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by kshacker 5y ago
Oh man, sugar :( I stopped taking sugar for 2 years after I had a heart issue. Then somehow it came back in life, and it has been 4 years, and maybe 99 attempts (because the 100th will succeed:)) and it is just so hard to give up sugar. But
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by kshacker 5y ago
Ok, I read parts of his books back in the days and this jogged those memories ... including pinging friends who used those books more than me. Was curious what his net worth was ... and found answers in single digit millions, except one art
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by kshacker 5y ago
I have started answering many of these calls more so because of WFH as no one is watching me have fun. When they ask me, my car is always old - from 1929 Ford T to 1980s Toyota Celicas. Then they get on to either disconnect or ask if you ha
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by kshacker 5y ago
Slightly off topic. I saw this news at Bloomberg which is what is referenced by macrumors. Noticed that picture selling PowerBook G4 which was sold between 2001-2006. Really? News media just stopped investing in photos? This is even before
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by kshacker 5y ago
I remember Trump saying 50K people die from flu each year. Maybe slightly lower maybe slightly higher but let's use that number. We may be losing that many or maybe at least half that much every month despite 70% vaccination, despite m
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by kshacker 5y ago
> Amazing things happen if you ponder situations until satisfied with your own conclusions. the delay made for wonderful long form conversations. I was wondering about this recently but so far unable to unplug. Wish it was a tad easier
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by kshacker 5y ago
> I cannot see a world in which use of NSO tech is legitimate. Get a court order to tap the phone line, etc. In general, I am against government overreach, so I agree with a lot of what you said. However, let us say I have a court order
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by kshacker 5y ago
Basically that is as advertised. The feature set definition of airtag = "tracking the airtag" and this requires a phone home which is done by using any iPhone (or is is any apple) device.
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by kshacker 5y ago
Great anecdotes but situation varies from state to state. Fertility rates vary from 1.1 to 2.4 and 3.0. Why did I mention 2.4 AND 3.0 because these 2 states account for a quarter if not more of the Indian population. This is not to say your
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by kshacker 5y ago
Canadians go 'yay', finally some benefit of the big brother. PS: I don't buy the explanation btw
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Wow you pretty much describe me ... except for me being a CEO, or a CxO, or even just an O. So I guess just my superiority over everyone else. I guess I will take it.
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by kshacker 5y ago
Been there done that. Went in for a battery replacement, on pickup they said they could not fix it as is, and gave me a new phone. Probably was a 6/6S for me too.
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by kshacker 5y ago
They need fixed position left/right arrows so that we can keep focus on the content rather than moving the cursor to point it right. As of now based on the size of date field, the arrows shift.
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by kshacker 5y ago
Basically the equivalent of 2008 no docs no income market for housing loans.
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On an average they may not have. Three separate million dollar houses get offered 900k, 900k and 1.2M. The point is that the guy offered 1.2m knows he will not get the 1.2 anywhere else and takes the offer. The individual house is overvalue
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by kshacker 5y ago
I go to a gas station, I can buy lotto. I go to a super market, I can buy lotto. And sometimes at whim, I have done that. Remove these and I am unlikely to look for dungeons selling lotto tickets. Ease of access is the problem.
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by kshacker 5y ago
Absolutely. I am a Californian, and when I see my family talking about the houses they bought in Texas, and yes maybe that was a decade back, and I compare them to an equivalent house in Cupertino (there are none maybe, and I am not that fa
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by kshacker 5y ago
The question is whether the equivalent house is just a couple hundred grand cheaper, or a million cheaper? Couple million maybe for a nice new mansion?
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You discussed everything except the profit motive of the owners to bleed every bit of penny from their "earnings"
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Thanks. I think he needs quite a bit starting. And I may be overselling him :) I have tried to encourage him to do reviews on YouTube, which I believe he can do, but he is quite "there are so many people doing this, why would someone w
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by kshacker 5y ago
Thanks ! I myself was an introvert / challenged in some spheres but I have gone through my share of hiring and demos and I am trying to use those skills (rehearsals) on him to prepare him ... but kids (even 23 year olds) learning from
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by kshacker 5y ago
Thanks ! Sure, we actually have been taking the opposite perspective. Because we believe he will get a job only via the disability route, we have focused on government + big employers since they have such programs. let me think through this
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Thanks yes that's a great idea, let me think a bit more about it.
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by kshacker 5y ago
Thanks, will check that out. BTW would you mind sharing where that would be? Most of the government jobs I see are in Sacramento, or I guess they will be in state capitals and in DC.
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Ask HN: How can I help my son with Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability
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by kshacker 5y ago
I actually prefer 3 para slack messages rather than 5 messages: "Hi", "you there", "needed to discuss something", "ping me when you are online", "talk to you soon" because I enable notificat
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by kshacker 5y ago
2 comments: 1. A friend used to say "a human being can do 5 plus or minus 4 things" while holding his hand up and slowly closing one finger after the other ending up at 1. Your comment reminded me of that. 2. I can do a long list
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by kshacker 5y ago
It is an anecdote but over the last 2 weeks, a few times (3-4) when I clicked on the top live videos, it is the live of a man too obese to even walk
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Well it depends on 1) the local price and 2) the ability of the mother to pay. She may not be able to afford help with an American minimum wage.
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> I have purposefully started training my friends by being erratic with my texts/messages/e-mails I would very much like to do what you say but with a million interrupts a day, it is now or never. If I neglect / defer some

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