Right now, really focused to improve my diet and physical health with mental well being, But also passionate on philosophy reading
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How does racism play into your situation? Small towns and Ukrainians have one thing in common: they are both white. I would think their race wouldn't be the deciding factor.
It's same everywhere. Fear of the unknown, coping with own failure via blaming someone weaker, different language and of course at least in EU a lot of hatred due to desinformations. Of course more descriptive word would be just xenophobia combined with copium addiction.
Using empty words like disinformation, xenophobia and othet short cuts wont help here. Build bridges, listen opposite opinions and do not judge.
Ideally don't use rethoric that you fight against. It's not consturctive.
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#663Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
#664Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does racism play into your situation? Small towns and Ukrainians have one thing in common: they are both white. I would think their race wouldn't be the deciding factor.
It's same everywhere. Fear of the unknown, coping with own failure via blaming someone weaker, different language and of course at least in EU a lot of hatred due to desinformations. Of course more descriptive word would be just xenophobia combined with copium addiction.
It's also the fact that if you bought a house and they build a refugee center near it, your house immediately loses value. For many that might mean negative equity and losing a chunk of their main life investment while still having to pay the mortgage.
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#665I would love to dedicate significant portion of 2024 contributing back to the old web (creating open source web 1.0 apps) and linux desktop apps (most probably on KDE).
> creating open source web 1.0 apps
Pretty sure we call those pages :p
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#666Soldering stuff. Think esp32 and iot
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#667Amateur Radio!
I got a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering about 10 years ago and never really used it besides programming, GIS, and data visualization.
Ham radio lets me do a lot of the things I loved about geophysics. Wave propagation, being outside, electronics, talking to satellites, remote sensing. Driving around being cool with a radio lol.
I'm just getting started but I'm really glad I got licensed. Especially in case of emergencies. I hope to practice and get to a point where I can help with public events or during emergency situations.
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> Why does my cilantro need to come in a plastic bag? Everything here is hugely regional, but two answers spring to mind: 1) coriander is frequently sold in unpackaged bunches, typically larger than the packaged ones; 2) it's packaged in plastic because then it can be filled with some inert gas that prolongs spoiling, it's not completely obtuse. (In the UK for example Waitrose sells it growing reared in Sussex, or pa…
The big takeaway from the Silo book matched the motto of restaurant Noma - "Time and place" - to eat locally and seasonally. So much of the carbon footprint of food comes from not eating locally or seasonally. For example, getting an avocado toast in November here in NYC requires putting an avocado on a 747 and flying it around the world. And, yes - in places like the UK or Denmark or New York, that can mean that fre…
Eating local has a very small impact on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with food, because transportation makes up a small part (~10% on average) of the total. Most foods, avocados included, are sent via ship not airplane. The actual foods you choose to eat (e.g. more vegetables, less beef) has a significantly greater impact than where they are coming from.[0]
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#669Brining the meat rabbits I just slaughtered. Should have some great roast rabbit on Thursday. Easiest meat animal to raise, delicious.
What are the major costs associated with raising rabbits besides land?
Land is not a major cost factor, as the rabbit equivalent of a broiler will not be moving too much, and will either live in small cage with mom, or medium cage as a grow-out with its siblings. Only real expense is feed, and you do want quality feed. I get a locally made non-GMO feed for $23.50/50lbs.
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#670Studying the relation between just how volatile SPY 0-day-to-expiration options are in regards to the underlying. A 1% directional move in SPY can yield a 1600%+ in most cases if you can time it right in regards to direction + strike. I would never actually trade or anything like that. It's just fun to scrape data. Historical option chain data isn't really publicly free/available so I wrote a scraper + analytics on t…
FT has written extensively about the rise of zero day options on the S&P 500 index. Example: https://www.ft.com/content/312e9b3c-a5e0-4eff-8b9a-8637696d2...
date,start_time,end_time,underlying_start_price,underlying_end_price,instrument_start_price,instrument_end_price,instrument_price_change_percentage,instrument_type,instrument_strike_price
2023-10-09,14:52:01,18:56:19,427.14,432.79,0.09,1.92,21.5294,Call,431.00
2023-09-27,18:11:48,19:12:18,422.74,427.31,0.09,2.42,27.4706,Call,425.00
2023-10-12,16:21:35,18:11:44,437.19,431.44,0.06,1.92,33.9091,Put,433.00
2023-10-06,14:09:50,18:48:25,420.93,431.04,0.06,4.12,73.8182,Call,427.00
I don't think HackerNews supports enough Markdown to show tables but... tell me what you think about that.