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by smeyer 4y ago
>I remember most teens and young adults (which is most people who used computers) would never buy any kind of software, music or video. I don't think it's true that "most people who used computers" were teens or young
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by smeyer 4y ago
For anyone curious about this phenomenon, the Ford Foundation is a notable example. Henry Ford was notably racist and the Ford Foundation does a lot that is focused on racial diversity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For
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by smeyer 4y ago
I think focusing on longevity in terms of geological timescales isn't necessary. Finding short term solutions will give us more time to come up with longer term solutions before our planet goes completely to hell.
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by smeyer 4y ago
I found this post by searching, and saw your comment when it was 1 minute old. I don’t think the post was removed from searches.
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by smeyer 4y ago
There's also a benefit in visibility. Even if you fix everything else constant (same number of cars, at the same distance, etc.), it's safer to cross the street when someone else is already crossing than it is when no one else is
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by smeyer 4y ago
I'm a Harvard alumnus but obviously don't speak on behalf of Harvard. The Harvard admissions office does consider folks from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, and does not only look at race. There is a dirty history to the
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by smeyer 4y ago
I don't think that's particularly a problem. Just because Netflix or Hulu offered one service when I first used them a decade ago doesn't mean they're obliged to provide the same service at the same price forever. I occa
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by smeyer 4y ago
Can the answer not just be to charge more for the ad-free tier? The gap between what I'm willing to pay for a streaming service with and without ads is a lot more than what the current going rate is.
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by smeyer 4y ago
I think we're saying different things. If I'm reading correctly, you're saying that most people don't need to itemize and can take the standard deduction, and I certainly agree. I'm saying that OP will need to repor
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by smeyer 4y ago
If you're working a fulltime job, you're very likely to already be well over the standard deduction. It still sounds like the commenter doesn't fully understand the tax situation and might have paid more than they truly owed,
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by smeyer 4y ago
What does it stand for?
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by smeyer 4y ago
It's pretty new https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/09/introducing-the-congress-g... https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/api.congress.gov
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by smeyer 4y ago
Have you read the FAQ? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html >Are reposts ok? > >If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts a
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by smeyer 4y ago
If you look at the talk schedule for something like PyCon[0], not much of it is about updates to the language syntax and things of that nature. Most of the time is discussing applications of the language, packages, et cetera. [0] https:&#x
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by smeyer 4y ago
>can I claim that the mountain makes money? Sure? I feel like it wouldn't be unusual semantically to see a sentence like "the Foobar mountain brings in eleventy zillion dollars in tourism per year".
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by smeyer 4y ago
Out of curiosity did you do things above board from a business standpoint (taxes etc.) or was this more of a blackmarket setup?
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by smeyer 4y ago
How do you square your idea with the other substantial implications of photons having mass?
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by smeyer 4y ago
For what it's worth, I also get annoyed with how often google thinks I want "Foo Cafe" in Atlanta when I'm really looking for "Foo Restaurant" two blocks away from me in Boston.
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by smeyer 4y ago
How much do you spend per cup for your "happy medium"? I ask as a happy non-coffee drinker.
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by smeyer 4y ago
>Instead try to improve the customer experience AB testing can be (although isn't always) used to improve the customer experience. Assuming you know exactly what will make the customer experience best without actually testing it can
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by smeyer 4y ago
>This kind of logic I would expect only from a bean-counter I think you're not doing a very good job of updating your expectations based on what other folks are saying. Across multiple threads you have a whole variety of folks tryin
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by smeyer 5y ago
What is hyper escape? My attempts to duck and google it just gave me stuff about a game "hyper scape".
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by smeyer 5y ago
>In my personal life experience - I’ve not seen utility prices go down, ever. I think it depends on the utility. My town dropped electric rates a bit a year ago[0] and I think it's even more common for rates to fluctuate (both up an
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by smeyer 5y ago
When does obeying stop signs cause a lot of trouble?
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by smeyer 5y ago
People take advantage of phase changes as a way to store thermal capacity frequently. Here[0] is one designed to keep your coffee hot by using a material with a phase change temperature similar to a temperature folks like to drink coffee. [
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by smeyer 5y ago
>everybody in the process was trying to make the world a better place I think "everybody" here is a pretty substantial overstatement. Plenty of folks were just trying to make money, without much regard for whether it made the w
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by smeyer 5y ago
I don't think their incentives are exactly misaligned with it being high quality, either. If better translation can get folks to see more ads, they might not care much about losing out potential api-based translation revenue.
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by smeyer 5y ago
What type of floor do you and others complaining in the thread have? I own one, and almost never use the "max" setting. I have hardwood floors and a hardwood floor-specific head for the vacuum, so I'm wondering if all the neg
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by smeyer 5y ago
>it's the first time I've seen this site I think this might only be its second month so don't be hard on yourself for first seeing it now. https://web.archive.org/web/*/scanofthemonth.com
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by smeyer 5y ago
>Usually the only reason someone asks "what browser" is so they can make snide comments about it I wasn't the person who asked, but I was also wondering and appreciate your answer for non-snide reasons. Especially in the c

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