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by fiblye 6y ago
Seems easy to rule out vitamin D if sunlight exposure isn't relevant at time of infection then.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Before the vitamin D link was so widely reported, I remember seeing a bunch of comments online (including HN) from people saying things along the lines of "We've been self-isolating at home since January, only bought things online
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by fiblye 6y ago
The article is about this being a global phenomenon, with emphasis on France and the UK. Weird to believe that this is any worse in America than it is anywhere else. It's human nature to have an in-group and out-group. Sometimes it&#x2
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by fiblye 6y ago
> It's fascinating to me hearing about how Hong Kong and Tokyo have similar cost of living to even some of the most expensive metros in the US It's truly fascinating because I've never seen a city in Japan that costs anywh
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by fiblye 6y ago
This is a joke, right? Being taught something != actually feeling something. You can say "that's bad" and people will repeat after you in agreement. Doesn't mean the voice in the back of their mind actually agrees or can
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by fiblye 6y ago
And the parent comment saying Americans who aren't out there being entrepreneurs and starting businesses are "drowning themselves in self-pity" is insulting. When I immigrated, I left behind tangible proof of my achievements,
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by fiblye 6y ago
> The USA is an absolute paradise for an immigrant. This is really the key point. When immigrating to a country, you’re already taking a huge risk. You’re leaving behind extended family. You’re generally a little more well off than a typ
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by fiblye 6y ago
They feel like they're designed to optimize discomfort. There are really only two ways I can sit in them. One is that just one small point of my head makes contact, and my back is perfectly straight and doesn't make contact with t
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by fiblye 6y ago
I've been picking out pictures of fire hydrants and stoplights for five years now with no end in sight. Sometimes literally. They'll show me series of fire hydrants that don't end after several minutes, and I just give up.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Boredom is a really overlooked one. If I’m outside and doing something all day, or I’m really involved in reading a book or painting something, over half a day will pass before I realize I forgot to eat breakfast. But if I’m relaxing, wasti
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by fiblye 6y ago
>subsidized by hundreds of millions in VC funding for almost a decade That hasn't stopped any company from total collapse before and it won't now. Other social media sites have people somewhat locked in since it's all abou
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by fiblye 6y ago
Wearing masks, like hand washing, has limited benefits if most people aren't doing it. Vaccines are also far more effective if a large number of people get them. Studies comparing populations with almost 100% mask wearing and countries
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by fiblye 6y ago
My current game dev project is being done with relatively low poly models and non-realistic textures. I've tried adding higher levels of detail to the game, but gave up pretty early on. Unless it looks great and stylized, highly detail
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by fiblye 6y ago
Yeah, the article mentions some news sites being banned temporarily in Japan, but as someone who reads those sites near daily, I never noticed it happening.
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by fiblye 6y ago
There's a considerable difference between galleries holding physical goods with extremely limited space and needing to curate things for a specific market, and one of the largest corporations to ever exist approving software to sell on
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by fiblye 6y ago
The poster said their kid wasn't interested in fiddling with workings of computers before social media was a thing, so I don't think that's the problem in their specific case.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Yeah I definitely had that experience a few times. Using the maps on my phone in a different country where nobody spoke my language and I didn't speak theirs with 25% battery life and having it suddenly shut down wasn't the funnes
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by fiblye 6y ago
Seems like your kid just isn’t interested in the same things you are. If the flashy entertainment were stripped away, they probably would’ve never cared about it. And that’s okay.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Should the biological process through which most mammals carry on their future existence be considered an act of parasitism? I think being a parasite usually requires two conditions be met: 1 is that they're separate species, and 2 is
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by fiblye 6y ago
And if a presumably sentient creature is aborted before it attains sentience, has it suffered?
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by fiblye 6y ago
I feel like the demand for desktop versions of simple phone games is pretty low. Mac users who hope to play anything from their steam library or dual boot Windows are going to be very disappointed.
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think it also depends on the audience and group you're with. If you're moving around a lot, you might end up in expat/international/diverse groups. Most people who move to several countries aren't moving to villag
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by fiblye 6y ago
Is fish oil anything more than snake oil? I've never seen concrete evidence that it does anything. Wikipedia also seems to say it's all ambiguous, with studies flip flopping as much as coffee and wine health studies.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Americans were fighting in Vietnam for about a decade. Bombing was already at high levels in 1965. America pulled out a decade later. The idea that bombing was working and political issues were the only reason America failed aren't sup
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by fiblye 6y ago
> There isn't a single country in the entire world that could challenge USA to a 1-1 military battle I guess that really depends on what you consider a "1-1 military battle." Gentlemanly warfare used to be people marching
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by fiblye 6y ago
Other countries get plenty of fish unlabeled as being from China or completely mislabeled. Farmed fish also generally relies on being fed cheaper seafood, and it’s hard to beat Chinese prices. It’s best to just stop eating fish for a while.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Poll percentages aren’t raw data. Usually there are various weights and balances applied to the counts, and these could give misleading numbers. E.g., polls might think male latinos who finished college might turn up at the polls at a lower
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by fiblye 6y ago
Gonna save my money and just put a few bucks towards a VPN. Streaming was a fun ride while it lasted, but I can get higher quality video through torrents and the selection is limitless. Maybe in 20 years these streaming services will collap
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by fiblye 6y ago
A few elections back, there was a the “swift boat” controversy with John Kerry. Out of nowhere a bunch of people who worked with Kerry claimed his military experience was fraudulent in some way and the media ate it up, being one of the majo
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by fiblye 6y ago
It's more like selling an electric kettle without a charger. People are already expecting to pay for water to fill a kettle, just like they pay for electricity to fill the battery. First time buyers of iPhones aren't unreasonable.

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