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by frmersdog 11mo ago
>gifting sums of money to someone to solve their problems can significantly complicate relationships Maybe. If you have a relationship. I was thinking more along the lines of listening to someone's story and them finding a check fro
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
>my work has saved and will continue to save vast amounts of time for ordinary people. I have my doubts. >A few years ago I used to live in hostels, sometimes hoping that my (then few) websites would get one or two payments to cove
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
In this job market, in this political environment, with Luigi Mangione a Bonnie-and-Clyde-tier folk hero, the bit you quoted was perhaps a clue to the lack of wisdom in humblebragging that you spend a family's annual food budget on 5 p
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
Sumo wrestlers generally don't develop metabolic disease until after they retire, which comes with the cessation of their grueling, multi-hour daily training regimens. I wish I could find the NHK report on a group of scientists that we
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
I feel super happy for the 5 people and 20 cows who will benefit. (This is intended less a jab at Montana specifically and more at state and national politicians who only seem to have political gumption when it concerns the needs of less-po
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Ask HN: Can we talk about Google Search et al.'s planned obsolescence?
3 points by frmersdog 11mo ago|1 comments
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
I think my contention is with "collapse" rather than something like "crash". The latter implies a cyclical downswing (reasonable), the former implies the absolute end of a cycle through the non-viability of the prior ord
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by frmersdog 11mo ago
I got paid $11 an hour to enter handwritten applications into a database, as a temp job back in the early 2010s. It was "low-skill" inasmuch as, "Locking in and moving efficiently through entire filing cabinets of forms, ofte
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by frmersdog 1y ago
If there's any justice, a good number of comments will focus on the ethical nightmare MTurk turned out to be. Apologies to the people who worked on it, but it's fair and appropriate for observers to point out when someone has spen
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by frmersdog 1y ago
"Collapse" is maybe hyperbole in this case, if it's building on our own history to extrapolate forward. For us, certain societies have collapsed, and with them have been lost certain practices or technologies, but human civil
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by frmersdog 1y ago
Gorillas. Boom.
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Ask HN: Does Google Search's Verbatim mode no longer work for you?
5 points by frmersdog 1y ago|2 comments
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by frmersdog 1y ago
>But I also could introduce you to plenty of 25 year old's that aren't "agile and flexible enough, mentally to perform these positions" There are vanishingly-few 25-year-olds in national office, certainly not in propo
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by frmersdog 1y ago
"Muh ageism" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for these kinds of conversations. You have to make an effort to actually argue against the statements you disagree with. Are people 75-and-older agile and flexible enough, mentally
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by frmersdog 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_B...
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by frmersdog 1y ago
It's hard to find other examples of it (or at least the inherent natural inferiority of one group of residents) being written into the country's foundational legal document. We are indeed exceptional in that regard.
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by frmersdog 1y ago
The KKK has been a distributed movement from the beginning, though, starting as isolated remnants of Confederate forces acting as terrorist cells in tandem with local officials and businessmen (e.g., plantation owners), and resurgent in the
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by frmersdog 1y ago
And, knowing Jeff Bezos' private equity origins, one could be forgiven for entertaining the thought that none of this was an accident. Just don't be an idiot and, you know, give voice to that thought or anything.
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by frmersdog 1y ago
It's likely something related to this: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... There are multiple lawsuits, and settlements are already in with some property managers. Yieldstar/RealPa
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by frmersdog 1y ago
Needs a (2016). Because of my age, Prince was not "Prince" for much of my childhood; I was introduced to him as "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" and just assumed that that was all we'd ever call him in the futu
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by frmersdog 1y ago
Weirdly, Unicorn Store was the first thing that came to mind. Which is funny when you consider that it was essentially a sort of weird meta-prequel to Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson's turns in Captain Marvel.
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by frmersdog 2y ago
This reads like the poison pill (mis)characterization of the original version of ACA that killed it. Most of the ideas are good, but you've snuck in a few obvious non-starters. It's clear that there needs to be some degree of nati
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by frmersdog 2y ago
I'd wager that America is culturally closer to the UK and Italy than Germany (ironically enough), particularly with regard to our attitudes towards social welfare. A decade after ACA's full implementation, I'm thinking that w
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by frmersdog 2y ago
This is why I groan when people talk about, say, how the government needs to "incentivize" increased building volume in order to solve the housing crisis. If you accept the argument that there's a shortage of physical units (
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by frmersdog 2y ago
Maybe? Disenfranchise him, and see how all of the good he does for his community is consumed by the energy he puts into not being the second-class citizen that you've designated him as. We're bound to the success of our weakest li
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by frmersdog 2y ago
This is a misconception that gets perpetuated because of a conflation of a shortage of physical housing units (which does not exist) and a shortage of affordable units (which does)[1]. This shortage is highly local, as your Fannie Mae sourc
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by frmersdog 2y ago
I suspect that something has changed in the way square footage is calculated. Perhaps there are more finished basements or something. I was very involved in several moves my family undertook when I was younger. I feel like I got a good sens
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by frmersdog 2y ago
And the jobs? The amenities that make areas highly desirable require workers who can actually commute to them. It's a game of chicken. The people who live in these areas and expect to be served without complaint either acquiesce to den
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by frmersdog 2y ago
You are correct. >Is it more likely the trend continues and young people will simply become priced out, or is a correction more likely? As a layman, take this with a huge grain of salt: it depends. By established rules, a major correctio
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by frmersdog 2y ago
Unfortunately. Happily, solving that solves a whole host of other problems.

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