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by sequoia 6y ago
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" And in case you're wondering, yes the company was founded by the Nazi party. I think it's good they changed the name.
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by sequoia 6y ago
Another potential issue with a change like this, for the reason that they give for doing it , is that it may communicate an inaccurate picture of what black people care about to non-black people. "Oh wow, black people are offended by
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by sequoia 6y ago
Apologies, I must be missing your point. If the page is localized to/written in English as this page is, numbers should follow the English style of number formatting. There is an overwhelming consensus amongst English locales in how to
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by sequoia 6y ago
I love how nicely documented it is, with revisions & author names there at the top of the file. Very nice touch!
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by sequoia 6y ago
Reminds me of this one https://ncase.me/sim/
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by sequoia 6y ago
> € 4,00 per user / month In the USA and I think all English speaking places we use dot rather than comma to separate decimals from whole number, and comma for thousands, millions etc. So at a glance (before looking closely) this lo
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by sequoia 6y ago
Can you elaborate on mapping a keystroke to opening a meeting link? Outside of google cal + google meet calendar apps don’t typically recognize meeting links as something to promote.
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by sequoia 6y ago
> My biggest fear is around the medical expenses as we grow older and my current thought process is that we will move out of US once the kids go to college. Believe me, I've done this math. :) On a completely unrelated note, check o
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by sequoia 6y ago
I lived somewhere less expensive (small town, out of the way) and in addition to being a big drag on income (9 of 10 jobs were a "no" from the start because they didn't hire remote) I ultimately didn't like the lifestyle
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by sequoia 6y ago
I've come to the conclusion the author just isn't considering people with families in this equation. I lived with intermittent work or no work at all when I was single & childless, but I can't say "fuck you" to
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Companies prefer hiring employees who have families, and mortgages to service, and who faithfully trot along on the consumerism treadmill. As Nassim Taleb points out, it’s the only way you can legally ‘own’ a person today. I really hop
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by sequoia 6y ago
If possible (they won't always accommodate) ask the desk clerk at your hotel (assuming they're a local, not always the case especially at hostels) what they eat for breakfast/lunch and where you can get that. After a terrible
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by sequoia 6y ago
You may not be able to do a lot of "planning ahead" but when you're there you can look at how people dress and emulate that. In some places it might mean buying tighter fitting clothes than you might wear in the states (some
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by sequoia 6y ago
"Know thyself" self-awareness is a strength :)
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by sequoia 6y ago
> i don't think abuse will be very profitable. I don’t find this argument convincing at all. The same could be said about ad impressions (pennies or fractions of pennies per view) but there are whole content farm industries built on
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by sequoia 6y ago
Thanks for writing this, I plan to give it a try now. I use imgur regularly but their pitch “use coil and get something in imgur!” really didn’t make sense to me, this write up is better. Is there a way to pause or speed up/increase or
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by sequoia 6y ago
When you pay $19.99 for a $179 brand new product... I’m not saying it’s OK to scam but caveat emptor? At least a bit?
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by sequoia 6y ago
Can you link this tent kit? The official one doesn’t seem to do that much. I am in the market for new options so I’d be happy to try that out.
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by sequoia 6y ago
It does but only to 15 degrees, goldtouch tents to 30 which makes it more comfortable (to me). It’s not perfect and as I say I’m sure there’s something better, but the kenesis is not it if you like your hands closer to neutral (less rotated
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by sequoia 6y ago
I am up past my bedtime typing on hacker news just to mega-disagree about the goldtouch keyboard, of which I own multiple and have used exclusively for over 10 years to manage serious RSI which has left me debilitated at times and will prob
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by sequoia 6y ago
I support what the Koo founder is doing, he sounds like an upstanding guy who wants to build a social platform that better meets his countrymen's needs (Indian language) and that's fantastic. I just thought the "we're go
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by sequoia 6y ago
"instructed their followers to leave Western social networks for Koo, a local, free-speech platform." This is a funny turn of phrase given that it sounds like a lot of people are leaving twitter for Koo because twitter isn'
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by sequoia 6y ago
It's the AP style guide: https://apnews.com/article/9105661462
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by sequoia 6y ago
Just chiming in to add that I also had a terrible experience cancelling my NYT subscription. I signed up online with a credit card & didn't realize that that automatically causes your subscription to autorenew (it was hundreds of
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Kubernetes Resource Optimization: Just the Basics(sequoia.makes.software)
1 points by sequoia 6y ago|0 comments
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by sequoia 6y ago
In the authors table: - Building an ecosystem: building for developers - Building a product: building for users This and this alone explains why people flocked to Signal rather than matrix or xmpp, which the average user couldn’t “flock to”
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by sequoia 6y ago
> First of all, sad to see you start your post with that Trump-disavowment, it makes me wonder whatever happened with the willingness to defend other's right to free speech no matter whether the defender agrees with that speech or n
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by sequoia 6y ago
Yes they are not one entity, and yet they all more or less simultaneously decided trump (and parler) “violate our TOS.” It’s precisely this sort of collusion, with the figleaf of “our TOS” (give me a break, these were acts of political ex
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Ask HN: Is it technically possible to evade big-tech censorship?
78 points by sequoia 6y ago|80 comments
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Reducing Docker Image Size Particularly for Kubernetes Environments(sequoia.makes.software)
3 points by sequoia 6y ago|0 comments

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