NoboruWataya

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by NoboruWataya 8d ago
In Biglaw, the scarcity is driven by the hours and stress. If it was a chilled 9-5 job you would certainly have more people willing to do it, even if it paid less.
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by NoboruWataya 8d ago
The salaries are a result of the insane hours they have to do. Biglaw needs to pay those salaries to keep getting young associates in the door because burnout is a real problem in the industry. If salaries were lower and hours/stresses
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by NoboruWataya 8d ago
Millions if not billions of agreements are made every day without the involvement of lawyers. Lawyers are only needed for particularly complex situations and even there they are generally only "needed" in the sense that parties fe
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by NoboruWataya 8d ago
In my experience it basically doesn't even try to interpret the law. It just summarises the publicly available law/guidance out there and, if there is a question about how to interpret some provision, might set out the arguments f
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by NoboruWataya 11d ago
Of course you will get tired if you change your OS every three months. I have used roughly the same ArchLinux setup for years now, probably over a decade, and it is remarkably stable. Things break very occasionally but are easily fixed (and
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by NoboruWataya 12d ago
Probably wishful thinking but does this get us any closer to porting postmarketOS to these devices? (Or even LineageOS, though I think LineageOS may have decent support on many of these devices already?)
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by NoboruWataya 19d ago
A couple of times now I have walked a stretch of the Camino de Santiago (each time it was just a small bit near the end; sadly don't have the time off to do a full route which can take a month or longer). I find the simplicity of it su
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by NoboruWataya 19d ago
She had a science/engineering background, more than marketing. Engineers can be frauds too.
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by NoboruWataya 19d ago
I had only heard about these things on HN, and thought they were primarily popular as a toy for people to hack on. I didn't realise they are so popular amongst "normies". I have no current need for one as I am happy with my c
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by NoboruWataya 25d ago
Contacts + calendar app for me, so you can keep on top of birthdays and other special occasions, know when people are away/back, etc. A personal CRM sounds like a very interesting idea but I would feel weird building profiles on people
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by NoboruWataya 25d ago
If you can't use their systems for a donation with a sales tax rate of 0%, then per the policy that means you can route users to alternative payment methods for those transactions. So by your reasoning, if donations to OSC are not su
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by NoboruWataya 25d ago
The policy is far from clear cut, and even having read your comments I am still not sure what you think it's trying to say. The policy suggests that an app may lead users to another payment method where the payment is a "tax exemp
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by NoboruWataya 25d ago
Wow, I was going to say I assume the pic in the top right is of the official Spotify client, which seems confusing, but it seems this actually just looks really like the official client. Which is good but possibly makes it more likely Spoti
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by NoboruWataya 26d ago
Exactly my experience, even worse because for me it's 2x256GB drives. Eventually I bit the bullet and upgraded one of them to 1TB, but not the one my root partition is mounted on (too lazy for that), so now I find myself moving various
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by NoboruWataya 26d ago
> Just like I can’t remember the code to my apartment building, yet I type it in multiple times every day. To me it's even less problematic than this. Not being able to remember important codes except via muscle memory is quite unse
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by NoboruWataya 26d ago
Indeed, I find it hard to conceive of problems that are: - too difficult for me to solve but easy enough for a cheap model to solve (if it's going to be running autonomously in the background, I ain't paying ChatGPT/Claude
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by NoboruWataya 26d ago
My view is that it doesn't really matter, and focusing on it is likely an attempt to distract from the substance of the encyclical, which could be seen as critical of AI insofar as it calls for stronger regulation and more conscientiou
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by NoboruWataya 26d ago
I think it's a matter of incentives. American billionaires are mostly highly financially exposed to AI, so are not really incentivised to say anything interesting about it except "it's great, you should buy it".
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by NoboruWataya 26d ago
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but Magnifica Humanitas was published earlier this year.
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by NoboruWataya 28d ago
Well, the guardrails, by which I assume you mean legal and social accountability, were the norm for most of human history, which is why I don't consider the behaviour of anonymous and unaccountable humans on the internet to be "
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by NoboruWataya 29d ago
The "About" page seems fairly clear: > A/I was born over 20 years ago to provide internet support (through website hosting, e-mail accounts, mailing lists, chat, blogs, and much more) to activists and collectives coming fr
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by NoboruWataya 29d ago
Surprised TOML didn't get mentioned in the alternatives section, it's probably my favourite configuration format. I'm working on a project now that uses YAML for configuration (it makes more sense in this context than TOML) a
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
> It’s like some caricature - like an attempt to draw an animal that has never been seen from a description In my experience this is how HNers see a lot of roles or professions that are not software developer. Finance = Patrick Bateman,
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
I use this regularly when I go on long walks out of the city (including the couple of times I've done stretches of the Camino de Santiago). The offline map support and being able to load and display GPX tracks are really helpful there.
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
Yeah. Like most people, my only experience of statistics is studying as part of maths in secondary school. I was really strong in maths generally and most of it came relatively easily to me, but I struggled with statistics. Examples like th
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it lin
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
> In the first half of the month, roughly 60% of the daily HN lineup was AI-related or AI-generated, tapering off to ~50% as we approached the end of the month. This is up from 40% in February. This aligns with my much less scientific re
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
I think this may be a translation issue, as I would always have understood "modern art" to refer to the movement that began in the 1860s, and (English) Wikipedia appears to back this up. Like others have said, "contemporary a
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
If you are a foreigner I imagine your accent can give you away pretty quickly. Europeans would be far less likely to tip (or tip generously).
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by NoboruWataya 1mo ago
If the price increase is actually linked to higher wages for the staff, there should be no increase in taxable revenue for the restaurant, because the wages are deductible expenses. But there is still the matter of sales tax (paid by the

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