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by borski 3y ago
> How does this justify handing out free insurance post facto on everyone else's dime? Wasn’t trying to; was stating a fact. I believe the insurance limits should be higher in general. Also, this was paid out of bank-funded insuranc
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by borski 3y ago
Plenty of people who were not VCs or politicians banked with SVB. It was a huge bank.
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by borski 3y ago
250k is an extremely small amount for a company of any significant or insignificant size. Furthermore, the returns at SVB were not that spectacular, I assure you. They were just a very startup-friendly bank.
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by borski 3y ago
People who can afford the loss buy insurance because it is simpler peace of mind to do so, not because it is the law.
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by borski 3y ago
One could easily make the argument these are actually extremely closely linked.
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by borski 3y ago
Please point me to this law. Unless you are in a mortgage, no law requires you to hold homeowner’s insurance, and you can absolutely self-insure, to my knowledge. The same is not true for auto insurance in most states, though most also have
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Autonomous Waymo car runs over dog in San Francisco(arstechnica.com)
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by borski 3y ago
I dno; people used to say that about Dropbox in the early days. Clearly people like what Tailscale is doing, and find it interesting. The upvotes are about what’s interesting to the community, so seems fine and not cult-like to me.
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by borski 3y ago
People love Tailscale, and passkeys are relatively new, so a major authentication improvement for a well-loved service that is based on a new authentication mechanism not lots of companies support yet is … interesting. I think it’s as simpl
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by borski 3y ago
> The article is wrong also, in that it praises Iceland for renewable energy when it is really just geographically lucky. Lots of places that are geographically lucky still fail to take advantage of that very same luck. Iceland could jus
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by borski 3y ago
Singapore is an exercise in contradictions. In many ways, it’s extremely liberal. In others, it’s quite dictatorial. While I absolutely love visiting Singapore, I could never live there.
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by borski 3y ago
These are not fancy apartments in which people who are not homeless would generally choose to live. Source: I grew up in a housing project.
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by borski 3y ago
I grew up benefiting from housing projects in Brooklyn, the son of immigrants who came here with no money. Was it amazing? No. But it wasn’t The Wire either, and one of the only reasons I was able to have any hope and eventual success is th
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by borski 3y ago
Both things can be true at the same time. Drugs are a significant issue in the homeless community, but providing housing and hope can do wonders for many of the homeless out there. When they feel like garbage, because society doesn’t care a
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by borski 3y ago
Literally nearly all of them. PTO accrual is the most common form of PTO granted; you accrue a certain number of PTO hours for every week you work, and your maximum PTO per year changes with your tenure, starting at, say, 10 days per year a
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by borski 3y ago
> It’s irrelevant for the rank and file It’s absolutely not. It is used for all sorts of things, including PTO accrual, bonuses, multi-year tenure benefits, etc.
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by borski 3y ago
Sounds like a great case of penny wise and pound foolish to me.
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by borski 3y ago
> 10 years ago you could still find people that haven't had their car windows smashed. 10 years ago, everyone I knew had had their car windows smashed. I’m not sure this is true.
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by borski 3y ago
Losing your teeth is also a lifetime commitment.
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by borski 3y ago
Sure, that’s obviously true, but misses my point; on average, European teeth are less healthy than American teeth. At the same time, American teeth tend to have too much work done on them on average. Both of these things can be true simulta
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by borski 3y ago
Sure, but as discussed elsewhere in this thread, the studies (at present, which doesn’t mean we won’t learn more in the future) do not support the assertion that sunblock prevents Vitamin D synthesis in any meaningful way, despite what a ra
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by borski 3y ago
I didn’t sense sarcasm. I could’ve misinterpreted. Cloudy days still have plenty of UV, depending on where you are (especially near the equator). Skin type matters, of course, and I would probably be less heavy handed with the recommendatio
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by borski 3y ago
It is entirely possible we got our wires crossed. The evidence I actually wanted proof for was the original commenters’ assertion that sunblock somehow raises cholesterol to unhealthy levels. The quote you chose from the article (which I di
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by borski 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36108241
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by borski 3y ago
Now this is a lazy argument. “My thing is true, even though the vast majority of medical professionals and societies disagree with me. And I don’t have to prove it to you, as that is best left as an exercise to the reader” is lazy, and a
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by borski 3y ago
The vast, vast majority of Google results do not support your claims. I’m glad you found one that did, and I’m all for more studies, but “it’s really not that hard to google” is both condescending and doesn’t move the argument forward. You
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by borski 3y ago
There is no cartel that says babies sleeping on their bellies die instantly, or that mothers who don’t breastfeed are creating sickly autistic monsters. Literally not a single doctor who should be allowed to practice has said any of that, a
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by borski 3y ago
We can all agree that somewhere in between is certainly the preferred option. Walking around with all veneers or crowns is a problem, but so is walking around with constant cavities and yellow teeth, so likely somewhere in between what the
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by borski 3y ago
Parent likely meant accountants or tax advisors / attorneys.
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by borski 3y ago
Ah yes, the “dermatologist cartel” of untrustworthy white coats. rolls eyes Please provide sources for the evidence you speak of.

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