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by oramit 4y ago
My brother is in Japan at the moment and has the opposite situation. He's paid in JPY and had saved up a fair bit of cash over the past couple years. The value has fallen tremendously and since he's moving back to the states in a
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by oramit 4y ago
I was expecting there to be some satisfaction at this news as I (and many others clearly from the comments) predicted this would happen. But honestly it just feels kind of sad at this point. Google used to be, at least from an outside persp
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by oramit 4y ago
Real estate is very local and housing is a necessity so its not a purchase you can think about like a pure investment. I am finally in a place where I am looking to move to a house (currently in a condo) and am very happy that rates are inc
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by oramit 4y ago
This is definitely something I have noticed of late. A lot of people are convinced, or at least in their public persona are constantly saying that nothing positive can happen. I don't think it's any one thing but here are a few id
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by oramit 4y ago
Thanks for this. There is a bit of tone deafness in this thread with everyone calling for fewer days of work so they can relax and then go to the cafe or linger over dinner while also wanting all those businesses to be open for them at all
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by oramit 5y ago
Not all of WOW is very compelling and I wish the author had taken his admittedly unscientific ranking and examined different zones to see what would come out on top. Especially in Vanilla there were a lot of grindy areas and depending on wh
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by oramit 5y ago
Mid 30's here and I joined right after the .edu requirement was dropped. Everyone in my age group is on Facebook but they rarely post anymore because they are busy! They all have kids and jobs and house projects they are working on and
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by oramit 5y ago
You and a few others have commented on popularity but do we have numbers for this? Is HN more busy than it used to be?
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by oramit 5y ago
It was proposed but never got any serious traction because the slavery situation in the US was radically different than in Britain. British slaves almost all lived in the colonies not in Britain itself. Freeing all the British slaves caused
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by oramit 5y ago
Another comment somewhere else in this thread mentioned 2008 and the bailouts for banks, bankruptcy for the public, as the place we should look at. With big society wide trends like this it's impossible to have a clear cause and effect
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by oramit 5y ago
I've noticed growing incivility as well and it's a slow moving culture change that I think we're all going to really regret. I don't think it's caused by just one thing and it has been brewing for a while but Covid
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by oramit 5y ago
This post is filled with bad and naive advice. I have thankfully worked in mostly rational companies and been able to be honest with managers about what is or isn't working. At my last job though I spent more than a year saying repeate
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by oramit 5y ago
"Nearly every interaction involves putting yourself in between a company's policy and the person in front of you. You're sort of being paid to be a sacrificial lamb for the company's policies." The grocery store nea
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by oramit 5y ago
I love a good book thread and my 2022 reading list now has a lot new additions. Thank you all for the recommendations. The best book I read this year was The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I think I got the recommendation from las
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by oramit 5y ago
This has been my recent thinking on this as well. I wish we didn't have ubiquitous surveillance and I wish there was a way to stop it from expanding even more but that's not the world we live in. Privacy advocates who think they c
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by oramit 5y ago
This is a really honest comment and my thought reading through it is that there isn't going to be "one quick trick" to help. Your troubles seem multifaceted and not completely about money. Have you considered talking to a the
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by oramit 5y ago
This doesn't strike me as a very strong argument. If i'm understanding correctly: I shouldn't share that I do X because in the future X might come under scrutiny. This sort of argument can be deployed to stop you from doing a
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by oramit 5y ago
Yes, all these disparate databases can be merged together and you can get a pretty darn accurate picture of me. But so what, what is the end game here?
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by oramit 5y ago
I don't mean to rag on you in particular. The answers I get around privacy problems are always conjecture. "Perhaps" the insurance company will do x, "Maybe" they will do y. It's always some scary threat that c
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by oramit 5y ago
Yes, you can infer a lot based on grocery store purchases. I don't deny it - but why does it matter? What bad things have happened to the average person based on grocery store purchase history? Again, i'm not trying to be flippant
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by oramit 5y ago
Why should I care to keep what I buy at the grocery store private? I'm not trying to be flippant with this question. I'm just honestly perplexed why this is an important dateset to keep private. Also, why would I want to avoid dis
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by oramit 5y ago
There is a difference, yes. Most security footage is never viewed. It's simply recorded and then reviewed later if there is an issue. What facial recognition adds is that it identifies my presence there automatically but again - this i
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by oramit 5y ago
If i'm reading this right, i see two arguments here. The first is a slippery slope. They are starting to use facial recognition now and will soon be asking for my DNA and fingerprints. I just don't agree that the slope is slippery
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by oramit 5y ago
I understand that but stores have been storing this sort of customer data for decades now and what nefarious things have come of it? Nobody cares that I bought milk and eggs last week, they won't care two decades from now.
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by oramit 5y ago
I'm honestly perplexed by the discussion here. Why should I care that a grocery store is using this? They already have camera systems - what is it about feeding that data into a facial recognition algorithm that is so awful? They want
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by oramit 5y ago
Care to share the flaw instead of being vague?
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by oramit 5y ago
I think there has been a general rise in selfish behavior now that pandemic restrictions are being lifted. You have people who never took the pandemic seriously and now that things are back open, but are not the same, they are lashing out.
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by oramit 5y ago
I didn't really agree with the author's points but it did get me thinking about my own video consumption habits and I realized that this year I have only watched two movies in full. I've watched a lot of shows, but movies - n
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by oramit 5y ago
Yeah this is what has been really bothering me about the inflation narrative being pushed everywhere. The same people crying about inflation now have been "warning" about it forever and have been consistently wrong. I'm total
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by oramit 5y ago
Microsoft and Apple both said a few years back that they had "finished" their respective operating systems and were no longer going to do versioning like this. I wonder why the change of heart?

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