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by oramit 5y ago
Can you expand on what Gender Ideology in the classroom looks like for your kids? Is there more to this than addressing pronouns?
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by oramit 5y ago
I agree that this isn't the most productive HN thread ever, with a lot of comments repeating tired talking points or going for quick jabs instead of reasonable discussion. However, I would prefer to keep this topic open because it sign
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by oramit 5y ago
I agree. Beyond the economic changes that have occurred, I think the social change is going to be even more dramatic. Everyone I know in my social circle has started new things, gone back to school, picked up old hobbies they neglected, or
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by oramit 5y ago
Indeed - this is the real problem. We've bolted on so many things to the employee/employer relationship that should not be there. It's no surprise that contractor vs full time questions become so fraught when as a matter of p
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by oramit 5y ago
While I think you are wording things more harshly than myself, I am largely in agreement. It is still difficult to get a vaccine in a lot of places in the country but once we get to summer and there are walk in clinics everywhere my sympath
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by oramit 5y ago
I've heard and read a lot about this in the past couple weeks and I sincerely hope public health officials and media don't freak out. We need to stay the course on this and emphasize the positive. 1. Vaccines are still difficult t
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by oramit 6y ago
Yeah I can think of lots of reasons for this loss. 1. It's always harder to get people to vote to change the status quo. Even if people think the change is going to be good, people are usually risk averse so you need to work harder to
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by oramit 6y ago
I didn't get too far into this article because the writing was so stilted. Then I realized it was just a series of tweets merged together without much of an attempt to clean it up. Not a good way to explain something as complex (and po
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by oramit 6y ago
It's really underappreciated how the health care and retirement systems in the United States cause people to stay in shitty jobs. Sure, these are expensive programs to run but there is a huge benefit to larger companies. Employees are
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by oramit 6y ago
The author has made a good first attempt here but I find myself not really moved. 1. The author repeatedly says that punishing "Excess" consumption is a good thing and is part of why a consumption tax is good without really explai
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by oramit 6y ago
I actively participated in the prediction market this election cycle on Predict-It. I didn't know anything about the Ethereum applications so this was an insightful read. My main takeaway from this whole election cycle was that the bet
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by oramit 6y ago
For sure. This is a terrible way to "stick it to the man" and i've encouraged everyone i've talked to about this to stay far away. Unfortunately emotions have really taken hold. Greed is a hard one to talk people down fr
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by oramit 6y ago
My Facebook feed is filled with people talking about this. These are friends I have know for years who have never mentioned stocks before but now are talking about "holding the line". It is FOMO for sure, but the real emotions I g
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by oramit 6y ago
I hope this comes to pass. I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro that finally died a few months back and I want to get a new machine. Because of Covid I haven't needed or been able to travel so my desktop has sufficed. Once things open up aga
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by oramit 6y ago
Yeah, though I didn't agree with the "real names only" policy at Facebook I did think it would lead to better behavior. That backfired spectacularly.
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by oramit 6y ago
I completely disagree. Downvotes and upvotes are the entire reason why I come here. They are not perfect but it's a relatively simple way to moderate content. I don't want to see every article submitted to this site or read inane
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by oramit 6y ago
A coworker and his wife just had a child. They got on wait-lists before the child was even born because of the huge demand. They also told me that they were lucky to find a place (work subsidized) that was less than $1k.
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by oramit 6y ago
Are you a google product manager? I ask because, wow, this response is condescending. I know the original chart tool was in Flash... I used it and described the features it had. Why after 10 years is the new version less useful than before?
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by oramit 6y ago
What a bizarre press release that accompanies this... https://blog.google/products/search/google-finance-makes-inv... Google Finance used to have all these features. They were already implemented and working fine
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by oramit 6y ago
I just tried this out after getting off a call and it totally worked. Thank you! I honestly thought the Headphones vs Headset was just a bluetooth/audio bug and now I feel like a dunce for installing new audio codecs to fix this issue
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by oramit 6y ago
Thanks for the hint. I have tried everything else I could think of the improve the audio quality but not this one. I'll give it a go this afternoon!
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by oramit 6y ago
I'm surprised he didn't mention anything about bluetooth pairing and general ease of use. I have a Sony MDR-100 which is a great middle of the road (price/quality) wireless headset. The biggest gripe I have with it is pairin
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by oramit 6y ago
Yeah, I had the same feeling. None of this feels sustainable and I get the sense that most of these companies are rushing to IPO as soon as they can to unload their terrible businesses on the public. Groupon failed because they were selling
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by oramit 6y ago
For something like hotel cleaning you also have to take into account the large grey market for labor. There are estimated to be around 10.5-12 million undocumented migrants in the US. It's not a coincidence that there is a rotating cre
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by oramit 6y ago
I agree, this is one of those slow moving trends that you just don't see but has really large effects after decades of compounding. It used to be normal for companies to have much larger work forces and to in-source all tasks, even if
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by oramit 6y ago
My thought on this is that a lot of people were already anti-city for various reasons and the COVID shock has provided "proof" that their preference for non city living is best. A large amount of people seem to be unable to accept
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by oramit 6y ago
Yes! I have a fine TV setup at home but I want to get out of the house too. Post pandemic the last thing I want to do is stay in.
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by oramit 6y ago
Lots of good comments on this but two factors I haven't seen considered: - Rise of programming bootcamps - More intrusive workplaces In the 90's and early 00's programming was not cool. There was a lot of money to be made, su
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by oramit 6y ago
How serendipitous. I was just chatting with my partner and we heard birds chirping outside our house. I realized that I had not heard them for a couple weeks now and guessed it had to do with the awful smoke conditions here in Portland. The
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by oramit 6y ago
Automatic updates have been an enormous boon to security and when done correctly are really helpful. I don't look back with fondness on the wild west of Windows XP where out of the box merely connecting to the internet guaranteed a vir

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