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by mrosett 7y ago
In context it must be a governmental policy
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by mrosett 7y ago
Re: 2 - he already does that.
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by mrosett 7y ago
The feedback on HN was harsh but not personal. The 1k comment thread on /r/programming was very nasty and made me less likely to engage with that community again.
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by mrosett 7y ago
This article is basically the same story, but more detailed and better-written: https://thehustle.co/gerald-ratners-billion-dollar-speech
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by mrosett 7y ago
I've found that lifting is much better for weight loss than running/biking. I've gained weight while running 30-40 miles/week and typically lose weight while lifting (if I pay attention to my calories.) A lot of people s
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by mrosett 7y ago
That's exactly how I felt about it. They undermined themselves rhetorically by using the number of balloon listings to increase the count of dangerous products. However, the fact that Amazon hasn't fixed even that well-defined a p
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by mrosett 7y ago
A few thoughts: * Amazon is a total mess right now, and this is great investigative reporting. I think Amazon is going to go through a rough year or two in PR terms. They need to get this under control quickly. * Amazon can pretend that it&
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by mrosett 7y ago
I've seen the same phenomenon where CEOs spend way too much time thinking about the physical office space. I suspect, though, that they enjoy doing that - it plays pretty directly to vanity - and invest that time because they want to,
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by mrosett 7y ago
I'm glad Ben laid out the bull case simply because nobody else is doing that. However, the analogy to AWS isn't compelling. First, running data centers is a much bigger challenge (technically, organizationally, and financially) th
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by mrosett 7y ago
This is a cool human interest story but I have no idea why it’s at the top of HN. A random ultramarathon not planning for a woman winning just isn’t that surprising or interesting.
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by mrosett 7y ago
But what if the Kulaks don’t want to go to summer camp?
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by mrosett 7y ago
The kind of company that gets upside from spying on its workers isn't the kind of company that rents a trendy office space with free beer.
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by mrosett 7y ago
Network congestion is a real thing. If everyone else in my neighborhood is streaming Netflix in 4k, it's going to reduce my connection's performance. Why shouldn't the cable company charge them more for that? If we all pay th
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by mrosett 7y ago
Assume for sake of argument that climate change is catastrophic and that ExxonMobil knew as much. We’re to believe that the real victims here are ExxonMobil’s investors ?
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by mrosett 7y ago
The HN frontpage is just a long list of postmortems right now.
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by mrosett 7y ago
I was just making a joke about Elon Musk, who is prone to tweeting things that cost him and the company tens of millions of dollars: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/judge-approves-elon-musks-se... I'm no
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by mrosett 7y ago
Her description of "right-to-work" had nothing to do with what the term actually means. It just means that employees can't be required to join a union as a condition of being employed at a company. What she's referring t
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by mrosett 7y ago
> A Tesla spokesperson claimed Maggie Aranda’s termination was due to cellphone usage at work, and Carlos Aranda was terminated over a tweet that violated Tesla standards. Way to bury the lede: Tesla now fires people over bad tweets! Who
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by mrosett 7y ago
I'm open the idea of various forms of drug legalization, but someone pointed out that the opioid epidemic (which is behind the decline in life expectancy) is arguably an experiment with legalizing heroin. The analogy isn't perfect
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by mrosett 7y ago
That was sad.
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by mrosett 7y ago
The group supporting its removal alleges that it “glorifies slavery.” If you read the description of the painting, that’s just false and makes me skeptical of the quality of the minds involved. This would be appalling even if it were free t
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by mrosett 7y ago
The subheadline gets it right: > It’s great for security—but not so great for your privacy. For individual users, security and privacy frequently go hand-in-hand. But for site operators, user privacy makes security a lot harder. The more
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by mrosett 7y ago
I wonder if that’s how I got hacked....
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by mrosett 7y ago
Obviously this is a huge problem. For a more analytical perspective, take a look at Slate Star Codex on drug shortages and price gouging: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/30/buspirone-shortage-in-...
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by mrosett 7y ago
I'm no fan of James O'Keefe, but some of the direct quotes are much more incriminating than this response makes them out to be: > “Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misgui
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by mrosett 7y ago
That's seems exceptionally unlikely. Few buildings in the US are set below the equivalent of 20C. 18C might be the very outer limit [0]: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_temperature
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by mrosett 7y ago
<speculation> I think there are two things: * Precisely calibrating the temperature of a large space is really hard, and people are surprisingly aware of slight differences in temperature. To me, 68 degrees can feel like "I want
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by mrosett 7y ago
Europeans seem to enjoy mocking American fondness for air-conditioning (including, occasionally, on this forum). But heatwaves in the US don't kill tens of thousands of people [0]. The forecast for Phoenix this week is north of 105F&#x
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by mrosett 7y ago
They shouldn’t. Pick a Vanfuard fund, put your money in it, and check back in a couple decades.
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by mrosett 7y ago
For what it’s worth, I think I generate more positive externalities per day as a visitor than when I lived there.

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