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by nkurz 2y ago
You've had it, or you are going by the written description? I only tried it once, but it's the only cheese I've been unable to eat. Sawdust soaked in cat piss would be comparable but preferable. I was exited to buy it and b
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by nkurz 2y ago
You must not have tried the "Gammelost": https://norwayathome.com/?p=319 The sweet brown "Brunost" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunost ) might not be your favorite, but I doubt it
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by nkurz 2y ago
I've read enough things that suggest a "blockade" is much more likely than an "invasion" that I can't really make sense of this article. Here's an example I find persuasive: https://www.atlanti
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by nkurz 2y ago
Fantastic comment, thanks for putting in the effort to write it!
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According to the complaint, he used 10b5-1 plans for previous sales but not for this one: "100. Musk previously disclosed his planned sales of Tesla stock via the execution of 10b-5-1 plans but admitted that he had no 10b5-1 plan for t
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by nkurz 2y ago
For those not familiar, "Goatwalking" is an amazing book. And it's back in print! Here's an article about the re-release: https://afriendlyletter.com/lets-go-goatwalking-friends/
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by nkurz 2y ago
> "Even in 1821, horses were wrongly depicted running like dogs." Great essay, but this small comment toward the end of the essay confused me. Is he saying that dogs never gallop? I'm still not sure about the answer breed-
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by nkurz 2y ago
I've always presumed that a large part of this is tax evasion. Cash tips are legally required to be reported as income, but I'd guessing that they are very rarely reported in full. The increase in salary would have to be quite a
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by nkurz 2y ago
When the article describes people as "hearing a voice inside their head", do they mean something that could be mistaken for an actual voice (identifiable speaker, cadence, accent, etc) or do they just mean that in some way specifi
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by nkurz 2y ago
> You would have to try VERY hard to drink too much water. On what do you base this claim? I think it's badly overstated. I'd say instead that it depends on circumstance. Seated in an air-conditioned office, you might be righ
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by nkurz 2y ago
https://archive.is/pX6l6 Also, update on the author's blog here: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2024/05/09/a-brief-update-on-zuck... The update has links to more coverage.
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I Love Facebook. That's Why I'm Suing Meta.(nytimes.com)
3 points by nkurz 2y ago|2 comments
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by nkurz 2y ago
You have a good argument, but the exaggerated numbers hurt your case. $5 per gallon and 5 gallons per miles are high/low estimates. At this rate, fuel costs $1 per mile. Are you saying they "easily" drive thousands of mil
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Should the hawthorn be saved?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by nkurz 2y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 2y ago
I agree with most of your thinking, although I switched a while ago from URA to URNM. I feel like your explanation of the difference understates the extent that URA is reliant on Cameco (25%) and also doesn't mention that it also inve
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by nkurz 2y ago
Alternatively, since different people have different thresholds for considering something to be antisemitic, there may often be things that are not flagged that others think should be, and vice versa. It's difficult to determine what
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by nkurz 2y ago
How much precedent is there for this? Are there parallels for other countries? Does the US prohibit any news agencies from operating in our borders? Does Europe? Does Russia? Does China? I presume North Korea does, but I don't act
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by nkurz 2y ago
You're not wrong. Almost all observational studies could be subject to confounders which if true would invalidate their claimed results. But you seem to be suggesting that just because science is hard we should accept the results of
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by nkurz 2y ago
"MilaM" asked "I wonder if it is reasonably safe to consume [the raw milk, aged cheese I just bought]". You answered "I would suggest not". "bartonfink" (reasonably but rudely) took this to mean you w
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by nkurz 2y ago
This makes me even more confused by the other post that was made by this account, asking why an earlier submission was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40178265 If you are a straight plagiarizer, it seems rathe
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by nkurz 2y ago
Since it's a central to the interview and not well explained, here's a link to Barthelme's short story "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby": https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor&#x2F
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by nkurz 3y ago
A slightly off topic and probably naive question: the article lists the top "institutional holders", starting with "Vanguard Group", "Blackrock Group", and "State Street Corporation". Are these instit
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Chinese students in US tell of 'chilling' interrogations and deportations(theguardian.com)
44 points by nkurz 3y ago|50 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
Thanks! If you wouldn't mind, could you email me at the address in my profile? I'd like to follow up on one of your previous comments, but I think it would be better by email.
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by nkurz 3y ago
> If you're Asian American (like me and a large proportion of White Collar Workers) your options are very few and far between. Off topic, but do I take it that you've tried living elsewhere and it didn't work well for you?
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by nkurz 3y ago
> We got around this by cutting our budget in half, and using what would have been a 40% downpayment for a 1.5 million dollar house to put 75% down on a $800,000 house. Wow, that's wonderfully financially responsible. I'm glad
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by nkurz 3y ago
Thanks, that would be a good theory that could be tested by comparing the number of houses sold with the number of loans reported, presuming constant levels of legal compliance. Do we see that? Perhaps we do, but the article seemed to focu
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by nkurz 3y ago
I'm confused by the emphasis on an "all-cash offers". It conveys images of buyers lugging a suitcase full of cash to open houses, but as far as I know, it just means that the buyer isn't asking for a "financing con
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Ask HN: Comments requesting paywall bypass links
6 points by nkurz 3y ago|1 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
This Mediaite article is very one-sided---not necessarily wrong, but definitely one-sided. Ironically, I liked the NPR article by David Folkenflik that it links to better: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/12449

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