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I can't think of a better accidental metric than that! I'll go ahead and speculate that the number of incoherent sentences per article has gone down substantially over the last decade, probably due to the relevant tooling getting
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> Afterwards I don't feel like I know something, I feel like I've got a faster broad idea of what facts might exist and where to look for them, a good set of things to investigate, etc. Can you cite a specific example where thi
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I don't understand the implication of your first sentence. The NC Bathroom Bill passed in March 2016, and it had an immediate flurry of corporate backlash that lasted to the partial repeal in 2017. The bill was part of a growing amount
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You just did it in the wrong order: 1. Buy the index 2. Check your portfolio multiple times a day Now it's less like gambling and more like being entertained looking at your fish tank.
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> That is a very difficult assertion to validate. Keep in mind he's limited his assertion to UX. That narrow point is almost certainly true in the case of his C codebase. But read the rest-- he literally wrote how security researche
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> All right, this isn't a significant portion of my expenses so I'll pay the 3x cost since my dishes come out clean anyway. It's good to know there's another HN poster out there like me who doesn't mind using Ele
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> When they encounter a problem, they should use their superior problem-solving ability to solve it. This sentence doesn't make sense in the context of human emotions. It's a category error. Closest approximation: imagine someo
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"Maximum out of pocket" is a single dollar amount listed somewhere in your health insurance plan. It'd be in the ballpark of $8 or $9k. (Again, double it.) If you are saying you only have $5k saved then your plan effectivel
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Most of the large city mayoral races in the U.S. are partisan. But I'm not sure how it breaks down by state in the U.S. for small towns.
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There are lots of small towns in the U.S. where mayors and board members' campaigns are not partisan. That is, they don't run as members of a political party. Just candidates who campaign to "keep the city services running.&q
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What's your maximum out-of-pocket for the catastrophic plan? Btw-- make sure to double the MOOP since catastrophes can easily straddle the end of one 12-month period and the beginning of the next 12-month period.
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Ok, even Doug Crockford has mucked around with licensing before, so this is definitely a digression and not aimed at CharlotteOS which looks fascinating: I wish there was a social stigma in Open Source/Free Software to doing anything o
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> GPLv3 or later (with proprietary driver clarification) What's that parenthetical mean?
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> Edit: also, I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't find it any more or less complicated if the package name came first. rkomorn.skills.tty.tab_completion -= 1;
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Hehe, purity is one helluva drug! For some reason, this makes me think of SVG's foreignObject tag that gives a well-defined way to add elements into an SVG document from an arbitrary XML namespace. Display a customer invoice in there,
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I think people are rightly skeptical of intuitions for the obvious reason-- they are shortcuts that don't come with easy verification that the "intuiter" knows (and can effectively communicate) the chain of reasoning that led
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Would be very curious about, say, the worst MLB team's ticket sales vs. the Savannah Bananas.
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> It's a nonsensical question. Are you talking about a discrete signal or a continuous signal?
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> Players are incentivized to win, and the league is incentivized to entertain. Players are incentivized to win due to specific decisions made by the league. In Bananaball the league says, "practice your choreographed dance number b
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> But wait, shouldn’t we be drowning in new, groundbreaking art? We are. I just watched a short Youtube clip of Corey Henry on organ accompanying a preacher's sermon. It's fucking insane-- he's doing two-handed Liszt-inspi
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> My primary point was comparative - wait times are considerably longer for the NHS than in the US. So we're talking about a situation where a doctor thought a patient required an MRI-- using your word-- "immediately." In
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> Meanwhile, my parents in the US at a hospital get a CT scan, MRI 'just in case' immediately (or close-to for the MRI) and pay nothing for it. I live in U.S. and know people on ACA Marketplace plans, employer HDHP, Medicaid, M
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> If you’re using an LLM to spit out text for you, they’re not your thoughts, you’re not the one writing, and you’re not doing a good job at communicating. Might as well just give people your prompt. It's like listening to Bach&#x27
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> It's a strange situation, it'd be like if a majority of drivers didn't know how to change gears. If you literally can't change gears then your choices are a) go nowhere (neutral), b) burn out your clutch (higher gea
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If Alan Kay doesn't respond directly to this comment, what is Hacker News even for ? :) You're not wrong about history, but that only strengthens Kay's case. E.g., our gazillion-times better physical substrate should have le
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One mildly interesting fact MANY programmers get wrong about the is_computer_on function: It is threadsafe. The documentation is very clear about this.
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I mean, you left yourself open to that glib, low-effort criticism when you wrote this: > no software or programmable hardware That's obviously too stringent. Consider: 1. Precinct hand-counts every single paper ballot bubble sheet.
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The feature set commenters here want is insane: * fast as possible * LAN, but also WAN when necessary * in fact how about multi-protocol, and use the fastest protocol that's available on both devices, it's 2025 people! * work for
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> double++ I'd suggest to ++double the cost. Compare: ++double: spoken as "triple" -> team says that double++ was a joke, we can obviously only double the cost -> embarrassingly you quickly agree -> team laughs -&
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> - Non-commitment: choosing one of them doesn't prevent you from choosing another for the next meal. Left unspecified-- do you mean as measured scientifically? Or do you simply mean that a person perceives that this choice won&#x

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