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That's what happens with social things. There are competitive softball leagues and there are "beer leagues". Not everyone has the same amount of time and commitment to spare. It can be helpful if expectations are out there (a
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If I remember it did go to unclaimed property. The problem is that the stock today was worth much more than the selling price when they closed his account (and he intended it to be a long term holding).
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Just look at polling and you'll see why "just ask me" is not as simple as it seems.
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Exactly, these are crazy, never-before-experienced times. In the short term there will be compromises. We should recognize that and give ourselves a break.
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Teachers and school district are not prepared to provide a curriculum for distance learning. It's takes months and years to develop a curriculum and no one had time to do that. Teachers may be doing their best but there's nothing
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Or, who from 50 years ago is still around to be trusted? The list to choose from is short. IBM, HP, GE, TI...
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What a delightfully geeky post! After explaining how this one affects computers over 2 decades old, that this doesn't affect the system but _only_ setting of the clock, and how a utility already provides a workaround, I had a moment of
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Covid-19 mutates about 2x a month. https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/ This doesn't mean the virus has changed enough for your body to not recognize it. But it can be used to map transmission c
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The inevitable happened expectedly?
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Devil's advocate- if I fall on hard times and stop distributing my game do I lose my right to it? How do I reserve my right to sell it again in the future or sell my rights to it to someone else to distribute?
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Polarization has been happening everywhere not just HN and not just in the US. Othering is a related term. See also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/partisanship/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag&#x
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Netlify has shown up here on HN occasionally. I don't recognize the other one.
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And we're not paying anything.
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When I was young, I would prepare to wake up before the alarm if I really wanted to make sure I didn't oversleep. I would stare at the current time for about a minute and then go to sleep. The next day I would always wake up a few minu
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The death rate was "small" but the reach was large. 1/4 of the world's population got it so the total death toll was large.
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There's a fine line. PG's essay is about usefulness. An essay is probably more useful if a point can be made just as strongly but in a way that a greater number of readers will receive it well.
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Except that your example is only “great” because Slack is reimplementing text input- another thing that maybe should just be handled by the system. Is it great that Slack also has its own autocorrect and doesn’t know about the system auto
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by brianpan 7y ago
You're saying that the iPad could do these additional Mac-like things with a few tweaks or additions. I'm saying the sweet spot is in the other direction. You want it to do more (essentially 'real work'). The device that
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But I think "real work" is a bad criticism. If the kind of work it can do is the problem with the iPad, then why is the iPhone so popular? The real "problem" with the iPad is the size. Laptop have been getting smaller
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I'm no expert but it seems highly likely to me that you have owned polyester. Do you own socks? Jeans or shirts? A jacket? A throw blanket? So many things are poly blends or have polyester components. Unless you are explicitly checking
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by brianpan 7y ago
FYI, Git Tower is made by JetBrains is made by 7 people. JetBrains is a company of 1000. Not all software scales to allow that kind of model. Also, JetBrains can afford that model because the JDK and other software languages are changing
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Labeling it as a disorder means it will be studied, medicines might be developed, people who benefit from some therapies might get help. You don't take aspirin for a headache because it cures you. You take it so that you can function a
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When you're searching for the arrow keys, the break is one thin line only in the middle of one key. When the keys are half height, there is are two large gaps to find. The difference is a few mm vs almost a cm and 3 targets to find vs
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To be more specific: the X is build on the S platform; the Y is built on the 3 platform.
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Well, sometimes it's the land or the resources on the land. Or religion, too. Shoot, this is getting tricky.
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Not just large disasters, every failure in engineering large or small. That's why we use tools like 5 Why's in a root cause analysis. Anyone who's thinking about safety is thinking about redundancies. So every observed failur
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I’ve had success in Java with Freemarker. It’s a templating engine so you’re just producing strings. But you can add typing; use variables, loops, and conditionals; and include other templates for sub query reuse. IntelliJ has a plug-in. It
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Agreed. I've driven a Bolt with CarPlay and it's better than my Model 3. Tesla's Siri (or any mic input) is ridiculously slow. They're both Google Maps but my phone already knows my locations. Other apps (like podcast ap
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Ew. You're not supposed to just eat this. It's a protein replacement. Still eat your fruits and veggies and everything else.
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Perhaps one step further is to bypass even the plants and produce protein directly from CO2! https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/nasas-idea-for-making...

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