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by nineplay 3y ago
> making them easy for parents to hand down to kids This plus the last thing I need is to add another device with another ecosystem to my home datacenter. I am not going to hand my kid an Android phone and be on the hook for tech suppo
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by nineplay 3y ago
I went from full time employee to contractor at the same company once and it was honestly a huge relief. No awkward team lunches No useless tchotchkes No boring all hands No forced participation events like 'hackathons'. I just wo
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by nineplay 3y ago
My experience has been that map apps are overly reliant on average times when traversing city streets. A shortcut thought LA might save you 10 minutes if the traffic light gods are in your favor or might add 30 minutes if you hit a red lig
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by nineplay 3y ago
I lost patience with the various git commit cleanup tools and now I just go nuclear. I use git diff > output.file, make a new branch, get apply output.file. Fresh clean branch, no commit history, create pull request. I'm not convin
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by nineplay 3y ago
Pensions have a lot of problems. They become handcuffs that keep workers at the same place no matter how unhappy they are, and employers know how to take advantage of that. It's easy to look back with rose-colored glasses but I know
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by nineplay 3y ago
It's seemed to me that there was a real turn in western society at some point in the last decades. Our family has been watching Star Trek TOS and one thing that's really stood out is how open Kirk, Spock, and Bones can be about t
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by nineplay 3y ago
We're in a funny state because calling oneself 'rich' or 'upper class' sounds like bragging even if it is more accurate. If some 6-figure-earner went around calling themselves 'rich' most people would ro
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by nineplay 3y ago
I've seen python questions marked as 'duplicate' when the question was python 3 and the "answer" was python 2.
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by nineplay 3y ago
That would astonish me and I can't find any reference except a blog post that also says "I read that..." without any citations. I don't believe it and I certainly wouldn't encourage people to form opinions on nation
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by nineplay 3y ago
I've nothing to add to the topic but I want to commiserate. I'm sad because we would have used this a few years ago, but my son is just deteriorating and I doubt we'll be visiting National Parks with him again. Yosemite has
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by nineplay 3y ago
A more egalitarian solution would be longer paid parental leave and earlier free childcare. Are women leaving jobs due to a genuine desire to be a full-time parent, or are women leaving jobs because the alternative is putting a three-month
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by nineplay 3y ago
> When they're 40 they'll be a different person. Is there any evidence of that? I say this with sympathy as I suspect some number of violent individuals have as-yet-undetected genetic abnormalities that would make them 'bl
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by nineplay 3y ago
The legality and acceptability of divorce isn't mentioned but I think it should be. Single parents will be rarer in countries where divorce isn't a viable option but that doesn't mean the children are raised in healthier env
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by nineplay 3y ago
I am in awe of this article. It has two verifiable pieces of information - a FDA study indicated that Vioxx was responsible for 55,000 deaths and that Merck had known about lethal side effects before launching the drug. The key point in th
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by nineplay 3y ago
What's the alternative? I don't know of any reason to think that tarballs or <os> installers are any better. I suppose I could clone the code and look for security flaws myself but I'm no expert and on something like
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by nineplay 3y ago
It's always nice to see a list which includes movies I haven't watched or heard of. Alas I suspect many are hard to find now, the streaming services don't show much interest in picking up the classics. My sub-list: Film I&#
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by nineplay 3y ago
Anyone interested in free, well-narrated audiobooks should check out the Classic Tales podcast. I can't really say enough about it. The host is a fantastic narrator and the books range from Plutarch's Lives to Philip K Dick.
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by nineplay 3y ago
You might find The Secrets of Hillsong on Hulu interesting. The first episode spend a lot of time in an NYC megachurch.
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'll have to check it out once I've finished. I've been avoiding any information about him in case of inadvertent spoilers
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm a woman and I didn't either book particularly masculine nor did I feel like the women came off badly. The main female character in The Idiot was fantastic. I consider Dostoevsky one of the best writers in terms of understandi
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by nineplay 3y ago
Great, another excuse for people not to read the article. We've got enough problems with people reading a headline and running with it. I hate to think of google summarizing some scientific study - particularly some "pop" sc
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by nineplay 3y ago
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality which I approached doubtfully and have been enjoying the heck out of it. It's not some cutesy juvenile fanfic, it's about a alt-universe Harry Potter who grows up in a healthy family s
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by nineplay 3y ago
The same thing happens with Musk. I hate Musk as much as the next guy, I am anything but a fanboy and I don't have or want a Tesla. Still it is delusional and childish to insist that Tesla and SpaceX would have been just have successfu
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'm an engineer. If I'm designing "X", I'm much more satisfied if I can find a way to do it in a day modifying "Y" than if I spent two weeks building up "X" from scratch. Hard work also depends
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by nineplay 3y ago
I think you're making the mistake of thinking that you know what people want better than they do. The attitude of "keeping up with the Joneses" is almost an urban legend. People are not moving to the suburbs and having kids
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by nineplay 3y ago
I stopped praising hard work some time ago when I really started to look at society around me. I don't want my kid to think that hard work is the key to happiness. Satisfaction is an admirable goal, pride in ones work is an admirable
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by nineplay 3y ago
Most single child-free people perhaps. "Move somewhere cheaper" is about as helpful as "stop buying Starbucks" for an out of work breadwinner. Moving my kids away from their friends and school is an absolute last resor
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by nineplay 3y ago
I'd modify #1 1. Make friends with _everybody_ at work. That includes the guy who brags about himself all the time. That includes the person who you only give the easiest tasks because you don't trust them with anything complicat
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by nineplay 3y ago
My kid is only in middle school and I recently been readjusting my opinion towards 'elite' colleges. Being from the Bay Area we have friends and family who graduated from Stanford and Cal and up until recently I thought those wer
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by nineplay 3y ago
> Instead, orient them toward entrepreneurism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36934135 Yesterday this was posted with a lot of commenters agreeing that management wasn't for them. With that in mind, I think p

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