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NinjaViking··on How relationship satisfaction changes across your lifetime
Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/sxcvvm/why_are_youn...
NinjaViking··on Heart-disease risk soars after Covid, even with a mild case
It can also mean that the people who were at the highest risk didn't live for a year, so the statistical risk is reduced for the remaining population.
NinjaViking··on Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed by non-programmer
COBOL was supposed to be just that. It is not considered a nice or beautiful language generally.
NinjaViking··on How Watches Work
Not necessarily! You can get plenty of nerd mileage out of Orient, Seiko and Vostok automatic/mechanical watches for a reasonable amount of money.
NinjaViking··on Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack
Something like this? https://i.imgur.com/lBIxryc.png
NinjaViking··on Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce
I've given up, I just use open tabs as ephemeral bookmarks.
NinjaViking··on Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge
And they're less likely to leak in rain when installed that way.
NinjaViking··on Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)
That would be a desperate attempt to reverse a runaway process, if it turns out to be too successful.
NinjaViking··on Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective
That's the American/Irish spelling. If it's a Scotch it's whisky.
NinjaViking··on House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans to Buy Guns
On the other hand, discouraging people who own guns from seeking help for mental health issues is not ideal either.
NinjaViking··on Engineer says Uber hired firm to investigate her
Some of her claims are objectively verifiable - e.g. women dropping from 25% to 3% of the SRE teams. That sounds like a serious, systematic problem - not a coincidence.
NinjaViking··on Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]
In my non-scientific experience native speakers are more likely to make homophone errors.
NinjaViking··on Safer to Puff, E-Cigarettes Can’t Shake Their Reputation as a Menace
Because cigarettes deliver nicotine very, very fast, giving an instant and pleasant rush. After an hour or so the nicotine level in your blood has fallen quite a lot and you'll be craving another one.

E-cig nicotine delivery happens slower and you avoid both the highs and the crashing lows. That makes it a lot easier to cut down to insignificant amounts of nicotine over a few months.

NinjaViking··on The American Dream Isn’t Alive in Denmark
The socioeconomic divide in the Nordic countries is mostly between the property-owning elite and working people, not between different working classes.
NinjaViking··on Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport
And do you think that somebody who packs his drone with C4 and aims it at passenger aircraft is going to care if he is violating a flightpath? Forbidden is not the same as impossible.
NinjaViking··on Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities
For a temporary solution, try right-clicking on it, select "inspect element" or something to that effect and deleting the text.