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by tachyoff 9y ago
Thank you, that means a lot. I'm happy to hear you were able to get better too, and that you were able to keep pursuing the things that were important to you. And I can see how working towards life goals would be helpful in the midst o
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by tachyoff 9y ago
This hits home pretty hard. I've been struggling with depression for a while, and I think it's slowly getting worse. That being said, I'm job hunting and probably about to move so trying to find a permanent therapist (which i
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by tachyoff 9y ago
It’s unfair and unrealistic to expect everyone to assimilate, if for no other reason than people bring the entirety of their experiences with them wherever they go. There will always a bit of a Californian in transplants to Texas, just like
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Nothing, assuming local policy and large corporations don’t price lower-income earners out of their homes/apartments.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Californians are leaving for /cheaper/ states.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
That would make its way to the Supreme Court well before that, don’t worry. Then it’ll either be legal everywhere or illegal everywhere. #federalism
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by tachyoff 9y ago
That depends on how you figure. Do you mean socially? Legally? Business-wise? There are a lot of complex forces at play to make Silicon Valley the way it is (including history). I don’t think it’s fair to tell any group not to “make” some c
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I would argue that aggressive education campaigns (similar to anti-smoking campaigns which drastically reduced the number of smokers) could help with seatbelt awareness. Showing how far someone crashes brought a windshield even at 35 mi&#x2
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I need something covering me. I’m sure it’s a culture/childhood thing to an extent, but I can’t sleep without a layer. It’s another reason why I always wear shorts and a t-shirt to bed too (plus I can’t stand the idea of making my shee
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I wouldn’t call time complexity particularly complex math. Imagine a loop. It does something n times. Within that loop, you do something n times. For each outer looo through n,you do an inner loop through n. Trivially, this is n*n, or n^2,
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Can’t wait until it costs $30 and takes 45 minutes to unlock my car!
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by tachyoff 9y ago
This is fabulous! Got from cheese to postmodernism in two hops [1]. Really excellent work, and thanks for making it open source! [1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Cheese&target=...
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Except clearly that doesn’t work, and clearly some people who take out loans like this aren’t doing it in bad faith. The idea that the threat of punishment is effective at stopping “bad” behavior has, I believe, been thoroughly debunked by
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> This is not a battle you are going to win. When cities are gridlocked by expensive, polluting cars, nobody wins. > I'm happy for other people to take mass transit and leave more road space for me. That kind of thinking is why w
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> There is no institutional inertia or political organizing involved in walking, riding your bike, or taking the bus for your next trip. Assuming you live in a bikeable or walkable area, sure. Bus service exists, but it can be patchy and
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I’m really sorry this happened to you. I’m glad it ended up working out eventually (it seems). I wonder how much time, money, and tears we could save if there were an easier way to simply reach people in these situations to let them know of
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by tachyoff 9y ago
> If they were preferable, people would choose them. Balivernes. That’s just a tautology. I’m sure if you ask any American if they think the electoral college system is fair, 99/100 will tell you it isn’t. Yet it persists. Why? Many
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by tachyoff 9y ago
You’d have to defeat the automotive lobby and voters in the suburbs who have issues with certain types of people being able to visit. I’m hoping those of us who really want it get the public transit everyone deserves, but I’ll believe it wh
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I seem to know a lot of anarchists, so I’m very well-acquainted with the idea of a world without the rule of law. Anyway, I think the principles of the American court system are pretty solid. Like all legal systems, it’s made up of flawed h
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Downloading nginx doesn’t teach you how a web server works.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Don’t forget oceanic dead zones and acidification! All it takes is the death of an important part of the food chain to really hurt a lot of people.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
This is disgusting. One of my adult fears is that I’ll wind up on the wrong end of a collections bill or something and everything will go to shit. That being said, our court system was never particularly kind to the poor and destitute (what
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Poor people can’t comment because they’re poor. It’s the survivorship bias problem. People who are currently poor probably can’t comment on HN (or have no idea what it is), so what you see, overwhelmingly, is people who were able to escape
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Then it’s good that my goal is not to endear myself to anyone here. Flippantly dismissing certain technologies and engaging in “just”isms needs to be called out because it’s not productive or helpful. Moreover, I think it’s funny that the s
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by tachyoff 9y ago
This is well-said. To add some anecdata, I work in a “managerless” organization. It sucks. It’s hard or impossible to make certain changes because nobody has any authority to do things that aren’t necessarily politically sexy (e.g. fixing b
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Ah, you sound like this person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, an
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Both flat and regular light switches allow for the use of elbows or, in a pinch, noses.
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by tachyoff 9y ago
Car “infotainment” systems are the worst. I drive a VW and the touch screen is maddening. Transition animations are too long and involved, which is frustrating because 99% of the time I just need to force connect Bluetooth and that button c
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by tachyoff 9y ago
I feel the same way about rent..
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by tachyoff 9y ago
It’s an eternity if you’re out of gas. ;)

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