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by jameslk 6y ago
The LLC won't protect the company you're working with from AB5. You would need to form an S-Corp and put yourself on payroll with benefits, or work through a staffing agency on W2, or become the company's employee, or move ou
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by jameslk 6y ago
The US dollar is just a type of asset (i.e. of the cash asset class). I'm proposing that it's become less valuable compared to other types of assets such as specific stocks like Apple's, gold, etc. I believe this is due the e
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by jameslk 6y ago
It's not that Apple has grown that much in value, but rather the US dollar has become more worthless. Even gold is up nearly 20% since May.
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by jameslk 6y ago
I've had a burner FB account for years and have never had an issue. What's your source for this?
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by jameslk 6y ago
> In 2007, the American psychologist Roy Baumeister put forward what has become the most influential psychological model of self-control. His strength model likens willpower to a muscle. Ego depletion, the premise this article is based u
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by jameslk 6y ago
I have my doubts that MDN will be able to keep receiving the same level of updates with these layoffs. I'd hope they would, but that doesn't seem logical unless either contributions increase from outisde somehow (e.g. Google and M
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by jameslk 6y ago
Google seems to be paying technical writers to build the free (growing) alternative to MDN, https://web.dev . It's not a generalized web resource yet like MDN, but just wait. Of course, you'll have to accept that the do
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by jameslk 6y ago
I think a "treacherous stab in the back" (i.e. betrayal by the UAE) is an accurate way to represent what's being said in these quotes: > The Fatah movement said the UAE is "flouting its national, religious and humanit
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by jameslk 6y ago
Quite the diatribe, but just to clarify Al Jazeera is actually citing multiple Palestinian sources for reactions in their article, not just Hamas.
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by jameslk 6y ago
https://apnews.com/abcb0ed9a84e2d3da7d87c28641ccc21 Another vantage point from the AP. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/israel-uae-announce-n... And Al Jazeera for somewhat completeness
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by jameslk 6y ago
Web performance This is an underappreciated field that lends to plenty of consulting. As the web becomes more complex, with heavy frontend code, third party services, and demanding amounts of images and videos, it's requiring a deeper
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by jameslk 6y ago
I think they're better off as a separate library (similar to react-transition-group), as someone else has suggested in the comments. There's certain cases where they come in handy, I understand this, but they didn't need to b
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by jameslk 6y ago
While not as sexy, you can do: <MyList {...{items, selectedItem, onItemClicked}} /> There's a lot of "gets you most of the way there" hacks with JSX that will fill most needs. Where as you can imagine the
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by jameslk 6y ago
It's refreshing to see a major release of a frontend library that doesn't completely redo the API (React Router and Angular, take note). I remember there was a time when a bunch of features were being considered to be bolted on to
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by jameslk 6y ago
That's awesome. It'd be interesting to see this applied as a general way to browse videos across the open web. Like StumbleUpon for videos.
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by jameslk 6y ago
> The National Academy of Sciences recommends housing mice between 20 and 26 degrees Celsius — about 68 to 79 degrees Fahrenheit. But the natural comfortable temperature for mice is warmer — between 30 and 32 degrees Celsius (86 to 90 de
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by jameslk 6y ago
I had a similar idea, but from the frontend. I think it would solve a few edge cases where frontend logic is needed to complete full state-based interactions. But I think there's now some solutions out there for this. Good to see some
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by jameslk 6y ago
Turbolinks and the like just move the problem elsewhere. Great, now your site is no longer blank on subsequent loads but your first input delay has jumped by a magnitude since the server still takes forever to respond. There's still a
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by jameslk 6y ago
Do you have any data to prove that server-side rendering will lead to "faster" websites? The article definitely doesn't provide any. Server-side rendering means the web page will be blank until the server responds. If a major
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by jameslk 6y ago
Hundreds of comments yet not one questions the fact that the premise of the article might be flawed. They're using "onload" event times and calling this "webpage speed" (there's no such thing as webpage speed b
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US Can’t Ban TikTok, but It Can Hurt It(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by jameslk 6y ago|1 comments
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by jameslk 6y ago
Happiness, in its usage in the article and by me, is not pleasure. Your disagreement is not with my point
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by jameslk 6y ago
Not everyone lives to seek happiness. There's no reason to view seeking "success" or any other mode of living as illness just because it's not going to achieve happiness. I don't think most want to be simply happy a
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by jameslk 6y ago
You're being downvoted for stating you downvote things you don't like by others who don't like you downvoting things you don't like. The irony in that is worth savoring for a moment.
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German and U.K. Officials Warn of a Possible New Covid-19 Wave in Europe(npr.org)
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by jameslk 6y ago
> The only way to change this is to reform tax law. I'm curious what kind of tax reform you have in mind?
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by jameslk 6y ago
This is close and also interesting in it's own right, but I don't think it addresses outward leakage, only inward leakage. I'm not sure why you're being downvoted but I guess that's HN for you.
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by jameslk 6y ago
Yes, that's arguing past the point with a different point, not addressing it. This is a strawman argument being used to distract and shut down. The argument about leaking air around a mask is interesting (hence why I'm looking for
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by jameslk 6y ago
"Shut down" here simply means this point isn't really addressing whether masks reduce transmission and there's nobody who's countering this specific point with any research from what I've seen. It has little re
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by jameslk 6y ago
There's been some images/videos going around on social networks showing people blowing smoke into a mask, with the smoke coming out around the edges of the mask. Here's an example: https://imgur.com/a/5fb

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