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by egdod 7y ago
Most student debt is owed by people who are already in the top quartile of wealth. I like free money too, but let’s call it what it is: a handout to people who largely don’t need handouts.
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by egdod 7y ago
> it does not encourage meaningful / non-ableist dialog with the work Is it really ableist to think that sanity is objectively better than insanity? > ins*ne This is peak wokeness. We can’t even spell out the word “insane” for fe
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by egdod 7y ago
Everything in tech is cheap compared to what its equivalent would have cost 5-10 years ago.
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by egdod 7y ago
Not just braiding. They challenge lots of different types of (unnecessary, protectionist) licensing requirements.
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by egdod 7y ago
> Is there something special they developed, like a nifty manufacturing technique or previously unused materials? Because they wouldn’t be asking that question.
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by egdod 7y ago
How do you know it sounds like garbage if you haven’t even looked at it?
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by egdod 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by egdod 7y ago
What’s the difference between a troll and an NPE? I thought they meant the same thing, but that NPE was just the nicer term.
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by egdod 7y ago
> Retailers are not infringing the patent We normally think about manufacturers being the main infringement target, but the statute also refers to anyone who “makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells” (among other things).
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by egdod 7y ago
Lithium batteries seem like a weird choice for large-scale power storage that just sits in one place. Lead is a lot cheaper, and its heaviness doesn’t matter in that application.
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by egdod 7y ago
If we’re talking about a syllogism, fine. If we’re talking about some mixture of logic with historical recollections, suppositions about other peoples’ state of mind, etc... the narrator starts to matter more. If I can trust him to be objec
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by egdod 7y ago
“Risk free” refers to default risk, not the risk that you could have gotten a better return elsewhere.
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by egdod 7y ago
The title is a little bit clickbait. What she’s really getting at is more like—the way to be happy at work is by finding meaning in your work.
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by egdod 7y ago
I’m surprised it helps at all. Why wouldn’t a robocaller generate a new random number every time?
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by egdod 7y ago
For a task like the newspaper one, the cost of getting every edge case perfect probably isn’t justified. Write the simple version, and wrap the whole thing in a try/catch. When it falls over, have it email the receptionist and tell him
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by egdod 7y ago
There's legislation to stop robocalls. How many have you gotten in the last 24 hours? I've had 3, and it's been a pretty typical day.