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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Why is Harvard trying to intellectual-ize virtue signaling? It's very simple. We live in a society where what you say matters, but what you do is irrelevant. Raising awareness about climate change is more important than concrete
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Relax TX is about to start its legislative session and reps can suggest literally anything This will never even make it to the debate floor
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Techies have golf-clapped as Apple has borged more and more of the tech landscape. By time folks realize Apple is going to end up being 80% of what is "Silicon Valley", it will be too late. The platform power of Apple's walle
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Spike consistent with lock downs Another lock down tragedy along with permanently lagging academic development in children We will continue to see more social impact from the worst policy decision in a generation
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
1. the USA is huge 2. in most of the USA, there is no demand solving the Charger Problem for Menlo Park is easy - money + demand is there solving the Charger Problem for rural Alabama isn't easy - money + demand is not there and may no
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Wegovy is being sold as a wonder drug. A family member took it and was subjected to worst-hangover-ever non-stop gut-wrench puking for a week. "Nausea" is listed as a side-effect...I think they are understating this.
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Tim Bray will now pretend to be important somewhere else
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
biggest con of Nim - no one uses it, so you will probably hit a toolchain/compiler error which will be very frustrating too similar to Go to not go with the 100x community size Go brings with it
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
This is exactly what I am doing, but you shouldn't have to modify the request itself to pass temporary state
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
I'm using Axum now...its nice but still could use much more "batteries included" For example, I would like something like Go's Context for passing temporary per-request data through middlewares...maybe this is possible w
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
There's no need to "make the case" for the F-35 in 2022...the US DoD has already introduced hundreds into service, hundreds more to come, and it is quickly becoming the de-facto choice for NATO and other allies who are in the
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Classic HN answer Why don't people just spend $10k and have their problems vanish? (and don't quote me the cost of a heat pump, you have to also pay to rip out your old stuff) They don't have $10k
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
He's losing it Countdown to full meltdown + hospitalization
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
life advice: you must eventually own your residence, and try to get on this by age 35 once you get past age 35, you are approaching the point in your life where it may be too late to buy a home and you will be trapped in forever-renting for
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Twitter was bleeding all over the floor and had been doing so for years working 40hrs a week in the office is also called "a regular job" outside of SV Musk is a jerk, sure, but he's only accelerating what was inevitable for
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
friendly reminder: when you get in arguments online, you may be debating with a bot! HN is now no exception....
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
for some perspective, Toyota is widely regarded as being among the most reliable car brands, but nonetheless the Prius I owned for over a decade was subject to numerous recalls I still consider Toyota to be a high-quality, trustworthy brand
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Bars are usually in clusters, so all your rule would do is force people to walk 50 feet
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
> For me it is much, much simpler. I invest a lot of my time in putting content and thoughts onto a platform. Maybe you should invest your time productively instead
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
agree in a sense - autonomy could take a generation to deliver, and it isn't clear how a small "traditional" startup can really participate and everything in tech attracts wannabes and grifters making a cashgrab
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
My solution is that alien cultures realize there isn't any point to deep space exploration: 1. They need energy and any suitable source will do 2. Space is mostly the same. Why explore another star's gas giant when they have their
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
You are my coworkers, except they aren't doing it ironically
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
I own one but would probably not buy another unless they refresh their lineup. It works as advertized; it runs linux...that's about it. The HW is middle/low quality and I'm not sure the premium System76 charges is warranted.
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Why do I have to buy the DIY Edition to get a Linux laptop? I don't want to build a laptop, and I don't want Windows.
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Every article criticizing the Fed's actions misses the elephant in the room: the massive, spellbinding increase in USD via abnormally low interest rates since the 1990s (not just since Covid). There is no modern historical analogue (in
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
Don't be scared off by the price, I have been using my Advantage 2 for over a decade and I expect it will last another decade
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
both numbers are total BS I'd love to see the SEC start requiring VCs to underwrite these idiotic "valuation" numbers...you say its worth $1 bln, you need to be prepared and required to potentially buy back pre-IPO shares fro
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
If anything, Albertson's took their acquisitions lower-end.
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
The cost to rebuild from scratch would be trivial for the combined endowments of America's top universities, who are surely the primary users Harvard alone has tens of billions in its endowment. ...and yet, comments here are talking ab
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by newaccount2021 4y ago
welcome to the future maybe its just the case that we have already picked the low hanging fruit in computing...from this point forward, the remaining loftier goals will take decades and billions to achieve don't fall into the trap of t

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