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by smeyer 11y ago
Your experience doesn't line up with my own. The majority of my friends who use dating websites and start a relationship stop using the dating sites early in the relationship.
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by smeyer 11y ago
Your described feature sounds like something that isn't too hard to find. In okcupid people can specify a subset of something like friends, long term dating, short term dating, and casual sex, then filter on what others are looking for
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by smeyer 11y ago
Just because you're changing jobs doesn't mean you're burning out. I've known people who have had several jobs over a career (some they liked and some they didn't) without ever burning out at any of them.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>do not have a process for washing and drying your hands w/ paper towels that is completely touch-free This is different from my personal experiences. In the last few years, I've dried my hands with a touch-free system in the v
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by smeyer 11y ago
I believe it's not actually forbidden to ask in the US, just forbidden to make a decision based on a protected category, which is why most companies avoid asking. While I'm sure it's happened, I've never seen someone rem
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by smeyer 11y ago
> At the moment, there is no alternative theory of the early Universe that explains more. I thought this was a very important point that the author just sort of brushed aside. There are serious flaws with inflation and real concerns to a
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by smeyer 11y ago
>If you've been sued once for something, you cannot be sued again (and again, and again) Double jeopardy doesn't prevent someone from opting out of a class action lawsuit and suing separately. >hot coffee lawsuit The hot cof
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by smeyer 11y ago
The specific quote if madaxe_again missed it: >Researchers at the University of Toronto looked at 100,000 cars as they drove past air sampling probes on one of Toronto’s major roads.
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by smeyer 11y ago
I don't think that looking at people making "multi-million dollar enterprises" is necessarily going to cause much envy or anything. Brockman presumably has equity worth quite a lot and was key to the level of success Stripe h
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Couldn't you achieve the same thing using cheaper PCs? They say "Parts of our technology are built using OS X’s graphics frameworks, which offer high quality output and excellent performance". So they couldn't achiev
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by smeyer 11y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of examples in the US with languages other than Spanish, but I wasn't thinking about the substantial populations of francophone immigrants to France.
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by smeyer 11y ago
I'm an American who isn't very knowledgeable about France. Could you expand on this a little bit? There are definitely neighborhoods in the US where even if many people speak English, it's not the dominant language in the nei
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by smeyer 11y ago
I saw an interesting talk by Professor Richard Wrangham (disclosure: a personal friend) of the Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology department that addressed part of this once. He pointed out the open question of whether substantial intellige
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by smeyer 11y ago
It just feels higher because you're seeing your marginal tax rate instead of average tax rate. If you get a raise and look at the paycheck before and after the raise, the difference in net pay vs gross pay will be similar to what you s
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by smeyer 11y ago
> Paid vacation days set in policy (I will assume "unlimited" means none.) I liked the way my current employer dealt with this. When I was coming on, they mentioned that they had an unlimited vacation policy for exempt employee
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by smeyer 11y ago
I think it's a bit unreasonable to describe it all as just "boo-hooing". Obviously everyone has challenges, but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth considering how these could be mitigated. There is a real problem
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by smeyer 11y ago
At the top ivy league schools, they do in fact also pay for rent, food, and even clothes (Harvard has a fund to pay for winter coats for students on certain levels of financial aid.) Harvard also has a fund to pay for some school-sponsored
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by smeyer 11y ago
There's a minimum karma requirement to downvote. I believe it's somewhere around 500, but could be misremembering.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>a huge city designed for automobiles. Many people live 10, 20 miles away from their jobs I think a majority of workers in New York commute using public transit. It might be a minority of people living 10 or 20 miles out, but if so, it&#
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by smeyer 11y ago
Do you use an extension or something with HN? I think I had such a description from an extension I used, and the description persisted after HN decided to stop showing average karma.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Who cares if some drunk guy kills himself I think lots of people care. I didn't mean to make it a small point that drunk driving endangers other people, but I wanted to point out that there are lots of life-threatening behaviors be
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by smeyer 11y ago
I wouldn't actually say that it's "a whole different league from anything else a drunkard might do." The freakonomics guys claimed that it was at least as dangerous to oneself (although not to others) to walk drunk as to
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by smeyer 11y ago
Presumably they've tried to estimate that probability and factored it into the 20% probability of not succeeding. (I don't know though, since I haven't seen the calculation.)
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by smeyer 12y ago
For a moment I thought that said Local Muzak and was very confused.
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by smeyer 12y ago
A friend of mine in college typed primarily with her feet (at about 30 words per minute, if I recall correctly.)
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by smeyer 12y ago
From a peak at LinkedIn it looks like he dropped out of Yale business school not Yale undergrad, so he's not giving up "3-4 years of learning and research" but more like just the second year out of a two year MBA program for
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by smeyer 12y ago
He's probably taking the tax deductions for the donations, so it's not the same as donating an additional 50% "from the remaining money" (as some of it comes out of what would have been taxes). I didn't see it expli
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. As your wikipedia link explains, calling the Central Valley a desert is not 100% off-base but is definitely an exaggeration to the point of being incorrect. Parts of it are semidesert and p
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by smeyer 12y ago
I graduated from Harvard, and like chris_b said with Yale, a not insignificant number of people went into some sort of engineering. It's not the plurality career choice, but it's not like the field is some sort of pariah at Ivy Le
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by smeyer 12y ago
You have to add your email to the profile field, not just the email field. The email field is private and is used by HN for account management rather than displayed publicly for others to contact you.

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