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by jader201 2y ago
> a handful of powerful, connected "insiders" will be allowed to operate businesses, and will dominate... while everyone else gets wiped out, by acts of government Note that this is not an exemption for companies, but an exem
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by jader201 2y ago
I used to get by fine with 5-6 hours, too, until I started getting 7-8 and realized how much better I feel.
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Owner fills restaurant with fresh water to beat Kentucky flooding(cnn.com)
22 points by jader201 2y ago|7 comments
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by jader201 2y ago
These days, about the only liquid you can consume without controversy is water. Some say coffee is good for you (in moderation), some say it's bad for you. Some say certain alcoholic drinks are good for you (in moderation), some say no
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by jader201 2y ago
I'm not sure why this is FP news. I knew "1/2" was being interpreted as "January 2" as soon as I saw the title. This is nothing new, or even particularly interesting -- Excel (and Sheets) have been doing this d
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by jader201 2y ago
> In 2024, California boasted 178,500 total EV ports compared to around 120,000 estimated gas nozzles If 2024 was when they crossed that threshold, that feels like a huge jump in EV chargers (almost 50%) in a single year. I feel like t
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by jader201 2y ago
> And generally the same song for hours (!). Hours? Try days! It doesn’t really bother me, though sometimes I’ll think “ok, it’s time for a different earworm”. But sometimes even listening to other music will not work, and I’m still th
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by jader201 2y ago
One quality of “tribal” that I think gets overlooked is that those that are part of a “tribe” are not willing to be wrong. I feel like those that are more in the middle - in addition to be “accidentally in the middle” as pg says — they’re o
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by jader201 2y ago
I think this got caught by the flamewar detector. :( I like reading discussion on this topic. Not that I've ever seriously considered this, but still interesting to read about.
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by jader201 2y ago
Nice site! One bit of feedback I don’t see mentioned. This may be an iPhone thing, but my experience is that the visuals are about a quarter beat ahead of the audio (at 60 BPM, so about 200-250ms off). Not a big deal, but definitely enough
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by jader201 2y ago
I’m not arguing either side. Just saying that the meta discussion is a discussion that the guidelines try to discourage. IOW, it’s not really relevant to the article, so it’s not promoting curious, interesting discussion. So both this discu
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by jader201 2y ago
From the guidelines [1]: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. (With that last sentence linking to 9 examples in [1].) [1] https://news.
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by jader201 2y ago
Something that is still crazy to me, regarding time zones, is that my hometown (where my mom lives and we visit frequently) is about 1.5 hours to the west, one timezone over. When I’m taking to her on the phone in the evening, we’ll be talk
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by jader201 2y ago
I’m not sure it’s considered a vacation if you didn’t plan on staying 34x the number of days you had originally planned, or have a choice to leave. Especially when you’re separated from your family and other loved ones.
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Trump Says He'll Release JFK Assassination Files on Tuesday(nytimes.com)
16 points by jader201 2y ago|3 comments
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by jader201 2y ago
To be fair, OP never said this was necessarily related directly to the article. I’ll often post loosely related tangents like this because I would enjoy discussing the tangent with the HN crowd, but there’s often not a better opportunity to
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by jader201 2y ago
This still doesn’t explain one of my biggest peeves with keyboards: Why are the keys angled up and to the left — for both hands? Was this to solve the type bar jamming? Or is that also an urban legend? I know there are modern keyboards th
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by jader201 2y ago
This feels more like a feature, not a bug. Local communities all operate in the same time zone. No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone, allowing each time zone to have their own separate communities.
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by jader201 2y ago
> Microsoft just doesn't make enough money from Bing/Edge to pay PC makers to leave Edge as the default. Have you used a Windows PC lately? It seems like once a week I have to ignore/decline prompts to change my default
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by jader201 2y ago
As someone who plays a lot of board games — particularly heavier board games — and hopes to do even more of that in retirement, I’m wondering if/how that is helping/will help fight cognitive decline. I can imagine at the very leas
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by jader201 2y ago
But did the diagnosis result in any sort of ongoing treatment (e.g. medication, formal school/work adjustments, etc.)? It may be personal, and you don’t have to answer, but this is the general question I have to these 15-minute diagnos
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by jader201 2y ago
> The actual reason why America is an outlier is widespread over-diagnosis. > A typical ADHD diagnosis in America is done by a paediatrician or a family doctor in an office visit as brief as 15 minutes. The norm in Europe is an hou
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by jader201 2y ago
This is fun! A quick note that I think I found a way to cheat that you may (or may not) want to patch (though I’ve still enjoyed my plays while “cheating”). I’m on iPhone, and can simply lift my finger to pause the game. Putting my finger b
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by jader201 2y ago
dang, one other option (in addition to/instead of a confirmation): Simply remove the link from the listing. This may work out better, anyway, to add at least one more click of friction to flagging (e.g. for people that may just flippan
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by jader201 2y ago
I think it boils down to the fact that intelligent, curious discussion on topics like this can’t be held on the internet. Even on HN, the comments on the previous threads, and already in this thread too, are getting downvoted and flagged (m
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by jader201 2y ago
That link is still 90% garbage I didn’t ask for.
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> The most worrying part is that I don't know if this sentiment is actually widespread and a seriously held belief. It makes me worry that we might see a continued escalation of political violence this year. Maybe I’m just more a
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by jader201 2y ago
I need a good bird repellent for windows. We eventually took our feeder down after birds kept crashing into our windows near the feeder. I can only assume they were trying to get to "the other bird feeder". It was great while it l
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by jader201 2y ago
Actually, it's even more devious than that. They use wording -- just like this article does -- like "X happens as Y also happens". The keyword being "as" and not "because" or "due to". It implies
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by jader201 2y ago
Yeah, I have noticed that some commands are now interpreted differently/incorrectly. But I’ve just started being less ambiguous with commands now. E.g. simply “turn lights out” has worked for me. So I guess I wouldn’t call that “broken

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