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I hesitated on sharing the same sentiment on first pass, but this really is a skewed example even accounting for survivorship bias; he was an established journalist whose major stories were written by compiling leaks and tips from disgruntl
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Active conversation from a few days past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981861
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This has been submitted a dozen times; two threads got major traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987482 https://hn.algolia.com/?dat
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This might be overly reductive, but I read this as "right" tweets and figures generate more collective user engagement than "left" tweets and figures, though the underlying algorithm(s) is blind to the substance - politi
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> "First time?"
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...in Montana, and not from their jobs, but volunteer government roles; I kept reading to see when the subject of the article lost his job after losing his county post, but thankfully that didn't happen. Anyway, this is just another ex
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Please do elaborate on your take-home; in a profession with no formal credentials (i.e. no MSBE for SDEs), I don't mind putting a little skin in them game for the same purpose.
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'Effective minimum wage' is Ernie Tedeschi's hobbyhorse and has little to do with my point. I'd like to live in a world where minimum wage was irrelevant because business owners grow their companies efficiently and pay a
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...in a 2019-2020 assessment compared with the previous test which was completed in 2012. Reviewing 'Trend in NAEP long-term trend reading average scores for 9- and 13-year-old students', we see the score has fluctuated between 25
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The minimum wage (not directly the answer but a useful reference) hit its peak inflation-adjusted value in 1968, per the EPI: https://www.epi.org/publication/congress-has-never-let-the-f...
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> 95‰ Never seen that one before - assuming it's a typo here, but this is per-mil. Neat!
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Perhaps they are aware of eatrh's axis and will move operations to the southern hemisphere? Or adjust the drone's speed to stay in sunlight?
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Charitable take, but this is more like Lyft starting a free driver's ed. Graduates are expected to bootstrap their own successful games and programs in the Apple app store. Surely the 'inaugural class' will have its entries f
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Seems more like an application? https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
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More: https://www.health-ai.co.uk/trackmytac Parallel effort: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24325382/
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Viral myocarditis is serious but not life threatening and self-resolves in less than a year; the vaccine-induced cases are even more mild than that.
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I've no background in the field but tend to agree. "Humans have thousands of different kinds of sensor mechanisms, and here are two of them" - seems like an award that could be given repeatedly, no?
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'foot tails' -> 'coat tails'?
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I agree, but there's a certain amount of matchmaking being done here that requires more disclaimers about the project not being able to guarantee anonymity for patients or providers. I understand the former, but I don't see why yo
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From their FAQ: > While being religious in no way means someone cannot be a good therapist, far too many therapists integrate or insert spiritual, religious or New Age ideas into therapy, even when they know their client is not religious
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Wasn't clear to me who wrote this or why, so: > I’m Colm MacCárthaigh, a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, and this website is my blog.
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Absolutely - and I think the typical user has long since been conditioned to click 'Yes' without reading.
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Lumping anti-vaxxers, homeopaths, eugenicists, and drinkers of raw milk is a pretty clear example of this. I get that Smug is his brand, but it's just overly reductive; you've got three categories of people here: the anti-establis
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I don't think he'd sign on to a CoC in the first place.
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As far as CoCs provide for banning/muting obnoxious jerks (which is always going to be a subjective call), I'm for it, but surely there needs to be an escalating set of disciplinary steps - hard to see anything in here supporting
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Previous job changes: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=doug+field Segway, Apple, Tesla, Apple, Ford?
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Yes, I agree - the Post was actually the major newspaper I had in mind - but I was a little dry in mocking this innovation.
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Unlike good old journalism, which has never sought to discuss solutions, nuance, or minority opinion, the Constructive Institute (which doesn't appear to be a Danish prank) has proposed Journalism for Tomorrow, which dares to editori
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I got through about the first paragraph. > If Albert Einstein were alive today, he might well say that we are living through an age of boundless chance. Is this what constructive journalism is? Inventing quotes? > After all, he was sa
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This happens sometimes and, I agree, is extremely unsettling due to the lack of a changelog. I believe it's done as another form and of second-chance revival of a thread; perhaps resetting the OP / top level comment creation time

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