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Comment · 5 years ago
I ask that question, not because I haven’t been screwed by the banking system, but because everyone I see in the crypto space is out to screw people even harder.

Your comment presupposes that crypto solves the problem of perverse incentives. Really, it just worsens them.

Comment · 5 years ago
As for (1), one of my decks has ~10,000 mature cards currently gives me ~3-5 reviews per day.

If you plan on sustaining dozens of new cards per day indefinitely, you’ll bury yourself in reviews, but spaced repetition does ensure that if your recall rate is high, review count degrades over time, and eventually becomes negligible. I go through periods of daily new cards when I’m focused on learning something, and periods of review and consolidation. If my daily reviews get over 200, it’s time to let the new cards rest for a while.

Comment · 5 years ago
I’m in Norway, and I tried the first search “rema 1000” without getting any spam results on the first two pages…

That doesn’t entirely eliminate the other possibilities though, google search isn’t deterministic, and the domain could have been reported since the article went up.

Comment · 5 years ago
Something doesn’t add up about that story. I’ve lived in the UK, council housing and unemployment benefits are meagre.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hey, author here.

I hope it does age poorly. I tried to make it clear that I’m a prolific user of decentralised applications, and that I really want them to succeed. I just pointed out my feelings on why they usually don’t, in the hope we can do something about it.

Comment · 5 years ago
What is unacceptable to me is why this question is never asked of Fathers. I don’t think anyone would blink at hearing that a dad only sees his kids on weekends, but is it not just as harmful?

Ultimately though, I fail to understand why anyone without the proper time to devote to a child would chose to have one.

Comment · 5 years ago
Also made mostly redundant by shopt autocd
Comment · 5 years ago
Monogamy can also be considered a source of risk depending on circumstances.

People who want to have lots of sex, will still feel those desires in a monogamous relationship. Monogamy might make them less likely to act on those feelings, but it will make them less likely to test regularly, and stop them from being open with their partners about risks, and prevents clear communication about establishing safe sex practices.

If my partner has sex with someone else, I want them to feel safe enough to tell me. That way I can make decisions such as using protection with them that I might not otherwise, or getting tested myself, which I would not be able to otherwise.

Comment · 5 years ago
You can do all of those things in all four of the editors discussed.
Comment · 6 years ago
> The D3 produced in your body because of sun exposure doesn't have to go through the liver.

Most people don’t have access to that much sunlight, whether it’s because they have to spend most of the day working indoors, or, like me, they live in a polar region where you literally can’t get sun most of the year.

While it may be better for your liver not to have more to process, I highly doubt taking vitamin supplements is worse than living with a deficiency.

Also, in polar cultures, eating large amounts of vitamin D rich foods is exactly what people have been doing for thousands of years, without it causing health problems. And I can tell you from experience, that failing to get that vitamin D WILL cause health problems.

Comment · 6 years ago
The parent comment is not talking about the model’s actual appearance, but rather what is done to them artificially above that. The correct analogy in athletes would be doping.
Comment · 6 years ago
You don't avoid them, you ignore them, and being able to ignore them is a political privilege. A child in an ICE internment camp does not have that privilege.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Concentration camp" as a term pre-dates the Nazis, and has a specific meaning, which does apply here.

>A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.

I would also note that the term does not apply to places where people in Nazi Germany were gassed or cremated, those have a separate term: death camps.

Comment · 6 years ago
About sway, if you don’t mind using Firefox, that works natively under Wayland. On another note though, the reason I don’t use sway, is that I couldn’t figure out how to get inertial scrolling working... Did you manage this, or just not bother with inertial scrolling?

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