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by gbear605 4y ago
It’s about 70/30 nation wide, and in tech probably about 95/5.
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by gbear605 4y ago
It’s also good because Google almost certainly uses data from Fonts for selling ads. I’m much more concerned about that than the theoretical uses by the US Govt, though I’m not a fan of those either.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Many push notifications are spam that developers want to send and users don’t actually care about. But more than that, the fact that you actually downloaded an app is much higher proof that you want to get notifications than just going to a
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by gbear605 4y ago
The web has been progressing too fast, and most of the things that Safari has held back on are features that developers want but users don’t, like push notifications.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Not a book, but acoup.blog has lots of well sourced, fun to read, articles by a history professor. The academic response to them has been positive from what I’ve seen.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Huh? I use LibreOffice frequently on macOS without any crashing at all. Is this a common issue?
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by gbear605 4y ago
Didn’t get it in the EU
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by gbear605 4y ago
It was quite literally a crime in the case of Boris Johnson, which is why I called it “committing crimes.” For Gavin Newsom, my understanding is that it technically was abiding by the rules because the restaurant was open air, but I’m not s
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by gbear605 4y ago
I only meant that it was unlikely that anyone got COVID as a result of the parties. The fact that all those people were unable to be with their loved ones while Boris was at an office party is absolutely horrible, and the fact that he didn’
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by gbear605 4y ago
It’s particularly galling when the prime minister introduces very strict regulations, that even the queen has to abide by (infamously mourning for her husband alone), and then members of the administration throw large parties at the prime m
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by gbear605 4y ago
For me, I’m currently running a Rust webapp and a Python webapp on a server; both are of similar complexities, and I’m probably a bit better at Python. I keep on having to fix the Python app, because of both OS upgrades and problems with th
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by gbear605 4y ago
The torture seems similar, but the scale is completely different. In Xinjiang, it’s been at least 1.2 million people making up a sizable portion of all Uighur Muslims. That’s compared to around 800 people in Guantanamo Bay (and only about 4
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by gbear605 4y ago
The article says that they’ve already done the research to test effectiveness and that it did meaningfully impact the statistic. Of course, that assumes the past research was accurate, but the buck has to stop somewhere.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Judging by the US, at least 200 thousand. We’ve had just over 1 million deaths with a population of 330 million. Of course, many of those 330 million still haven’t had COVID, and many of the cases have been vaccinated people (so they were m
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by gbear605 4y ago
Theoretically Northern Ireland could join the Republic of Ireland and Wales and Scotland could both go independent, and then it’s definitely not a United Kingdom. What happens to the millions (?) of .co.uk websites?
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by gbear605 4y ago
Lots of other things have changed in the economy since 1971. For big one example, see the huge decrease in unions.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Also the Bitcoin community is, almost by definition, made up of people holding a lot of Bitcoin. They have a strong financial incentive to make sure that it deflates instead of inflates so that each Bitcoin becomes worth more over time inst
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by gbear605 4y ago
Wow, that’s really unfortunate. At my current company, standup is around 20 seconds per employee. Literally, the PM pulls up the JIRA board sorted by employee, and each person says “I’m currently working on ticket X, it’s [going well/I
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by gbear605 4y ago
If Android + Chrome is the majority of computer users in the country (which it probably is), this might force the hand of the government
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by gbear605 4y ago
As a native English speaker “political map” means to me both specifically “sovereign state borders” and generally “a map that relates to politics”. If I’m on Google Maps and there’s a button that says “show political map”, I would expect co
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by gbear605 4y ago
If I go into a library, I can open and look at any number of books without the library recording it. Of course if I check it out they’ll know, but that’s primarily to ensure you return it (and secondarily so they can see what books to buy i
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by gbear605 4y ago
I saw multiple people on Twitter today complaining that the NYTimes was “getting political” by choosing a word that was about a current news topic. Presumably they try to keep their games section independent from their news section so they
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by gbear605 4y ago
To be fair, the company is probably younger than those 51 years if it’s a AAA video game company.
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by gbear605 4y ago
There’s only been about 60% inflation since 2001, so assuming the above numbers are correct then that’s outpacing inflation.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Judging by my employer, small businesses are able to have their payroll companies take care of all that hassle without much cost, so it’s not really a problem.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Obviously the doctors should have done the paperwork and you shouldn’t have had to deal with that. But it seems like the root cause isn’t that doctors don’t want to do paperwork, it’s that the insurance is introducing too much paperwork.
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by gbear605 4y ago
It matters to the same degree as being consistent about variable naming. It doesn’t change whether the system works, but if everyone is consistent then it’s easier to read and understand later.
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by gbear605 4y ago
Which Gen Z people are doing this? The oldest of them are 26 and don’t exactly have a lot of capital to spend on houses. Your explanation for why millennials can’t afford homes is that… other millennials are buying all of them up?
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by gbear605 4y ago
It is a problem that men in nursing are often discriminated against, both by hiring boards, their coworkers, and their patients. We’d probably have better health outcomes with a more varied population of nurses. Here on HN we talk about CS
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by gbear605 4y ago
We live in a society with money is inherently connected to the freedoms you have, and companies want to draw you in so that you have to use their product. Basically every job that doesn’t require a bachelor’s degree nowadays requires you to

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