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by cj 2y ago
And I don’t blame those people. That was his modus operandi for 5+ years. My theory is many people who voted for him, didn’t think he would actually do everything he said he was going to do, since he has a reputation for not following throu
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by cj 2y ago
The consensus on tariffs in the US is negative (nearly) across the board. More accurate would be “A small group of powerful people will be in favor”
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by cj 2y ago
Obligatory caution that's shared whenever AdNauseam is promoted on HN: Indiscriminately clicking links to ads on web pages will get you flagged as a bot or for "unusual behavior" and you may start seeing more captchas and thi
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by cj 2y ago
I'm hoping the lesson we learn is "do everything possible to maintain 3 separate but co-equal branches of government" Tariffs are supposed to be imposed by congress, not the president. The president is using a loophole (decla
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by cj 2y ago
No. The uncertainty of what will happen 2-3 weeks or 2-3 months (or 2-3 years) from now is causing a lot of people to react very negatively to this, regardless of their personal politics.
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by cj 2y ago
> made gains on everything Just remember you didn't make gains until you sell those puts. If you made a lucky bet and won, sell!
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by cj 2y ago
This sounds like the "affiliate marketing" business model (earn a commission when you sell someone's thing). That business model is definitely alive and well! I might have tried a service like you're proposing when our c
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by cj 2y ago
I understand your point and I agree with it. I didn't respond to it directly because it wasn't contributing to the discussion at hand. But I agree with your point that an inverse proposition doesn't always hold!
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by cj 2y ago
> "If p then q" does not imply "If q then p." My original comment is challenging whether "p then q" is valid in the first place by asking if the inverse would be true as a thought experiment. (Neither is tru
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by cj 2y ago
> "who did you vote for" isn't a matter of tribalism, but it is a (good) proxy for asking someone "what are your values" You should test this hypothesis by talking to someone for 10 minutes, then guessing who the
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by cj 2y ago
> no change in my life has been more important besides kids Quick note to add: if you're reading the above comment and you still want kids, it's important to note that loss of fertility is one of the most significant side effe
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by cj 2y ago
> there's definitely nothing even remotely comparable Mexico's Pledge of Allegiance celebrated every Monday in schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_to_the_Me...
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by cj 2y ago
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by cj 2y ago
Are you describing the same further education provided to "regular" age college kids in Australia? If so, wow. Although not surprising. My 19 y/o niece goes to a university in Florida and even though she lives on campus, she
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by cj 2y ago
Slight tangent: Interesting that they use o3-mini as the comparison rather than o1. I've been using o1 almost exclusively for the past couple months and have been impressed to the point where I don't feel the need to "upgrad
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by cj 2y ago
Unless a large percentage (and a large amount) of your net worth is tied up in said failing company. In that case, it might be worth the time to do what you can to uphold the value of your stock until you can figure out how to sell it or tu
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by cj 2y ago
Right, but it doesn’t seem to deter us for some reason. At least not yet.
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by cj 2y ago
Your comment made me think of other companies we view as (mostly) “good” today. E.g. tons of people take Uber/Lyft with no consideration about how those companies can take your travel history and daily schedule to monetize or sell to 3
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by cj 2y ago
> I never personally understood that It’s a pretty simple cost/benefit equation. For 90%+ of people, the benefit (or appeal) of seeing an ancestry report is greater than the cost (or risk) of handing over your DNA. That said, it’s d
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by cj 2y ago
> I understand probabilities but still more than 0% is a huge risk just for visiting a country. This is a logic driven community, but this statement is 100% emotionally driven. (E.g. you understand it's extremely unlikely, but you d
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by cj 2y ago
Fun fact: You can almost always score at least $10-20k if you're fired from a job if you try hard enough. I've been on the employer side of this... you fire someone who's performing badly, and then they come back 4 months la
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by cj 2y ago
I switched from sparkling to plain water a few weeks ago (for other reasons). I’m drinking significantly less than I was when drinking sparkling. So again, the question now becomes is it better to be fully hydrated drinking “acidic” sparkli
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by cj 2y ago
I wonder what percent of Americans would trade their privacy to bring their monthly cell phone bill from $100/mo to $0/mo in exchange for sharing texts and emails with a telecom company. I suspect the percentage would be surprisin
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by cj 2y ago
Lucidchart has worked well for me in the past, with built in AWS icon packs.
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by cj 2y ago
Hopefully this isn't a biased take: I think this is a unique situation because the recent moves (in my opinion) are largely a result of everyone's uncertainty around America's policies. In other words, the recent stock moves
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by cj 2y ago
Being a CEO isn’t all that different from being a parent of a child from the POV of impactful decisions. How many critical “parental decisions” have you made in the past week? Probably very few (if any), but surely you did a lot of reinforc
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by cj 2y ago
I saw the movie recently as well. It’s the first time I’ve encountered any information about how a new pope is selected. Period. As a not-dumb person, I realize it’s just a movie. But the basic premise of being cordoned off from the outside
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by cj 2y ago
According to the article they tested tens of thousands of amino acid chain peptides and used “AI” to find this one and synthesized it. Unless we expect that every protein combination exists somewhere in nature, this pretty much by definitio
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by cj 2y ago
What does "naturally occurring" mean in this context?
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by cj 2y ago
This appears to be more of a pricing/packaging/branding change as opposed to Atlassian shutting something down.

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