mikosty

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by mikosty 2y ago
>Far more dangerous riding a bicycle to school than racing at 200+mph on closed course racetracks. I understand that the safety gear helps in MotoGP but you might be overestimating how dangerous cycling is while downplaying risks of goin
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by mikosty 3y ago
>Usually the bouncers walk the line and already tell people when they definitely will not get in. Not true. I have never seen or heard anything like this to happen at the Berghain queue.
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by mikosty 3y ago
As a regular Berlin visitor I have never heard of a club that "forbids alcohol" let alone encourage illicit drug usage. It's actually quite the opposite – the clubs tend to actively discourage drug use (meaning searching for
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by mikosty 3y ago
It seems that the National Endowment for Democracy support for Bellingcat ended in 2021: https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2023/06/Bellingcat-An... >Last year marked the final year of project fun
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by mikosty 3y ago
Not a surprise you did not want to answer the rest of the questions.
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by mikosty 3y ago
By "he took" you probably mean that Bellingcat has received support from National Endowment For Democracy? Are you saying that this support has somehow affected the investigations conducted by Bellingcat? How that is visible exact
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by mikosty 3y ago
>Higgins, even though he took that bait of think tank jobs/intelligence money What do you mean by this exactly? Do you have any other sources than Elon Musk tweets that Eliot Higgins has taken "intelligence money"?
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by mikosty 3y ago
>"according to UK intelligence" This is a misleading "quote". UK intelligence is not mentioned in the article at all ( https://archive.is/xG0M7 )
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by mikosty 4y ago
Avoiding and suppressing uncomfortable emotions and feelings instead of fully accepting and acting on them. This is of course a huge topic in itself and easier said than done but I'm confident that investment on this area almost always
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by mikosty 6y ago
>BTC is mostly renewables Source for this?
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by mikosty 6y ago
>Every single person will get COVID-19 at some point. It’s impossible to avoid. Regardless of how they say COVID-19 is transmitted, you will inevitably get it. Simply not true, especially now with vaccinations starting.
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by mikosty 7y ago
Do you wash them at 60°C? Cotton shirts can take that despite label 30°C wash instructions. Skin grease goes won't go under 60°C (not every wash need to be hot though).
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by mikosty 7y ago
Ask them do they provide all the data what they store on an individual when the data is requested, and if they don't do that, ask them why. A reference read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959064
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by mikosty 7y ago
I use it mainly for music streaming via Spotify (raspotify) and airplay. It's paired with an 10-year old EMU 0202 USB DAC which haven't had working drivers for OS X since Snow leopard or something.
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by mikosty 8y ago
Is it like this in Android, iOS or both?
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by mikosty 8y ago
Needing very few hours of sleep is extremely rare. Basically everyone who claims to get along with less than the usual 7-8h of sleep do worse in various cognitive performance tests and most likely will suffer in longer term as well. Matthew
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by mikosty 9y ago
Reference for this?
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by mikosty 9y ago
This might be something to do with effect of not winning every time: it's studied method to get and keep us addicted. You will get a bigger dopamine hit when only some of notifications are "wins" like tagged photo etc. Slot m
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by mikosty 9y ago
US vacation times are nuts. Honestly I don't understand how people can cope with only total of few weeks of vacation per year for decades and additionally do over 40h per week constantly. No wonder people burn out.
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by mikosty 10y ago
I'm not a native speaker so 'mental strain' might be a bit overblown expression for this. I'm also from a culture where tipping is not common so for me it's also a cultural difference to deal with.
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by mikosty 10y ago
Add mental strain of thinking should I and how much should I tip. Also hassle if you don't happen to have change readily available. Sometimes it's just easier to go to a place where you don't have to think this.
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by mikosty 11y ago
Still somebody makes a decision to contribute to these systems. Most of those people think they do the right thing I believe. It is important to show that this kind of surveillance is clearly wrong and painfully shameful to be part of.