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by positr0n 2y ago
> The entire culture war is between people who resent their dads for being absent or weak, and those who don't. Are you saying that having an absent father or not determines your views on trans people, abortion, saying Merry Christm
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by positr0n 2y ago
How old are you? 5-10 years ago I would have agreed with your comment, but once I hit my 30s I started to feel gross if I ate a bunch of donuts, super duper greasy food, etc. As the years progress more and more food makes me feel a little y
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by positr0n 2y ago
If you are stuck on GitHub, tools like revup can help you get the same workflow.
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by positr0n 2y ago
How does the full text search work? On-device copy of all the notes? Text index in another database? Just download them all from s3 when you search?
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by positr0n 2y ago
The "no sponsored content" restriction of YouTube kids is a huge downside. That eliminates most YouTubers I watch. For example, practical engineering.
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by positr0n 2y ago
How much of "normal" stocks are owned by institutional investors? I own plenty of Tesla through institutional investors, even though I don't want to, because my entire net worth is my house, emergency fund, and funds that hol
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by positr0n 2y ago
$3,000 biweekly is near starting salary for a software developer everywhere in the US. "FAANG bubble" would almost be $3,000/day (if you're accounting for all perks and time off)
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If anyone knew the answer to that for certain they'd be mortgaging every belonging they own, loading up on options, then planning their Scrooge McDuck money bin instead of telling people on HN if a stock is going to go up or down :-)
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by positr0n 2y ago
Yes, see `:help iskeyword` Different file types can have different values for this. For example in clojure / and : are commonly used, so they are added to `iskeyword`. In .clj files "w" navigates across `:person/first-na
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by positr0n 2y ago
> AccuWeather's estimated annual revenue is currently $156.6M per year.
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by positr0n 2y ago
> Homemade compost is really hard This has not been my experience at all. Yes to get optimal compost at an optimal speed you have to carefully manage the ratios of browns to greens, moisture content, turning it, etc. But if you don'
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by positr0n 2y ago
Yep: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/certifica...
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by positr0n 2y ago
Do you have a source for sites like weather.com and AccuWeather being part of a billions of dollars industry? That is surprising to me.
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by positr0n 2y ago
We were both in college when my first child was born with one $13/hr summer internships's worth of income. Medicaid covered 100% of everything; I paid $0 out of pocket. This was in 2010.
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by positr0n 2y ago
What are some example applications that could change life overnight, besides planet-wide connectivity?
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Nobody has done it with the technologies they are using before, so it's not just a matter of applying previously acquired knowledge and tech.
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by positr0n 2y ago
The definition of rent seeking is manipulating the political environment to create new wealth for yourself without creating net wealth for society. The classic example is the owner of a section of river imposing a toll for boats traversing
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by positr0n 2y ago
Haha, my initial thought was: Wasn't there an LLM that was slurping SO? Maybe that will start suggesting malware to users.
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by positr0n 2y ago
It's harder to quarantine when other animals that can get infected can fly. It can spread via dust too. Animal farms of this size are effectively in a permanent state of quarantine anyway. Employees take chemical showers and change clo
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by positr0n 2y ago
Exceptions are nice DX, but theoretically if you were parsing URLs in an inner loop and expecting lots of them to fail it would be very expensive compared to returning a tuple (or Optional, whatever).
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by positr0n 2y ago
And not all invasives are weeds, surprisingly. I recently learned that people commonly use privets as a bush or hedgerow around me in North Texas, but they are invasive in wooded areas. DFW has the largest urban forest in the US but 40% (an
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by positr0n 2y ago
Interesting that the table 3 shows subjects that eat organic food have higher glyphosate levels across the board compared to noj organic food eaters.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Acquisitions work the same as they always have. Roughly, if half the voting shareholders approve of the deal it will go through. Edit: from the first result in Google: > Casalena and long-term investors General Atlantic and Accel, which
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by positr0n 2y ago
Search for "TSMC explosives" and there are tons of rumors about this scenario. 2020 thread about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24530719
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by positr0n 2y ago
If you owned a business that had a bunch of cash sitting around with no useful growth opportunities to invest it in you wouldn't keep it in your business's bank account, you'd pay yourself and spend the money on a vacation or
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by positr0n 2y ago
> That's not how physics works. You need deep tread to safely expel water and/or deep treads to make snow-impressions Key word here is safely. A large portion of people would care more about saving $100 in tax than about the ph
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But rubber does not damage concrete, it's the weight of the vehicle that damages the concrete. As an extreme example, if I floor a 2000lb Miata when the light turns green that will deposit a ton of rubber on the road. But that does not
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by positr0n 2y ago
Yes it's a percentage of the current market value. The value is determined by the county tax assessor in all states I'm familiar with. They usually try to lowball the value by 10% or more. That way no one can really complain they
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by positr0n 2y ago
Every FFF since they started doing them again has been about the expansion or base game updates that won't be released until the expansion, so I would continue to not read them :) The way they are doing it is a bunch of engine changes
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by positr0n 3y ago
I've seen speculation that this is evolutionarily driven. Kids do not have the wisdom to know which bitter foods are ok and which could harm you, so they avoid them all or die. By adulthood the selection pressure is much smaller becaus

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