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Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?
398 points by atdrummond 3y ago|205 comments
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Prevent illegal incursions across the border? Including violent cartels, not just “migrants”?
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Europe has lower fees by legislative fiat. UK still has these (mostly) due to the majority of these caps existing pre-Brexit.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
The cost is probably an exaggeration but this is not some secret: https://gothamist.com/news/google-boss-has-amazing-15-millio...
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by atdrummond 3y ago
The jobs aren’t going on Craigslist; that was just a comparison to explain to a layman what the freight brokerage listing sites look and operate like. Using these sites is pretty common in the industry.
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12ft is down, Vercel banned me(twitter.com)
24 points by atdrummond 3y ago|8 comments
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Really frustrating that this article focuses so much on the partisan attacks in the back half. When I lead the (successful) effort to build a city wide FTTH network in Quincy, IL, our most fervent supporters were all Republicans. We got far
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by atdrummond 3y ago
The Bay Area has some of the most generous taxpayers in the country. The issue isn’t the amount of resources.
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Opera did have a business model that worked monetizing the browser itself through sales - until smartphones fully supplanted feature phones.
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By end of 2024 this won’t be the case for Tokyo.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I’ve lived in two dozen countries and the US is the most community oriented of them all outside major cities. US charitable giving alone suggests your view of the country as individualism run amok is likely not the whole story.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Thanks for catching; I was doing some changing of my wording and forgot to finish it before submitting my comment. I had meant to type “far more deleterious to health, if not specifically oncogenic/carcinogenic […]” I did not mean to
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by atdrummond 3y ago
This is a frustrating title. While it is technically true, it elides some important information and context: - He had been out of Congress for over 8 years at the time of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger. - He made considerably larger gains
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Most organic certification programs allow (or even require) the use of pesticides; they simply use those which are considered “natural”. Some of these allowed pesticides, like copper sulfate, are far more carcinogenic than even the compound
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Catholic Churches do plenty of community meals - just not around mass. This is likely due to the former requirement to fast proper to communion.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I have to pay US taxes past $120k (this year - it was $112k last year) regardless of having already paid taxes on the full amount in Estonia.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
90% of my monthly spending is with BTC - but I agree crypto and Bitcoin has mostly been an abject failure.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
That’s his point.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
It is unreasonable to infer what the original author has said he has not implied.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
As someone who has spent many months in Ukraine since the late 2000s, even the last election was not what I would call “democratic” even if I think the truly preferred candidate won. You would be shocked at how often votes are outright boug
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Ukraine is in no way a functioning democracy.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I’ve spent years trying to get back to the sub-12” notebooks of that era. I’ve recently settled on using an iPad Pro 10 inch. I would prefer a proper OS but 95% of what I do I can do with iOS.
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Crop Milk(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by atdrummond 3y ago|0 comments
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‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash(aljazeera.com)
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The Portrayal of Early Manned Spaceflight in Hidden Figures: A Critique [pdf](assets.zyrosite.com)
26 points by atdrummond 3y ago|8 comments
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by atdrummond 3y ago
The DM isn’t the source and there are dozens of articles that will report the same finding. I’m not going to spend the extra time to find an ideologically neutral “news” org for an HN post when the topic being discussed is generally agreed
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by atdrummond 3y ago
ONS has been working hard in the UK to revise their method of assessing immigration numbers, after the previous system undercounted by at least 1.6m ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/24/eu-imm
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by atdrummond 3y ago
This entire debacle is souring me quite a bit on Rust. Can anyone recommend a fork that doesn’t have a “death by a thousand committees” feel to it? I’d rather deal with one extremely opinionated project lead than whatever… this is.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I think OP’s point was that JP Morgan wanted to see that role supplanted by the government, even if he was forced to sometimes play guarantor himself.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
A subset of the members of my former UU congregation are some of the nastiest people in my social media network. The way they talk about their conservative neighbors is horrendous and at the end of the day it’s just trading one set of relig

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