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by nineplay 5y ago
I'll repeat what I said last time I commented on this - I read both stories and I thought Wellman had a crisper murder mystery. Faulkner's was well written but wasn't as satisfying. Wellman's story starred Watson and
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by nineplay 5y ago
It may be worth noting that William Faulkner wrote a murder mystery and threw a fit when he didn't win the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine short story award. Steinbeck might not have felt that he was above genre fiction, but perhaps he
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by nineplay 5y ago
Possibly there's more out there, but the evidence presented in the article is frankly pretty poor. I'd call it "inconclusive" if they asked me. A couple of studies referenced https://news.uark.edu/articl
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by nineplay 5y ago
I'm of the opinion that it's a mistake to think of companies as anything other than machines that maximize profit. Positive slogans, company values, donations to this cause or public support for that cause - it's all there t
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by nineplay 5y ago
Call me cynical, but they are supposed to be trying to recruit me. I say "That doesn't sound like more than I currently make, what about other forms of compensation?" If they say "well we're not sure...", I&#
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by nineplay 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised after all the hemming and hawing about how they don't have remote compensation numbers in place. "How much less can we pay people who don't live in SV? Let's bring a bunch of chumps in and
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by nineplay 5y ago
I've talked to two FAANG-level recruiters recently about remote openings, which are all the rage now. One was willing to give a base-salary range but absolutely refused to provide any comp information beyond that. Signing bonus? Equi
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by nineplay 5y ago
> kids ought to be able to play with their friends in person anyway That is and was debatable during the lockdown. We didn't, and we don't regret our choice. Even if now it is clearer that kids are not as susceptible to Covid
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by nineplay 5y ago
Yes yes yes. The most direct discussions I have with my kid about social media is "there are adult male perverts who are going to pretend to be your friend because they want to have sex with you." It's a more explicit discu
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by nineplay 5y ago
Totally agree, there's a gap there. I block youtube.com completely, only opening it up briefly when there's a school assignment to watch a video which I think is playing with fire. I tried to create a youtube account with whateve
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by nineplay 5y ago
I might let my kids on HN - they'd probably learn something useful. Certainly not reddit which one of the worse places on the internet for developing minds. It doesn't get mentioned much in discussions of "damaging social me
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by nineplay 5y ago
The article doesn't go into detail. I've been happy with messenger kids but for me the problem would be any ability to do likes on posted content. I think one of the big self-esteem killers of facebook is posting content with 3
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by nineplay 5y ago
No ads, I think there is a bit of "If you like Facebook for kids, you'll _love_ Facebook for adults" It has been a lifesaver during covid. It is the way kids text/video chat with each other without a cell plan and with
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by nineplay 5y ago
Youtube for kids is fine - at least the Apple TV app. it's carefully curated. They show The Wiggles, Yo Gabba Gabba, Kid's Bop, and some Sesame Street. It may make parents want to run and hide but I'll happily leave my 3 y
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by nineplay 5y ago
We switched to MongoDB Atlas which was awesome but I didn't want to sound like a stealth corporate shill. Atlas rocks!
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by nineplay 5y ago
Azure will alert you when you exceed a budget, but it won't disable anything. Azure MongoDB billing was insanity. I was up to $800 to host a couple of GB that wasn't doing anything. I'm still not sure what happened, even thei
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by nineplay 6y ago
The cheerful "your real friends will.." meme ignores the possibility that you'll find you have no "real" friends. Turns out even casual friends are better than none, and you aren't likely to find any real frie
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by nineplay 6y ago
I don't know how many Americans have lived only in suburbs. Between being a kid, a student, a young carefree professional and a parent I've lived in any combination of big, small, cheap, expensive, old, new, busy, quiet neighborho
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by nineplay 6y ago
I've been trying to get a Hugo award winner and the paperback was selling for $400. Sometimes old books are just hard to find. Dr Seuss wrote 60 books, its no surprise that not all are currently publish. You'll find this is als
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by nineplay 6y ago
I'm in the US and have a loved one with a chronic disease, and honestly just the logistics of health care couldn't get much worse. Coordinating between different specialists, different labs, and different pharmacies is always a n
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by nineplay 6y ago
> I drifted to tangents too quickly My too my friend, me too.
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by nineplay 6y ago
The author didn't want to work on the farm regardless of profit. 2 out of 3 of his brother didn't want to work on the farm regardless of profit. My friend would never go back to a farming life, nor would any of her siblings or co
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by nineplay 6y ago
The poster upstream suggested there were 6-8 months of downtime with nothing to do. We've gone down to 6-8 weeks with no milking. There's still feeding and watering and of course monitoring a herd of now-pregnant cows with all t
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by nineplay 6y ago
I think the article writer is glossing over the difficulty of keeping a farm in business without the external factors. My experience, growing up in an farming area, is that the kids of farmers are relieved when the farm is sold to a big co
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by nineplay 6y ago
The writer of the articles was very clear that _he_ found farming less joyous than "9-5 hacking l33t code". Your argument is more with him than with me. The writer's other two siblings also found more "joyous" thing
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by nineplay 6y ago
The "obvious" is that operating a family farm as a profitable business is hard. Harder than three of the four adult children in the article are willing to work. That doesn't mean there aren't people who want to do it, t
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by nineplay 6y ago
At risk of stating the obvious, dairy cows do not have a growing season. Cows are a 365 days-a-year commitment.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I think he's glossing over the obvious. A friend of mine was just reminiscing about growing up in her family's dairy farm. Every Saturday morning, every Sunday morning, every Christmas you get up to take care of the cows. Feel s
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by nineplay 6y ago
I think there are people who do regret not getting to the next big level. They thought they could have been a good (software) architect or director or principal, they thought they could have really made some lasting difference, but instead
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by nineplay 6y ago
The "I should not have worked as hard" deathbed quote has always bugged me. There are plenty of people who think they could have been more or done more. It's not a perfect example, but there are plenty of "Walter White&

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