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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Yeah, you're right. I'm just talking about spherical chickens here. In real life, if your bank quotes you an APY they've already annualized it. I just think it's interesting to think about how in a perfect world, the rul
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned in TFA (I quickly skimmed it) is the relationship of the rule to continuous compounding. The article does say that it works better for "small R", after all - if interest rates where 100%, it sh
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
And never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained by hundreds of individually intelligent people optimizing for their own short term benefit (ie career growth). We see this in the software industry all the time. Large organiza
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Wow...I think you just discovered a hole in Apple's draconian app store policies. They don't let you link to your website from your app if the site has a way to buy a subscription without paying the Apple tax. But what if you sell
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
There are many options, as evidenced by the replies here. I've used Zoho for a few years now, no issues.
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Yes, exactly. It happens to you whether you are aware of it or not, although it is typically celebrated. Think of it like becoming 18 in the US - one day you wake up and you're old enough to buy cigarettes and are generally responsible
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Honest question, I'm not a lawyer: is this bill actually unconstitutional? The government is not trying to limit the rights of individuals here, as far as I can tell parents and children are allowed to own and read whatever they want u
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
I derive a small amount of pleasure from clicking the little x every few days. I have no idea if it does anything, and I imagine at some point they'll just decide I've accepted anyway but I have no intention of agreeing willingly.
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
> She and I agree that everything past a senior engineer is political At the big tech company I work at, we're often told that even even senior is primarily a non-technical designation. Technical expertise and independence is expect
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Just to be clear: the idea that Torah study leads women to promiscuity is not an invention of the GP (and may not be an opinion shared by them either). GP is quoting the Talmud. <talmud> The Mishna (Sotah 3.4) cites two Tannaitic opin
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
If you mean that in your opinion (or according to your interpretation of Jewish law) they are permitted to...well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. If you mean that they believe themselves to be permitted to, this is definitely no
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Scrolled all the way down until I found this example, you saved me a top-level comment. Similarly, in yeshiva communities in the US men and women typically pronounce certain Hebrew vowels differently. I'm not sure what the historical c
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
> What I want, is button, when I press that, "The Almighty Algorithm" will analyse the sound, the beats per second, the vocals, the instruments, the lyrics, anything that affect the sound and locate other songs with similar pro
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
They're working on it. Excavation is indeed a pain, there's a lot of extra traffic recently due to the construction, and people complain about the noise too. But it's happening. I don't expect it to help much with the Sh
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
There was a stabbing at the Jerusalem parade in 2015. I don't recall one ever happening in Tel Aviv but I might be mistaken. The two cities are separated by a distance of 65 kilometers, 5-10 degrees Celsius, and 200 years of cultural c
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Found the backend dev. Really, this is very dependent on the kind of software you work in and what the focus of that software is. There's a wide world of software out there, with all different kinds of priorities and challenges.
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
We don't all do it for urgent fixes... where I work, I couldn't do it even if I wanted to. I don't have access. I suppose there's someone somewhere who does have access to the containers running my code but I'm not
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Maybe, but then they're also morons in addition to pervs. The bullet points make absolutely no sense, the conclusion has to be that no one bothered to read the CV passed some automated buzzword scanning and perhaps a quick look at the
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
How? My understanding was that the four strings formed a natural key, and so wouldn't the index just be the size of the table? What do you gain from that? I'm a database noob so please enlighten me. I thought the benefit here was
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
> I still have not agreed to the terms of use since I continue to be able to opt out and am amused by FB basically chickening out requiring their users to actually agree. The normal course of action would be to eventually block access to
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
> One other thing is, when referring to a mixed group of people, you use a masculine form of plural, same as "latinos". It REALLY doesn't matter and it only bothers people who don't speak gendered languages. This is t
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Give the devs some credit - maybe they know about this and are not closing the loophole because they want it to stay open? The majority of readers won't take advantage of it and those who will likely wouldn't have paid anyway.
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Some meta feedback to the OP: please test your site on mobile. I wanted to read what you wrote but got tired of scrolling endlessly to the right in the block quotes so I gave up.
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
Instead of just telling the parent that they're doing something can wrong in a condescending way, can you explain what it is they should do differently? At least a link to an article that explains this?
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
There's another weasel phrase in there: "Or more" (Switching to Geico could save you 15% _or more_) So it could save you nothing, or it could save you 15%, or even more. Basically we have no idea what it'll save you, if
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
My yeshiva experience was a lot less exciting because we were based in middle of nowhere with nothing to do (by design). That didn't stop me from spending a lot of time in the beis medrash talking with my chavrusa about philosophy, th
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
I am particularly appreciative of the blog author's transliteration of the phrase, respecting the Hebrew (technically Aramaic in this case) pronunciation of his yeshivish background and not choosing to "modernize" for a broad
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
I don't know much about Ireland, maybe it's not that sensitive an issue there. So how about this: what's the correct flag to show for Arabic in Israel? Last time I fiddled with some automated kiosk at Ben Gurion airport I not
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
I'd rather not link my HN profile to github which uses my real name. I went to you profile to see how I could send it to you directly but...there's no email listed on your site or github and I can't message you on Twitter (I
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
This is the philosophy behind the FOSS app I developed for my own system. The way it works is that I track the big stuff and ignore the little stuff. Periodically (typically every month but it doesn't have to be) I enter the current ba

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