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by learc83 5y ago
Contractors can be let go immediately with almost no repercussions, so the bar for engaging them is much lower than the bar for hiring a full-time employee. When I was contracting, companies would generally contract me for a week or 2 based
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by learc83 5y ago
>With those 1 or 2 percent raises being a norm almost everywhere, it's hardly a reason to actually leave the company. But it is a reason to leave the company because you can easily get 10% or more switching jobs. >occasional hiri
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by learc83 5y ago
I have the 1Gb municipal broadband here in Chattanooga. The customer service is fantastic—night and day compared to what I had with Comcast when I was in Atlanta. I haven’t had any outages in the year or so I’ve been here. Latency and packe
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by learc83 5y ago
I think your original anecdote that the advice seems to cycle is likely very specific to your situation. My wife is a pediatrician and she's certain that in the US at least, the recommendations both official and actual haven't cyc
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I don’t see anyone talking about paying people to be your friends.
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People like to drive outside the city to hike, travel, go to restaurants, movies, bars, ballgames, museums etc... You don’t need to spend a huge amount on social stuff, but if you are only willing to do completely free activities, you are
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by learc83 5y ago
If you’re poor, most of those things require some non negligible percent of your income—-if only just in gas/transportation. But more importantly they require time away from working/studying/optimizing for bank account balanc
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by learc83 5y ago
What country are you in? That’s definitely not common in the US. Running across a doctor telling you to do anything other than back only sleeping is like running across a doctor telling you that vaccines cause autism. I’m sure it happens, b
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by learc83 5y ago
In addition to large binary asset files, in Unity you have tons of yaml files that you don’t edit by hand. If you make a small change to a scene with the editor, it can change dozens of lines in the corresponding yaml file. Now imagine 2 pe
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by learc83 5y ago
Back only sleeping has been the recommendation of medical authorities in most of the world for close to 30 years. It’s not a recommendation that changes every few years.
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But is malaria a big enough problem in the arctic to bother targeting the mosquito species there that could carry malaria? From a quick Google search, I'm guessing no.
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by learc83 5y ago
Do all the species of mosquitoes your talking about feed on humans, and do they carry malaria?
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by learc83 6y ago
Audio is what was breaking. Also WebGL outperforms canvas, and it’s more complex than drawing a bitmap to the screen.
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by learc83 6y ago
It wasn’t my code, it was engine code, and it was a problem where Safari reports that it doesn’t support a feature that it actually does.
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by learc83 6y ago
This is very true. I built a game to go along with our wedding invitations. I’ve been maintaining it for the past 6 months, and it has stopped working on one browser or the other multiple times. This is despite the fact that I’m using a pop
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by learc83 6y ago
You have a control group of unvaccinated people.
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by learc83 6y ago
The “public shaming statement” says explicitly that if someone from the company contacts them, they’ll give it back. That’s probably the quickest way to get the website back to them.
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by learc83 6y ago
The claim that we have (or had) enough nuclear weapons to cause the actual extinction of humanity, much less cause it several times over, is dubious. If you google it there are numerous articles debating it. At the very least there isn’t sc
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by learc83 6y ago
Why did this get pushed to the 2nd page so fast?
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by learc83 6y ago
You're not going to find the solution buried in a random hacker news comment thread. But step one is to acknowledge that systemic racism exists in the first place. Half of the voters in the country explicitly deny the existence of syst
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by learc83 6y ago
Even when controlling for other factors like education (a proxy for income) and criminal history, Black male offenders receive a sentence 20% longer on average than White male offenders for the same crime. They're also convicted at a h
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by learc83 6y ago
>Who cares about gold? Who cares about avoiding math? Not me. I guess I am no Austrian for those reasons. The people who wrote those books that you said would support your argument certainly do. >I’ll be happy to get my (Of course dis
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by learc83 6y ago
If you're talking Austrian economists, who are the primary proponent of the "fed is the bad buy, bring back the gold standard" argument, they explicitly reject any attempt at modeling or mathematical analysis. They are only i
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by learc83 6y ago
Not only was there no such policy in place according to the article, but physicians are given wide latitude in making medical decisions (using drugs off label, using expired drugs etc...). If they act unethically, there is a built in method
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by learc83 6y ago
According to the doctor that was explicitly not the policy. His version is that the health department made it clear that they should do whatever they had to do to keep from wasting doses. This lines up with what I know from family members d
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by learc83 6y ago
I’ve worked in the HR tech space and we integrated with all of the big applicant tracking systems. Many of them have screening questions. So you can ask something like “can you lift 50 lbs?” And set it up so answering no will screen the can
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by learc83 6y ago
Yes there exists jewelry that can be bought mainly as a store of value, but your argument was the much stronger statement: >Another thing to consider is that people buy gold jewellery as a store of value. You don't spend $30k on a w
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by learc83 6y ago
If they do that, they’ll need to follow the same regulations any other bank does.
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by learc83 6y ago
>You don’t spend $30k... Yes you do. You’ll almost never get the retail value out of a piece of jewelry if you try to resell it.
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by learc83 6y ago
Dragon works very well for dictation, and a Wacom style tablet works great as a remote substitute for whiteboarding. There are also voice coding solutions like Talon voice that work well (I use it regularly).

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