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by kenneth 5y ago
I live in Hong Kong. The mask mandate here is entirely pointless, and has not made any difference to our handling of the pandemic. What has on the other hand is extremely aggressive tracing, tracking, and quarantining of all potential conta
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by kenneth 5y ago
Fully agree, automatic mechanical watch movements are truly a marvel of engineering. The fact that the movement is powered purely by the kinetic forces naturally applied from wearing it, and can reasonably accurately keep time over years, u
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by kenneth 5y ago
My Omega Seamaster gains ~2-3 minutes a month (so roughly 4-6 seconds a day.), it's rather annoying but I understand that it's pretty common for an automatic mechanical watch.
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Unused Shots Pile Up as Mistrust Mars Hong Kong Vaccinations(bloomberg.com)
2 points by kenneth 5y ago|0 comments
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by kenneth 5y ago
This comment is a fantastic example demonstrating why everyone hates vegans[1]. I'm all for everyone being more aware of where and how their food is made. If you come out of it choosing not to consume certain categories, that's fa
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by kenneth 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies by virtue of being digital money accessible anywhere in the world and not manipulatable by central banks can do a ton of good in countries that are experiencing currency mismanagement. It was particularly popular in Argenti
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by kenneth 5y ago
Similarly, growing up in Switzerland that chocolate-marshmallow treat was called "tête de nègre" (nergo's head). Today, that's become taboo and they're now called "tête choco"
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by kenneth 5y ago
If I were interviewing and someone came to me from the Basecamp buy out, it'd be an incredibly clear red flag and no hire decision. If someone cares more about political activism at work than the well being of the company, it's no
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by kenneth 5y ago
Don't sign anything on the spot, but do consider signing a termination agreement if you get something out of it.
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by kenneth 5y ago
This is a pretty standard severance agreement. The company offers a cash bonus to make sure that the employee fired leaves amicably and will not cause any further issues down the line. That way everybody walks away with something to keep th
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by kenneth 5y ago
I think the point isn't so much that having children without a family is no longer problematic as much as the fact that prostitutes no longer risk having unwanted children.
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by kenneth 5y ago
Sure but this is good enough to be useful in many situations, whereas a GPS collar is impractical enough that it's unlikely to be regularly used. I just wanna throw a chip on the 3 dogs collars and forget about it except to swap batter
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by kenneth 5y ago
I care a fuck-ton more about finding my dog if lost than my bag. A bag can be replaced with an identical one. A dog cannot. Current GPS collars are absolutely trash (3 day battery life, bulky, etc), this would be about 10,000 times better i
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by kenneth 5y ago
Haha, Europe vs. America changes everything.
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by kenneth 5y ago
One of the things that's cool about 2020 and 2021 is getting to experience things that were mostly forgotten relics of the past as very real experiences today. I never thought I'd go to a real speakeasy (not a gimmicky cocktail ba
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by kenneth 5y ago
I run a VC firm. I'm a full stack engineer who's built core infrastructure that runs on billions of devices and handles trillions of server side requests a year. And yet I choose to use squaris Squarespace for our website. It&#x27
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by kenneth 6y ago
Russia has a veto voice in the security council. Not really much the UN can do here. The way the UN is set up is entirely broken and there's very little the organization can do against authoritarianism.
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by kenneth 6y ago
If we're looking at inflation, you want to hold on to any real asset as a hedge.
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by kenneth 6y ago
The early stages of hyper-inflation can look like an economic boom. Every market is going up (stock, real estate, crypto, commodities, etc). Fantastic, boom-time. But really, it's because we're printing so much money that it'
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by kenneth 6y ago
Note he addresses this directly in the corresponding footnote.
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by kenneth 6y ago
If I have just one piece of feedback here it would be: body { padding: 10px; } Changing nothing else but this would make the site 10x better. Even a Terminal window has 5+px of padding.
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by kenneth 6y ago
No idea when banana republic became a "xenophobic slur." It's a pretty well understood term describing a country (or sub-jurisdiction in this example) that is so dependent on a foreign-controlled company or industry that it c
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by kenneth 6y ago
My immediate question when I hear about how plants can capture carbon is: yes, but how will you ensure that it doesn't get released as part of the natural carbon cycle when the plant dies. You need to bury it all before it decomposes o
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Ramp's Double-Unicorn Rounds: Behind the Scenes(notboring.co)
2 points by kenneth 6y ago|0 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
I would love to see them pay handsomely for this and set some case law precedent.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Small previous discussion on the topic here before the reason.com article was flagged — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26736822
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by kenneth 6y ago
Since apparently reason.com gets flagged — I submitted the original lawsuit text which cannot possibly be a biased source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26737077
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Bhattacharya vs. Murray(casetext.com)
31 points by kenneth 6y ago|7 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
A big reason why the far-right grew is as a rejection of this insanity.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Going to university in the USA these days sounds like an absolutely terrifying prospect, and doesn't sound very promising for the future of the country.

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