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by galdosdi 3y ago
Great points, let me riff on that though -- what's really "weird" (but totally understandable in the historical context of underpowered computers until recently) is that we think of floats as the default representation of a r
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> Only on the backs I think the fact that healthcare, education, and housing (necessities) were all far cheaper then, relative to wages, also made it far easier to "drop out". The things that were more expensive then but much c
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Yikes, it really is distracting. What really gets me is the screwed up, subtly M C Escher like perspective. Also, yeah, this looks like a weird bank / accountant's tax office pastiche, not at all like a check cashing place. It&#x2
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Not the OP, but I recognize this kind of situation from my own frustrations at bigcorps: There are probably 1) many legacy systems with slightly different definitions of opted out, which may be out of sync with each other, forcing the devel
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Can you please clarify this cryptic comment? The OP just used a common variation of asterisk, and I am really confused what your beef with it is. "in the manner it is being put after the names of dead people " is a total non sequi
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> The 90s were a constant Clinton sex scandal Yes, I know, I lived through it. If you did too then you'll recall that the difference is that it wasn't considered important by average people, nothing like today anyhow. We paid p
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Obviously you don't have kids and don't work with kids and your only experience with children in your childless social circle is vaguely remembering your own childhood. Kids aren't looking at Wikipedia on their phones. Statis
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Look at it the other way -- the fact that even such an elite school was having serious problems when they were allowing smartphones, shows how pernicious their influence is in education. It's like putting a TV with full access cable on
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> I’ve thought about leaving the research life for a regular job, but it’s not obvious to me that would help. It might help a lot by giving you a break from thinking about the kinds of things you currently think about a lot. Seriously co
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by galdosdi 3y ago
They did. If you still work at Google, join https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/
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by galdosdi 3y ago
This is an intellectually fascinating thought experiment.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
This is a BS article that revolves entirely around the author's pathological definitions of STEM education and StEM jobs as illustrated by this hilarious quote which implies learning math is useless for a career in finance and learning
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by galdosdi 3y ago
You must be rather young or only started listening to the news recently after a lifetime of ignoring it. The news only started sounding like that very recently. You can check this for yourself, go look at some archived newspapers from the e
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I don't recall catastrophic tones, nor do I think the current houthi situation is being underplayed. I think you and I subscribe to different media sources and this is your warning sign that yours are too sensationalistic.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Aren't there international treaties regulating fishing in international waters? I know they exist but not sure if they're weak and vague. That is what we need but not realistic to happen in today's geopolitical climate
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by galdosdi 3y ago
That won't work. Trademarks are a lot harder to establish -- it's not just automatic from the moment you publish it as with copyright. You have to first start using it, then always mention it's a trademark when using it (with
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by galdosdi 3y ago
You must not be a parent. A non technically savvy parent really has very limited control. Even a technically savvy parent can control the devices they buy for their children only, on the wifi network they pay for for their own home, only. T
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I used to work there and this kind of thing is why I left. Google lost their moral compass years ago. The greed I saw from top to bottom was baffling. People earning $200k already, who spent all their time figuring out how to get the next p
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I think it also is a skill issue. People who are used to driving and navigating have more of a mental model of how the roads connect up, and can often correct an error without needing a GPS to explain how to reroute. For example, in much of
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Is this something you've seen IRL or just in sensational online footage? I have not notice this IRL in the USA, although I've noticed overall driving get slightly more aggressive and ignorant since the pandemic
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by galdosdi 3y ago
LOL, I really appreciate the rhetorical structure of your comment
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Do not advertise criminal services on HN. This submission has been flagged.
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by galdosdi 3y ago
This submission, which was titled "How to Hire a Private Investigator; Cyberpunk Programmers " as of Jan 5 3:44 PM ET, combined with the below comment by the submitter Bettina300 makes me think this is a weird ad for criminal serv
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by galdosdi 3y ago
For the frozen ones, I'm willing to hem and haw and put them on an equal level. More processed in a sense (freezing) but less in another (travel and spoilage) Heuristics arent' meant to be perfect so finding edge cases isn't
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Agree, gamblor clearly has only eaten at restaurants, not worked at them. Restaurants definitely love using cheap nonstick pans and other plasticware for general convenience. I've heard of chef's tricks involving plastic wrap that
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Same experience. Everyone is a libertarian until they meet kids and realize how impressionable and gullible even the smartest of them are at a young age -- easy prey for the advertising industry, the junk food industry, the junk media indus
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by galdosdi 3y ago
I think you are assuming that there won't be any heat loss wbtween the home and the plant
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Indeed. Until then we hapless individuals trapped in the present will have to resort to heuristics. The best one I can think of to start with is avoid processing. The more processed a food is the more opportunities it had to potentially be
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by galdosdi 3y ago
How strange. I imagine the argument is propagated by the historically illiterate. When I think of the origins of modern roads, I naturally think of English turnpikes at the dawn of the industrial age -- all privately owned toll roads. >
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by galdosdi 3y ago
So? You really think if that happened, the US would do nothing? Just shrug it off?

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