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twoheadedboyon The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas

Dirtbagging refers to those who are usually living in a van or something similar in and around climbing areas. So no, not up on the wall.

twoheadedboyon What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?

They're also way easier on your eyes. And they don't flicker at high speeds that make everything look framey.

twoheadedboyon The infrastructural humiliation of America

Money spent on defense could instead be spent on infrastructure. Seems pretty straightforward.

twoheadedboyon The infrastructural humiliation of America

> more recently developed countries

Yes, like China.

twoheadedboyon Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

Do you have any sources or related info about this? That's super interesting.

twoheadedboyon Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

I think a lot of requests get repeated once they fail. So in reality it's a lot less. Don't quote me on that though.

twoheadedboyon DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

Same. Does image search work for you at all?

twoheadedboyon DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

Somewhat related but DuckDuckGo Image and Map search results have been broken for months for me. I just get blank, broken images. Anyone else have this problem?

Kind of defeats the purpose if I have to use google for half of my searches.

twoheadedboyon Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension

I guess it's finally time to switch to VS Code then.

twoheadedboyon Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin

What about Jump bikes? Because they go up hills pretty easily. Not the steepest ones but I get around pretty well with them in my neighborhood, which has lots of hills.

twoheadedboyon Despite concerns, FDA approves new opioid 10x more powerful than Fentanyl

That is a ludicrously small amount, holy moly.

twoheadedboyon 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

twoheadedboyon 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

Man I would hate to live in a country that is ostensibly more corrupt than North Korea...

twoheadedboyon 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings

You have a good mindset. A lot of people view a car as a status symbol and derive its utility from a social point of view, which I think is financially unhealthy. To me all I care about is 1: How safe is it?. 2: How much will it cost me over its lifetime? And 3: Does it get me and my stuff where I want to? Everything else comes far behind these three things.

People really shouldn't be borrowing money to buy a car. It's pretty crazy how many people do this.

twoheadedboyon Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

Societal pressure to do everything it takes to get rich and succeed is a serious drug. I also contribute some of it in cases like this to the fact that some programmers are unfortunately just not well adjusted.

twoheadedboyon Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

I think i'd just much rather spend the short time I've got left in my one existence doing things outside of work that actually make me happy and fulfilled, than being exploited for the benefit of the mostly rich and powerful and the illusion of "progress". If you truly get fulfillment from that stuff then more power to you, but I don't think the vast majority of people who are pressured to perform do.

Just because we have more "stuff" and more advanced "technology" doesn't make life more worth living. Happiness levels across society don't increase alongside productivity.

twoheadedboyon Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

What you call being "excited about working at 12am" I call "accepting being a corporate slave".

twoheadedboyon US housing market hit a ‘significant slowdown’ in recent weeks, Redfin CEO says

What the hell did I just read..?

twoheadedboyon The Case Against Patents (2013)

> doing the back of the envelope math in college

Sounds rigorous