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by kgin 5y ago
Most of these moves will turn out to be temporary breaks and that’s ok. There’s a big range of possibilities that live between “never work again” and “I can’t have even a small gap in my resume lest my dedication to capitalism come into qu
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by kgin 5y ago
The average American will make 1.5 million TOTAL during their entire working lifetime from teenager to retirement/death. If you have that amount or more on hand right now in investable assets, the only thing keeping you from financial
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by kgin 5y ago
At this rate it should be ready in a few weeks
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by kgin 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...
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by kgin 5y ago
Really surprised. For years, they talked about Facebook as a utility, the dialtone of the internet. “Cool” was entirely unnecessary and actually very limiting. So to come out now and say the new Facebook strategy is to be the cool app for
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by kgin 5y ago
Android 12 looks like a Dribbble concept. Looks great in screenshots but way too overdesigned for normal use
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by kgin 5y ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/target-shortens-hours-in-s... > Target shortens hours in San Francisco due to ‘alarming rise’ in shoplifting > “For more than a month, we’ve been experiencing a significant and a
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by kgin 5y ago
Efficiency that comes from increased technology and automation is strongly deflationary. COVID related stresses have only pulled forward investment in tech and automation. There’s a strong case to be made that the concern in a few years wil
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by kgin 5y ago
Can you tell us more about what transformations are on the calendar?
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by kgin 5y ago
Not quite what you’re looking for, but a number of top US institutions offer a virtual second opinion program: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/second-opinion/overview.html https://www.massgeneral.org/sec
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by kgin 5y ago
I’m really curious to dig into this and finding out what people in Europe are suing each other for. It’s just so weird seeing the billboards here in the US encouraging people to sue for personal injury damages, featuring photos of happy peo
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by kgin 5y ago
Anyone know the origin of the name FlixBus? My completely uninformed wild guess was that when the company was starting, they borrowed the “flix” from Netflix as a shorthand for “tech savvy company” without caring too much about the actual
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by kgin 5y ago
Fwiw there was a very recent study seeking to compare the longevity increases (in mice) from time-restricted eating vs calorie restriction. In this study, 100% of the benefit was due to time-restricted eating, none from calorie restriction
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by kgin 5y ago
Starting this year in SF and expanding to 10s of cities over the next few years, this won’t be true.
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by kgin 5y ago
USD gets its value from the legal requirement that taxes are paid in USD. Anyone who lives or wants to do business in the United States has to have dollars. That sets a floor of demand that more demand can be built on. Cryptos often have li
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by kgin 5y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-... > Ben Dugan, CVS director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, also provided internal data at the hearing showing sim
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by kgin 5y ago
Surviving is a low bar
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by kgin 5y ago
A lot of mid-size cities are getting notably great these days.
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by kgin 5y ago
I still maintain that aside from limited use cases (usually adding some meta tags), anything semantic web was supposed to do is better handled by an api.
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by kgin 5y ago
No one single metropolitan area should have a grip on the industry that is gradually consuming the entire economy.
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by kgin 5y ago
> Once the dangerous childhood years were passed, however, Victorian contemporary sources (including regional variables) reveal that life expectancy in the mid-Victorian period was not markedly different from what it is today.1,8 Once in
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by kgin 5y ago
> Should we tell people to get their BMI under 25 too? Japan does this and has a 3.6% obesity rate compared to our 42%. Doesn’t seem that terrible of a slope to slip down. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13&#x2F
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by kgin 5y ago
I’ve long wished for AA type groups for people who arent necessarily struggling with addiction. We’re all struggling.
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by kgin 5y ago
L4 with ability to phone home for remote assistance is good enough. By the time L5 arrives people will have been happily riding around in vehicles with no steering wheels for decades. L4 cars that phone home less and less every year. Eventu
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by kgin 5y ago
Intuitively, this seems like a reason to quit coffee. But study after study seems to suggest moderate coffee consumption (under 6 cups daily) is associated with less Alzheimer’s, less Parkinson’s, dementia of any sort, better memory… not to
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by kgin 5y ago
Seems like Cruise should be on this list?
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by kgin 5y ago
Can you explain more why you think this is a possibility?
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by kgin 5y ago
3% withdrawal rate has a ton of cushion built in, surviving all historic scenarios including the Great Depression. If we do experience something worse than the Great Depression, it’s not a particularly safe assumption that your job would st
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by kgin 5y ago
Everyone needs a way to plug in to the world around them. It doesn’t have to be a full time job or even a job at all. But this is something everyone needs.
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by kgin 5y ago
I have a userscript running for HN that bumps up don’t size and line height

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