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by ryanobjc 7y ago
What's wrong with the SF public library? Maybe try anything but the main branch?
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
There is way too many people like this on hn. I guess this means that HN is essentially 'mainstream' now (at least in SV?), but it's also disappointing. It's like discovering your close circle of scientist friends has a
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
As someone who had a kid, this is both obvious and a fun confirmation evidence. One of the things people forget is nature is not perfect and doesn't always work. Sometimes babies don't figure out breastfeeding and die. That's
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Apparently the “right to be forgotten” is from laws in Spain which exist to allow people to erase their fascist past. Avoiding awkward conversations about what oke did during the war.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
As long as you’re polite you can advocate for all the ethnic cleansing you want. But if you get upset about all that ethnic cleansing, well someone has some shadow ban and words for you.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Not true. Even the bronze plans cover doctor visits with just copays, no deductible to be met. Copays count towards deductibles. Now when you need hospital services, surgery, emergency, yes the deductible is formidable. After that they cove
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
I don’t really know you or this situation... but there’s a chance that you’re part of the problem. And they won’t tell you that. I think one thing to reflect on is why you didn’t know this about the pointlessness of exit interviews and the
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
For money. Companies will withhold severance and/or extra healthcare pay. In fact from a contract law perspective you have to exchange consideration for an agreement.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
My child had a wooden painted toy from amazon. He sucked on it. Later we discovered that it has unacceptable levels of lead in the paint. We threw it out. This was done via an environmental science company, using xrf field testing. I have a
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Hmm disagree. This was a very lightweight “hey you’re defending a pretty terrible act”. Surely there is value to socially pressuring people who offer morally reprehensible positions? My child had one of these low quality, high lead toys ama
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
So, most of the world sees the protests as obviously about freedom, and freedom from Chinese rule. That you cannot see that... well... who is more likely to be wrong here? Perhaps you have been incentivized not to learn how to think critica
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
So "better" entirely depends on your values, right? Ever heard of the phrase "better to die on your feet, than live on your knees?" Not everyone shares the ethos that a full belly is happiness and goodness. There is mor
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
I guess it doesn't hurt that people who make too much rhetorical noise, tend to find themselves in all sorts of trouble. Hard to criticize in that circumstance! As you point out, if you are on the receiving end of "good fortune&
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Also, look at it this way, if you have, let's say $5b on deposit at a bank, and you need to give it to someone else for some reason. Well transferring that money could destabilize the bank. They might refuse to let you withdraw it qu
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Can they? Most 'central banks' dont really offer banking services. Eg: you can't deposit to the federal reserve. So the question is what to do with your money, that is both (a) easily transferable (b) auditable (c) safe Gove
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
To be absolutely clear, this professor did not lose his job, he lost his post as dean of a residential house. This is a role whereby he lives in close proximity to students, acts as an mentor and helps students with all sorts of things, lik
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
So a lot of the argument about how "right wing commenters" are unfairly, well, whatevered, is based on some very serious anecdotes. And you know what we say to those - not today. A few things: - Protests are valid free speech exp
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
The words "I should be a millionaire" sure appears a lot. The subject suggests there's a different title, but it really seems like the real subject is how this person isn't a millionaire.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
“... provide more data for the real moneymaker.” This is a supposition - while perhaps it seems to makes sense, seems true, “must be true”, it doesn’t mean it is true! Unless you worked on search quality at google you really aren’t in a pos
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
13.4% of San Francisco is under 18 years of age. And over 65s are 15.7%. It’s entirely reasonable to take regulatory steps to protect younger persons. Habits ingrained now last a lifetime - that’s why Juul is fighting this - a new generatio
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Because the land sucks. It just sucks. Tundra when thawed isn't some magical land. It's all swamp basically. GOOD LUCK with 100' deep bogs all over the place!
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
It's all mixed up but when I hear that it was a 100 year family owned business the likely hood it is racist goes way up to me. I can't say for sure but the fact it's some kind of community staple hardly protects it from accus
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Quillette isn't a reputable source. Particularly in this area they specifically are well known to be advancing a "leftwing colleges are terrible" narrative.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
miss any flights yet? I find this feature insanely useful. Google is doing something useful with my email. I learn about delayed flights way way in advance of anyone else as a result. So let's just be clear here: - you get an email,
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
In America we've had decades of various people attacking public schools. So to look at the state of public schools and saying this is how things are, well you're ignoring a broad history of American conservatism taking objection
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
I have but I couldn't make it work. The issue seemed to boil down to "when do you price commodities?". Hledger doesn't let you report the price at the actual sale. The history flag didn't work I forget the reasons a
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Hledger is pretty good for basic accounting. I recently had to do some tracking of stocks and lots and forex and the developers decided not to implement lot-based tracking. Which made it impossible to accurately track money. So back to plai
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
It's being cut because that's the destiny of all competent government. That's why the USPS was budgetary crippled by being forced mto prepay all pension obligations.
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
So let me get this correct... The subject area is the SAT, a test, which is imperfect like all tests, with research which indicates that it's actually problematic for such a diverse country like the USA. So a test like the SAT, which
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by ryanobjc 7y ago
Wouldn’t you agree that two people who achieve the same score on the test may not have worked equally hard? If someone scored the same as your child, except they didn’t have good security, good quality schools, parents that could help them,

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