, but in this case that’s a distinction without a difference. For whom is the executive summary? For the person making the executive decision, ie the executive. In my career, exe
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by xnyan 4y ago
Not exactly. Say for example you’re in a situation where an executive has to approve the budget of an engineering project they are not able to understand. A summary would do no good, because it would be incomprehensible to them. In other wo
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"Executive Summary" is an inoffensive way to say "Look, I know you cannot understand this and/or will not read this, so here's a small amount of text written simply that you can use to make a decision."
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I’m sure you’ve heard something like “alternating current is more efficient than direct current for transmitting power”, but this is only true in specific conditions. At very high A/C voltages, the magnetic field created by the alterna

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