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by thex10 6y ago
Thanks to this I learned how to disable JS on iOS Safari. An annoying number of clicks. So thanks for that I guess
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by thex10 6y ago
Accepted to MIT and given a generous financial aid package so I was able to attend (2006). I had been fully expecting to have to attend the local city college...
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by thex10 6y ago
Not when the discourse is on a privately-owned platform and that hyperbole happens to violate that platform's TOS, perhaps.
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by thex10 6y ago
You are supposed to “be better” by being an active part of a counterbalance force so that the white-benefiting system you happen to be a part of can become everyone-benefiting. In terms of specific actions that can mean a lot of different t
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by thex10 6y ago
As a former aspiring planner myself I dig this! I might aspire to do something like this myself once my kids are older. I'll be following along and wish you the best. Do you see your work as relating to or orthogonal to the existing co
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by thex10 6y ago
I like the idea of decoupling transactions from budgets, but maybe your page could show examples of some of the simple questions your tool could help users answer? The web page is beautiful but felt a bit light on feature information to me.
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by thex10 6y ago
Having had some exposure to the healthcare interop niche before -- this whole response is great. Came here to say #1, which is articulated well here. Basically, who are you and why should I trust you -- the info I need in order to assess th
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by thex10 6y ago
> Ok, it is not the 50s but why could people do it in the 50s and why can't we do it now? With regards to productivity and pay, I share with you many illustrative charts. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by thex10 6y ago
Link to the actual letter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/resignation-letter-fr...
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by thex10 6y ago
Can anyone from outside the US chime in on whether the equivalent situation can happen in their country?
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by thex10 6y ago
My impression was this common idea has not yet been found in research though -- do you have any studies to back this up?
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by thex10 6y ago
And a lot of adults were similarly disappointed. I mean, aside from the whole possible loss of livelihood and disruption to earning potential thing... I’ve seen adults who were really looking forward to these things that didn’t pan out as p
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by thex10 6y ago
Most of this just speaks to how problematic it is for a society to rely on (poorly-funded and unevenly-resourced) schools alone for universal childcare, alleviating child hunger, ensuring safety from awful households, and other concerns tha
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by thex10 6y ago
> And I am absolutely willing to sacrifice possibly a few years of extra time I could have my grandparents around for that. My grandparents are also happy to make that sacrifice so their grandchildren ... Sigh. I can’t believe this needs
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by thex10 6y ago
This is a well-written account of the author’s experience as COO. I hope her next bosses/colleagues don’t shortchange her like Pinterest did.
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by thex10 6y ago
I find it striking as well! At least in this case: > I couldn't find a note-taking app that ticked all the boxes I'm interested in: notes are written and rendered in GitHub Flavored Markdown, no WYSIWYG, no proprietary formats,
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by thex10 6y ago
From TFA: > There is no evidence to justify the continued promotion of one-dimensional theories such as ‘chemical imbalance’. The Lost Connections book, which I read a few years ago, really helped hit this home for me. Totally made me re
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by thex10 6y ago
> Your parents' individual personalities and ability to raise you does matter, but broader historical context matters very little Broader historical context plays part in what defines your parents' personalities and ability to
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by thex10 6y ago
Wow, this response is projecting a whole lot onto my comment. My only reply in turn is, no, I don’t believe an entity should be “allowed” (by whom?) to conquer a nation in violation with their agreement just because they happen to have diff
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by thex10 6y ago
> Why not everyone assimilate? Yes, exactly, why not the USians assimilate into the many Native nations they occupy? They've had literal centuries...
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by thex10 6y ago
> [...] imagine a case where there is absolutely compelling grounds for thinking that [...] FYI the system which we are discussing does not entertain such a notion. Or else we wouldn't need or bother with juries, whose main job is t
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by thex10 6y ago
> but there was certainly something going on that pushed the judge's buttons Yeah, but who's to say whether that something was remotely reasonable versus something completely frivolous (she rolled her eyes at him, she didn&#x27
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by thex10 6y ago
Well said. And THIS is why I have no qualms about not majoring in CS 10 years ago, despite being at a big-name university with a well-regarded CS program. I love working as a software engineer, and had been tinkering with web development in
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by thex10 6y ago
I came here to say this too. Not to be dismissive of the point at hand, but a short story. I had decided I wasn't getting as much value out of a particular RSS feed than I'd thought I would, so I right-clicked the name, clicked de
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by thex10 6y ago
> the filenames in the main list are no longer blue, so now on each row, the filename, commit message and timestamp are in three subtly different shades of gray Shoot, now I notice it too. I like the redesign but that is just.. bad.
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by thex10 6y ago
For the license, it's right there near the stop of the sidebar. For me it's actually easier to notice now. As for language, it's true, it's below the fold in the sidebar. Maybe it'd be better above the contributors.
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by thex10 6y ago
> and unlike most people here I am not afraid of change Hear, hear! I like the new design too. It overwhelmed me at first (somehow it felt really 'big' to me), and I'm still getting used to it on a visual level, but I appr
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by thex10 6y ago
> Doesn't the "POC" term promote the idea that "people of color" have some sort of shared interests? Think highlight rather than promote. Think shared experience rather than shared interest. No, not identical ex
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by thex10 6y ago
> The problem is that everyone has his own personal experiences. Everyone has their own personal experience, that's just an unremarkable fact, not a _problem_. > It is white men who feel silenced in the tech industry, by HR, the
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by thex10 6y ago
Another only child here. Solitaire, a Game Boy, and later Minesweeper, Hearts, and Freecell were some of my single-player entertainment. It never occurred to me to play a board game by myself; major props to your young imagination!

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