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There’s a flag that Mac application developers can set indicating whether their application can handle the extra screen space when in full screen mode. There are three modes, on off and null (the default). On = application uses that space h
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As an American with no intuition for metric weights, I know 100g is almost a quarter pound but on first impression it sounds like it should be slider-sized.
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The charitable answer is that it's positioned similarly to NY/SFBA relative to the rest of their respective countries. The answer I really believe is that Hired is a for-profit company, this report is content marketing, and it wou
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It looks like this is the cited report: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2021 Interestingly, tech workers in cities that Hired designates as "Tier 2" (Boston, LA, Seattle, Toronto) now out-earn workers in &quot
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I completely agree with all of that. The press release is misleading, it was probably drafted in bad faith with the intent to mislead, and its title as stated is factually inaccurate and directly contradicts the balance of the available evi
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That wouldn't significantly affect the conclusion though, right? They compared the reinfection rate for people with previous infection + vaccine to people with previous infection + no vaccine. Since both groups previously had COVID, sh
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No, they should get their full salary, as the author is. The overtime complicates things, I'd personally lean toward including the overtime pay they were projected to have earned to avoid creating the chilling effect you describe (eith
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Worth mentioning that "challenging" here means suing his employer in federal court! In any context, it seems pretty reasonable to place an employee on paid leave while that employee is in the process of suing you! Separately, fr
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Are people who had COVID actually more likely to have had significant periods of physical isolation in 2020 than people who didn't have COVID? I'd expect the opposite, if anything. Amin-Chowdhury et al asked about "loneliness
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I think this study, also out of the UK, is the standard reference on long COVID symptoms. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.18.21253633v... I’ll have to look at the survey in more detail but incidenc
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Jury awards to individuals against corporations have been skyrocketing over the last decade or so. In the insurance industry it's referred to as "social inflation" and is a pretty hot topic right now. People in the industry w
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The average American produces 5 pounds of garbage per day. The rest of the world isn’t that far behind. Granted, the chemicals in an iPhone are probably much worse for the environment than the paper, plastics, and food waste that make up th
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It's not about wanting to pay more, it's about wanting to stop causing damage that future generations will have to pay for. Young people in the western world today are quick to (accurately) accuse older generations of severely mes
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Not familiar with European politics but wasn’t a carbon tax one of the principal reasons for the yellow vest protests? In the US, the vast majority are unwilling to do pretty much anything to fight climate change. ~70% oppose a $0.25/g
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Not sure about the potential for a private entity to sue another private entity for those damages - but sure, to the extent that beef production creates positive externalities, the value of those externalities should also be priced in. Thou
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There's nothing moralistic about a carbon tax - it's a Pigouvian tax, not a sin tax. The point of a Pigouvian tax isn't to say "I don't like that thing so let's tax it so other people do less of it," it&#x
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As dystopias go, it seems pretty charitable to jump to education instead of to surveillance monopolists. “Ad attentiveness too low, please drink verification can”, etc.
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To clarify, I don't think of it as lines vs paragraphs. The text I'm typing right now doesn't contain any newline characters, but it's still a paragraph. I think of it more as a distinction between paragraphs with line-w
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Right, the point I was arguing in my top-level comment is that that tradition is misguided and should be done away with. Including in mailing lists and commit messages. The place where it "makes sense" to have a line break in pros
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These seem like fair criticisms of the details around e.g. data usage and privacy, but the study itself seems incredibly valuable and I hope it goes forward as planned with suitable data protections in place. Based on the critical comments
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It's wild to me that so many technical people, including the author, consider arbitrarily inserting \ns at a certain character length a desirable feature. Adding semantically insignificant line breaks results in a loss of information -
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For those of us who are thankfully not in a situation like this currently, it's still worth reading up on those benefits. Obviously the best time to deal with those things is before you need them. Virtually all employer-provided long
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Yes, at least as of a month ago.
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Haven't used Element but that sure doesn't sound better. Signal works as a drop-in replacement for the default SMS app on Android, I'm not gonna tell my mom to stop using my phone number and message `tfehring` from Element in
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If there are more prospective immigrants each year who are qualified for US jobs paying (say) $250k+ than the total number of available slots, that’s a pretty clear and unambiguous signal that the cap should be raised. Really I don’t see a
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My understanding is that HN down-weights posts with, loosely speaking, a high ratio of comments to votes because that often signals a controversial and/or flamebaity topic.
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Here's the relevant excerpt, lightly edited for clarity and accuracy: > I mean, Instagram server is still a big Python codebase. It's Django at the core, I mean, it still runs through the Django request handling stack, and the
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As a matter of semantics, buildings, machinery, tools, computers, food, fuel, etc. aren't generally considered part of a manufacturer's supply chain (unless it's in the business of making those things, of course) - even thoug
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It is. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
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From the perspective of the financial institutions writing the paychecks, this feels like a pretty transparent regulatory arbitrage - it turns out it's lucrative to find legal ways to say "invest your money with me and you'll

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