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by jannyfer 3y ago
$3500/month rent is $42k/yr. You need $124k/yr of after-tax money for food, transportation, and everything else?!
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by jannyfer 3y ago
No but he has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_(game_developer)
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by jannyfer 3y ago
It’s definitely just for PR points. In Toronto liquor stores, the point of sale payment terminal is on a stand, facing the customer, and you tap or use chip + pin yourself. If you get asked, you to have to show your government ID.
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by jannyfer 3y ago
Like this? https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...
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by jannyfer 3y ago
He has a video too. https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
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by jannyfer 3y ago
And you theorize that people understood contamination thousands of years ago? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
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by jannyfer 3y ago
I strongly agree that non-experts in HN comments write as if they are experts. Without some sort of upvote counter, it becomes hard to distinguish confident bullshit from expertise. Certain individuals are prolific bullshitters too. I’d rea
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by jannyfer 3y ago
https://moth.monster/about/ A 21-year-old from Baltimore.
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by jannyfer 3y ago
Rebuttal on 1000 years claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37383283
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by jannyfer 3y ago
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23422-pulsati... Sounds like pulsatile tinnitus.
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by jannyfer 3y ago
> Your typical signal family neighborhood has the following requirements Maybe in your city. A home designed for Texas is not a good home in Calgary.
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by jannyfer 3y ago
The sleep noise could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome . I read about it on Hacker News, and then later realized I had it... and now I can't un-hear it! I also hear music when there's w
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by jannyfer 3y ago
I don’t think the article or the news release from NASA actually says #2. They could have known for a week but took a week to release the news.
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by jannyfer 3y ago
Great summary. I’ve been reading a pop neuroscience book called Incognito (2011). In it, the author talks about how the brain is a group of competing sub-brains of many forms, and the brain might have several ways of doing the same thing (e
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by jannyfer 3y ago
You mean if someone calls you and tells you they are the bank, then you get push notification to your app, then you can validate that they are the bank, right? That’s true if it’s done right, but it also sounds very similar to how people sc
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by jannyfer 4y ago
Some balcony doors aren't sliding but instead swing open, so that makes it more difficult as well.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
I read an anecdote about someone who got hearing damage from a loud noise that occurred while wearing AirPods Pro (1st gen). It was a bug zapper in that person’s case.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
> up 6.4% from a year ago Is this the correct way to refer to inflation percentage vs. last year? On the graph, it shows that inflation was 7.5% in Jan 2022. The wording makes it sound like it's now 7.5% + 6.4% = 13.9%.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
That’s like saying smoking is not hazardous to your health, getting cancer is. Jumping off a building is not hazardous to your health, hitting the ground is.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
> “Humans don’t sense … wetness” I read this elsewhere too and think it’s worded incorrectly. Maybe our _bodies_ don’t have sensory receptors for wetness, but humans can “sense” it by other means (e.g. by observing change in friction, st
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by jannyfer 4y ago
I appreciate your link but I thought the article did a decent job. It says the chord comes halfway through the final verse, and then has an embedded youtube video of the whole song.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
I hope the ubiquity of cell phones can prevent future crowd surge disasters - by alerting others in the area that there is a dangerous level of crowding.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
I have this too - and I thought it was related to my complete inability to multitask. In a small enough buffer time, I can catch up and context switch and “hear” what was said… but after a certain point, it’s gone (probably out of working m
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by jannyfer 4y ago
Blocking all page content to knowingly cause unintended behavior… I wonder if this can be considered criminal. I read that poisoning your own lunch to catch a workplace fridge thief could be considered assault. EDIT: here’s what I read. ht
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by jannyfer 4y ago
This “Mic Check AI” - I actually just want to try this one feature. I never know what gain I should set on my XLR mic + USB audio interface and I also don’t know how Teams/Webex will do to my signal. Is it compressing my signal? Noise
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by jannyfer 4y ago
I spot checked a few and the generated pokemon colours matched their flags.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
Wikipedia says otherwise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging What you are describing seems to be the Systematic Implementation Plan.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
Agreed, the reply makes me more sure that the comment suffers from non-expertise and that we should remember the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
The actual article’s title is fine for me, it’s just this HN submission’s title that’s hard to parse.
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by jannyfer 4y ago
For Diabetes, there’s Type I (genetic) and Type II (caused by frequent exposure to high blood sugar). I wonder if ADHD might have something similar, that we’re just beginning to notice. The brain’s plasticity might be adjusting to higher le

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