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by smeyer 12y ago
I wouldn't say this is how I think most of my friends talk or anything, but it certainly doesn't read that differently from the way some people I know communicate.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think a lot of people are exaggerating in this thread. Still, only 5% of New York drivers who are involved in a fatal crash with with a pedestrian are arrested, let alone convicted[1]. It seems that most of the time, there isn't much
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by smeyer 12y ago
I walk about 30 minutes each way. It's about 10 minutes by car (cab or uber in my case).
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by smeyer 12y ago
I still don't see your point about people who "just barely cannot get in". Most community college students did not need to do anything to get in. For the public community colleges in California, if I recall correctly, you jus
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't think that's relevant, is it? At least where I grew up (California), community colleges tended not to have admission standards and anyone could attend. Making it easier to afford seems to imply you'll be getting peopl
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by smeyer 12y ago
What do you mean "they don't even list a rough price"? It says in the article the list price was $295k along with a link to the listing then says the offer was close to the asking price. The price in the the article is right
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by smeyer 12y ago
You're obviously not the only one who deactivates javascript by default, but a quick google brought up numbers of around 1% for users with javascript deactivated. I can see why a lot of developers wouldn't be too concerned about t
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by smeyer 12y ago
250k is way above the upper end of what you've heard? I knew a guy who was at $200k at one of the usual suspects straight out of undergrad. It's easy for me to imagine twice that for people with more of a track record.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yes. That said, I think Netflix is much better for TV than for movies.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I went to Harvard, and 100k seemed like a pretty typical salary for my recent grad friends, although commonly accompanied by stock and/or signing bonuses. I knew one guy making about 200k per year at an established company once you pro
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by smeyer 12y ago
This looks like it probably belongs more in the monthly whoishiring posts than in its own thread.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I've long been a big fan of the app, and I also quite liked this post. Thanks for all the lovely weather predictions so far and congrats on the deal!
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a situation that wouldn't have occurred to me from my background. Around here, you mostly just look around craigslist or get a real estate agent and in a couple of weeks can find a nice, legal rental that mee
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Remote work gets a lukewarm reception on HN I see people praising remote work on HN all the time. I also see people mention downsides, but I wouldn't have described the reception as lukewarm.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't know if this is a cultural thing (I"m an American living and renting in Boston), but I figured the default would be people wanting "a fully legal contract" with a lease of a year or so, not looking to move every
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by smeyer 12y ago
Look at page 8 onwards.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>The biggest problem when your nation tortures people is you've trained people to torture No, I disagree. I think the torturing itself and the moral failings it entails are a bigger problem than the (admittedly substantial) problem
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by smeyer 12y ago
And describing something you try to avoid as "retarded" is not exactly "polite".
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'd just give it to my alma mater. I learned a lot in college, greatly increased my analytic skills, learned from courses, research, and peers, and believe I came out a smarter and more capable person because of it. I don't doubt
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by smeyer 12y ago
>probably consumes the least fossil fuels per tonne I don't believe that the commenter to whom you're replying is referring to the use of fossil fuels to transport the ship (which I believe has to be towed.) They seem to be ref
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by smeyer 12y ago
>go find a DVD of Black Mirror It also recently made it to Netflix. I've been hearing about it all over among my friends the last few days as they've been watching it there (and watched the first couple of episodes myself.)
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not big on Boca Grande (snobby Californian checking in) but am a big fan of Squeaky Beaker (and the related Second Street Cafe). If you really want terrible Chinese food, there are a couple of options in the Cambridgeside Galleri
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yeah, I have heard the occasional horror story like year, but they seem to have things mostly under control. I haven't been eating there all that long, but word on the street is it's definitely better than back in the day. Definit
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by smeyer 12y ago
Here's a link to the donation page (rather than to the main page, which happens to have a donation banner now): https://archive.org/donate/index.php .
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yes, this. Momogoose is fantastic. They have a truck by the T stop and a stand by the mall.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>$3k/month will get you into a triplex in Somerville with no T access I'm a software engineer in Boston, and I know tons of people living comfortably with good T access for far less than that. I live in a nice building in Bosto
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by smeyer 12y ago
(For future readers, see dang's comment on how he changed the title from "Rosetta first results: ocean water not from comets")[1]) I don't know why you changed the title to something claiming a stronger result than their
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by smeyer 12y ago
Right, but it also seems massively expensive build rail from Russia to Alaska and from Alaska to the rest of North America. I'm not convinced there's enough demand for imports on the particular schedule of rail to justify that mas
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by smeyer 12y ago
There's a difference between "always uses the same seed" and "can be seeded for reproducibility". You probably want the latter and probably don't want the former.
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by smeyer 12y ago
But is there actually enough demand to justify the middle ground?

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