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601.
by debacle 4y ago
It was about 6 years ago now that I realized that this is the hidden, inexorable system that underpins our modern democracy.
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by debacle 4y ago
Note that the "insane" in the title does not mean genuinely insane, just "insane" in the way a 13 year old girl would talk about her math teacher. "Fanatical" might be a truer word.
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by debacle 4y ago
"If you default, the federal government helps itself to a chunk of your Social Security check." This, to me, is the buried lede. This is worse than payday lending, and it's being perpetrated by our government upon desperate p
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by debacle 4y ago
Such a strange thing, that a comment like this on a Friday afternoon would completely blow my mind.
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by debacle 4y ago
Nothing scandalous: - Severe GPA inflation - Not being able to compete with nearby state schools for all but two programs, while being much more expensive - Elitism that comes with being an Ivy - Students are in many ways
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by debacle 4y ago
Yahoo Finance for Shopify https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHOP?p=SHOP&.tsrc=fin-srch Yikes.
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by debacle 4y ago
"The main value add of undergrad is networking and prestige, not education." I think this might be true in software engineering and maybe law, but it's certainly not true in the medical field, engineering, etc.
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by debacle 4y ago
Graduate degrees are a different animal, but one thing you could do is look into who you might be under at the school, and what kind of work they're doing.
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by debacle 4y ago
They're not worthless, but they're certainly not objective. My son missed an Ivy because of an admissions deadline SNAFU. It was his top choice in schools, and he was pretty upset about it. Two family members employed at the schoo
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by debacle 4y ago
Is Discord the "federated social media" that everyone has been looking for? How are they going to monetize?
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by debacle 4y ago
The argument falls flat by paragraph 7 of this long rambling piece. > But there’s no objective evidence of this, only the subjective opinion of Mudge that Twitter wasn’t doing enough for cybersecurity. ... > specifically that they lie
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by debacle 4y ago
I feel that YouTube is too generic of a platform for this. There are other, targeted platforms that do digital courseware much better.
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by debacle 4y ago
Trees are enduring. Certain trees take forever to decay. It's "slow sequestration" but it lasts a long time. Hardwood is very valuable, and growing more valuable, and trees are pretty. Everything else might sequester the carb
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by debacle 4y ago
Unfired clay brick production is incredibly labor intensive, and generally you'll want to produce those bricks on-site because they don't transport well.
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by debacle 4y ago
Bagged earth construction is great, however you are adding a TON of labor. So much so that in a developed country you might as well just use brick construction because it will be cheaper. In addition, in my area I would have to have my dirt
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by debacle 4y ago
Stick based construction is already incredibly time, resource, and labor efficient. SIPs are neat ( https://www.sips.org/what-are-sips ), but even they are an added cost. Dirt-based construction is an intriguing idea, but gen
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by debacle 4y ago
The JVM + applets were supposed to be the future. Flash was supposed to be the future. ActiveX, Silverlight, OpenLaslo, etc. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript have so much momentum behind them. They are each a warty mess, but upon that warty mess i
618.
by debacle 4y ago
> I’ve never met Peter Thiel. The contents of this essay are based on public information and my own intuition.
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by debacle 4y ago
I am a free speech absolutist, but I read the Wikipedia page on this site and it seems bad. "Crimes were committed," "People lost their lives" bad. Unjustifiably bad. That said, is anyone willing to steelman this website
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by debacle 4y ago
I adore Cloudflare for making this post. It shows they have a true commitment to taking freedom of expression about as far as they can.
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by debacle 4y ago
It took 40 years for growing antisemitism in Europe to lead to the Holocaust.
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by debacle 4y ago
Backsliding on free expression on Hacker News needs to end. The amount of political posts that just turn into light gray on light gray are awful. I don't like much of the political content, but it seems there are many with a clear ag
623.
by debacle 4y ago
Never. We need to learn to live with (and love, if we can) our reptilian side.
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by debacle 4y ago
> I'm not sure what the artist wants to communicate with the bike "I paid a lot of money for an architecture degree I'm not using."
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by debacle 4y ago
True, but "a three-dimensional torus" is a doughnut.
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by debacle 4y ago
> You might think that life in a three-dimensional torus The author is talking about toroidal space which is confusing because a normal torus is a three dimensional thing with normal Euclidean geometry.
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by debacle 4y ago
Compare WebMD to examine.com The difference? You pay for examine.com. The outcome? The highest quality site for information on supplements, vitamins, etc available on the Internet. WebMD just needs to be good enough for Google.
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by debacle 4y ago
Interesting that censoring only 3% of what I would regard as a very trendy show can eliminate depictions of sexuality, sex, religion, and unwanted political commentary. You can effectively change reality by adjusting a tiny fraction of it.
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by debacle 4y ago
Flow-based programming is "the future" in the same way that Object-oriented programming was "the future" in the late 90s. If history is any evidence, in 10 years we will all be using some mix of evented/flow based G
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by debacle 4y ago
Namecheap is good. They are my registrar, even though Amazon would be easier, because their support + personability makes me feel like I'm dealing with human beings. They are the Linode of the domain space.

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