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who is my people

germanys most important role is to stop people from noticing the actually good countries around it

people who eat clen, tren hard and anavar give up do end up looking like fitness influencers, many of which are also professional athletes

you should reread what I wrote

there’s no learning involved in the immune response in the brain. the brain is limited to the innate immune system, of which TLRs and their binding to conserved domains are basically the major component. there’s no adaptive immune system that does “learning” here (and by learning in the adaptive immune system we mean recombination of antibodies, presentation of contents of each cell on the surface of the cells for antibodies to try and bind to, and the preservation of cells that carry antibodies that bound to something successfully as memory cells to enable long term immunity)

yeah the crazy costs will certainly make the US healthcare system look large if you measure largeness by how crazy the costs are

i’ll take my farmed salmon and you can eat what you want, including the bony and not very tasty feed fish if you so desire

is this a joke? yes, there is obviously a loss of energy and material as waste when go a step, just like in real ecological networks where one animal eating another does not absorb everything its body has to offer for nutrients

the EC should be forced to use the libre suite, thereby permanently crippling it as a functional institution

USRTK is by no means an impartial source to grab scientific summaries from

guess toddlers are dumber than babies then https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/01/singing-to-b...

new novelty lifestyle just dropped

a space to cultivate community, as long as said community is entirely nonthreatening to the CCP

oh really

the tragedy of languages making an accent on functional programming is that CS education simply does not make a big enough focus on learning that paradigm, which takes a lot of effort to learn, and then there are simply not enough people to hire for reasonable money to seriously maintain these codebases

this self filters only the most committed and possibly eccentric programmers to keep using them, which again reinforces the loop. this is a shame because OOP, which has few of the theoretical and practical benefits of FP, is regularly taught

and my grandad was a chain smoker yet did not die of lung cancer. the question is do you want to gamble where you will be on that distribution?

there's some evidence that sun exposure reduces risk of hypertension via nitrogen signalling pathways, but if you already keep track of your blood pressure levels and they are healthy, unprotected sun exposure for longer than short periods is unequivocally a bad thing - at the very least, if your objective is to not look like a tanned leather sheet in your 40s onwards

who is africa

also, this is geoengineering. the same kind the soviets used to do and the chinese do now. it would never be allowed to happen in a western country because someone with deep pockets for a lawsuit would find an endangered species of worm living in a dune or two

it’s so good to have you here on HN as of three hours ago spouting nice opinions like ecofascists should seize power and upend the economy

intense how any discussion with self described environmentalists eventually surfaces that they secretly dream of genocide on a global scale

doubtful. It is sure proven to increase land use and therefore leave less space for untouched nature, though!

its pretty difficult to dig up any solid evidence plastic pollution has effects on health beyond banned plasticisers, and even then. whereas plastic mitigation efforts often result in exacerbating actual issues like leading to more carbon emissions

sure, plastic waste should be responsibly handled. but plastics have major benefits to solving many other problems. in this case it's compounded by readers that have nothing to do with farming (or who have a garden and think they could live off of it) thinking farmers are trying to kill them

also, the article railing against landfills is part of the issue to me. plastic that is landfilled is absolutely responsibly managed plastic. we /want/ our waste to become part of geology, not keep circulating, if possible

popular strain of Neo-puritanism trying to dig under consumption habits long attested to be perfectly safe and not harmful to your health, if not good for you

yes, not drinking coffee makes you a super special person. good job you!

even back when this was just known as RNotebooks this was a great system for producing executable reports that did not warrant the complications of a full latex setup. it’s only gotten better since

lots of bad articles that won’t stand the test of lowered interest rates the next years

as I already mentioned having reserves is indeed very important

in my jurisdiction there are for example some excellent guaranteed income insurances covering various situations. they won't pay forever, but they'll pay. income replacement due to health issues is covered by normal social welfare in my jurisdiction as well

all of those things you mentioned happen regularly to employees. they are harder to let go, sure, but employers have a lot more leeway to make your job hellish enough to force a resignation, or if the economy is really bad overall they can throw their hands up and say we're cutting divisions of the business with no objections from the law in most places. sure you can go to your work council (hope they are on your side) about it, or to the union (hope they have time for you and you're lucky enough to have enough evidence to win the tribunal) or the lawyer (hope you have a legal assistance insurance and are ready for years of process and fees). employees without a savings buffer are similarly vulnerable in these circumstances

the biggest reason to stay an employee if you can consult instead where I am is really the unemployment benefits you can get, but that now takes up to 10 months to actually start paying out due to how understaffed the government is. so again, best have some reserves. the next biggest reason is you hate paperwork

the worker rights issue is mostly a concern for blue collar workers that are forced to become freelance by some companies to save on welfare costs. that is what tax authorities actually look for when they talk about "false self-employment" and that is why it is the company giving the assignment that gets punished in these situations and usually not the freelancer.

that's not really a concern for high billing consulting professionals. it is a common misunderstanding (as you can see from comments here) though and is variously used by companies to undercompensate people who could be far more profitable consulting

the way not to get burned is to charge high enough with trustworthy clients, take some insurances and to be aware of your pension provisions that will vary by country. whether you have 1 or 3 clients at one point in time is immaterial as long as it doesn't sour your relationship with your clients

I appreciate that it sounds like you had a bad experience with a client though.

some of the best eu engineers I’ve worked with were polish freelancers

sounds like you simply really don’t like freelancers. you know no one stops you from accumulating reserves in your company or in general, right?