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by ng12 5y ago
What if you're estranged from your parents? If you haven't talked to them for twenty years are you still liable?
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by ng12 5y ago
Uh, are you sure? Most drivers do not own their own medallion meaning they're getting screwed over by someone who does. Also, at least riding an Uber is a pleasant experience in NYC.
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by ng12 5y ago
I mean, Amazon was an e-commerce company. There's a credible argument to be made that better tech won customers first.
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by ng12 5y ago
Would you count the size of the JVM when you do Hello World in Java?
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by ng12 5y ago
The debate is not whether there is a legal requirement for YouTube to provide freedom of speech (categorically, there is not) but whether that is harmful to society. The concept of freedom of expression extends beyond the bound of US law.
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by ng12 5y ago
So 3/4 of the tips are: write a book people want to read?
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by ng12 6y ago
Well these laws are made difficult to enforce by design. In NYC and SF you can pretty easily squat for 2 years before facing any real penalty for non-payment of rent. In other countries that'll work for one month before you come home t
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by ng12 6y ago
I feel like when renter friendly laws get passed people think of fat-cat, tophat-wearing Manhattan landlords and don't really consider that the same exploitable laws also apply to an immigrant in Queens who needs rental income from the
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by ng12 6y ago
Those streams certainly receive less aggressive moderation.
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by ng12 6y ago
Jsonnet hasn't taken off because it's turing complete. It's a really great language for generating JSON but not a replacement for JSON.
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by ng12 6y ago
Whip-its have become pretty popular among the burning man crowd. I remember seeing piles in East Palo Alto parking lots and wondering if they were from bored kids or bored techies.
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by ng12 6y ago
Is there a good reason why we shouldn't sanction China like we do Russia, NK, and Iran? There's plenty of money to be made in those countries too.
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by ng12 6y ago
Unless they're paying massive base salaries that sounds pretty low compared to RSUs at a big tech co or the yearly bonus in finance.
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by ng12 6y ago
Ok, except you're forgetting the CTO who doesn't believe in testing and will yell at the tech lead for wasting time writing them. And the CFO who won't approve budget for a CI system. And the CEO who just wants the feature pu
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by ng12 6y ago
By and large schools are not allowed to say "this student never shows up, we're kicking him out". There's a laundry list of regulations and perverse incentives that ensure underachieving students fail upwards until they
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by ng12 6y ago
> As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days There are usually about 180 days in a school year meaning this student was absent more
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by ng12 6y ago
Article here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-market-share-in-eur... It's also a terrible title. China is the biggest market globally but Volkswagen has the biggest marketshare in Europe.
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by ng12 6y ago
Actually the norm in psychiatry is that patients are absolutely not supposed to know this kind of detail about their psychiatrist: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-psy...
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by ng12 6y ago
> Because it is already destroying the US. It fuels social division, and it distracts from the real problems, which tend to be economic and environmental I think about this a lot. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of t
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by ng12 6y ago
Unfortunately rejecting candidates and/or providing feedback can be a legal minefield. The most generic excuse is the best one and using objective facts is one of the safest ways to reject someone.
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by ng12 6y ago
> People learn from mistakes when there are consequences Oh please. If cancel culture were about learning from your mistakes we wouldn't haunt people for things they did decades ago.
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by ng12 6y ago
Cancel culture is what happened after the revelations about the podcast. Some people got angry they felt he wasn't punished enough and turned to cancel culture to punish him instead.
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by ng12 6y ago
It always reminds me of the Simpsons quote: "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.". I've seen many people here more willing to believe that all front-end devs are clueless than admit they might not und
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by ng12 6y ago
Yeah, I see it all the time. Just the other day I found out some coworkers were using this fancy framework called "C" to build their programs. The produced assembly was way overcomplicated and impossible to read. Talk about job se
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by ng12 6y ago
Exactly. If a simple website is overloaded with JS it's because you're the product not the user.
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by ng12 6y ago
I am entirely comfortable with the fact that some people on the internet choose to use words I don't like.
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by ng12 6y ago
> On both Discord and Reddit, wallstreetbets users frequently refer to themselves collectively as “retards” and “autists,” and have been known to deploy the kinds of racial slurs and deliberately offensive language that have become commo
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by ng12 6y ago
We clearly should not be doing this. This is the slippery slope.
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by ng12 6y ago
> why can't the CGM just have its own display So I can check my blood sugar without taking my shirt off.
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by ng12 6y ago
Bullshit marketing is what CTOs buy. Who cares if the core principles are simple or not, if they're selling a useful service (especially one that can help secure our data) good on them.

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