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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I constantly find myself wondering “what if this pandemic happened ten years ago? Twenty?”
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I’m sure many Americans are now dutifully checking the insurance market to make sure their plan covers this situation. For that price, one might hope that the company producing it would be willing to provide the drugs as an act of good will
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> We've had over a thousand applicants just in the last two weeks alone. Over half of them are from California, many from the Bay Area If the program isn’t new, I wonder what the total numbers are like since covid started. The artic
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
He was being sarcastic
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I’m imagining now a Senate hearing where republican members admonish Pfizer for not announcing this information before the election to help their candidates, only for the CEO to drop the ultimate defense of “I timed it to make more money”
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I’ll add classic Lenovo to the list, whose base level thinkpad are underspeced and have terrible screens. The fact that apple doesnt perpetually claim their machines are on sale is their last bastion of superiority
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I saw some claims on Twitter that zoom took a hit, though there’s enough random noise in the market that I never know what to believe
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> The fake letter was part of new skills being tested by the military as it hones its expertise for launching propaganda missions at home and abroad. Wow. If the Canadian military should be practicing anything on its own civilians, it sh
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Speaking of Shogi variants, I found an app awhile ago called “Kyoto Shogi”. In this variant you have just five pieces. And the twist is that every time you move one, you flip it over, do it now has a different set of moves. A very fun conce
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The Charlie Brown Halloween special won’t air on network television this year(washingtonpost.com)
97 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|148 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It seems like a really popular opinion that school should teach “life skills”. But as someone who left school not knowing how to do his taxes, cook his own food, or fix my car, I can assure you that the internet is more than enough of a res
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
The full context: > A hard disk owned by presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son was supposedly stolen or hacked – also because Hunter Biden used an easy to guess password (Hunter02). Gevers is familiar with leaked databases of old passwo
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Fizz buzz is great in a nihilistic way. The interviewer is basically saying “It’s impossible to judge coding skill in a short interview. So I’ll just make sure you’re not a total fraud”
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I wonder if the tax implications are more complex since the employee can presumably keep that equipment after clocking out (or quitting)
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I see a lot of “I can’t be hypnotized” comments here. I’ve got bad news for you: you can be hypnotized, advertising works, and comments by astroturfed accounts will affect your view of the world. This is a serious issue for those of us who
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I felt the same when I upgraded my 6 to an XR. But when you actually get your hands on the phone, you quickly notice the improvements. There’s no pressure to upgrade, but when you finally do I think you’ll be happy
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
This is the mindset I really don’t understand though. Sure your company can say “we’re all remote” today, but they can just as easily say “everyone has to come back” in six months. Or “everyone doesn’t have to, but those who don’t are the f
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> The figures underscore how the pandemic has roiled property markets and changed renter preferences. With companies allowing employees to work from home, people have fled cramped and costly urban areas in droves, seeking extra room in t
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Theorists React to Potential Signal in Dark Matter Detector(physics.aps.org)
2 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
My phone has predicted text on the top of the keyboard. I wonder if the secret is not a bunch of custom shortcuts, but a better mind-meld with the predicted text so that you the user hit the predicted value every time. You get the same spee
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Indeed we have to remember that when assessing the likelihood of a coincidence, it’s not the odds of any given event, but the odds that none of the many possible events you might recognize occur
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Is it just me or have attitudes shifted dramatically on this? When I was a college student, I remember professor’s scaring us with stories of intellectual property disputes between companies and their workers over side project. Not to menti
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I also routinely wander on google maps in search of remote islands. I always wonder what it’s like to grow up in a place like that. If I wanted to live in New York City or Paris or Beijing, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem. But for thos
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> Lot of negative feelings towards the latest generation of macbook pros lately... This has been true for decades. Every time a new lineup is released, Hacker News declares this to be the last straw.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Link to the actual study: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/6/10...
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Only About 3.5 Percent of Americans Care About Democracy(theatlantic.com)
8 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|5 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I don’t think this is such a big deal. Every programmer needs to become sufficient in bash because odds are you’re going to log into another computer which only has bash or csh, and likely you need to modify someone’s bash script. It’s prob
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Maybe you should add (2019) to the title
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China Gives Unproven Covid-19 Vaccines to Thousands, with Risks Unknown(nytimes.com)
6 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It’s going to be funny when 50 years from now I see my grand kid’s history textbook, and Brexit, Trump, and the Coronavirus are all together in one paragraph describing people’s anxiety about globalism in the post Cold War world

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