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by aianus 7y ago
> 30-something years 28 years. It is supposed to be 50 years from the handover in 1997.
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by aianus 7y ago
As a counter-anecdote, Canada Post and UPS don't even try to deliver my packages to my apartment door but the Amazon guy gets it right every time.
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by aianus 7y ago
> transfer was cheap as chips I used TransferWise once a few years ago from USD to CAD and it cost ~1.4% all-in. That's cheaper than my bank but still very expensive if you're transferring your whole salary every pay period lik
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by aianus 7y ago
> fathers were 40% more likely than childless men to see themselves as very happy. That part of the study is about the same fathers who are now aged 50-70 and whose children have generally left the house and are no longer children. I gue
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by aianus 7y ago
> nobody wants to pay for enough capable support staff, pay to keep the support staff at the ready often enough, pay support staff who want to stay in that role It's not about money. I worked at a unicorn that paid very high wages f
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by aianus 7y ago
> only 6% of those wish they had not had kids It's very socially unacceptable to admit you regret having had your kids. Even to an anonymous stranger conducting a phone poll. I am much more inclined to believe studies that ask for s
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by aianus 7y ago
I will be in Taipei in the second half of June and would be happy to meet up. My email/keybase are in my profile.
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by aianus 7y ago
> Did they run the tests without training first? What’s the point? How do you know if your training is working if you have no baseline?
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by aianus 7y ago
> Or colleges might charge differently per credit hour depending on course and major Is it not like this already in the US? In Canada my CS program cost ~100% more than an arts program at the same school. It was pure price discrimination
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by aianus 8y ago
Shameless plug since it's relevant: We built a Slack bot [0] that shames (in good humor) people in the office who leave unlocked laptops unattended. We had a similar system at Twitter where we would tweet a certain codeword on unlocked
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by aianus 8y ago
You can pay the NASDAQ (or any exchange) to colocate your server beside their server with a low-latency network link and see a live feed of the orders as they hit the book.
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by aianus 8y ago
Hi HN, We created Yoink internally after many occurrences where one person wanted to use our staging environment, but was unsure if someone else was still using it. Hence, we built a bot we could pester instead of each other. Since listing
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Show HN: Yoink is a hosted mutex platform on Slack(yoink.xyz)
1 points by aianus 8y ago|1 comments
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by aianus 8y ago
Hi, I'm Alex, one of the creators of Sniped. I had used a similar bot when I worked at Coinbase and it worked much better than the standard lectures from IT at getting people to keep their laptops locked. When I learned that many large
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Show HN: Sniped reminds you to lock your laptop through public shaming(sniped.app)
4 points by aianus 8y ago|1 comments
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by aianus 8y ago
> a society where people can move out of poverty is a better one than a society where people remain in poverty but can move from the middle to the upper class This is a very subjective claim. I would certainly prefer to live in the latte
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by aianus 8y ago
Assuming we’re talking about a startup, the expected lifetime of your product is ~0 and so is the number of customers. If you’re somehow lucky enough to ever have so many users that you have issues with rails, you will have the money (VC or
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by aianus 8y ago
The trend is continuing into adulthood which is the part that’s concerning.
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by aianus 8y ago
> get pregnant less often But are they getting pregnant less often per instance of intercourse? There were a lot of articles lately that teenagers and young adults are having less sex now than ever before which IMHO would be a failure ra
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by aianus 8y ago
> Seems like a cyclist or motorbike has the right to lanesplit and move up. Yes, but in this case you filter on the driver's left. You don't filter up in the 10cm between the curb and the car when the driver is signaling right;
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by aianus 8y ago
> Somehow they think they're the only generation that's ever been through hard times. Not sure how you inferred this from my comment. My parents went through much harder times when they were my age. However, unemployment would
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by aianus 8y ago
> discrimination based on age is just as illegal Only if you discriminate against old people, it is legal to openly discriminate against the young. I guess I'm biased because I'm young but it's a little non-sensical since
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by aianus 8y ago
> I can't distinguish a loot box from a scratch card -- except a scratch card must reveal odds. A lot of problem gamblers get in a bad way because they think that the only way to recoup their losses is by continuing to play until th
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by aianus 8y ago
https://apility.io/2018/05/25/gdpr-lazy-block-european-users...
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by aianus 8y ago
As a childless man, for example, are relevant and interesting ads not an improvement over the tampon and diaper ads that are all over TV?
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by aianus 8y ago
I see, I thought you were commenting on the implementation of the lottery in the first place vs. our North American system of rationing good schools using money (either directly through tuition or expensive nearby real estate).
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by aianus 8y ago
Surely the Netherlands has private schools? I don't think the rich are sacrificing anything by this lottery. Some middle-class kids might have to go to a worse school to allow some poor kids to go to a better school but the rich are un
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by aianus 8y ago
Maybe they're only useful when you're a high power company with $200k+ total comp and more applicants than you know what to do with.
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by aianus 8y ago
> If you have better options, take them. > This job board is the ultimate culmination of millennial passive-aggressive behavior. This job board just enables more people to pursue a course of action that you're already suggesting
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by aianus 8y ago
It seems like it might be a good business to offer to refinance loans for, say, CS students at top-tier schools at a lower rate than the government loans. Ideally that would raise the default rate of the government loans and push up the int

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