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by bmelton 4y ago
Some members of my family (back in the day) used to be laid off from positions seasonally, and were then rehired the next year. I suspect that in its early versions, it referred more to the notion that "we won't have any more work
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If they don't already exist, there's got to be a market for dishwashers with a built-in clean/dirty indicator. With smart appliances nowadays, it doesn't even have to be a physical display (in the home.)
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I have a magnet that says "Clean" facing up, and "Dirty" upside down that I bought for $1 in 1998. When the dishes are emptied, or when someone starts the dishwasher, we spin the magnet so that the appropriate side is re
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This is the same reason I eventually learned and stuck with Vi(m). Implementing a project on a massive array of SPARC Solaris boxes and every "easy' tool I'd learned just... wasn't there. I had kind of learned Vi at that
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That's not really at issue. There are a lot of factors involved there -- if he had QB1 salary demands, but didn't have QB1 talent, then it's hard to say that he was better than QBs he wanted to start ahead of. I'm happy
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I think that's definitely a part of it. Our monkey brains process that there is danger, and (naively) find ways to amliorate it in peer groups. We associate in-groups with safety and out-groups with dangers, and both infinitely large a
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To be fair, Colin Kaepernick had lost his job as a starter (to Blaine Gabbert, a career backup no less) well before he started protesting. There may or may not have been collusion to keep him quiet, but the post hoc ergo propter hoc explana
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I think if it's anything, it's McCarthyism for a new generation. We've done worse, and with more rigor than today's cancel culture, but for however much I might find it distasteful, the stigma borne of cancel culture at
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Worth remembering that the "Dark Ages" were named that by those with a heavy Roman bias and otherwise weren't particularly dark, having experienced innovations like standardized handwriting (punctuation and consistent letteri
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They aren't washing them. More commercial operations might brush them with a dry brush (to remove dirt and chicken poop), while others are just collecting them more immediately, but it's illegal in Europe to wash eggs -- which is
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The first few comments on the HN post also look super staged
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How are you the author of the post when the Wayback Machine says Brian Jackson authored the post in 2019? Despite the date on the article being today's (Feb 22, 2023) date, the article itself even says "It’s now early 2019 and we’
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The outcome of that was that he went on to found Coinbase. He did not find his co-founder from that thread, but rather Reddit.
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The 1790 Naturalization Act came just a few years after ratification, and under the purview of its first president. The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798. You're probably referring to the Immigration Act of 1882, which was in
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Knowing your limits is good advice. Equally good is knowing the limits (and motives) of those you might defer to. Even if one assumes them to be relatively honest brokers, the guidance issued by a government agency is (at its best) guidance
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If you can disprove the allegation in a single step, not much of an investigation is needed. But like I said, these allegations crop up all the time, and investigations are done all the time, and every single time I have seen them, they hav
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This happens a lot. Godaddy comes up in the news, someone accuses them of front-running, someone else investigates the accusation and finds that the allegation in question was definitely not the result of front-running. https://d
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> Where would this be important FAANG interviews? Knowing that __new__() comes before __init__() is probably useful, as the deeper one gets into a language the more important it is to understand the lifecycle of an object. Otherwise, t
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I just checked it with a random query while watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns, and it wasn't great. (Spoiler alerts) "How did Buffy the Vampire Slayer die?" "Buffy the Vampire Slayer died in the Season One finale
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Just ballparking the value of the house at around $1.5mil (you said last year, which I'm averaging out an interest rate of 4.5% and then rounding down. Assuming a 30 year mortgage) then in 30 years time, you'll have an asset with
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I've always assumed this was the stigma, so I've always avoided mentioning it, but during the much more competitive market in 2020-2021, it seemed like big tech types were the only ones wise enough to look past that stigma and app
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I'll second GrowthBook. I was able to drop out of a LaunchDarkly subscription that was costing thousands of dollars per month and into a nice, cozy $29 Growthbook plan with zero loss in fidelity, while also increasing capabilities. Gro
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Yeah. It's been awhile since I checked in, but it seemed like most of the open source tech was hosted by or in relation to enterprise. Capital One either hosted or sponsored a lot of events. Amazon is another. Feels like Splunk is anot
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There are quite a few opportunities in or around the DC area in cyber-security too. These will have the "perk" (for those who want it) of not being directly government work, but will often have government and government-adjacent e
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Meanwhile, in the late 00s,federal agencies were selling their emergency spectrum allocations to the highest bidder (and apparently still are as of 2021) https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/fifth_
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Comedians got together and made a documentary about the modern American society's intolerance to things that might offend in 2015, so I'd wager if we're trying to carbon date it it's at least sometime before that. It see
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Any one of those in isolation could be crippling, but all together? I just wanted to say kudos for finding healthy outlets to manage.
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The conventional wisdom for SEO is that "good content" ranges between 2,000-4,000 words. Most recipes are but a fraction of that, so the rest is filler to meet the aforementioned SEO wisdom. I'm not sure whether Google actual
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> Even this plan is dubiously profitable Keep breeding dodos and then charge a million dollars a weekend to anyone who can afford it to go hunt them, and your initial $30m is likely recouped within the first year
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100%. It seems obvious when thought about (but most people haven't thought about it) -- but airships don't need runways. Moreover, the only land-space that needs to be accommodated for them is the footprint, so a landing spot coul

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