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I think the real joke here that one would be socially acceptable for HNers so we already know what they posted.
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This site states that its main reason for not working with the openbsd community is they don't like their politics.
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Chicken and egg. The store didn't make the hobby, even if it made it more accessible.
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> as there are no standards today. This isn't true. Home schoolers in many states still have to pass state standards test - the only check of quality on the public school. And empirically the standards are higher if you measure perf
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This is a confusing situation then right? Taxation is the government using coercion to claim resources and labor. That's not to say it's evil, but the pool to claim resources from in a given year is fixed. So it's not clear t
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I think that's true of a lot of those fields, but a counterexamples is the many electronics tinkers in the first half the 20th century that occupied that same culture that computers do now.
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> ignoring the religious indoctrination Although this is correlated with homeschooling, the movement is much larger in 2023. Also remember the alternative is state or corporate indoctrination. When I think about all the ridiculous ideas
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we are talking about a retail store here. A few months is good retention. Ironically, the ones who have been there 5 years are probably worse than those at 1 year.
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you can buy rack mount Mac pro
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What leads the national government to make better choices? unlimited budget, less democratic oversight?
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And you still don't take my theory seriously :)
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> ? Every few days I have to enter a 6 digit number I generate on a device I have with me all the time. I use more than one service a day, and some infrequently, so for me about every day I have a minute or two where I try to login, need
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To add, password managers provide great coverage of almost every problem 2FA is. supposed to solve and it improves the workflow your grandma already know (writing passwords on a sheet). The only difference is Google doesn't get any mon
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One is about machines on the internet serving images and forum posts. This comment is low quality and is a form of name calling.
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Community yes. Government protection no. When was the last time you heard of police stopping a break-in or making a successful investigation ? Independent of police, in bad communities your neighbors are willing to break in. In good communi
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> Let's go back to username and password. 2FA forces scammers to up their game. Let's do it. It works for the website you're using right now. 2FA was in large part motivated by limiting bot accounts and getting customers p
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I'll let you figure that one out on your own.
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Those studies aren't similar in methodology or subject at all. Can you acknowledge there are unmeasured social factors at play in this simple survey analysis, or not? If so, I'm happy to speculate about the epistemology of tobacco
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Individuals often respond to social status incentives more than cash. Undoubtedly this invention helped Salk's financial and personal outlook in other ways. Also the models of development of these is just completely different from what
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> study must fork the universe to compare the same business with different timeline Unfortunately, that might be what's necessary to know. I am not knocking the research quality, but there are limits on what we can conclude, and obv
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That's nice of you to list where you work. On HN there are many qualified and intelligent people, so we generally prefer to talk about the issues directly. > half a dozen standard robustness checks My original comment isn't ar
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That's using the theme of the study to support what you already believe, without examining what the study actually shows. I don't disagree that your reasoning sounds plausible, but that's irrelevant of the study's qualit
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As they acknowledge, this factor is extremely difficult to isolate from demographics, geography, religion, etc.
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> gets no financial benefit for a c-section I don't think that's typical anywhere. The incentives they face are less concrete. It may be more inconvenient or uncomfortable for the doctor. If something goes wrong and there is a
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> These workers are replaceable and can be rehired during busy season That's exactly the difference. The factory is a system of processes designed to remove decision making and variation from each person. You have to evaluate the de
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The employer didn't know he was a killer until later. How is this relevant? Are you indicating the kinds of people who might be attracted to this work?
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I wasn't using him as a rags to riches story... by whatever means he acquired those leadership skills, they have been key to his success. This suggests that general leadership is more important for a CEO than credentials, experience, o
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Almost certainly. But it he didn't first become qualified as a CEO, and then get the job.
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Planning and estimating are orthogonal. I don't think inaccurate estimates should prevent you from anticipating the future. > have to learn to work without estimations. A closely related, but different time management tool is a bu
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Even though currently less popular, I think Zuckerberg is a great example of this. He went from a college kid to a top 20 CEO with no formal training, except running his company.
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