monadgonad

6 ms·

1.
by monadgonad 2mo ago
> People cycle because it's faster, not because it's easier That may be true, but the fact is that cycling is a more energy-efficient form of transport than walking. It takes literally less effort to go the same distance.
2.
by monadgonad 2mo ago
The author is "not exactly a train enthusiast" as they say, and nor are the vast majority of the audience . Yet the article presents the game in a way that sounds appealing to such an audience, potentially exposing it to more peop
3.
by monadgonad 3mo ago
> "people under 16", you mean children right? They're still people, don't be weird.
4.
by monadgonad 3mo ago
> Too much protein can definitely kill you, or at least make you ill, as discovered by the Europeans who explored the northern parts of America and who had initially tried to live from the meat of hunted animals, until they learned from
5.
by monadgonad 3mo ago
> It's similar to my aversion to books like "The Game" Note that The Game isn't a PUA manual, it's investigative journalism into the PUA scene.
6.
by monadgonad 3mo ago
As someone who is fluent in Japanese, the thing is that this is not an example of a method that works well, it’s an example of a beginner coming up with an overwrought headcanon (while calling it “simple”, nonetheless!) that ultimately will
7.
by monadgonad 4mo ago
Staying on the safe side would be not confirming whether it stands for Turbo Rust or not. "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."
8.
by monadgonad 5mo ago
You think that they have “days leading up to consultation”? Please don’t be so disingenuous; I’m sure you know exactly what the person you’re replying to meant.
9.
by monadgonad 5mo ago
"Not about moral high ground. One's an ideology my morals agree with, one isn't."
10.
by monadgonad 7mo ago
The current situation really has zero bearing on the principle that it’s better to inform users of this.
11.
by monadgonad 7mo ago
> The difference is that electricity wasn't being controlled by oligarchs that want to shape society so they become more rich while pillaging the planet and hurting/killing real human beings. Yes it was. Those industrialists we
12.
by monadgonad 9mo ago
I think it is humorous exaggeration
13.
by monadgonad 9mo ago
> Should I be familiar with every step of Dijkstra’s search algorithm and remember the pseudocode at all times? Somehow, I think you already know the answer to that is "no". I've been working as a software engineer for ove
14.
by monadgonad 9mo ago
Antibiotics don’t stop you suffering from poison ivy. At all. In other posts you say you had a broken skin barrier that’s vulnerable to infection, so you presumably know that this is not the same as actually having a bacterial infection, an
15.
by monadgonad 10mo ago
> I won't call clickbait on this But you are going to imply it by bringing it up at all. > They didn't kill him, they failed to save him. The post does not say otherwise. Please give this, of all topics, the respect it deser
16.
by monadgonad 1y ago
> very well understood and documented by a huge community Is this article not someone in the community documenting what's understood? I'm sorry if it doesn't meet your expectations, but it's fine for me.
17.
by monadgonad 1y ago
Me. I'm a backend developer who occasionally wants to make a web frontend for a side-project but knows essentially no CSS. The solutions are not "well understood" by me because I know no CSS.
18.
by monadgonad 1y ago
The article, and especially much of the discussion here, is about how privatisation has led to this situation. Privatisation of a public utility which _even in many other developed liberal capitalist countries_ is not privatised. Yet to you
19.
by monadgonad 1y ago
Fruiter Aero is a term that retroactively applies to the style of a certain time. Look at Windows Vista. Windows Vista's design is what we now call Fruitger Aero. Windows Vista came out in 2007. It's a retroactive term, yes, but h
20.
by monadgonad 1y ago
I'm not sure how you've come to that impression. The boards I used to frequent are hobbyist ones, not political, yet they have people calling each other the n-word all the time. On /fit/ anything done by a large corporat
21.
by monadgonad 3y ago
You're talking about a completely different phenomenon.
22.
by monadgonad 4y ago
> Why not pick a good option? Why go through the trouble then be like, fuck it, Ill pick a shitty option? You're assuming way too much active thought and choice on the part of the people who don't care about cookies. You'r
23.
by monadgonad 4y ago
You clearly did not read the post you're replying to at all. They are not talking about ignoring it or claiming that they are not liable.
24.
by monadgonad 4y ago
Neither dietary cholesterol nor saturated fat nor sugar are bad in moderation, and that's completely orthogonal to the point of them providing probiotics.
25.
by monadgonad 5y ago
Tech workers are extremely ununionised, especially in the US. While this may be the case in other industries (though I doubt it - Germany famously has much better labour laws than the US and other European countries), I don’t think it has a
26.
by monadgonad 5y ago
Sure, to the technical definition of assets, but the point is that by definition fractional reserve banks don’t have the money on hand to pay out if all of their customers decided to withdraw at once.
27.
by monadgonad 5y ago
Approximately every house has an aerial, its presence is not a good indicator of if there’s a TV hooked up to it. I think most likely they just look through your window.
28.
by monadgonad 5y ago
“IMHO” means “in my humble opinion”
29.
by monadgonad 5y ago
Colordrops said, "The Thailand story was a cover." This is the allegation. Not that the NSA bought a lot of drives and kept it secret, but that this purchase alone rather than the floods were responsible for the drive storage, and
30.
by monadgonad 5y ago
Believing that working on hard problems justifies abusing employees, and blaming the employees for "not pulling their weight" is really reprehensible thinking. That's something straight out of a comic book villain's &quo

More ›