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by nineplay 6y ago
Ambulance companies are flat-out extortionists and they should be charged as such. We've received bills that say in large print "Your insurance will not cover this", then when I call my provider says "Of course we cover
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by nineplay 6y ago
There's such a disconnect between FB's reputation online vs. what most people see. My feed is almost entirely < checks > pictures of kids and pets, and ads for geeky t-shirts. It's hard to take all the negative press
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by nineplay 6y ago
Facebook - Provides groups for people with common interests. - Allows people to share positive ideas and articles, not just negatives - Brings far-flung family members together in a way not easily replicated - Allows people who care for eac
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by nineplay 6y ago
The network effect is unique to Facebook. No competitor is going to beat it until they get the same number of users.
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by nineplay 6y ago
> The overwhelming majority of people do not care about privacy. They ask why they should care if they have “nothing to hide” I have never heard anyone say this though it's a common internet strawman. Certainly there are people who
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Participants were 249 Jewish-Israelis You've got to be kidding me. How can anything possibly be concluded from such a uniform set of participants? If nothing else I would have suggested that they throw a couple of Palestinians i
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by nineplay 6y ago
Older generations? I hope you aren't talking about the baby boomers who practically created drug culture. "all drugs are bad" was a "greatest generation" attitude and I'm afraid they are mostly beyond caring
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by nineplay 6y ago
1 to say this lightbulb has already been changed and point to a question about lighthouses that is 5 years old 1 to say "how to change a lightbulb" is a matter of opinion and therefore not up to the standards of the list. 1 to say
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by nineplay 6y ago
Not a mobile developer - Was the move to Swift inevitable and they started too early or should they have stayed with - and still be using - Objective-C?
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by nineplay 6y ago
She wasn't happy playing that talented Soviet kid. He isn't going away and neither is the rest of the Soviet team. It's pointed out earlier that the Soviet Union pays its players, while she is going to have to scrape by on
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by nineplay 6y ago
Interesting - I thought it was about a damaged woman who had a period of sobriety and was able to win a championship. I suppose it depends on what we imagine happens after the series ended. I don't see her going back to Kentucky and ma
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by nineplay 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25204954 This is on my front page now and is almost entirely a critique against the MSM.
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by nineplay 6y ago
I am so happy you posted this. There goes the rest of my afternoon.
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by nineplay 6y ago
My number one concern is predictors so I'll address that part. You can turn off "chat" with anyone other than your child's friends. You're kid can be in a group chat with their friend and other strangers, which I&
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by nineplay 6y ago
Reddit recently limited the number of comments you can read in Safari on iOS devices. Click "more" and you are prompted to create an account or go to their app. It's been fantastic. Reddit comments decrease rapidly in qualit
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by nineplay 6y ago
I like eating in restaruants but it just doesn't happen very often. Mostly when I do (did) it's lunch with coworkers. Otherwise - while on vacation or maybe the oddball anniversary dinner, but not much else. I doubt I'm p
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by nineplay 6y ago
I read a article pre-covid about a restaurant owner in SF who'd closed her sit-down, full service restaurant and opened a counter-service/takeout restaurant instead. Less staff, less overhead, more customers, and she felt it was
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by nineplay 6y ago
I very much doubt her kid is "in school" until 6:30. More likely she is in a after-school program, and most after-school programs are part homework help, part play. My kid misses her after-school program terribly as it was more o
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by nineplay 6y ago
Unpopular opinion, I've never liked Poirot. Christie's detectives get on my nerves and I like her stand-alones better. Anyone who likes golden-age mysteries should check out John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson. Wonderful plots
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by nineplay 6y ago
My kid's first "social" app is Roblox and part of my justification for is that it's easier to talk about some of the issues of social media while they are young and will listen to me. We talk a lot about addiction and th
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by nineplay 6y ago
I think it's more of a caution/commiseration article, with a bit of sadness at kids inevitably growing up. I'm not going to sit and pretend that I have iron-clad rules on electronics and my kids never get more screen time th
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by nineplay 6y ago
- Murder on the Nile with the bonus that a beautiful-looking movie version is soon to be released.
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by nineplay 6y ago
> Shih, Victor, Jonghyuk Lee, and David Meyer. 2015. “The Database of CCP Elite.” San Diego: Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation
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by nineplay 6y ago
Part of what's been happening is that your open-source project is now part of your resume. If your name is on it, prospective employers are going to see it. If they see it and decide that there isn't sufficient error handling an
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by nineplay 6y ago
There are more people involved here than the gig workers and the advantaged, The grocery store employees are at a decreased risk if one person does the shopping of. The managers may have a pretty comfortable salary but the bag 'boys&
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by nineplay 6y ago
Overall you could posit that a single gig worker doing the shopping for 20 households is safer for everyone that 20 individuals doing the shopping for 20 households. The gig workers are often shopping for multiple clients at once - fewer t
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by nineplay 6y ago
> use grocery delivery and similar services that essentially transfer disease risk from privileged groups to poor minorities Is using a grocery delivery service a greater risk vector than making a trip to the store in person? That'
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by nineplay 6y ago
"I asked you to write an algorithm, not a bunch of Greek letters. Is that your fraternity or something?"
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by nineplay 6y ago
OK I concede that they'd pass it, I suppose I'm just amused at picturing the scene. "Can you invert a binary tree?" "I wrote a book on binary trees!" "That's very nice. The clock is ticking, you now 1
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by nineplay 6y ago
He - acknowledges and understands the problems and - could certainly fix them if paid a Google-sized salary But he won't dance to the tune of the "Cracking the Coding Interview" juggernaut so to heck with him. Better to spe

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