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by agar 3y ago
The most costly, of course, are private schools (which is where my daughter wants to go). However, the "financial back-up plan" of in-state 4-year universities is not exactly affordable either. In-state cost of UCLA, for example,
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by agar 3y ago
Speaking as a parent, the state of higher education is shocking. Costs of $300,000 for a 4-year degree ($75K/year for tuition, fees, and housing) is not just possible, it's essentially the norm for many schools that aren't ev
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by agar 3y ago
Apple bought NextVR (and shuttered or stealthed it), whose sports-broadcast-in-VR platform was fantastic even years ago when I watched NBA games in my original Rift. No one has really stepped into that space since. Concerts in VR are a real
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by agar 3y ago
They talked about it at last year's Connect conference: https://mashable.com/article/meta-connect-wrist-controller-h...
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by agar 3y ago
> it's also the only speed bump left to unlimited money printing. I have never once heard during the budget negotiation process, "we cannot increase this budget because it will put us over the debt limit." The debt limit r
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by agar 3y ago
I always thought that if the same amount of engineering and investment that went into overcoming the 8088 architecture instead was redirected into a more sane CPU architecture, development of the PC industry would have been accelerated by a
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by agar 3y ago
100%. On a related note, I could see Apple improving the AirPod Pro's ability to protect hearing through improved isolation combined with a modified Transparent mode. Such a "concert mode" device would effectively moderate th
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by agar 3y ago
Credit where credit is due. It was bipartisan legislation that was signed into law by Trump. Rollout and re-regulation was very slow, with additional hearing aids being made available over the next few years but with the FDA seemingly maint
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by agar 4y ago
Put the salt in tanker ships and dump it out at sea across a wide area. Cargo ships are massive, and desal plants would likely be in bays (i.e., not on "wild coasts") where there are ample loading docks in nearby harbors. Again, s
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by agar 4y ago
Worth calling out that Bradley has denied that claim entirely. > The source in question came to me with a prepared information package. I did not personally seek out this person or attempt to bribe or entice them into leaking trade secre
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by agar 4y ago
I'm confused as to your proposed solution. Should the new employees not been hired, and existing employees overworked due to understaffing? Should they have hired contractors and not paid benefits like healthcare? The companies I'
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by agar 4y ago
> probably involves at least some understanding of the status quo. Oh man, you had me going with such a vivid metaphor. I was really hoping for a payoff in the end, but you abandoned it. The easy close would be "probably involves at
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by agar 4y ago
I agree the topic is complex and fraught. I have opinions but they're not strongly held or informed by debate, and unfortunately I don't think even a generally well-moderated forum like HN is the best place to have that debate (pl
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by agar 4y ago
This is a bit out of context. My point is that the article's results should be mapped against hate crime statistics to illuminate a possible rationale for the bias. I'm not taking a position on whether this bias should inform th
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by agar 4y ago
There is a fundamental question this article (and most debate) overlooks: what is the objective of the content moderation? Is it to avoid all hate in an equal way? Or is it to reduce potential harm? If the latter (which I would argue is the
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by agar 4y ago
A single senator and an entire political party OP is right. Manchin gets the blame but 50 others voted against it as well, many who would be willing to cross the aisle but for the toxic partisan environment in this country.
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by agar 4y ago
The assignment of blame to VR/AR for Facebook's stock drop is mostly media noise and not reality. The "metaverse" term is cringeworthy, the technology is early and easy to critique, and the tech-savvy public hates Zucker
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by agar 4y ago
Did you see https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/v2-changes.htm ?
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by agar 4y ago
The article title has been revised to more accurately reflect the researcher's position (and removes the AI ambiguity): "Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Devilish Problem About Sets" Should the title of this HN ent
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by agar 4y ago
> CO2 has been decreasing You're looking at the wrong statistic, my friend. Climate is a global issue, so global emissions matter more than US emissions. Try this graph, from your same source: https://www.statista.com&#x2
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by agar 4y ago
I can't help but think of two webcomics when I read your comments: "they want to flip the economic system..." https://www.butajape.com/comic/conspiracies/ And "of course the climate changes--it
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by agar 4y ago
Like Kanye West?
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by agar 4y ago
You need a Meta account. Not a Facebook (social network) account. Meta accounts only require an email address. There is no real name requirement, which they explicitly state in their help page[1] so this isn't a violation of the TOS. [
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by agar 4y ago
Are you aware of the Quest 2 that is $399? Also: despite the frequent comments by folks here that did not watch the announcement, this is a business-focused device first. It is not targeted towards consumers or gamers. That is the Quest 2,
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by agar 4y ago
That is incorrect. From https://www.meta.com/help/accounts/set-up-meta-account/#:~:t... . > Email: You can only create one Meta account per email address. First and last name: We recommend using your real n
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by agar 4y ago
Yes it is a general change. A Facebook account is no longer needed to use VR. You can link a Facebook account if you so choose, but even then a ban on Facebook has no effect on your access to VR. If you have an old Oculus account, it can be
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by agar 4y ago
How could cheating help her when he still had a reasonable chance of pulling either a straight flush, flush, or a pair in the river? What would be the logic that a calm, rational, 3rd party (that could even be using a computer to calculate
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by agar 4y ago
Basically this line, from the caption of the 3rd line graph at the US climate.gov site[1] that shows large magnitude swings over long periods: > Global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in parts per million (ppm) for the past 800,000 year
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by agar 4y ago
I think you misread my comment, I made no such assumption. The commenter I replied to said "I’m unsure about if ... the earth [is] finding a new equilibrium point potentially on the order of hundreds to thousands of years..." I po
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by agar 4y ago
My understanding is that a new equilibrium can only be found, in general, when the net new input(s) to a system have stopped changing. The amount of atmospheric CO2 continues to grow linearly[1] at best. The earth's climate may find a

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