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by starwind 5y ago
I’ve had my identity stolen (twice!). The first time I got things untangled, the second time I headed it off. You’re not wrong to be paranoid, but billionaires have bank accounts and hand over their passports all the time. If you keep a low
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by starwind 5y ago
Google and Amazon have a pretty big showing in Denver/Boulder area and Apple's expanding an engineering office here. Denver's also a big telecommunications and defense hub. Both industries employ armies of developers
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by starwind 5y ago
My last job we did CV mostly focused on satellite images. When someone on the team mentioned she had a Tesla the director who set up the team was like "you see the results we get here. Why do you feel safe getting in a self-driving car
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by starwind 5y ago
I really like MKBHD and his reviews. I really hate TechLead and his scams
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by starwind 5y ago
I looked at new Audi’s last year, and my main thing was I want physical gauges on the dashboard. The sales guy looked at me like I was from Mars and then showed me the stripped versions (which were, I gotta say, pretty nice) I wonder how mu
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by starwind 5y ago
Because if I'm a high-ranking diplomat or military official, I may need to get plane tickets, book an Uber and hotel, set up a meeting on whatsapp, and read a news article at the drop of a hat
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by starwind 5y ago
yeah that was what it was like with my first job. Subsidiary of Accenture. Got set up in a hotel, had some training (that was kind of useless but whatever). But I got so many spam emails from companies that sounded like a nightmare. Crappy
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Ask HN: Where to buy good quality furniture?
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by starwind 5y ago
I really like Tidal. High quality streams, good recommendations and playlists, and solid app. I had some problems with Spotify, and I never got used to Apple Music's interface on Android
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by starwind 5y ago
Yes. Most credit card companies will offer credit monitoring as a service to their customers--usually the TransUnion and Experian reports—-and you can get push notifications when someone pulls your credit. If you don't have a credit ca
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by starwind 5y ago
yeah I never get these request anymore
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by starwind 5y ago
I don't buy that. Sure there's plenty of eccentric geniuses but I don't think you have to be on the periphery. Albert Einstein, Claude Shannon, and Edwin Hubble were all fairly popular, friendly people in their day
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by starwind 5y ago
Not sure these are the best examples. Tesla did some amazing engineering but had some crank beliefs (he thought special and general relativity were nonsense and didn't believe in electrons) and if he was personally unpopular it was pro
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by starwind 5y ago
In the absence of a legally enforceable vaccine mandate that does not allow for medical exemptions, no. It's more of "at your own risk." In a broader sense, I don't think anything is actually an instance of the trolley p
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by starwind 5y ago
You know, I thought about that like 10 minutes later. Yeah, I lumped too much together under "software"
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by starwind 5y ago
I think Peloton kind of misunderstood where their value lay--I think they're a better software company than hardware company and they should shift their focus accordingly. My mom has a Peloton and I have a Sunny spinbike and I think mi
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by starwind 5y ago
> Who thought that Alcohol is actually good for the heart? I remember studies in the 90s (the ones I can find specifically were done by Eric Rimm) that touted health benefits from a glass of red wine. These weren't randomized contro
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by starwind 5y ago
Don't forget that studies looking at drinking often fail to seperate out former alcoholics who usually have long-term health problems from drinking from teetotalers
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by starwind 5y ago
Bingo. A lot of studies that purport health benefits from drinking are comparing "sick quitters" who drank themselves into health problems to normal people who have the occasional drink and don't bother to control for socioec
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by starwind 5y ago
American Express generally charges the most. They get away with it with breaks for small businesses and arguing that Amex customers will spend substantially more in the shop when they come in. Visa and Mastercard’s merchant fees vary depe
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by starwind 5y ago
It’s a good feeling. Sense of accomplishment and pride. Damnit… I just love it so much.
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by starwind 5y ago
idk but I won't correct English from Britain if you won't correct American from America
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by starwind 5y ago
Listening to music. Flying an airplane. Doing a hard workout. Building a Lego set. Fixing something with my hands. Cooking (trying not to cut off any more finger tips).
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by starwind 5y ago
I'm willing to concede that pieces praising Lovelace can be going too far, but I'll also bet this one goes too far bashing her cause it really hates feminism. “People believe what they want to believe, and computing has been a tho
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by starwind 5y ago
You're wrong. You literally just described assault or (best case scenario) a tort https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/966/can-one-be-liabl... > I can't create code with malware. I can't modif
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by starwind 5y ago
I mean, maybe he can be credited with modern criticism of critical race theory, but conservatives have been complaining about it for decades. The law and economics movement in part gained traction among conservative legal scholars opposing
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by starwind 5y ago
I at least haven't seem to have had that experience with legitimate companies. Spam, yeah, I don't even load images to those emails
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by starwind 5y ago
Whenever I order something online, I always uncheck the box that says "I want to receive your newsletter" or never check it the first place. Inevitably, in the next few days, I start to receive their product offerings
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by starwind 5y ago
You're wrong. If I routinely share my lunch with someone at work, I don't get to poison it because "It's my sandwich, I'm under no obligation to make sure it's safe just because you happen to eat it." Hell
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by starwind 5y ago
Correct. You basically never have the right to commit sabotage

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