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by jgh 8y ago
That doesn't always work. Some places only care about parents or grandparents, others (like USA) require the person spend a number of contiguous years in the country in order to sponsor family. I have a grandparent who was born in th
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by jgh 8y ago
"Dangerous Ideas"? These are pedestrian essays on barely-concealed white nationalism. These guys are concerned about "Western Culture" and seemingly obsessed with IQ. In fact the two essays (other than the about page)
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by jgh 8y ago
Sure but there are numerous other examples where human activity has ruined the ecology...
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by jgh 8y ago
+1 for clojure
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by jgh 8y ago
you're not required to do humanities/liberal arts at US universities?
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by jgh 8y ago
(note I haven't worked on subpixel AA for font rendering, but have for something different) the amount of color you apply to each subpixel has different levels of intensity depending on how deeply into the pixel the shape goes, so you
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by jgh 8y ago
That doesn't seem to be a consistent thing in LA anyhow. But yeah definitely some apartments dont have fridges supplied.
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by jgh 8y ago
> The country is not socially tailored to attract and retain highly skilled specialized workers I recently moved to France and had at one point considered moving to Spain. My wife and I are Canadians and we both wanted a change of pace
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by jgh 8y ago
Congrats on the success! Yes definitely replace yourself sooner than later or you will regret it when you're dealing with company stuff and you need to fix a bug at the same time!
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by jgh 8y ago
because Coinbase is one of the largest and what would Facebook do if they couldn't own everything everywhere?
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by jgh 8y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you are correct. Yes these are just people, but to me this is a typical Silicon Valley insider story. It would be more interesting if he was some talented AI researcher or somet
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by jgh 8y ago
Yes I understand the relevance but I am not a person reading that blog post with that context. The context I have is this: Here I am, some guy browsing hacker news. Oh look, some other guy wrote a blog post on becoming a CTO. I will clic
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by jgh 8y ago
Am I supposed to be collecting the baseball cards of Silicon Valley's elite?
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by jgh 8y ago
Half-joking. I read that sentence and couldn't help but groan because it came across as so damn privileged.
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by jgh 8y ago
Just casually having dinner with Elon Musk and Sam Altman, as one does.
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by jgh 8y ago
Why was there a 17 year delay between the 2nd launch and 3rd launch?
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by jgh 8y ago
Sorry for not replying sooner. She took it nightly yes (we are no longer somewhere with legal cannabis), but on the order of 5mg of THC (via edibles). It's not really enough to get her high, but it does help her stay asleep. The eff
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by jgh 8y ago
> You might say that we’re not a certain number of years away from a working fusion power plant, but rather about $80-billion away (in worldwide funding). That's a surprisingly small number for the impact nuclear fusion could make.
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by jgh 8y ago
I never read the manga but the anime is great!
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by jgh 8y ago
Have you tried thc? My wife has sleeping problems and thc really helps her a lot.
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by jgh 8y ago
I have a feeling most people in SAG-AFTRA aren't millionaires.
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by jgh 8y ago
There are already restrictions on knives like switchblades, butterfly knives, bowie knives, stilettos, etc.
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by jgh 8y ago
It's a conundrum, isn't it? On one hand travel inspires people to learn about the world and, hopefully, become more open-minded. As the article said it's never been cheaper to travel, so people who otherwise would not have
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by jgh 8y ago
I worked on 911 reporting software oh 6 or 7 years ago now, and I seem to remember talk about allowing SMS and MMS along with live-streamed video coming from mobile phones to the PSAPs ... but I guess there hasn't been much movement on
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by jgh 8y ago
I'm similar to you. An every-day / almost every day C++ user. I've been using Clojure for a personal project and I really enjoy the much-reduced overhead imposed by the language. Unfortunately it runs on the JVM so that&#x
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by jgh 8y ago
Bikes have bigger wheels than scooters.. Try an electric scooter in a few inches of slush ;)
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by jgh 8y ago
Although electric scooters aren't a great replacement for self-driving cars in a lot of places that aren't California.
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by jgh 8y ago
Yeah I'm with you there. I've had a 2017 15" MBP for about 6 months now and the keyboard is acting up a bit. I guess I must have something under the left Command key because it's not really pressing the same way as the
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by jgh 8y ago
Well, you always had to rephrase it. Being that the number of possible sources were pretty limited it would be easy for the teacher to catch you plagiarizing heh.
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by jgh 8y ago
I did some reading on the impact of remote work on the environment last year, unfortunately it seems I may have been too aggressive with my bookmark pruning and can no longer find the material I managed to dig up. Between just the pure num

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