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by ihaveajob 1y ago
I'm wondering, what language do youb love nowadays?
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by ihaveajob 1y ago
Interesting article, but those cumulative maps are... not so useful. They're straight up from https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/13nm1o/heatmap/
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by ihaveajob 1y ago
Agreed. As a Spaniard, I'm surely biased, but I prefer pork to beef any day of the week.
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by ihaveajob 1y ago
In bike-friendly places like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, it's super rare to see a helmet. A bike helmet offers reasonable protection in a solo fall, but it has nearly cosmetic effect if you're hit by a car. But one thing you don&#x2
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
I found the headline confusing. It would have been helpful to include the type of cancer in it. Or if it's a pan-cancer treatment, to say so explicitly.
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
Ok, but beside the aqueducts, orthography and lasting peace, what good were the Romans for us?
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
This aged well :)
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
Lots of low-level foot soldiers. Not the capo.
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
All they have to do is leave things as they are. They won't have trouble NOT following through in their promises. Politicians do that all the time. The US economy is the strongest of its peers, and the best it's been in a long tim
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
I wish the term 'displacement' would be more commonly used, because it encapsulates the negative aspects of gentrification. On the other hand, gentrification has objectively positive aspects (improvements in safety, amenities, liv
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
I left a pair of sandals in the shower room at work (a shared space) way before the pandemic. We stopped having a desk there, and I stopped coming in other than for a few social events. Then the office closed, and reopened. I came back for
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
When I wrote my PhD thesis (the closest thing to a book I've ever worked on), I used LyX and I loved it. All the power of LaTeX, with a usable UI. When you're done, just apply the publisher settings and you're out!
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
That was my favorite feature. And the random match part, way earlier than ChatRoulette. I remember talking to some kid in the Philippines about the history of her country and mine (Spain). Mind-blowing at the time.
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
At least in Spain, there's a lot of local control by city hall on zoning. A lot of people assume that any large development that comes up only did so because of backroom deals, so they oppose it blindly. And that translates to who they
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
I live in the US but my family is in/from Spain. When my mom was visiting, we had to attend a funeral (for my wife's grandpa), and after the ceremony everyone went to a local restaurant and had a small feast. My mom was appalled,
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
My god, I saw this comment and thought it'd be fun to pick up something by Neal Stephenson. After all, I loved Cryptonomicon back in college. But it's 880 pages! As a slow reader, this is sadly not something I'll ever get to.
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by ihaveajob 2y ago
When I was a TA in grad school, I noticed the same. Early on I thought some BS answers were at least kind of funny, and I gave them the benefit of the doubt, maybe giving more attention to the parts that were correct. After I saw similar an
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
That's right. I remember a local "electrification festival" where some vendors and city officials teamed up to explain the various options. One of the most common questions was "will this lower by bill"? And the mos
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
It's also a very powerful "office OS" type of platform. Nobody else comes near in that dimension AFAIK. Agreed that it's not a designer's wet dream, but it does the job, albeit in a clunky way.
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
I have a similar mental model, but Teams the way we use it is more of a replacement of Slack than Zoom. It's a huge app in terms of features, and it covers both segments, so it's not really a clean divide there.
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
Of course, but I'm not inside his head :)
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
Beautiful presentation. I love when visualizations serve the goal and not the other way around. Tufte would be proud.
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
Ha! This is basically why I bought uglyavatar.com a couple of years ago. I was taken aback when I saw this on HN. Maybe I should do something with it one day...
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
The Madrid airport offered this service, but it wasn't very popular, nor widely known. You checked in your luggage downtown and hopped on the subway to get to the airport with just your carry-on. I can't find any reference now, so
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
If it was anything like the Spanish Civil War, lots of people just happened to live in an area that was controlled by one or another side. Those who were committed to their cause probably did their best to escape or take arms. Most were sim
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
I suppose you didn't buy the entire town, so you can't preclude your neighbors from wanting their property to appreciate, their lives to become more social, and their environment to change.
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
San Francisco, the densest city in the state, is 3/4 suburbia. There's no reason why it couldn't host 4 times the population without resorting to Hong Kong style urbanism (which would be great IMO, but that's a separate
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
I suppose they meant that their opinions are not that controversial or against the norm. I've encountered this when I talk online about car safety, speeding, and generally about safe streets. There's a particular type of car lov
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
The corollary is that everyone is an idiot until they win, or quit. Then they're either winners or quitters.
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by ihaveajob 3y ago
This sounds like a great teacher. The fact that you got this gem to think about years (decades?) later tells so much about his craft.

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