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by wholien 2y ago
> Besides just gaining weight, the movie also claimed that Spurlock got major liver damage and started suffering from a range of mental health issues, all as a result of eating fast food. Notably, none of the people who replicated the ex
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by wholien 3y ago
how does Mistral monetize or plan to monetize? create a chat gpt-like service and charge? license to other businesses?
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by wholien 3y ago
he is on a pedestal because everyone who’s worked with him said he’s amazing and effective. But it is your right to assume what he works on from reading his tweets and leap from that to how this is an American cultural thing tho.
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by wholien 3y ago
for another POV on Uruguay, here's Doomberg's recent article on Uruguay: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/false-utopia
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by wholien 3y ago
perhaps also related to the “Sea Peoples” during the bronze age collapse ~3,0000 years ago? Could see how the people of the Aegean could produce myths like Atlantis when they themselves were invading Egypt and most likely became the Philist
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by wholien 3y ago
Do they? What classes?
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by wholien 3y ago
Temporary and permanent immigration to Japan seems to be increasing in the last few years. On the "influencer" side, you also are seeing more and more people talk about how cheap houses in beautiful parts of Japan are, how easy &#
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by wholien 3y ago
> Short answer - no. A tangent: if an article's title is a question, the answer, vast majority of time, is either "no", or not a clear answer at all. I'm sure articles that answer the title with "yes" exist,
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by wholien 3y ago
Ah yes, I remember how Tony Soprano would always threaten small business owners with endless stream of ads if they did not pay protection fees
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by wholien 3y ago
someone needs to tell China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe > China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe were the only countries that both added new coal plants and announced new projects. China accounted for 92% of all new coal
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by wholien 3y ago
What percentage of crops will fail in 20 years?
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by wholien 3y ago
Is there an fertility rates published by income/wealth levels? Does the U-shaped fertility graph show up in SK? As in, poorest people have more kids, middle class have fewest kids, and richest have more kids.
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by wholien 3y ago
Harvard's admits that have legacy status also have better SAT/Grades I believe > And a Harvard spokesperson told me that admitted legacies tend to have higher median test scores and grades than the rest of admitted students. h
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by wholien 3y ago
oh true. I didnt think about the non-occupied times when they run
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by wholien 3y ago
they are only allowed to run from 9pm to 5/6am though. Rode a few and they seemed perfectly safe.
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by wholien 3y ago
went on a short hike around Mammoth Lakes in California with a retired US Forest Service guy, and he told us a story about how they manually surveyed an area that had been fire suppressed for many years. They counted the number of trees per
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by wholien 4y ago
true for some commodities but not for others. For example, nat gas prices in the US are usually cheaper than the price in Europe. For the last year, due to recent events, the price differential has been a lot bigger too. on top of that, th
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by wholien 4y ago
Same in China (Shanghai). Same 30 to 35 students in the same class would do 1st to 6th grade. Then you'd usually go to a different school for 7th to 9th grades, then take a test to get into a high school for 10th to 12th grades. All th
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by wholien 4y ago
Yes this post is about developing accounting or other kinds of software that tracks money (from the subtitle: "... we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building products that move and track money"). One can treat
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by wholien 4y ago
Really? I feel like these two in written form are pretty different, and I don't have any real knowledge of South Asian languages. Personally I feel Thai and Lao are harder to tell apart (I've resorted to: Lao is more curvy, Thai u
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by wholien 4y ago
a multipolar world means more instability and wars, though. When you say it will "insure competition", that means conflict for sure.
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by wholien 4y ago
the number of comments "back then" compared to now is a testament to how large HN and the tech ecosystem in general has grown. Still had a good chuckle at someone commenting "This is one of those threads that just never dies&
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by wholien 4y ago
Highly doubt 5k IUs is the issue. Some select quotes from "Vitamin D Is Not as Toxic as Was Once Thought: A Historical and an Up-to-Date Perspective" by Michael Holick in Mayo Clinic Proceedings [0]: > Ekwaru et al recently rep
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by wholien 4y ago
> But if he points his mook armies at that same employee and subjects them to the same abuse, it's all good. Just freedom of speech. What does "points his mock armies at the same employee" mean here? Any examples?
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by wholien 4y ago
You see "nether-" in other words too, like "netherworld" or "nether regions", which both mean low/lowest parts of a place.
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by wholien 4y ago
the (late)-2020 to 2021 euphoria environment is partially to blame too. Going to be interesting to see how the other companies that raised big A and B rounds in the past one to two years fare.
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by wholien 4y ago
The "procrastination for too long" into hyper work, erm, "workflow", is too real. Sometimes if I can get started on _something_, I can kick start the working. But if I don't, this is the fallback
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by wholien 4y ago
Why two apps, Plainorg & Flathabits? If I wanted to use one, which one should I use?
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by wholien 5y ago
My non-White friends (not Black) have said US is better than France etc in that regard. This seems like a real phenomenon and worry for people
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by wholien 5y ago
Other than this being an anecdote and doesn't mean everyone who drinks heavily will leave to their 90s, the quality of those 90 years matters too! Though he became Prime Minister for the last time at the young age of 76 in 1951, he was

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