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by ashark 10y ago
Jesus, I even swim in lakes with mine in. Guess I'll be seriously looking at the the risks+cost of laser vision correction versus contacts in the near future. And switching to daily disposables in the meantime. I've worn them fo
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by ashark 10y ago
Craigslist only seems like bad design if you've been programmed to use successful application of current design trends as a shortcut to figuring out whether a site is abandoned, under-funded, or incompetently-executed. Which we all hav
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by ashark 10y ago
> I personally put that above them attending a good school, and I've read about lots of parents on HN choosing to purchase more expensive houses only because they were closer to good schools. Peer. Group. See the thread the other da
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by ashark 10y ago
I had an otherwise excellent (if infamously uptight) calculus teacher in high school whose one mistake more than undid everything she did right: she insisted that everyone take extensive notes. She also moved quickly though materials and ex
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by ashark 10y ago
We do. Post in Slack. It's great because you can ignore anything that doesn't mention you (which is what people do in napping-while-standing IRL standups anyway) but you can always go back and see what someone's up to if it b
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by ashark 10y ago
Is that sarcasm, or is the occasional email or phone call really considered a sign of strong devotion for someone we consider a friend?
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by ashark 10y ago
That you're supposed to try to "game" it any way you can and that it's not a one-off attempt to genuinely assess your ability might not be obvious to everyone.
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by ashark 10y ago
My second ACT score went up 3 points for no other reason than I had a less-obnoxious "science" ( i.e. answering questions about intentionally-misleading graphs and data) portion the second time.
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by ashark 10y ago
Colonizing and mining the poles and the ocean floor would be way cheaper and safer.
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by ashark 10y ago
Seriously. Kids awake 12 hours/day when they're young, overlapping with work during the week which makes that calculation easy. 12x7 = 84. You can kind of do other productive stuff during that time, but not much. 8hrs/night s
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by ashark 10y ago
I think it's both the 80s/90s low-fat push, yes, but also an aversion to eating anything that reminds us it came from an animal. Chicken breast, preferably breaded to make it look even less like something that was ever alive (&quo
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by ashark 10y ago
Can confirm. My work life has been smooth and fairly boring, and I have piss-poor autobiographical memory anyway, so I pretty much have to make those up to have anything worth telling. Maybe start from some half-remembered kernel of truth,
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by ashark 10y ago
"Make your lazy-ass kids walk when they're capable, even if it's temporarily less convenient to you" isn't saying that kids should be the entire focus of parents' lives. It's advice that will make parentin
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by ashark 10y ago
With fair regularity I notice something that, if I shift my perspective just a tiny bit outside the one I've been encouraged to use, reminds me that we kind-of live in a horrible 80s sci-fi dystopia, just with a sleeker aesthetic and
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by ashark 10y ago
Youtube videos? Phones. Tablets. Chromecast, Apple TV, game consoles if you want it on the TV. Taxes? Possibilities: 1) someone else does it, 2) you do it but all on paper, 3) work device (maybe even at home if it's a laptop), 4) somet
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by ashark 10y ago
99% of users either don't have backups of their precious photos, or only do because they blindly clicked through "set up iCloud" or their Google/Android or Windows equivalents.
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by ashark 10y ago
> However, I must mention that I been in contact with so many really bad HS staff (teachers, principals..) all with legitimate credentials, that I am starting to wonder about their significance? A principal should probably have some teac
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by ashark 10y ago
Digital memories are so nice in many ways (backups so a fire doesn't destroy them, with care they'll more or less never degrade, they take up little space, and so on) but they're also burdensome—they seem to multiply endlessl
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by ashark 10y ago
Most sci-fi writing—even the greats—doesn't reach the minimal level of writing quality to get much attention from Lit Fic people. Flat, cliche-filled, inefficient, lacking the insight and turn of phrase needed to make simple stuff like
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by ashark 10y ago
1) What's the status of (supported as a real feature, not just manually changing the bootstrap nodes and hoping everyone else does too) private IPFS networks? If it's there already, how stable is its configuration ( i.e. if I get
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by ashark 10y ago
Their desktops don't benefit as much from great power management, excellent hardware integration (trackpad especially), and general doing-the-right-thing when plugging in external devices (especially displays) as their mobile devices d
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by ashark 10y ago
> Does anyone know that feeling and what do you do about it? Why do you want to do something about it?
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by ashark 10y ago
Unfortunately, US politics are really weird and unlikely to get better without at least a constitutional amendment or two. We're stuck unable (unwilling...) to avoid all kinds of awful things necessary for participation in a modern eco
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by ashark 10y ago
They're willing to if they can bundle it in something large enough to be—and otherwise more resource hungry than—a (sane) minimal graphical OS. Electron, say.
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by ashark 10y ago
Man I miss UIs using depth . So easy on the eyes.
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by ashark 10y ago
No, I'm saying there's an inherent conflict between those for whom the "No One Can Tell You're a Dog" Internet is and should be how things work, and those for whom making money under their real name by polluting it
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by ashark 10y ago
Well, in that case the Internet "map"'s problem is less the dicks drawn here and there than its being covered on every square centimeter by ads. Oh wait, I think I see the part of the map I needed... oh, no, just another ad d
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by ashark 10y ago
B-b-but how will I growth hack my way to a 4-hour-workweek selling ebooks about how to growth hack, without constant, obnoxious self promotion under my real name on all corners of the Web?! God's sake, I can't possibly be a thoug
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by ashark 10y ago
> The next phase of this monthly argument on HN will be, then: "Well, that's what's wrong with Google then, it's all crap after they started hiring MBAs!" which is also nonsense, because lots of the senior people
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by ashark 10y ago
Thanks for this link. Not done yet, but it's outstanding so far.

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