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by ipqk 2y ago
I called a bank to increase my ATM limit. The agent sent me an SMS code to verify my identity and wanted me to read it back to him. The message said not to give the code to any human. Sigh.
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by ipqk 2y ago
It's also tax-payer subsidized (i.e. regressive, because it's mostly higher-income people that get dental insurance) because it's money from your employer that you or your employer don't have to pay taxes on.
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by ipqk 2y ago
I've been self-employed for years now (USA), and never buy dental insurance, because it's not really insurance, it's basically a non-taxable way for companies to give their employees extra money. Buying it as self-employed pe
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by ipqk 2y ago
There just wasn't evidence-based studies for a lot of common dental practices. Not unlike when the FDA was created, a lot of old medicines were just given a pass, even though they aren't useful (like how Acetaminophen is barely be
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by ipqk 2y ago
Certainly most particulate matter, and it's not even close. Comparing particulates to gas emissions is difficult, so there's no way to say what's "most". Either way, my greater point still stands: switching to EVs i
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by ipqk 2y ago
"Hundreds of other ingredients, including steel, fillers, and heavy metals — including copper, cadmium, lead, and zinc — make up the rest, many of them added to enhance performance, improve durability, and reduce the possibility of fir
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by ipqk 2y ago
Tires are only about 25% natural rubber; the rest is synthetic rubber, heavy metals, plastics, and additives. These get emitted as fine particulates that stick around in the air. They may not technically be a gas, but we breathe it in just
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by ipqk 2y ago
The tire & brake particulates go into the air. Sure, technically not gas, but we breathe it in just the same.
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by ipqk 2y ago
Sorry, but most car pollution is from the tires/tyres, not the exhaust. Electric cars don't solve that, and may even make it worse because they're heavier. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022&#x2
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by ipqk 2y ago
I guess Elliot Gould is hotter now.
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by ipqk 2y ago
This team is at the second best high school in the USA. they have the resources and the money.
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by ipqk 2y ago
Yes, I know, I was tracking the stock while watching WWDC. But there was a very sudden precipitous fall right when this was announced.
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by ipqk 2y ago
I've been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I'm getting more and more annoyed. It's increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven't migrated f
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by ipqk 2y ago
Is this what caused AAPL stock to drop ~$3 rapidly? (mostly recovered since then)
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by ipqk 2y ago
So implicit, not explicit.
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by ipqk 2y ago
10-1 odds they’ll still vote for Trump and republicans in November.
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by ipqk 2y ago
But you may want to walk across the highway which is almost always allowed.
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by ipqk 2y ago
But each conflict point is crossing only one direction of traffic, and there are no cars turning left or right into the crosswalks (which is huge cause of pedestrian impacts). So even though there are 4 crosswalks, maybe the aggregate dange
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by ipqk 2y ago
If you watch the linked video, the kpop concerts basically do that. You bring your own light, pair it via bluetooth, and specify your seat.
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by ipqk 2y ago
Cause Brave CEO, Brendan Eich, is such a swell guy.
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by ipqk 2y ago
eBay just doesn’t care about fakes. I’ve reported many things over the years and they almost never get removed. I’ve pretty much given up.
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by ipqk 2y ago
Do you think Paul Graham or Garry Tan give a shit about accessibility?
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by ipqk 2y ago
Balancing a game is hard. You can hardly blame anyone for getting it wrong on their first attempt. But getting it wrong 30 years later…
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by ipqk 2y ago
Modern furniture (even those "fancy" new DTC brands you hear on podcasts) has taking a nosedive since it's been offshored: https://wapo.st/4bnkYl6 These days, if you want quality, you pretty much have to make
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by ipqk 2y ago
A lot of modern flatpack furniture isn't even particle board or plywood, it's structural cardboard. eg. https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ka4jl6/t... Modern solid-wood furnitu
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by ipqk 2y ago
Absolutely, especially healthcare. Nearly everything PE touches gets worse. The only ones that benefit are those that work for PE companies (and esp. the partners).
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by ipqk 2y ago
Don't discount the utility of reading, though maybe it's less useful these days with smartphone camera translation. Back before widespread internet, I spent two weeks in Korea, and by the end I could basically read & pronounce
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by ipqk 2y ago
English also doesn't have a (proper) future tense, but you would still need to learn how to talk about the future using the modal 'will'.
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by ipqk 2y ago
longer exposure times.
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by ipqk 2y ago
I've occasionally enjoyed working on an enterprise app, but it really depends on the team.

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