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by valenaut 4y ago
Likewise for lotto tickets.
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by valenaut 4y ago
Cactus leather is a new trend. I don't own any cactus leather products so I can't say how good it is, but surely it's possible to replace cowhide with something. Even vegan (plastic) leather is significantly better from an en
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by valenaut 4y ago
Just to finish off this Goldilocks story: I've been vegan for four years, and previously ate a meat and dairy heavy diet. I noticed basically no change to my gut health--it has been pretty good, with occasional minor issues, for my who
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by valenaut 4y ago
Of course it runs at a loss. It’s a public service funded by taxes. The military also “runs at a loss”—should we expect it to be profitable?
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by valenaut 4y ago
Reproduced in Safari on macOS Monterey. "And. And. And. And." caused no problems. "And. And. And. And. And. And." also crashes (5 "And."s is a substring, so makes sense). I cannot imagine how this bug is occurr
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by valenaut 4y ago
I have Amazon Day in NYC as well. Wasn't aware that it doesn't exist everywhere.
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by valenaut 4y ago
FYI, my email to careers@upduo.com bounced.
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by valenaut 4y ago
I always type -- for en dash. Usually text fields that accept markdown-like syntax will correct it, but I just leave it if they don't.
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by valenaut 4y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing WebLiero. I haven't played that game in ages--so excited to try it out.
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by valenaut 4y ago
The only time I've actually liked this pattern is in some New York Times stories. They do it very well. Example: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/in...
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by valenaut 4y ago
I'm a bilingual American (English and Russian), and I didn't know the word "polyglot" until a year ago. I learned it as part of a software localization project--it has never come up in my life otherwise.
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by valenaut 4y ago
In my ideal world, firing employees would be easy, common, and not catastrophic for the employee. Of course, this requires a strong social safety net to make sure people can go a few months between jobs without losing their home, healthcare
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by valenaut 4y ago
As another person who has struggled with depressive issues at various points in my life, I really like your list. I have ticked every one of those boxes at one time or another; all of them brought me down, took effort to fix, and improved m
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by valenaut 4y ago
I haven't encountered a single person in my young, left-wing, NYC bubble that demands I actively support trans women in female sport leagues, as opposed to not opposing them. I don't even know what the difference is between these
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by valenaut 4y ago
Singular "they" is pretty widely accepted today. Nothing wrong about it. "You" can also be singular or plural. > Is “they” singular or plural? The answer is both. As of 2019, most big style guides—including the Associ
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by valenaut 5y ago
Not according to California: https://cannabis.ca.gov/resources/laws-and-regulations
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by valenaut 5y ago
I prefer daylight in the morning. It's easier for me to wake up and be alert after sunrise, and I feel like a zombie before sunrise. Don't really care if the sun sets at 5:30 or 6:30 p.m.
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by valenaut 5y ago
It has a lot of contributors nowadays, but Thibault made the original site on his own. https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/graphs/contributors
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by valenaut 5y ago
It's still a lot of energy to push leaves around for no good reason. But yes, much better than gas.
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by valenaut 5y ago
I don't have strong feelings about Electron, but 50MB more memory for the same functionality does seem like a lot. If every app I have open on my machine suddenly used 50MB more memory, it would be a noticeable hit.
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by valenaut 5y ago
This really hits home for another JS outsider that likes the language but not the ecosystem. I like to do small personal projects in Node. Simple things like consuming the Google Sheets API feel great, but when I want to expand the scope of
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by valenaut 5y ago
For Windows I would say it is. Windows doesn't come with vi, nano, or any other terminal text editor, and some kind of text editor is needed for pretty much anything you would do with a computer.
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by valenaut 5y ago
It's fine for simple things. I referenced it a lot when I was first learning JS and HTML because it was usually at the top of Google results. I think MDN is strictly better.
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by valenaut 5y ago
Yes, there are policy-focused epidemiologists and informatics-focused epidemiologists. My partner is the latter, so I'm much more familiar with that world, and that's what I associate with "epidemiology". There is overla
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by valenaut 5y ago
Yes, I'd say hunting and fishing don't have this problem. I have other ethical issues with eating animals, but hunting wildlife is orders of magnitude better than industrial agriculture.
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by valenaut 5y ago
Many epidemiologists are effectively specialized data scientists, and I don't think a random data scientist could provide equal analysis. Sure, they can both run a regression, but you benefit from understanding particular study designs
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by valenaut 5y ago
I agree that asymptomatic transmission reduces this pressure, but symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers are often still contagious, and there is more public will to enact extreme precautions for more lethal illnesses. So there is still some evolu
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by valenaut 5y ago
Eating farm animals requires you to grow 9 times as many crops to feed them as if you had just eaten the crops directly, since only about 9% of the food they eat is converted into edible flesh. So even if you take this argument seriously, t
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by valenaut 5y ago
My physics undergrad had about equal parts Mathematica (for theoretical subjects), MATLAB (for engineering crossover), Python (for CS), and Excel (for labs).
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by valenaut 5y ago
What do you mean by high/low compliance?

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