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How old is your globe [pdf](replogleglobes.com)
2 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
To me, the most disturbing part of this story came at the very end, where it says that he has just relearned, for the thousandth time, that his children are now in their late teens and early 20s -- whereas his last memory of them was as lit
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The Missing E.T. Denominator(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
2 points by jawns 6y ago|1 comments
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He Invented the Rubik's Cube. He's Still Learning from It(nytimes.com)
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Amazon reportedly placing 1k warehouses in U.S. neighborhoods(usatoday.com)
1 points by jawns 6y ago|1 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
I'm a former news editor who went from a national, NYC-based publication to a metro newspaper in a small state. It wasn't because my skills were lacking -- I was being recruited by other national publications in NYC -- but because
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by jawns 6y ago
They work because although they lose money, they don't lose as much money as the alternative. In other words, if you sit on your money, it might evaporate at a rate of -3%, but if you loan your money, it evaporates at a rate of -1%.
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Can you out-Vizzini your adversaries using level-k thinking?(newlywed.science)
1 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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Interactive: You (Probably) Think You're a Better-Than-Average Driver(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
2 points by jawns 6y ago|2 comments
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Analysis: Hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs(hechingerreport.org)
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As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip(hechingerreport.org)
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Experts see chance for Covid-19 vaccine approval this fall – if it’s done right(statnews.com)
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Wish confidentially files to go public(cnbc.com)
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by jawns 6y ago
Keep in mind that when you take these calculated risks, there are actually several types of risks involved. There's personal risk: What are the chances that I will suffer direct personal harm from this encounter? There's direct so
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by jawns 6y ago
It is only good for consumers in the short term, when there are many other options. But over the long term, why would a company need to compete on price if it's already squeezed out all its competition? There is also the effect on labo
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by jawns 6y ago
Unfortunately, anti-competitiveness regulations can only go so far. A better step, albeit a much more controversial one, is to address the problem at an earlier level. Before companies have the ability to engage in sustained anti-competitiv
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by jawns 6y ago
10% faster is a pretty nice improvement, especially in 2020. Here's a little Wikipedia stub about Profile-Guided Optimization, for those who'd like to read more about the technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jawns 6y ago
It's not surprising that only a minority would want to be full-time employees. But that's the wrong question. The better question is: What percentage would want to be either full-time or part-time employees? I would imagine the pe
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by jawns 6y ago
By the way, remarking about whether a comment should or should not be downvoted is also against HN guidelines: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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by jawns 6y ago
I imagine the reason it's downvoted is not because the point isn't valid, but because of the tone. From the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have
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by jawns 6y ago
Yeah, I would much rather see lawmakers recognize that ridesharing workers are employees, and change the law to accommodate micro-shifts, than to say that because micro-shifts go against existing law, ridesharing workers can't possibly
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by jawns 6y ago
This is incorrect. Determining whether someone is an independent contractor has always involved multiple factors. Flexibility of working hours is just one of the factors. You cannot say categorically that having the ability to choose your
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by jawns 6y ago
This is not the only way to employ workers, though. We often think of "on the clock" employment in terms of shift work, where the worker has a scheduled, fixed-length shift with a single employer, and whether they're actively
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by jawns 6y ago
There are so many mobile apps out there that are little more than wrappers around the mobile site -- but it's vital that they be apps for precisely this reason. Neverthless, as a user, it drives me crazy; I just want to access the sit
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by jawns 6y ago
You are conflating income stability with process stability. Income stability benefits workers, because when their income is stable (same amount in each paycheck, paychecks in regular intervals) it is much easier to make a budget. There is
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by jawns 6y ago
There was a technology that I started seeing about 10-15 years ago (I believe Paypal used it at some point) where bank payments happened "instantaneously" because they were backed by a credit card on file. The bank settlement sti
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by jawns 6y ago
It would be hard for the affected user to know this is happening, so it seems as if the only way to know whether it happens is to write the code first.
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Ask HN: If a HN user downvotes all comments by another user, is that punished?
3 points by jawns 6y ago|5 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
There is always going to be some gray line that, if crossed, gets you into antitrust territory, and Alphabet is incentivized to get as close to that line as possible without going over it. And it's large enough to invest considerable
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I’m a Nurse in New York. Teachers Should Do Their Jobs, Just Like I Did(theatlantic.com)
33 points by jawns 6y ago|51 comments

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