wavepruner

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by wavepruner 3y ago
Just want to quickly point out how much of a lifesaver delivery services are for many disabled folks. As someone who is disabled I find it very strange how critical abled people are of these technologies, even going so far as to use our sit
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Simple keyboard-driven note taking(nimblenote.app)
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by wavepruner 4y ago
Onions are high in sulfur, which is quite reactive with metals. Probably related to how it works.
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by wavepruner 4y ago
what a great find, cheers!
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Please go to therapy and learn about healthy boundaries. You have a savior complex that hurts the people you supposedly want to help.
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I'm not telling anyone to do anything. If people want to get vaccinated that's fine by me. I do not believe that I'm "protecting" people, and I certainly would not waste my time trying to protect able-bodied people
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I was nearly killed by a series of vaccine injuries. It was excruciating and slow. I'm alive today because I'm a biochemist and was able to pursue experimental treatment. I'm going to do what I need to survive. I will not be
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by wavepruner 5y ago
There is a daily, constant conversation about the benefits of vaccines. I don't need to bring that up. It is implied. There are people whose lives have been destroyed by vaccines. That isn't nothing. It seems they are just too muc
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I'm curious, do you still not believe that vaccine injury is real? The FDA and CDC have now repeatedly acknowledged it's existence with the COVID-19 vaccines. If you do believe that it's real with respect to the COVID-19 vacc
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Uber hasn't raised their base rates in my city for years now. I drive for Uber, and it's more profitable than ever. This is because of surge pricing and higher volume. Even when there is no surge profitability is quite good as lon
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Github will host all forks. I just wish there was a home for forked Wikipedia articles. The analogy isn't perfect. Whatever.
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by wavepruner 5y ago
The longest time horizon discussed in the paper is 100 ticks, or trades. Likely less than a few minutes.
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I wish Wikipedia allowed unlimited forks of each topic. Imagine if a FOSS software project somehow banned all forks and forced all developers to compromise on every little thing.
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by wavepruner 5y ago
No, I think history and present times makes it clear that this is an inherent property of democracy. In democracy without any limitations (like the US constitution), a little over 50% of constituents can do whatever they want to any minorit
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Democracies vote to oppress minorities all the time. Democracy is not the solution.
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I think you're living in a media bubble. There are a plenty of rebuttals to the Tether criticism, but on sites like Hacker News no one bothers anymore. It's not worth dealing with the vitriol and downvotes to even try. That being
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I don't think you can change human behavior. But you can accept it and design systems with that in mind. So I guess I do like theory. But I think having conversations about how to force humans to behave differently is a waste of precio
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by wavepruner 5y ago
We can talk about how things should and shouldn't be as long as we want, but that will not change human behavior. When you're disabled you must come to terms with this reality and accept it quickly. You cannot waste time with theo
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by wavepruner 5y ago
This "who should be saved" question is so silly to me. In reality, the person that gets saved is always the person that the savers want to save. From situation to situation there are a huge number of variables affecting what the
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by wavepruner 5y ago
In addition to the options other commenters have mentioned, it is possible to fully control a computer with dictation, although it can be very arduous. The term quadriplegia does not always refer to 100% paralysis, and some have limited use
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by wavepruner 5y ago
I've never met a HN commenter who is critical of gig work who is actually a gig worker, like myself. Do you exist? Or is it always a bunch of privileged people blathering on about a situation they have no first-hand experience in?
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Uber driver here. > You're not setting your own rates. You can't choose which rides you take. You can't follow your own rules. As of a few years ago you can choose which rides you take without penalty. This is effectively
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Unfortunately the financial systems of governments are getting destroyed and we are powerless to stop it. Cryptocurrencies are not destroying government run financial systems. They are just an alternative. Bitcoin's 7 tps is a base-lay
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by wavepruner 5y ago
Just want to quickly say that I'm disabled and I work in the Bitcoin/crypto industry, largely because every other industry has gate-keepers that would never hire someone like me. None of the people I interact with and work with ar
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by wavepruner 6y ago
I think the issue is more that the healthcare industry makes doctors gatekeepers to healthcare, which can breed tremendous amount of resentment between doctors and patients. A doctor is pressured/forced to provide service to patients,
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by wavepruner 6y ago
The really strange thing about tests is even if you pay out of pocket you still have to get a doctor to sign off on it, which dramatically increases the friction and price for testing. It's just information about your body. You shouldn
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by wavepruner 6y ago
My parents followed the usual schedule. I was born in 1986. I'm not sure what the schedule was exactly back then, but I had several shots under the age of 5, a few more leading up to age 10, and a few more up until my last shot in 2016
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Sure. I usually don't bring it up unless asked because it is very controversial. Chronic mercury toxicity was the cause. I've confirmed this diagnosis with dramatic improvement to chelation therapy. I've also done some novel
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by wavepruner 6y ago
After a long battle with depression, this is how I interpret the phenomenon that "boosting" serotonin levels does not work. SSRI's do not increase the pool of available serotonin, they just artificially increase the amount th
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by wavepruner 6y ago
In the USA I can ignore rides at will without penalty, which is a recent development (last year or two IIRC). I only drive when it's busy and the rates are up. Uber offer's me a rate, and I choose whether to accept it or not. Even

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