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by shard 6y ago
That's quite a lot of standing. At what point would you start worrying about varicose veins?
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by shard 6y ago
(Star Trek the Wrath of Khan) Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
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by shard 6y ago
Different software keyboards definitely have different swiping requirements. I've found that Samsung swiping keyboards need sharper angles at direction changes to help with recognition. Other swiping keyboards are more okay with smooth
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by shard 6y ago
Only on HN would I be incentivized to Google "amount of blood in a baby". It turns out babies have about 75mL of blood per kg, so an 8 pound baby would have about 270 mL of blood. Infants/toddlers up to ~29lbs (between 2~4 ye
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by shard 6y ago
> Is that the salary for a mid-career tech worker in the US, or in Europe/Asia? Because tech salaries are a lot lower outside of the US. Definitely it depends on the country, the industry, the specific company, and by the definition
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by shard 6y ago
There is a sense of dissatisfaction when one has to pay the extra tax, while one's coworkers, who are from countries other than the US, do not.
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by shard 6y ago
I'm not a tax professional, but below is the relevant section from the California Franchise Tax Board's Guideline for Determining Resident Status, which can grant nonresident status depending on the particulars of one's emplo
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by shard 6y ago
In addition, you can also live in Samsung and LG apartments in Korea, while driving Samsung cars insured by Samsung insurance, getting your health care at Samsung hospitals, going to Samsung Everland amusement park, seeing art exhibits at v
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by shard 6y ago
> it looks like there are provisions to give you exclusions on your foreign income,if you have any The foreign income exclusion is not that high, especially if you are a mid career tech worker ($107,600 for 2020), and you will be double
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by shard 6y ago
You used the phrase "once upon a time", a common opening for fairy tales, which seems apropos for describing a magical land where products achieved a 100% bug detection rate before release. I suppose this might have been true 50 y
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by shard 6y ago
A previous company I worked for had a one month retention window in the email server. People just ended up storing email in their local machine's Outlook folder so they can refer to old emails.
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by shard 6y ago
Your answer is technically correct (I know, I know, it's the best kind of correct...) but the typical case is that without using the tech giants to propagate your site (search engines, social media, instant messenger services), your si
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by shard 6y ago
I think people's ability to detect fake photos have increased over the years. Consider the Cottingley Fairies photos ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies ), to my modern eyes, the fairies are unmistaka
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by shard 6y ago
These rules can be a hinderance during social conversations, where the goal is often to show that you understand the beliefs and practices of the in-group and to demonstrate your superiority through a command of humor or charisma, where the
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by shard 6y ago
Why is pacing illegal? Unless the pacer runs right in front of the other runners to draft them along in their tailwind, in which case it would make sense, but otherwise urging them along? Seems like you can sabotage other teams by pacing th
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by shard 6y ago
> HN is mostly Prole-and-proud Sounds about right. HN is mostly educated in engineering with a smattering of business, both eminently sensible subjects which are too practical to be middle class. There are some pure science/math fol
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by shard 6y ago
I think it's a matter of definition. I always thought of framing as understanding your audience and expressing your ideas in a way which puts a "frame" around a viewpoint to highlight the way it matters to them. It's a g
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by shard 6y ago
>I think the brutal/ultra-competitive work culture is uniquely American American work culture is only moderately competitive. Many Asian work cultures are much more competitive than the US, where women taking a break to have childre
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by shard 6y ago
Could you specify which cultures you are referring to?
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by shard 6y ago
Have you tried baby mittens? It looks like a pouch, there are no individual fingers on the mittens. We put those on our baby to avoid the scratching problem. Here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/RATIVE-Newborn-Scratch-
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by shard 6y ago
For me it's the skin. Although it has gotten much better with the subsurface scattering, it's still looking a bit plastic-y.
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by shard 6y ago
With the existence of lactose intolerance and gluten intolerance, that seems like a difficult policy to live with.
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by shard 6y ago
Intel does not run at Korean speed. Samsung's Pyeongtaek Line 3 fab broke ground in 09/2020, construction expected to be complete by 2H/2021, mass production by 2023. This is not an unreasonable speed for Samsung. Of course,
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by shard 6y ago
That seems like a reasonable timeline, which means the fab will be online by 2023, just like the article says. Mass production won't start until 2024, though.
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Apple blocking side loading of iPhone apps on M1(9to5mac.com)
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by shard 6y ago
Where is this feature available or implemented? I just tried in Chrome and Powerpoint, neither has this feature.
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by shard 6y ago
I tried to make the two sentences grammatically correct: >He underscored that the air loss due to the crack a̶r̶e̶ is insignificant. >In November, Russian cosmonauts photographed the suspected leak location on the outside of the I
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by shard 6y ago
I believe the implication is that all the plumbers are advanced degree holders, not just the engineer.
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by shard 6y ago
Continuing that line of reasoning, the overwhelming majority of people don't live in Europe either. They live in India, China, Africa, South America where free healthcare, unemployment, and education are not always available.
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by shard 6y ago
Yes. At Samsung, you see many of the same things: militaristic culture, long work hours, senior execs in overseas branches almost all Korean, important information passed on during company dinners, people switching to Korean during meeting

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