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Fast Company is shut down after breach(fastcompany.com)
81 points by jawns 4y ago|57 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
If it were really true that this development group could deliver according to client expectations, they would do what many other groups do: form a consultancy and hire an English-language speaker not as a fake interview candidate but as a l
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by jawns 4y ago
Last year, I was asked to interview a man who was procured through a remote-staffing firm. He was based in Southeast Asia, and on his resume it looked like he met all of the competencies we needed -- including English proficiency. But on th
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by jawns 4y ago
In Delaware, where I live, garbage and recycling pickup are done by private companies, rather than municipal governments. The result is... Four different garbage trucks from four different companies clatter through my neighborhood in the ea
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by jawns 4y ago
I know this is an unsatisfying answer, but the best solution to this problem is to click on page 2.
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by jawns 4y ago
> Claimants of wrongful arrest suits before the bankruptcy are left fighting a shell company left behind to handle the remaining debts of Hertz. ^ This is the final paragraph, but I wish the story went into more detail about it. The plai
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by jawns 4y ago
I'm a former journalist, and I'd like to touch on some of the comments about how this article reads like a dubious infomercial, with a lot of outsized claims that are setting off people's B.S. detectors. They set off mine, as
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Philly pays $30K to two 'courtesy' tow victims, but class-action suit continues(inquirer.com)
112 points by jawns 4y ago|133 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
I've been using variations of "jawn" or "jawns" as my username for 20+ years. It's a word that has endured surprisingly well, as slang goes. And it's a conspicuously egalitarian term. You'll find it
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by jawns 4y ago
AI will only be a positive revolution if it's not putting a large number of people out of jobs, but merely increasing their productivity. Or, if it DOES put a lot of people out of jobs, it would be good for them to have some ownership
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Ask HN: Will running Stable Diffusion shorten the life of my MacBook?
1 points by jawns 4y ago|2 comments
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For those who say they would press the red button ... * Imagine the payout on the red button were not $1M but $100K or $50K or $10K. Is there any point as it diminishes toward zero that would make you switch buttons? * Imagine the payout o
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Vill. Of Woodmere vs. Workman(casetext.com)
1 points by jawns 4y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
There's a distinction to be made between how the schools are organized as business entities and how they actually bring in and spend money. You're correct that schools organized as for-profit business entities have a bad name and
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by jawns 4y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why, then, is East Texas considered a hot-bed for these types of lawsuits? Are the judges there an exception to the rule about not wanting their time wasted?
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by jawns 4y ago
I don't think it's necessarily an either/or. If I go to the Washington Post website, it obviously has a distinctive style that is different from other newspapers. If I download a Washington Post mobile app, it's got tha
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by jawns 4y ago
I am surprised that few commenters have criticized the tech-curmudgeon perspective that underlies most of the author's preferences. His rigid view of what email should consist of is not really mainstream. For personal and some business
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by jawns 4y ago
The source paper could be arguing two things: What we experience as love is a physical process in the brain that includes a second-order phase transition. Second-order phase transitions are appropriate to represent love on a metaphorical le
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by jawns 4y ago
I've seen a shift. Between 2005-2010, I used [company]@[mydomain.com], and I noticed that I would get spam in the form of [gibberish]@[mydomain.com], presumably from spammers who were just targeting email addresses with a catch-call f
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by jawns 4y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy presents a brief overview that addresses some of the questions you raise: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/
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by jawns 4y ago
I think "universe" is an ambiguous word that is not helpful when we talk about this stuff. Like, for instance, you've probably heard of multiverse theory, where there is not just one universe, but many. In which case, &quot
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by jawns 4y ago
If you like the question of "Why does anything exist?" then an obvious next question is: "What's stopping things from not existing?" In philosophy, there is a distinction between things that must be (they're
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by jawns 4y ago
What the study is describing is a psychological trait known as dogmatism. You might be familiar with the words "dogma" or "dogmatic" in their religious sense: a set of beliefs that members of a religion are expected to a
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by jawns 4y ago
I'm aware of the latest developments, but let's work through this. There are basically two categories of Twitter shareholders: Those who are invested in the business's long-term success, and those who could care less about th
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by jawns 4y ago
Imagine it playing out in a romance! "You cad. I never wanted to marry you, but I felt compelled to accept your proposal. But now that you are trying to back out, I am trying to force you to marry me, you idiot." Although in this
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by jawns 4y ago
@ianberdin, there's a link to "Sign up." But it doesn't give a good indication of what signing up does. Does it give me access to additional features? Does it sign me up for marketing emails? Normally at the sign-up
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by jawns 4y ago
Discussion on this from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112411
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by jawns 4y ago
On the flip side, I'm an extravert, but I have stopped considering anything but 100% remote work. I get my energy from others, but that doesn't mean we have to share the same physical space. I used to spend 2 hours a day in a crap
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by jawns 4y ago
One of the commercial use cases this post mentions is authors who want to add illustrations to children's stories. I wonder if there is a way for DALL-E to generate a character, then persist that character over subsequent runs. Otherw
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Ask HN: Who's making it easier to procure software/vendors?
1 points by jawns 4y ago|2 comments

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