mattw2121

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by mattw2121 3y ago
This sounds like a great series and one I'd definitely be interested in. Rothfuss (even more than Martin) has me shying away from starting another, currently unfinished, series.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
The only way that comments you submit have personal information is if you include it. If you do so and want specific comments edited or deleted, I have complete faith the staff at HN will assist with that. The rules, which you seem to think
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by mattw2121 3y ago
You get to dictate what the rules of the entire society are? I am part of "society". I earnestly believe that once you publish something on the internet, it should be there forever (or for as long as that particular medium exists)
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by mattw2121 3y ago
The rules haven't changed. They are: "With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all ri
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Would love to see doctors and medical facilities nationwide convert, en masse, to paper checks. Let's see how quickly the insurers back off the fees.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
"For distorted text fields, humans took 9-15 seconds with an accuracy of just 50-84 percent. Bots, on the other hand, beat the tests in less than a second with 99.8 percent accuracy." I'm guessing part of the answer is (and m
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Thanks, but I live in Florida. I'm not familiar with rent control laws, since we don't have any. In fact, rent control laws are forbidden in Florida.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
I don't know exactly what the answer is. If a rental property has a long term renter, I don't want to see that tenant have their rent increased by huge amounts year over year. I'm a life long conservative, but I see huge valu
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by mattw2121 3y ago
One point to remember is that during the pandemic, customers were much more sympathetic to everyone. The overall quality of customer service has gone done since the pandemic (even in companies that returned to office) and we, the customer,
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Yes, my bad...humidity decreases some in the hottest part of the day. So the 80% humidity is overnight while the high 90's temperature is during the day. As you said, still not walkable :).
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by mattw2121 3y ago
I have a great concept of walking in a city. I enjoy the walkability of NYC. When I am there I take transit everywhere and it's great. I live in Florida. It gets into the high 90's with 80% humidity. At the same time NYC is in the
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Hemel complains that "...the top 10th of households reap a larger share of the income tax subsidy for retirement savings than the bottom 80%." He fails to mention that the top 10% of households pay 70% of all federal income tax.
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Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are people in costume(cnn.com)
10 points by mattw2121 3y ago|1 comments
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by mattw2121 3y ago
The creek looks human dug to begin with, so probably just stopped the flow at the upstream reservoir.
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Build mini hydropower on a small stream with a powerful unit [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mattw2121 3y ago|3 comments
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Pee-wee: Come on, Dottie. Let's go. Dottie: Let's go? Don't you wanna see the rest of the movie? Pee-wee: I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Agreed...and honestly I didn't scroll any further. I saw, "No Javascript Required" and scrolled back to the top, went to the docs and looked at the example so I could see what this was like. Then I saw Javascript. I just thin
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by mattw2121 3y ago
The very first mention of Javascript on the site is a huge graphic (full width) that says "NO JAVASCRIPT REQUIRED".
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Same thing. Saw "No Javascript" and then went to the example app....nothing but Javascript?
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by mattw2121 3y ago
The US is the 2nd largest energy user in the world -- China is 1st. This story is about coal usage. China and India use far more coal than the US. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coal-cons...
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by mattw2121 3y ago
"coal demand fell faster than previously expected in the first half of this year in the United States and the European Union — by 24% and 16%, respectively" ..... "demand from the two largest consumers, China and India, grew
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Most large corporations block ChatGPT and Discord usage. Developers at those companies still have access to SO.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
Before the Internet, my friends and I would call the research desk at the local library. We'd sit around someone's house and have a debate over some topic. If, and when, we had a point of contention that we couldn't resolve w
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by mattw2121 3y ago
30 million people smoke $1.50 per pack tax (1.01 fed, giving high estimate for state taxes) 2 packs a day (high) (30,000,000 x 1%) x (1.5 x 2) x (2 x 365) = 657,000,000 You'd need 4% to quit to even out.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
They are going to end up with workers at 2 farms, doing 35 hours a week at each.
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by mattw2121 3y ago
100 workers working 70 hours a week at 20/hour: (100 x 40 x 20) + (100 x 30 x 30) = 170,000 200 workers working 35 hours a week at 20/hour: 200 x 35 x 20 = 140,000
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New Pokémon App Records Your Farts While You Sleep(kotaku.com)
2 points by mattw2121 3y ago|1 comments
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by mattw2121 3y ago
https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request
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by mattw2121 3y ago
I came away from the article thinking, "Where is he finding all these cult leaders?"
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by mattw2121 3y ago
This is a good distinction. Thank you!

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