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>, and I tend to be unsure how bad it actually is: sometimes it does seem pretty bad, other times it sounds like it's fine, and possibly the chatter about failed deliveries is caused by misconfigured servers and/or misundersta
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A meta observation about the replies: - Group 1 : These alternatives suggestions are great! - Group 2 : These alternatives sound like corporate-drone-speak that are passive-aggressive and condescending. The differences in perception seems l
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>every other ad is what i would describe as "dancing happy diverse young people in colourful clothes" [...] , but with TV ads it isn't even clear what the product they are advertising That type of advertising using &quot
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>Visa is charging 2% for every transaction? [...] Do they provide anything in return? VISA and its member banks + payments processors/gateways provide the financial network to give sellers (like you) the ability to accept VISA c
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>and productivity for the sake of productivity For some reason, the word "productive" causes some readers to get the wrong message. (I.e. some readers see a blog text mentioning "productivity" and thus it must b
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>I have no idea how necessary their actions were It was financially unavoidable for Robinhood because they didn't have the _extra_ billions$ in collateral deposited at the clearinghouse to back up their customers' trades (e
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>If the question is literally about just one program source code, the answer is easy: print it out. Doesn't seem like it's just one source code file if op states : "Requirements are: size < 1GB," Depending on
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>My advice for any engineer wanting to get into music is, get an instrument and learn to play it. Preferably a non-electronic one, so you won't be tempted to turn music into a numbers game. Not debating your advice but just saying
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>, I intend to create a new internet-wide scanning system in order to revive the functionality of CrimeFlare just to prove a point that security through obscurity is no security and all, I'm not familiar with CrimeFlare and its te
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>A job at a start up funded by venture capitalists No, that's not what this thread's "Show HN" is about. It is showing job openings at the VC firms themselves. E.g. a16z, Sequoia, etc. The typical job candidate
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>Does it have some kind of a hidden feature that makes it very appealing? My number one assumption would be that it uses a global userbase, so people who write on Substack can collect subscribers/readers much faster. Substack ha
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>Spot a difference? The difference you point out doesn't matter because not everyone who uses "10x" in conversation is rigorously tracing it back to the 1987 DeMarco and Lister "Peopleware". And arguably, the
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>It's a bit funny that there are already a bunch of comments that are stating "There already is, it's called 'X'", each with a different value for X. It's because the replies are interpreting the op&#
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>What'd be wrong with using something like DBeaver, SqliteStudio, or PG-Admin? Or buying a tool like DataGrip? Microsoft Access 1) Those utilities are not typically included in the workstation image of laptops/desktops unlik
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>The real problem is of course using Excel to maintain data. That's not what it's for. That's what databases are for. Excel is for complex calculations over rows and columns. I use MS Excel extensively and create new .xl
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>Since when does excel support CSV files? Yes you can import and export CSV files but that is just there to check a box. That feature doesn't actually work. Just import and export .xlsx files in your applications directly. You&#x2
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>Arguments against unionization from already tenured faculty usually sound like: An argument against a union at MIT came from un-tenured graduate student Kevin Wang : https://thetech.com/2021/10/21/w
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>, what is the purpose of a student union? I'm guessing the "student" part of "graduate student" is the confusion. Fyi... grad students are also employees of the university. So a labor union applies to t
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> they share with a celebrity. That makes those people related [...] That phenomenon exists, whatever you decide to call it. Some call it this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction A deep link to
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I don't know why it's "(2021)" but I noticed the HTML source does have a tag with "2021" in it. Somebody would have to do a diff between some previous Wayback Machine snapshots and the current page to try and
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>Are you saying that, by the nature of media having to be large corporations, they need to protect other large corporations and therefore paint an incorrect view of the world? No, I'm not saying that at all. Media can run negativ
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[Replying to multiple commenters with the same questions] >SC has the lowest union membership in all 50 states - there's a lot of ingrained bias against unions there, >South Carolina has anti-union laws [...] the least unioniz
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>unionization at an Amazon facility is more than symbolic: It will encourage -- and serve as a blueprint for -- employees at other Amazon facilities to do the same. It really depends on how things play out. E.g. what the extra union d
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>What a puff piece. I don't know if "TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022" is some sort of Forbes-stye pay to play or what, but FFS if you have an opportunity to talk to someone like Jassy, get to the heart of issue
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>This is a hilarious April Fools joke, and so many people are falling for it. Why would it be an obvious April Fools joke if the timestamps in the referenced github thread are March 30 and March 31 ?
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>and many other large tech employers and sign illegal agreements to not hire each other's employees. I don't remember reading about any formally signed agreements . Executives aren't going to create an incriminating pa
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>, I wish someone would take the top 10,000 Google queries and just manually curate them. Hire different interest groups -- outdoors, travel, cuisine, etc. -- and manually find the best hits buried deep in some subreddit. No fancy algor
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>It would just take at astronomical amount of capital to challenge Google at generic Internet search, [...] For example, Amazon is quite content just being the place you want to go to first for the things you want to buy, as that is obv
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>, what would a competitor need to defy Google? One thing a competitor needs is a new and innovative technical algorithm . Back in 1998, Google's PageRank was an innovative algorithm that calculated relevance based on counting b
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>I still have no idea what the title is about. The “clickbaitiness” of HN posts The post's title isn't clickbait. It's a wording style that simply has many auxiliary verbs and grammar articles removed.[1] Anyway, the s

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