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by havelhovel 5y ago
My sense of community would have to be severely damaged or underdeveloped to be content with municipal policies possibly helping individuals who live thousands of miles away while passing by people living in tents on a daily basis.
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by havelhovel 5y ago
Surely you can’t simultaneously support cultural relativism (misplaced as it may be for an American author being discussed by mostly Americans) and also speak for an entire group of people who existed thousands of years ago. The only thing
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by havelhovel 5y ago
Well in the meantime I derive enjoyment from the animals and plants around me and believe this finding helps explain why similarly present-minded folks should be concerned about the survival of what remains.
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by havelhovel 5y ago
For context, the bird population in North America has declined by around 3 billion since the 70s: a 30% decrease. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-skies-bill...
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by havelhovel 5y ago
I have read similar accounts of the passenger pigeon and trust them to be mostly truthful, at least relative to what we can hope to see in the present day. However, as you suggest, the 50b number represents bird populations under crisis and
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by havelhovel 5y ago
Sadly this isn’t true either. Some species that coexist with humans may be doing better, but they can be counted on one hand. North America’s bird population is 30% less than it was in the 70s.
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by havelhovel 5y ago
North America’s wild bird population has declined by 30% since the 70s alone, long after once populous species like the passenger pigeon were hunted to extinction.
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by havelhovel 5y ago
I think the line about streaming is less of the author being a jerk and more of the author resetting the dialogue concerning the average tech know-how of Gen Z relative to previous generations. Of course for every IT geek in the author’s ge
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by havelhovel 5y ago
Things I have avoided over the past year: wearing uncomfortable clothes, being unable to use a restroom because it’s occupied, sweating from the heater, shivering from the AC, being held hostage by coworkers who talk at me about their perso
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by havelhovel 6y ago
I agree with your impression but potentially disagree with the solution if adding vertical whitespace means more scrolling for the same information.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
I've used alternative knots since high school, but about five years ago I woke up with no recollection of any knot except for the Balanced/Granny Knot. It was as though the knowledge had been wiped from my brain despite years of d
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by havelhovel 6y ago
I would say that’s a strange response since the article implies the exact opposite of your assumption: that is, a right-leaning editor is applying their politics to entries on left-leaning individuals and organizations.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
It seems to me that the issues you raised could be addressed through simple technological solutions or better management, assuming your company actually wants to embrace remote work. New hires afraid to ask for help? Make it clear that it&#
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Just look at AAPL or, heck, even SPY returns over the last decade. These opportunities were equally available to rich and poor alike, and they certainly didn't require a team of analysts working around the clock to uncover.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
> To me it has completely poisoned any idea of WSB being a force... Good! WSB was a place to talk about making (reckless or stupid) investments. Pundits and politicians sold a different, mostly harmful narrative.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
I thought the argument was that fire allowed us to process meat and acquire the calories needed to be more productive. Regardless, your argument seems to be that eating meat is better than starving. That isn’t an argument for eating meat. I
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Whether your claim is true or not, there’s more to a product than the underlying technology. Frankly, this line of discussion reads as sour grapes and reflects poorly on the Linode team.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
The key word is “I’d” which is the contraction of “I would”, which indicates a hypothetical situation separate from the commenter’s ego or self-image.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
LastPass was great when it was free, but 1Password is the better value now. Even Bitwarden provides a better looking UI. Glad LogMeIn made this change public before I moved my startup over to their service out of loyalty (i.e. laziness).
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by havelhovel 6y ago
I think your comment was not well received because it compares the stock market to laws of physics and gravity, limits GME investor psychology to a) hubris or b) ignorance, describes a market exchange as a Ponzi scheme, proposes that mill
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by havelhovel 6y ago
He could have exited for tens of millions (somewhere around 30 or 40) but held. As for my own two cents, he wasn't holding to make a point or pump the stock, but was instead sticking to his guns and following his own publicized strateg
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Having been personally unable to justify the astronomical price of buying a replacement laptop while in Brazil, I assume Amazon is complying with tax policies: “Import costs include the Import Duty (II), the Merchandise and Service Circulat
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Looking at the author's most recent posts, I'm betting he triggered a false positive with whatever classifier is being used to identify alt-right agitators. His posts included the following keywords or phrases: "capitalism&qu
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by havelhovel 6y ago
It's absolutely ridiculous that anyone would argue that calling white supremacists "Nazis" is as bad as supporting the ideology of white supremacy. One is semantics and the other is a hateful fantasy that deserves no place in
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by havelhovel 6y ago
The background information is interesting, but the lack of any base rates and the use of apples-to-oranges comparisons makes the author’s argument seem like one made in bad faith. The author omits that 20% of shelter dogs are still euthaniz
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Harper's, The Economist, and for anyone in the Western U.S., High Country News.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Nope. Twitter is a product. If it becomes China’s mouthpiece, you can point your browser to a different URL.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
My parents, both with master’s degrees, worked at least eight hours every day teaching, grading assignments, and then preparing for the following day. I would guess about ten hours on average, seeing as I was mostly left alone as a child wh
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by havelhovel 6y ago
If only teachers were as intelligent and wise as HN’s anonymous commenters.
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by havelhovel 6y ago
Not everyone values having an open device. Being my family and friends’ on-call tech support tells me this would in fact be a negative.

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