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by googlryas 3y ago
Is there an idea of why tropical kitsch took off when it did, around the 1950s in America as I understand it? I always thought it had something to do with WWII Pacific theater veterans coming home and bringing that imagery with them, but ma
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by googlryas 3y ago
My bank was like that for my debit card...I ended up just using dev tools to remove client side validation and put a 0 in there, and I guess they don't do any server side validation for that field
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by googlryas 3y ago
My trick is to get text messages/app notifications live when a credit card charge goes through (Chase at least supports this). Then, I either dismiss the message, or deal with it immediately. I find this much easier than going over a s
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by googlryas 3y ago
Not paying is not the same thing as canceling service. Many services will not let you continue using them if payment fails, but others will, and you will still be on the hook for the charges from a collection agency. The only time virtual c
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by googlryas 3y ago
Looking up comparable ICE cars to a Model Y, google tells me Audi SQ5, BMW X3 M40i, and Mercedes-Benz GLC43. Their curb weights in lbs are: Model Y: 4,555 SQ5: 4,288 M40i: 4,392 GLC43: 4,233 So, yes, a model Y is heavier, but only by about
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by googlryas 3y ago
It's an entry for a high school essay contest run by the site, with the prompt "Tell our readers about a problem facing American society—and, more importantly, how you would fix it. The problem could be technological, cultural, po
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by googlryas 3y ago
Why wouldn't McDonalds just not do that, and charge more to franchisees, and pocket 100% of the amount instead of whatever cut they have to give to Taylor? Surely, franchisees and potential franchisees talk to each other, and if any
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by googlryas 3y ago
Wouldn't the wrench attack in this instance just make you type your password to your broker, sell the ETF, and then transfer the money to some third party bank account?
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by googlryas 3y ago
Perhaps that's an end-around for water rights issues. You can't "just" take the water rights from long established players. But it might be easier to simply apply a water tax, a base rate multiplied by how much water the
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by googlryas 3y ago
Huh? That's how people did it for all of eternity until about 75 years ago.
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by googlryas 3y ago
It seems there is still a possibility for passing information. For example, you can shove the little table across the barrier, or slowly slide it to indicate something. That's how the guy in the upper right passed it the first and seco
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by googlryas 3y ago
But not by Bloomberg. He was saying a version of "Everyone should know how to code!"
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by googlryas 3y ago
Not really, digging through the sources show it is really just a single random person interested in local Scottish history posting their opinion on a forum 14 years ago
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by googlryas 3y ago
I disagree - nobody "should" read Moby Dick. As in, don't read it because you saw it on a "Top 10 books" list, or had it recommended to you by a friend. Everyone on their reading journey is at a different spot, and
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by googlryas 3y ago
Neither here nor there, but that "meat by a different name" is most likely due to class divides in England after the Norman conquest. The French(ish) speaking Normans were the upper class getting the finished product, so the langu
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by googlryas 3y ago
Heck, even C++ is getting out of hand for Herb Sutter. He might say "ISO C++ is the best tool in the world today to write the programs I want and need", but then he also says "My goal (with cppfront) is to explore whether th
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by googlryas 3y ago
The most interesting thing about time capsules is the way they inform us of how bad we are at thinking about the future.
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by googlryas 3y ago
Well then the content creators can just set up their own site, register a domain, set up a video stream service, payment processor, etc. After all, it's not much.
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by googlryas 3y ago
1.87mb is the size of the encoded protobuf. Almost certainly, it is being sent over a compressed connection, and I bet there is a lot of easily compressible string data in there, so the size over the wire is probably closer to 500k(just gue
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by googlryas 3y ago
Saying "learn to code" is different from "oh, you got laid off of your trucking job? Learn to code"
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by googlryas 3y ago
I've wondered about these for a while and I feel like it has to be the result of war. "Oh, you want to hide behind your big wall? Okay, we'll just light a huge fire near it and smoke you out" I'd be curious if any o
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by googlryas 3y ago
It sounds like a system where it would just be really hard to get a loan for 5 years every 50 years.
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by googlryas 3y ago
Right, I would more ascribe that viewpoint to some journos on Twitter. I think if that viewpoint is referenced on HN, it is done so derisively.
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by googlryas 3y ago
No, the average US commute is 16 miles one way, whereas OP was saying 30 miles each way: https://hbr.org/2021/05/that-dreaded-commute-is-actually-goo...
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by googlryas 3y ago
Stop looking for work in tech places. It may require you to take a pay cut and work in a place viewed as a cost center though.
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by googlryas 3y ago
30 miles is an outrageous commute. To put it another way, there are 2800 square miles of land closer than your job.
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by googlryas 3y ago
Almost all http clients send Accept-Encoding headers that will significantly shrink the response. Try just gzipping an example html response to get an idea of how good it will be.
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by googlryas 3y ago
I guess COPPA doesn't count.
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by googlryas 3y ago
Are you sure? Maybe most people will search with aspirational scores
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by googlryas 3y ago
How wealthy were his parents and family? How many other people have parents and family that wealthy, or wealthier? How many of them end up being $100+ billionaires?

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