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by awillen 5y ago
Have you seen a highly trained Malinois? Even if you're surrounded by highly reliable humans, they're probably not as reliable as the dog.
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When I read the title, I imagined this would be about social and romantic situations. In personal contexts, of course you have the right to say no with no further explanation. In professional contexts... you're being paid to be to serv
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The numbers are based off what gets reported. Nobody reports anything in San Francisco any more. It's subpar work on the part of the WSJ not to understand that, but when calling the police is a waste of time, the numbers aren't go
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by awillen 5y ago
Really? You are a deeply naive person if you think gender doesn't affect the types of comments people get on HN. And this being a post about comments on HN, it's clearly wrong to say that bringing up a highly relevant issue doesn&
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by awillen 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure you understand what a Ponzi scheme is - it's when people at the bottom have to keep putting more money in to pay out people at the top. As you put it "tax people more, more money goes in, more money can
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by awillen 5y ago
But how do you fund higher guaranteed social security? You need more money, which means either higher taxes or more people earning taxable money. The speed of population growth is declining, which is a big problem for the latter, and the fo
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I would say it adds real legitimacy to that idea. The more people who have their 401ks in the stock market, the more it is true that when the stock market rises, people are doing well. Also, what alternative do you propose? You need an inve
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by awillen 5y ago
> There's probably a good reason why C4 carbon fixation hasn't taken over the plant kingdom. Because evolution happens slowly, and on an evolutionary scale the increases in CO2 in the environment have basically just started to
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by awillen 5y ago
I think the problem with this idea (and to be clear I haven't read the book) is that advertisers are much better able to track the value advertising delivers than they were in decades past. Even post Apple privacy changes, I can still
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by awillen 5y ago
The sanctions are being created for the world in which we live now. If you want to consider a theoretical world in which crypto is the main form of currency, you would also need to consider what kind of sanctions governments would impose in
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by awillen 5y ago
You're looking purely at the theoretical possibilities of crypto while ignoring the reality of a situation in which major sanctions are enacted. Who are the people who are going to be selling their services to Russia in a situation lik
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This isn't at all true. When companies aren't permitted to do business with Russia, currencies and forms of payment don't matter. If I own a company in the US, I'm not going to ship any products to Russia, regardless of
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by awillen 5y ago
I recommend following him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock , as well as this list, which features his account plus a number of other high-quality accounts reporting on what's happening in Ukraine: https:
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by awillen 5y ago
Cool, thanks... I will peel my sprouted potatoes in addition to cutting off the sprouts from now on. The things you learn from HN...
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Thank you for spending your time doing something valuable for the planet!
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This is a little confusing in terms of how to handle sprouted potatoes - I was always taught that they're fine if you cut off the sprouts. The fact that it says the sprouts are heavy in glycoalkaloids seems to support that. But the onl
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by awillen 5y ago
There's a typo on the pie chart on your homepage - the title says "Gobal" instead of "Global".
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You're totally ignoring my point, though - bans and boycotts make sense. I fully agreed with that. Targeting you, specifically, even if you protested against the war, does not. You're pointing out the immense suffering of the Ukra
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by awillen 5y ago
But this is banning someone who has actively spoken against the war . If you're a Russian doing that, you're exposing yourself to danger in the name of doing the right thing. This isn't someone who was caught up in broader s
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Unless you're unable to handle the business side - in that case, you lose a lot of money.
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by awillen 5y ago
As a former PM, I kinda hate posts like this, because they imply that there's a single way to deal with engineers. It turns out, though, that engineers are human beings and thus are each very different! They have unique preferences and
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It's useful if you're disabled, or your work schedule makes it tough to shop or any number of other reasons. Just because something isn't useful for you doesn't mean it's not useful.
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I've scrolled through these comments and am surprised to see no one's pointed out the alternative - it's $13.99/month for the content if you don't buy Peloton hardware. That is in fact as bonkers as it sounds - my w
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by awillen 5y ago
The US has diplomatically boycotted the Olympics this year. That doesn't have anything to do with NBC - they have a first amendment right to cover the Olympics. You're assuming there's some sneaky stuff going on with the Stat
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by awillen 5y ago
You don't see checked out Costco employees because there are supervisors physically present, and it's very obvious when those employees aren't working, because their work is physically visible. A tech worker working remotely
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by awillen 5y ago
I just bought that first book. I have a little free time in the foreseeable future, and this seems like a useful thing to learn about. Thanks!
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The straightforward and cynical answer is that the people funding these things have basically unlimited money, at least for practical purposes, but as with everyone alive, they have limited time. Therefore it's a perfectly rational tra
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by awillen 5y ago
Your post seems to imply that because the science isn't there yet, it doesn't make sense to throw money at it. But isn't the whole point that you're using the money to bring on the scientists and give them the resources
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by awillen 5y ago
You're right up until your last sentence, which is totally wrong and illustrates another important thing people misunderstand - there is a difference between a pedophile and child molester. The age of consent is about consenting to sex
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by awillen 5y ago
Truly one of the Aristocrats of comedy. RIP.

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