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America, surprisingly, in a southern state no less, where heart disease and diabetes rates are higher. Our work has a grandfathered non-ACA plan (we got to keep our old insurance but means we miss out on "free" stuff like contrace
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Whats remarkable to me is how this stands in contrast to some historical European cities like in Greece, Italy and Spain where some of the buildings and cities have remained essentially the same for hundreds of years! (In many cases, longer
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Money^, benefits^^, ample PTO^^^, and a 8-5 workday allowing plenty of time for the important things in life like my family are exactly the reasons I do. ^: You know, like real money, not 90k plus 2.5% of something that will probably not ex
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Not sure if I got my facts straight, but one of their biggest users, gambling website Bet365, I believe bought the IP, open sourced it, and threw in a couple million to keep development going.
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I would most likely elect to donate to the vast majority of them, however, compulsory use of my blood in research without giving me the option to even give my consent, or opt out in the rare occurrence that it is of moral or ethical concern
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I am sure it is, and I vastly support probably >95% of it, and more than happy to if I am given the information of which university and for what type of research in the event that there is a moral concern of mine, or ethical concern with
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Don't donate to the Red Cross anyways. I was a long time donor and I recently told them off when I actually took the time to read the packets and disclosures and it turns out they ship your blood off to universities for testing and res
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I vaguely remember my computer arch course in college describing how everything we have today essentially suffers from the von neumann bottleneck, that even if we implemented a lambda calculus machine, it would still suffer from this bottle
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My larger point is, we already are, miles and away, a much bigger improvement than what most of our parents had. If we want to improve workers lives, let's start with the vast majority of workers, and not the top 5%. Isn't that th
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Can you give out any more details? Can this replace a restaurant POS system like Micros, Aloha, Digital Dining, et all? My brother is a restaurant owner and is struggling with one of those scummy legacy POS systems and I am trying to help h
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Also, once again this is the HN bubble rearing it's ugly head again. Suffice to say here most people have never worked in a customer facing job or manual labor job (food service, delivery, retail, sales, construction, landscaping). Mos
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There was some discussion earlier about the former Camlistore, and how it differs from the Upspin project in a couple threads here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700492 ) but maybe the authors can chime in here and
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Tried it -- we did "office hours" What ended up happening is this, multiple times a day, "Hey, I know it's outside of office hours, but..."
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interesting, thanks for pointing that out. I am attracted more to the finishes on the keyboardio than the uhk, it will be a tough decision for me
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I was curious so I looked at their marketing vid. "I found a bunch of research about keyboard design [...] and every keyboard design in the last 20 years has flat out ignored it" It also seems they flat out ignored the single most
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The best ones I have read take it a little closer to the guitar: "Learn the freboard" Learn why the freboard is the way it is, why it is tuned the way it is, why no one for hundreds of years has been able to come up with a better
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I hear you. I am frustrated with distractions more than the next person. I am the person who has received on performance reviews, on multiple occasions, this exact phrase on more than one occasion: "becomes noticeably upset when distra
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> These are literally the least difficult issues around self driving cars. You are either young, or extremely naive (or both) if you don't think these are going to be challenging problems. > so we should stop trying? Not sure why
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I see this fallacious argument made as a counterpoint time and time again and it is getting tiresome. If you look at all the relative statistics, both IIHS and insurance, the drivers who practice safe driving techniques and do not drive dis
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> Driverless cars are coming along just fine. I am curious why you believe this to be the case? Driverless cars have yet to even come close to being workable in adverse conditions, to my knowledge, please correct me if I am wrong. > T
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> Usually the pretense is dropped when the chance to advance self interest like money comes up When money is also the means to survival, it warrants a little more nuance than to wholly dismiss someone compromising in some way in order to
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I am sorry but this is HN idealism in full display yet again. People here time and time again vastly overestimate how little of a shit people give about their browser history, or that some company is showing them ads based on their profil
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> Helping Google is contributing to the largest walled-garden that exists. They can't outright come out and take an adversarial position against google -- they rely on them for hundreds of millions of dollars. Mozilla would not exi
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I love having a manual car in traffic simply because it gives me something to do to pass the time. I can play around with the gears, the shifting etc keeps me engaged and focused on the road. I imagine with an automatic it is much easier to
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There are a couple examples in ethno-American cusines. Here in the States, most authentic Mexican food connoisseurs have probably had beef tongue (Lengua) or beef head (Cabeza) tacos. If you have ever celebrated Pascha (Easter) with a Greek
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> need random access. I was thinking quite the opposite, I admit I don't know much about OCaml yet but I was very interested in trying ReasonML. Anyways, I would think you would use an array when you need sequential access and poten
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I am usually not one for dismissing a language for syntax alone, but, the syntax for arrays versus lists feels very cumbersome. Can an experienced OCaml developer tell me how common it is to use lists versus arrays? I can only imagine how m
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Out of curiosity, what are you considering modern? The trend I see growing is towards microframeworks, smaller libraries, less dependencies (or if you have some, a small opinionated set of them), are more doing it yourself -- I think this p
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> People have a lot of "clever" diminutives for things they don't like for nebulous reasons they can't actually articulate. I shop at Whole Foods quite frequently. There isn't some conspiracy or nefarious intent
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Or EarthFare, or Sprouts, or Trader Joes, or a bunch of other grocery stores that do what WF does. Whole Foods is just an expensive grocery store to me these days. It's uniqueness of being an "organic grocery store" has long

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