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by ryanobjc 7y ago
"Please dont talk about politics on hackernews" Channeling the site operators a bit for you. Remember that politics is things like "who should win or lose in society?" and "who is even human and deserves civil righ
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Actually no I don’t! Good paper doesn’t even have to be too expensive either. Maybe more than a college ruled notebook. But I don’t take copious notes so something aesthetically nice to use is a big plus for me.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Try a broader nib - with a larger surface it’s less scratchy. Also your nib probably needs a smoothing and tune up too! There’s many resources online to learn how to do that. In short very fine abrasives.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
I guess I don’t quite get it. The inks are the least good thing about fountain pens - the ink drys slow and often doesn’t well on cheap paper. I personally love fountain pens. The style, the tech, the aesthetic, everything. So this to me se
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Looks like you got downvoted to hell and that makes sense to me... After all you’re on hacker news the site for people who are obsessive about things no one else cares about. Threading models? (Or any programming thing you’re into) Sure. Wh
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
I thought the ink drying speed was an issue for lefties and the resultant smear. These pens don’t seem to solve it... same ink after all.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
This seems to suggest, in addition to another case, that nCOV is in the wild in Singapore?
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There is a lot of missing science here - yes we have the whole 'calories in - calories out', but we are missing some detailed biochemical descriptions of what's going on. The human body is more complex than a 2 term math exp
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Most of your books in your must read are... self improvement? The field of self improvement non fiction is widely regarded to be filled with fluff and extra words for little content and purpose. They are the equivalent of listicles and blog
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A good start but it’s really a brief survey and I wouldn’t call it actionable. The greatest challenges for Java gc is when heap sizes are big and when data is turned over slower than pure transactional. In other words allocate and retain fo
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Why doesn't it pass the sniff test? Your second paragraph essentially parallels the well known "no one was fired for buying IBM" fallacy. How is buying advice from a Harvard MBA any different?
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Also important to remember that "hijacking public services for their own benefit" is hardly an abstract charge. There has been many examples of public goods being transformed into private goods for huge benefits to a select few.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Election security should be transparently understandable to nearly everyone or else there'll be mistrust in the system. At this point, paper ballots, and human processes are the best hope in America.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Concrete is porus to water. If water can seep thru, when it’s not cracked, air can as well.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
See my sibling comment - it’s entirely possible for fumes to enter their work via plumbing. So I’d really downgrade that “probably” - ambient outdoor exposure maybe, but the facts as presented better fits an indoor exposure during the day.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
A p trap can dry out. In my case the resulting sewer gas introduced 120ppm of CO into that bathroom, which started to dissipate and set off CO alarms on the next floor up. This is common knowledge among the fire fighters here. They knew wha
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
I’m pretty much with you. And I can’t help but wonder as joining startups has clearly been sold as a path to riches, this site has shifted. Here’s a benchmark question: is it better to be right or be popular?
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The ironic thing is "noise cancelling" headphone turn down the volume on the things easiest to tune out, and turns up the volume on things that are the most jarring. Which is why I don't use noise cancelling headphones, inste
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
My friends introduced me to a new term for this site... the orange site. It’s hard to say if it’s people espousing heartfelt views, trolls, bots, or who knows what other internet monster?
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Taking Austin for a moment, the real estate market has doubled since 2012, and zillow calls the market 'hot'. While obviously not Bay Area prices, real estate growth is high. Austin has minimal mass transit - some train, some bus
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Yeah I am going to go ahead and agree with the 'compensated (somewhat) fairly'. Tech employees offer unprecedented leveraged effort -> work put in affects so many people, and has huge effects. In terms of return to capital, ri
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
When people talk about voter suppression, we don't always talk about these highly effective methods such as: - requiring a specific ID that is difficult for certain segments of the population to get. Either by requiring non-existent do
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there are a few states on there that are "DRE w/o paper trail" which is "pure digital voting". Some of those states are now, or will become swing states. As we saw in 2016, where the presidential race was decided o
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Yes this, this is why community property, common law marriages, and alimony exists. To help correct the imbalance of power, and the justice of the situation. The bottom line is raising kids as a stay at home parent is a huge burden. It&#x
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This is fairly remedial cultural anthropology of the society we work in, but it should be entirely obvious as to why being married is helpful if you have children, including the same last name (or at least an hyphenated add-on) A lot of pe
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The only people who say "don't do X" are those who have no interest in X, and just enjoy being moral scolds, and don't have a serious interest in improving anyone's life, despite what they claim. Because if you are
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
So, I'm downvoted you because I don't think you're contributing quality (You slag Gosling as 'some older individuals' who 'don't [understand] modern technology') Either that or your comment was made i
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
You think RMS isn't being evaluated on his whole? The accusations are various, serious, and have been out of sight and out of mind until now. The problem with calls to "evaluate people on their whole" is that it allows people
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Well said. I am amused that too many people on HN take the thinnest logical wedge of situations like this and say "see! It make sense!" and essentially ignore the effective outcome. It's a very "computery" thought p
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
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