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by conductr 1mo ago
Like I grew up with them and their parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins, did holidays and really know each others families quite well. More than I had a friend from X in 8th grade. It’s not hard to understand unless you
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by conductr 1mo ago
I know plenty non white people and actually am close enough with their entire family that I know what culture their racisms are aimed towards. Why would i even make that comment if I didn’t. I also know plenty of illegal immigrants and fam
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by conductr 1mo ago
White Americans are almost exclusively their own most sensitive wordsmiths. If you heard how other people refer to themselves and others, it can be much worse and they think nothing of it. It’s just a silly word that describes the immigrant
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by conductr 1mo ago
I mean shit changes right? My ancestors showed up and were given/took large swaths of land. Where’s my land? Can I just take yours?
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by conductr 1mo ago
That term has been in use for at least the half century I’ve been alive. It’s a common word almost every where in the US, shows up in daily conversations, but it’s been deemed not politically correct. That’s why you maybe never heard it in
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by conductr 1mo ago
We’ve said a lot already and obviously have our own perspectives. I understand your side, you don’t seem to understand mine. Or can’t understand it without echoing back the same stuff, I hear you and can understand perspectives I don’t agre
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by conductr 1mo ago
So maybe you have stated a reason a pause is better than an explicit no. No history of a denial is maybe a better thing. I get the human component but I can separate that from policy. I have my own risk assessment on it and it’s that I coul
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by conductr 1mo ago
Pause is a silly way of saying No for now. You can try again later. But they’re not advising when that may be happening. To me, that tells you everything you need to know. That they don’t know themselves because it’s to be determined, maybe
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by conductr 1mo ago
> The issue here is that, if you just left the country to do everything the country asked you, you are now in limbo. I feel like I’ve said it a few times but - Yes, exactly. The country wants you to leave and then get’s to decide if you
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by conductr 1mo ago
It’s going to be funny when the Tesla robots start showing up at tee times because the CEO couldn’t make it. Like a meeting agent taking notes for people who didn’t attend
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by conductr 1mo ago
I’m just laying it out there in a obvious way because if someone said “if you push this button, you could get electrocuted” you wouldn’t call it inhumane when someone pushed the button and got electrocuted. I didn’t want to get into the pol
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by conductr 1mo ago
But my point is it’s a known factor up front, and it’s so they can (have the option of) getting you to leave without allowing you back in. The thinking is that if people had visas that expires or revoked, they just wouldn’t leave and enforc
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by conductr 1mo ago
Not trying to make a political point at all and perhaps a controversial take. But, it’s specifically and maybe implicitly by design. Meaning they made this way precisely so you have to reapply so they can change their mind or block you out
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by conductr 1mo ago
My 12x16 took way more time, but I did it all myself. I mostly worked at night once the heavy loud stuff was done because of the young kid factor. But at only a couple hours a day, it took about 4 months. Although I did build mine down into
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by conductr 1mo ago
I am part of the problem in the first. It's because early HNer's were early Bitcoin users and adopters and I feel we (I) had a hope that it could take hold as an actual currency (I no longer feel that). But, we were so early I can
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by conductr 1mo ago
I joined in 2008, that was even after lurking for a while, and it’s almost unrecognizable now in comparison has been for many years. Was mostly entrepreneurship, tech was present but was a means to an end. It wasn’t tech for the sake of tec
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by conductr 1mo ago
I live in a part of the US where ample free relatively clean restrooms are available and actually quite large. I can drive hundreds of miles in any direction and generally a restroom can be found with minimal advanced planning. All to say,
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by conductr 1mo ago
I think it follows the path of the spreadsheet. For a long while, only geeks and finance or accountants or data monkeys used spreadsheets. Then, it was such that anyone could create a spreadsheet. Vlookup was something you learned early in
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by conductr 1mo ago
The door situation is more so security than privacy IMO. The common setup in the US is we drive right into our garage and nobody even sees us enter or exit our car, depending on garage location I suppose. I guess it’s easier to watch a hous
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by conductr 2mo ago
Fences are more common than hedges here. I’m failing to understand how any shared wall apartment tops a single family home in terms of privacy.
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by conductr 2mo ago
Agree. And you also then should ask, why is it so? It’s usually not because they were after some pedestrian nirvana. It’s because land is so expensive they have to utilize it to a high degree for it to make sense. It does help that once you
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by conductr 2mo ago
I don’t know that industry as well. But I can look at it through a similar lens and would guess that it’s high. I say that because every thing that goes into the service is expensive. Large capital expenses (planes, probably a lot I don’t e
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by conductr 2mo ago
When I was a mischievous kid, me and all my mischievous friends had our stories of learning how serious fire and explosions were considered by authority figures. We learned fast not to do that or the consequences would be grand. These were
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by conductr 2mo ago
Don't most evolutionary traits/changes come at times of restrictions? I don't think many traits are developed during times of abundance, it's when there is a shortage and they have to seek out something else; like protei
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by conductr 2mo ago
Have to consider meat digestion from a net calorie perspective. Eating raw meat is possible sure. But once you get to dense protein meats like a red meat, your body expends a lot of calories in the act of digesting it raw. Cooking it is lik
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by conductr 2mo ago
My interpretation was similar. The carb-sugar diet was never a highlight because it was a given. The article talks about primates that have high carb-sugar diets but doesn't explain why their brains remain so small compared to humans.
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by conductr 2mo ago
I'm envious, although I think my experience is the rule and your's more of an exception. It might be more common on HN given the demo, but IRL, people mostly want to talk. Or even if they read email, they can't be bothered to
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by conductr 2mo ago
If this is one of their major expenses and only represents 5% of annual revenue, it’s not. Often SaaS companies can run at 90%+ gross margins even with a highly utilized free user tier. Their selling expenses and labor/opex and SG&
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by conductr 2mo ago
It’s also just less risky and easier to work with people that you are near, speak your language, etc. more so back in the 80s before most people were even using email, we Americans had virtually no contact with people on other continents ev
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by conductr 2mo ago
Absolute numbers aren’t useful in this analysis. We know capital is easily available for the expenditure. You have to consider it as a relative number to revenue or users otherwise big numbers always look scary.

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