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by bsimpson 5mo ago
My buddy married someone he met in grad school abroad, then got a job in the US when he graduated. She had to move in with her parents in Japan while waiting for the green card. It took at least a year.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It sounds like you're trying to defend going nuclear on green cards by arguing about a quirk of the H1B. The H1B system was stupid. That doesn't justify any of what the Trump admin has been doing.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I'm so happy for my friends that got green cards before this insanity.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Motorcycling used to be one of my biggest hobbies. I live in NYC now. Drivers here are some combination of utterly selfish and mindlessly distracted. You can't even trust them to stop at red lights. It gives me a huge amount of paus
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I grew up in the Sierras. We got our water from Marlette Lake. It tasted "correct," like that's how water is supposed to taste, and water from anywhere else tasted wrong/gross. I presume a big contributor to that is fami
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
This is precisely why I've never been interested in being an organ donor. I don't remember where specifically I learned this, but I was taught that tissue has to be alive to be useful, so they harvest it when you're almost-de
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
> The EuroPA alliance, which has already connected Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Andorra since March 2025, serves as a prototype. Six million euros have passed through it in one year, without any particular promotional campaign.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It was weird to see them bragging about €6MM volume in the first year.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
That's a core mechanic in games like Dispatch. People don't like seeing a 95% chance of winning and then losing. The game tweaks the odds, so certain thresholds become gimmes (something like "if the displayed odds are better
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
A common pattern: Type your question in Android/Chrome search bar: "Is …?" AI Overview on the search results page: "No…" Click through to the AI mode tab/"Dive deeper with AI" CTA: "Yes…"
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196020
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
What's a reasonable time horizon? What should happen when you find a mate and need more space than you did when you moved into your current unit? A friend moved out of his space after 7 years to start a family, and the appreciation did
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Reactionary taxes like this have a tendency to be ill-considered and have unintended side effects. NY also has a 1% penalty on paying more than $1 million for housing, which was probably enacted to proletariat applause when $1 million was s
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It's wild to think about how different things were in pre-modern times. There are no computers, sensors, watches, or spaceships. There are also no TV-style distractions, and a lot more people are growing food. When would you notice t
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I remember when XDA was the home of Android homebrew hackers working on things like CyanogenMod. It's so strange to see it repurposed as the brand for the same quasi-correct tech article slop that gets parroted between all the big blo
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I joined in late 2015. Cider was well-known by then. I'm a UXE, so I tend to use the same tools an external developer might. But I never got the impression that Cider was a recent development.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It's a monorepo, which is a bunch of libraries (in this case, the code for most Google products) in a single repository. Those libraries can have dependencies on each other. One is a framework called Wiz, which renders the frontend fo
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
A good friend of mine has the opposite problem. I'm 5'11" (180cm) with a slender frame and long arms. A small Patagonia jacket fits me great. My friend is probably 5" shorter than me. A small on him would be too long.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
My only real use of Google Keep is as a cross-device clipboard.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Tying the browser version to the system version was a mistake too. Once it stopped getting system updates, it stopped being compatible with big corners of the web that expect Chrome to always be the newest version.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
They're not the only well-known company I've heard of that's investigating token usage leaderboards.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Weird - is that a fansite that registered a Google codename as a domain?
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I picked up Cyberpunk again recently. It's gotten me curious about how the music for the game was developed. They have something like a dozen in-universe radio stations, which each has a handful of original songs.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I'd be curious to play a VR table, but the amount of tinkering required exceeds my curiosity.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
kgliner's Hacker News comment from last time is cited on Wikipedia!
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I have a vague recollection of being charged a penalty I didn't agree with and arguing with the IRS about it during the pandemic. I couldn't tell you what or how much it was for now though.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
I presumed a man wouldn't have been concerned with a foreign jail's rules for bras.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
It surprises me how many people are responding to an article that includes: > You can not bring or keep anything including a bra or even your own underwear. presuming the author is male.
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
The EUR is often worth more than the USD, which leads to complaints when they are given the same nominal price (500 bucks, in this case). Europeans think they're getting overcharged. One big difference is sales tax. If you remove the
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by bsimpson 5mo ago
Something's either literally stated or suggested. It can't be both, but it can be neither.

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