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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Brian Scalabrine was a bottom of the barrel NBA player. He was good enough to stay in the league for years but he'd only play about 13 minutes a game and averaged 3 points a game. Basically he was the guy who would play a few minutes a
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
There are tons of games like A Short Hike. Alba, Little Kitty Big City, Lil Gator Game, Haven Park, Time on Frog Island, Little Wings Deliveries , The Kind Chamomile, Smushi Come Home, Petit Island, Luna's Fishing Garden, ...
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
I think it is pretty controversial and surprising. As Wikipedia puts it: "Debate continues as to whether anatomically modern humans were behaviorally modern as well." Anatomically modern humans emerged 300,000 years ago but behavi
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
That's not lifetime ROI. It's pretty obvious they mean annual, since they compare it to stocks returning 8% and we know that isn't a "lifetime" return. "Indeed, by comparison, the stock market has provided a lo
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
"College Is Still Worth It Even with Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs" You could at least try to engage with what the article actually says.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Doors in Vietnam are exactly the same as in the US. You clearly haven't traveled much so you should refrain from sweeping generalisations.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
If it is still the best, what's the superior terminal equivalent for Photoshop, Premiere, Audacity, and Figma? Not everyone's work life revolves around text just because yours does.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Vietnam does not pay $68/month. Where did you get your made up numbers? Source: brother works in a Nike factory in Vietnam; am acquaintances with the manager of an Adidas factory in Vietnam; and know that the legal minimum wage in Viet
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Even in America it is an issue. Younger Americans maybe don't realise how prevalent muggings used to be when cash was common.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Isn't that true everywhere in life? There's a reason way more people buy furniture from IKEA than some craftsman who loves woodworking. People also don't generally pay the premium for craftsmanship in clothing, house construc
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Nope, didn't even own a computer back then (parents too poor), it was my friend's computer. Was a while after that before I got online.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
I remember playing Space Quest IV and we got to a part where we were completely blocked. We got parents permission to call Sierra's 1-900 hint line (who knows how much that cost) to find out that the game won't process until you s
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Exactly right. Otherwise we have to argue that 18 of the 20 worst days in economic history happened in the last 3 years, far surpassing the crashes of 1929 or 1987.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
> every time tariffs were raised the local producers increased prices to be just below the imports. That's literally how tariffs are supposed to work. I'm confused about what you thought should happen? Local producers are suppo
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
That the university replaced the teacher suggests that's not how the university viewed things.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
I dunno, when only 20% of the students are even able to take the test I'm pretty inclined to put that one squarely on the teacher.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
I don't think Apple makes any content that isn't for Americans do they? I guess Slow Horses is British but very little of what they air has any real appeal in Asia so no one is going to pay for it.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
I don't know a single person in my country with an Apple One subscription. That's 100 million people right there.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Isn't that mostly just a function of it being newer? All the other streaming services focused on being prestige loss leaders in their early years too. Apple TV+ started in 2019. Hulu and Netflix streaming in 2007. HBO Go in 2010. Etc.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
This makes me wonder how many fake stars an adversary would have to put up (and for how long?) in order to confuse a celestial navigation system.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
This is extremely common almost everywhere in Asia. Many places still have SROs (which were outlawed in the US decades ago) which is essentially just a room and (nowadays) a bathroom. No kitchen so the only cooking tends to be instant noodl
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
IBM's S/360 was millions of lines of code in the 1970s. Managing millions of lines of tangled code is not novel. It is older than most HN readers.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
> The ratio of software engineers working in novel design spaces compared to plumbing style work is best guess ~1:5 Google has something 25,000 developers. You think Google has 5,000 people working on novel design spaces? That number sou
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
> Now imagine if your plane loses power momentarily, and suddenly your GPS stops working entirely. Now imagine your plane loses power momentarily and switches to a backup system... The exact same GPS every plane is using today.
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
And the CEO is an American based in California. It is pretty hard to call Arm, or any decently sized modern company, 100% anything. https://careers.arm.com/locations
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
What does that have to with the article? The article is about a decision by California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
> Less than one fifth of its revenue comes from federal sources Over one-quarter (26%) comes from Federal sources according to the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances. Having 26% of your government f
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
The landlord reduces the rent when a tenant moves out and they can't find a new tenant at the previous rate quickly enough. This happens all the time. Rents aren't based on the value of the asset. They are based on supply and dema
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
The cost of raising a child is basically the socially acceptable (but untrue) excuse that people get to use. It is pretty easy to look at millionaires and billionaires and see that money isn't what is holding down birthrates. Just look
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by freddie_mercury 2y ago
I saw someone joke that there's only one generation in the history of mankind that knows how to set the time on a microwave. Our parents couldn't do it. And now our children can't do it.

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