jgwil2

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by jgwil2 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828113 Also, should be noted the article is from (2013).
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Do you mind if I ask how it is that you had kidney stones so long without realizing it that you mistook it for a fear of flying? I was under the impression that was a rather acute problem...
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by jgwil2 3y ago
> with perhaps a Koch brother as the junior senator from Kansas. The Koch brothers' years-long efforts to use their wealth to influence government has led to a Supreme Court that is about to massively curtail the regulatory authorit
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Rate of return = (current value of the account - value of all of your contributions) / current value of your account. That is to say, the total growth of your contributions.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Lots of good advice here. I just want to mention that on the highway, the left lane is for passing only. If you're not actively passing, you shouldn't be in the left lane. This seems not to be taught very well in the United States
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by jgwil2 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231229141143/https://www.nytim...
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Strawberry case study: What if farmers had to pay for water?(nytimes.com)
108 points by jgwil2 3y ago|141 comments
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by jgwil2 3y ago
You can get a watch winder to keep your automatic wound even if you don't wear it all the time.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Probably the headline auto "correcter" lopped off the "Meet" part of the original title. Yet another example of that piece of software being too clever by half if you ask me.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
I'm guessing they mean that's how it went from optional to obligatory.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
If you're mission-critical then your company has a bus factor of 1, so you probably should make sure that other people know how to fill in for you. Then you can take PTO and tell people to look at it as a training exercise just in case
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by jgwil2 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231031110641/https://www.nytim...
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Past Lies About War in the Middle East Are Getting in the Way of the Truth Today(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 3y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 3y ago
The article just says, "non-Western origin or descent," which is a bit ambiguous. I don't know the details, but the use of the word "descent" is concerning: it's an immutable characteristic passed from parents
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Yes, the fact that the main criterion for demolition is the proportion of residents of "non-Western origin" (i.e. non-white people) is what I find disturbing. If they wanted to make it about, say, proportion of native Danish speak
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by jgwil2 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231026043045/https://www.nytim...
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Denmark Aims a Wrecking Ball at 'Non-Western' Neighborhoods(nytimes.com)
29 points by jgwil2 3y ago|75 comments
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Ugh, what an upsetting thing. Not only is it intellectual theft, but its crassness goes completely against the spirit of the comic strip.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Very odd that FB chat is not using end-to-end encryption by default. Why would you even make this opt-in?
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by jgwil2 3y ago
An article that shows almost exactly that: https://stopa.io/post/265
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by jgwil2 3y ago
This is not standard or correct in American English either, though interestingly, German uses the same form for both situations ("ich wünsche, du hättest es getan" vs "du hättest es getan, wenn..."), so if that construct
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Haskell's tooling has put me off ever really trying to get into it again. However, I've dabbled in Purescript a few times and it always seems to offer a pretty smooth experience, especially if you're familiar with JS tooling.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Is Spotify a monopoly? They're competing with all the tech giants: Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, not to mention good old fashioned piracy.
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Image of a Prisoner with Dementia Keeps Haunting Me(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 3y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Longer historical isolation. But I'd guess that most of these dialects are converging under modern influence and are a lot more similar to each other today than they were a century ago.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
I see. But wouldn't your router simply then drop the packet, since there would be no WAN-side entry for that address in the translation table?
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by jgwil2 3y ago
How would such a packet get routed to you in the first place?
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Thanks, the blog post is very straightforward and practical
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by jgwil2 3y ago
Tor/VPNs/HTTPS is a pretty broad spectrum of protections. Everyone on the web now pretty much uses HTTPS all the time. Most people don't use a VPN but I imagine most HN users do or at least know how. Very few people use Tor.
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by jgwil2 3y ago
> It's self-contradictory nonsense invented purely to advance a political agenda. No, it's not. It's meant to describe three major modern religions with common roots in the ancient near east. These religions have much in c

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