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by hnuser847 4y ago
I live two blocks away from Lake Michigan and I’ve noticed the same effect with sailboats on the horizon. When I’m walking towards the beach and can only see a small sliver of water, sailboats on the water look absolutely massive, but as I
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by hnuser847 4y ago
The truth is, most codebases are terrible. In any company that's been around for more than a year, you're likely to find most (or all) of the following: * Legacy code that was written by people who left long ago and nobody wants t
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by hnuser847 4y ago
You might be thinking of “cross sea”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_sea
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by hnuser847 4y ago
I work for a large, non-tech, Fortune 500 company in the Midwest. When I was interviewing here back in January/February of 2020, they insisted on making all tech workers work in-person out of the Chicago office and even paid me a reloc
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by hnuser847 4y ago
It matters if you intend to sell and you’re underwater on your mortgage.
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by hnuser847 4y ago
This sounds like a sweet deal. If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of side work do you do that only takes a few hours a week?
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Honestly, despite the UX changes, Reddit has stayed remarkably consistent over the past decade or so I've used it. Big, generic subreddits are trash and always have been, but small, focused subreddits are great. Reddit is still hands d
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by hnuser847 4y ago
It’s been dead for years, which is a shame because it was downright the most enjoyable front-end framework/language I had ever worked with. Sure, there’s nothing stopping you from picking it up and writing an app with it right now, but
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by hnuser847 4y ago
There are a lot of reasons. Buying and selling real estate involves high transaction costs - there are closing costs and transfer taxes on the buy side, and 6% commissions and transfer taxes on the sell side - which means in order to break
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by hnuser847 4y ago
Rocket mortgage is a Fannie/Freddie mortgage mill. If the mortgage doesn't tick all the conventional mortgage boxes and can't be instantly sold the government, they won't write it. You're much better off working wit
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by hnuser847 5y ago
This is the hard truth that has taken me many years to accept. When it comes to politics, moral principles are for other people to follow. Lies, hypocrisy, doublethink, violence, etc. are all fair game if they advance the interests of you
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by hnuser847 5y ago
> In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a war going on in Europe. That is a circumstance where some of these cases apply. Indeed, there's a war going on and there's a tremendous amount of propaganda being circulated fro
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by hnuser847 5y ago
There’s a tremendous amount of political power that can be gained by promoting climate change, i.e. the ability to control every aspect of the economy and peoples’ lives. You don’t think that’s a potentially juicy incentive to a budding you
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Does not wanting to not die in a nuclear hellstorm put me on the fringe? Because it seems obvious to me that the most powerful people and institutions in the West are all gearing up for a direct war with Russia. Frankly I’m totally indiffer
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by hnuser847 5y ago
I got a good laugh at how many people replied sincerely to this comment, not knowing it’s literally the opening paragraph of the Unabomber’s Manifesto.
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by hnuser847 5y ago
> I'm not convinced you understand how representative democracy actually works. Are you really arguing for establishing a monarchy in the US, as you seem to be? Not at all, I was just juxtaposing the incentives at play between the t
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Governments are incentivized to do everything wrong at every level. * Unlike a business, governments don't earn revenue from providing services that people want. They earn revenue through taxes, which they get to collect regardless of
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by hnuser847 5y ago
I love ragging on crypto as much as the next guy but this is getting ridiculous.
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by hnuser847 5y ago
It's old news and was reported on by the MSM almost six months ago. Just search for "Jerome Powell insider trading" and a bunch of articles will pop up. NY Times (October 4, 2021) - https://www.nytimes.com/202
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Yeah, the Freudian explanation for why this worked looks like pseudo-scientific gibberish. > By the Freudian psychology, an unconscious gift from the woman to the husband. The woman offered her eggs and the guilt has just disappeared. Be
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Strangely enough, Bernays was also the PR man behind water fluoridation[1]. He was hired by the Aluminum Company of America to help dispose of sodium fluoride, a by-product of the production of aluminum[2]. > The drive to encourage publi
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by hnuser847 5y ago
The 800,000 figure spans two years. The above figures are for one year (2020).
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by hnuser847 5y ago
It wasn't. Heart disease and cancer kill far more people on an annual basis and nobody bats an eye. According to the CDC, these were the top 10 causes of death in 2020[1]: * Heart disease: 696,962 * Cancer: 602,350 * COVID-19: 350,831
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by hnuser847 5y ago
This is more or less the conclusion I've come to as well. All forms of government end up as aristocracy, including representative democracy. It takes a lot of money to fund "grass roots" campaigns, think tanks, lobbyists, and
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by hnuser847 5y ago
The obsession with race is everywhere in the US right now. I work for a Fortune 500, non-FAANG company. I’m required to set four annual goals at the beginning of each year. Two of those goals must relate to my performance or the business’s
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Honestly this is why political discussions are pointless. People can justify literally any behavior if it's for a cause they believe in. Consistent moral principles are only of interest to the philosophers.
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Is Hunt, Gather, Parent worth reading? I'm curious to check it out but I'm worried that it will be another book that falls prey to the "noble savage" literary trope[1]. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm
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by hnuser847 5y ago
This is my dream (especially the part about sailing around the Med). I bought a 34' boat two years ago, however I still work full time and have a six-month old. The best I'll be able to do this summer is go on a three week long tr
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by hnuser847 5y ago
He was handed a global pandemic in which it was completely permissible for leaders to take on unprecedented, unlimited emergency powers, and yet he did nothing. He was actually criticized for not using his emergency powers to implement an (
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by hnuser847 5y ago
Obesity is a major risk factor for COVID hospitalization and death[1]. A few highlights from the CDC[2]: * Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection. * Obesity decreases lung capacity and reserve and

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