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by lowkey_ 3y ago
> Being larger and faster helps there too Does speed on skates actually correlate that strongly to normal speed?
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
I used to think the same thing but got into watches a few years ago and feel equipped to answer this. A few reasons: 1) The mechanisms. It's just cool. Many of us on HN are engineers — wristwatches and time-keeping more broadly is one
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
High incarceration rate makes sense when the US has a high crime rate. I don't understand why anyone thinks incarceration rate should not be correlated or would not be correlate to crime rate. Incarcerating criminals isn't the iss
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by lowkey_ 3y ago
Out of curiosity (not into crypto so very little knowledge), what do you have to take with you to be able to view the NFT?
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
During the SVB crisis, Rippling was holding $300M in SVB, much of which was actually Rippling customers’ money that had been stored by Rippling for March 15th payroll. I’m no lawyer, but when Rippling started emailing me “hey, your payroll
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
As a founder, I honestly wouldn't have expected this to be legal. AFAIK, startups aren't allowed to co-mingle salary + healthcare benefits like that. E.g. you're breaking the law if you reimburse someone's healthcare pla
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
How in the world is this discriminatory compensation? Let's simplify and say that: everyone at the company, and their families, are entitled to 100% of monthly premiums covered. Someone choosing not to use that benefit as much as someo
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
If you look at ATC employee responses, you're missing the context of the FAA: https://old.reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/10u0zvl/disaster_avert... They're notoriously awful for not firing people who
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
> How did an idiot get on frequency controlling traffic at a big airport? Shouldn't there be filters to prevent that? If you see r/ATC, he's been shuffled between locations and this isn't his first screw-up. He manage
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
For anyone unaware, earlier this year, Kazakhstan faced protests over gas prices (it was a tipping point, there's a lot of wealth inequality) and this president requested the help of Russian security forces to enter the country and hel
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
Wiping out much of humanity, if you don't specify the prompt to it accurately enough.
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Ask HN: Has the YC application changed in focus?
1 points by lowkey_ 4y ago|0 comments
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
> abolish commercial sexual exploitation > wish to abolish the sex industry at large I see very little difference between these two sentences, and archived links to "reported ties" aren't compelling evidence, nor Meliss
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
One of the most fun things about psychology is that everything sounds intuitive and obvious, even if wrong. There's an anecdote about a professor telling his students on the first day of a Psychology class, "some things about this
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
If the objective is to simply win rather than to win in the fewest number of tries, it can be valuable to spend a guess on exploring the problem space rather than guessing the word outright: Once you know every letter is correct except the
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
No, he's saying literally they did reach X market cap in a public market. He was correcting facts of the previous poster.
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
I listed them in the defense category as it's not universally viewed as positive (though I think it very much is sadly necessary and positive), but in addition to that, Palantir works with tons of positive organizations including the N
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
I'm not! I added the caveat to defense that not everyone thinks it has a positive influence, but the rest are hard to debate with. If you have reasons why they're negative, I'm open to hearing!
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
Here's a list of startups that have a positive social impact while still paying competitive salaries and showing promising growth: Fintech: Forage ( https://www.joinforage.com ), building Stripe for EBT, i.e. food stamps Near
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
This is the same logic behind the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, the idea that Democratic politicians in the US will encourage mass immigration so that they get more voters. However much we want to doubt our politicians, I
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
As someone who has studied East Asian history, it's commonly said that Mao's adversaries within the CCP were the "technocrats," and that the technocrats are the ones who took power after Mao's passing — and still ho
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
> Require all uniformed NYPD to live in the city, and restructure their patrols to emphasize the neighborhoods they live in. In addition to the concern of other commenters of how this could affect their interactions with the community fo
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
As someone who has lived in NYC, there's a ton of crime there [1]. It's not at all similar to being a police officer in a town. It's also part of why police don't seem to care about petty crime in the city. [1] https:&#
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by lowkey_ 4y ago
> People are getting called out for denying the existence of people who aren't like them. I see this a lot and it makes no sense to me. What does it mean to deny the existence of someone? To pretend they do not exist? People who mak
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
But didn't Bolt succeed (order of magnitudes more revenue) by taking those enterprise customers while Fast was only getting SMBs? I'm currently at a seed-stage startup with a few Fortune 500 companies as users. We're lucky to
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Send Me To Heaven (mobile app)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lowkey_ 5y ago|0 comments
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I really appreciated this advice. It's vague enough that if it relates to your life, you'll probably see how when you hear it. I think I can apply it to both my work life, thinking about times where I overworked myself at a compan
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I was addressing the specific commenter who uses Google Voice, but to use the comment prior to that: > It's a negative signal to me if it's green, as they may be using a Google Voice number or any other fake number system. I&#x
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
The statement isn't "most Android users are scammers," but "most scammers use Android." I personally would be less likely to respond from a dating app or marketplace app in particular. Google Voice numbers are less
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Was going to comment, anecdotal but I'm 24 and I absolutely prefer texting people with iMessage. It's also a slight verification in some situations — if I were to get someone's number from a dating app, or chat with someone f

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