WalterGR

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by WalterGR 1y ago
The WSJ’s reporting is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162443 with ~60 comments.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> My contract was going to be cut after the launch, and now that everything is in chaos, I will probably get another year out of it. What enabled you to thrive - even being happy to continue on - when others didn’t?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Conversation has started at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153923
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Many microwaves used to come with metal racks. Some still do.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
94 comments 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139403
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by WalterGR 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139403
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by WalterGR 1y ago
150 comments ~3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959129
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by WalterGR 1y ago
(2023)
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by WalterGR 1y ago
I just add “stack exchange” to my Google searches. It works fine.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Conversation has already started at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143857
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> The site also suffered from a too strict "no repeat questions" rule. Why is that bad? In questions closed for this reason, there’s usually a link to a prior question. I wouldn’t call myself a particularly hardcore Stack Exch
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Is MS-DOS `edlin` related in any way to `ed`? Wikipedia: “Edlin was created by Tim Paterson in two weeks in 1980, for Seattle Computer Products's 86-DOS (QDOS) based on the CP/M context editor ED, itself distantly inspired by the
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by WalterGR 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813175
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by WalterGR 1y ago
147 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959129
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Because I’m from the US.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> Businesses and consumers will not be worse off. What’s your calculation? The costs aren’t zero . Businesses will need to re-tool. Consumers will spend more because purchases will be rounded up to the nearest nickel. What’s going to
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> Higher education is one of the biggest grifts out there. Look at the man-made objects around you. Every single one of them has been improved or made less expensive by research at institutes of higher education, including the device
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by WalterGR 1y ago
$xx.95. I already see that not-infrequently.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Those exist in the form of dehumidifier bags, and they're inexpensive and easy to get. Does this material have benefits over what's currently in use?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
This seems silly. How much does this save the government as a percentage of total spending? How much will this cost the government vs. how much it saves? How much will this cost businesses in the US in total compared to the amount saved by
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Rounded up, I assume?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
The HN guidelines include using the original title of the article.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
500+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152
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by WalterGR 1y ago
“‘What is cysteine?’, Alex.” “That is correct!” Question: How do they prevent these gene-edited mice from escaping and then breeding?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Thanks. I fixed my comment.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Both BLS and FRED show significant increases since the 70s. This article is using some other methodology (assuming they’re using any methodology at all.)
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by WalterGR 1y ago
It is new. And big news. This is a news report about the data acquired in the hack discussed in your first link. (Your second link is about a security analysis of the service but is not about <strike>the aforementioned hack or&l
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by WalterGR 1y ago
That may well be the case - but that’s not how the number called Productivity is measured.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
American productivity had basically been flat since 1973 By all measures I’ve seen, “productivity” has almost doubled, and it’s wage growth that has been flat. How does this journal measure productivity?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
“ Stack Overflow's status page All Systems Operational “

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