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That link recommends cutting fats, and increasing the amount of bread and vegetable oil. I can't take their advice seriously.

How about the location requirement? :P I'm a US expat living in Finland.

Wouldn't NixOS be able to run this, albiet with a steep learning curve?

What's wrong with the Fairphone?

Yes, because you are taxed based on where you do your work, not where you are from, or where your employer is from.

not enough to cover the costs of running reddit, or not enough to pay back the VC funding?

I've hated WF for a long time, but recently they closed my account due to being an expat and not having a US address. They closed the account, and I didn't have to do anything. The only time their service was top notch!

Depends on the context. Just yesterday, I called the city parking, because I had made a payment the previous day, but I never received confirmation. After the separate ten minute queues just to be hung up on really frustrated me. I sent a short email to an email address I could find, and they fixed my issue within two hours of sending it.

Oh no, not again.

How about spamming me with artists I have taken the time to mark as 'Do not play'? The FIRST recommended album in Album Picks is such an artist. Good reminder that I should get rid of my premium subscription, thanks!

Don't forget about the sauna on Helsinki's ferris wheel!

Couldn't have rented a van/UHaul for a day or weekend?

Almost all software consulting companies require Finnish, though, as most contracts these consulting firms have with their clients are that the developers are fluent in Finnish.

Huh, I could have sworn his name was Hari Seldon.

If you're hiring, is there a way to reach out to you?

I may be naive, but I think the real problem here isn't Americans per se, but American corporations; once an industry in the states is large enough, taxing it (in any meaningful way) is virtually impossible because of lobbying dollars and backdoor dealings with politicians (e.g. "regulators," lol). Look at sugar, plastic, corn, beef, etc. There are examples a plenty.

These guys have been trying to do something like that: https://upverter.com/

Excellent points. I want to follow up with some back-of-the-envelope math on this later, if I have time. My intuition was that it takes a whole heck of a lot of fuel to get someone to even LEO velocity. Would love to see how that corresponds with air travel.

I disagree and actually think humans are very prone to overestimate how quickly certain technologies will develop. A good example is self-driving cars, which are still years – if not decades – away from being truly production-ready. I'm not even close to being an artificial intelligence expert, but I know its current capabilities are extremely limited and we are nowhere close to having a general AI; we don't even see a feasible theoretical path to get there from where we are today. Getting a computer to conduct abstract reasoning is very hard.

I agree that it's dangerous, but I love biking too much not to – usually just as a commuter. I always just assume every driver has either: 1) not seen me and is going to accidentally kill me, or 2) seen me and is going to intentionally try to kill me. Joking aside, if you learn how to assert yourself on the road, take a lane when you need to, and pay attention to what potentially threatening vehicles are up to, I think you can drastically reduce the chances that you are involved in a harmful accident. Always wear a helmet, use really bright lights at night, don't ride on sidewalks, and all that jazz, too.

This reporting is terrible (and pretty hard to read) but here's a cool graph of the approach to Earth: https://theskylive.com/how-far-is-2019od

This. If you do anything write-intensive at all, it's not only slow, but extremely failure-prone. We moved to the BeagleBone Black, and most recently, Intel NUC, to resolve these issues.

I think "material" as used in the existing title is a bit of a pithy joke (maybe in the spirit of the journalistic tradition of crafting cheesy titles). Your suggestion is certainly clearer, but maybe at the expense of being less amusing.

It could, but undue tension on the chain vastly decreases the efficiency and longevity of the chain, and potentially, the cog/chainwheel. This would also present a safety issue because chains can (and do) break.

I acknowledge that there are definite issues at play with employment in the tech industry, but, come on; we are one of the most coddled and well-payed segments of the entire laboring economy. Maybe unions aren't being organized because we aren't forced to work graveyard shifts with few to no breaks for very little pay? I'm not sure the actual issues at hand in the tech industry are best addressed by unions (at least in the traditional sense).

> We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use.

* since we carry them around with us everywhere.

Interesting, what is your source on that? Do they have substantial onboard fuel to boost into higher orbits at a later date? Even if they do, they are already in LEO so I'd think must be quite close to their destination orbits.

I agree that your assessment is fact- and history-based and don't know why you are being downvoted. Their claims are groundless, and a distraction from a lot of the real health issues that actually plague society.

I don't use an ergonomic mouse. I am using my keyboard probably ~20x more than my mouse, so it just doesn't seem that important. Mostly I am using my mouse to scroll around and navigate webpages, but when coding it's mostly Vim, tabbing between windows, typing commands in the terminal, etc...