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by gurchik 3y ago
He is bad at League, but that article framing it as some kind of mental disorder is grasping at straws. 20% of all League players are in the Bronze tier. I've probably played more League than SBF has and I'm still Silver. Why? Bec
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by gurchik 3y ago
The wind down period is a bit complicated so it's worth pointing it out. If you're already on the ACP, you will continue to receive the benefit until the funds run out, which is probably April unless Congress adds more funds which
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by gurchik 3y ago
What does a bare HTTP connection have to do with this link? The site uses HTTPS.
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by gurchik 3y ago
Just curious, do you feel the same way when someone chooses a job that pays less but has a better work life balance, or a shorter commute, or more opportunities for growth, or similar?
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by gurchik 3y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't intend to say that the player walkout was due to sexual harassment or discrimination claims. The player's association voted for a walkout because the players did not have faith in Riot and in fact believed
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by gurchik 3y ago
The failures of Riot's management have been apparent. Three years ago, the company paid $100 million due to sexual harassment and gender discrimination done at all levels of management including the cofounders and their CEO and COO. Ov
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by gurchik 3y ago
Not sure yet, but probably nothing. I completely understand the expectations written in this thread to receive something in return, but I've given this thought and I'm not sure how to do this in a fair way in this situation. First
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by gurchik 3y ago
I recently helped save $150k per year by deleting node_modules. I noticed that one of our S3 buckets had high data transfer costs, a bucket that our app downloads HTML+JS assets from when we push out a new release. I downloaded the "di
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by gurchik 3y ago
This micromobility movement has been severely affected by these no name duct-taped batteries. Both my apartment building and work's office forbid e-bikes and e-scooters on site due to risk of fire, no exceptions. Even if some solution
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by gurchik 3y ago
> Positions marked "1001" are taken from Fred Reinfeld's 1955 book 1001 Ways to Checkmate. How did you enter these positions into the app? Manually? One idea you can try to avoid manual work: First, download a game databas
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by gurchik 3y ago
I might not have finished my Computer Science degree a few years ago if it wasn't due to Dr Z (as we called him at the time). I was required to take Linear Algebra to satisfy the requirements for the B.S. in Computer Science, but I sim
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by gurchik 3y ago
> Twin galaxy’s lawyer just got caught contacting witnesses directly which is a huge violation of the court I wasn't aware of this. Here's a source, which also links to the relevant complaint submitted to the court: > Twin G
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by gurchik 3y ago
The video you linked doesn't debunk the expert witness testimony, in the video he says he will need to release a follow up video that does the debunking. To be clear, I believe Billy's video shows MAME gameplay. I don't belie
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by gurchik 3y ago
As part of the settlement, Billy's scores will be restored on Twin Galaxies's "Original TG Historical Database." You access this by going to https://twingalaxies.com , and selecting Records, then "The Ori
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by gurchik 3y ago
Why might Apple have a mandatory retirement age? Interesting that you can be too old to be in this position but not too old to be elected President.
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by gurchik 3y ago
> why doesn’t an Amazon prime subscription remove ads? Is there even a way to buy an ad-free experience? First of all, an Amazon Prime subscription soon won't even remove ads from Amazon Video, so why would it be any different for T
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by gurchik 3y ago
Twitch will run preroll ads on your stream unless you elect to run at least 3 minutes of ads per hour. These preroll ads have a huge effect on viewership because new viewers who tune in to an immediate ad will typically just leave. So, thes
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by gurchik 3y ago
So-called "scream test."
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by gurchik 3y ago
> After the call I’ve learned Henry has been trying to explain this as “isolated incident” over tier 1 VC email group and saying the only way this to happen is if the company has opted in to CartaX. How does Karri know this? Did someone
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by gurchik 3y ago
Slightly worse situation here than in your linked example, from what I can see. paulg is talking about Carta apparently used to email investors to advertise the existence of their new CartaX (Liquidity) platform. I don't know the conte
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by gurchik 3y ago
Relevant tweet further down: https://nitter.net/karrisaarinen/status/1743407369512743094 > Buy price was exactly our series b share price. The angel investor in this case was a family member whose investment wa
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by gurchik 3y ago
From the author's perspective, this is not expected according to their agreement with Amazon. Unfortunately from the consumer's perspective, this is not surprising at all. Everyone I know has received a "used" item sold
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by gurchik 3y ago
Having at least 3 computers allows you the option to disable a malfunctioning computer while still giving you redundancy for random bit flips or other environmental issues.
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by gurchik 3y ago
According to the article, this penalty is more than half their annual profits last year. From the press statement[1]: > ... $1.675 billion, the largest civil penalty we have ever secured under the Clean Air Act, and the second largest en
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by gurchik 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766570
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by gurchik 3y ago
I did a search for the phrase because I was also curious what it meant and hadn’t heard it before, but found your original question on the first page of the search results.
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by gurchik 3y ago
> Why would they pay ransomware hackers when they would obviously have backups. Sucks to have data compromised, but presumably it's not lost. It's been more than a month. I think if it was this easy, they would be online by now
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by gurchik 3y ago
I've always wanted to ask, how do engineers who work at Google think about this? I want to work at a company where I feel like I'm making the lives of our users better. I'm sure this is true for lots of users of Google produc
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by gurchik 3y ago
> Ad-free content really is possible, and Amazon is showing us how to do it. I’m not sure I understand. Amazon Video requires a paid subscription, by that logic YouTube also has ad-free content (if you pay for Premium). Not to mention, P
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by gurchik 3y ago
It's a mechanical movement regulated by quartz. In a traditional mechanical movement, the escapement prevents the main spring from unwinding all at once. It is done with a fork which ticks at a certain rate governed by the balance whee

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