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by throw__away7391 2y ago
It depends on the architecture of your CPU.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I have observed in dozens of countries that the youngest generation now speaks English quite fluently in most of the world. Boomers might know only a few phrases, many millennials can speak well enough, but quite a lot of teenagers now are
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
> if you make tech money It is a great tragedy that the US with all its money and diversity of geography and people has only really managed to produce a single walkable city and a scattered handful of “I don’t always use my car” neighbor
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I don’t think that’s true at all. So many people these days attribute literally everything to some preconceived scheme by hidden malicious entities. The truth is that this like so many other things are emergent phenomenon that occur spontan
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
> Which countries has China invaded in the past few decades? Well, all of their neighbors for starters. If we include sending warships to violate maritime sovereignty under that definition, we can add dozens more in Asia and South Americ
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
Yeah, it was a matter of principle at that point, but fortunately my credit card resolved it for me in less than a day, but the belligerence of Ryanair was stunning.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I once bought the "fast track" option mentioned in the article for a Ryanair flight. The airport did not have fast track. When I asked for a refund, customer service told me that "it is the customer's responsibility to e
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
This is becoming more and more common. Originally I saw it only at sketchy ATMs but it is now nearly ubiquitous in many places. Sites like Amazon and even POS systems at restaurants and grocery stores now try the same trick. It ought to be
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
To be fair, gold the metal is significantly more interesting than gold the medal.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
> stay away from Electron Is this really still true though? VS Code and Slack are all quite polished and give me no issues as a user. Not sure what else I'd consider to build something similar.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I mean I've visited democratic countries with a _lot_ of corruption and autocratic countries which appeared to have less. I guess you can get semantic with it, but my main point is that you always here about "democracy" and a
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I am convinced that having low corruption is more important to a country than say democracy. I have travelled to many countries and noticed the same pattern repeated over and over again. Every country has at least some district in the capit
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I worked with about a dozen or so for a few years and from what I saw they are nothing but one layer of horror built upon another. The incentives are so misaligned that the distinction between "scam" and "incompetence" i
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I worked in the space for a couple of years and I will never give a penny to any of them after what I saw. The organizations are a mess of petty squabbling between people who could never get real jobs, there's a complete misalignment o
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
They aren't, you just don't hear about it. Basically everything in tech has gone through a hype cycle when everyone was talking about it, when it was the shiny new hammer that needed to be applied to every problem and appear in ev
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I tried it, I found everything you said true _at the beginning_ but after a few hours as it wore off I paid the price for the initial boost and the net effect was near zero, or possibly even negative. I've also been around a ton of peo
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
The fair way to handle this would be to reduce the tax rate across the board in response to housing inflation. Somehow. Governments around the world are more than happy to see housing prices rise, as are existing property owners, so I am no
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
100% agree. The value I get from YT is easily 10x any other streaming subscription (maybe excluding Spotify), probably a lot more than that actually. Particularly for the HN crowd I would assume, there's so much good and interesting co
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
> Both should probably be pegged to the inflation rate Yes I agree...but not the CPI, it should be tied specifically to housing prices. You could even have the state hire appraises to figure out the value of each specific property and pe
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I get the idea, but I do not like the outcome. It ends up being a largely regressive tax that hits people hardest and often at the worst possible time (e.g. just before or shortly after becoming a parent). Of course any program if you look
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
In most places geographically speaking no, but a number of US states including California and Florida which account for a disproportionate number of homes have passed laws protecting existing homeowners from property tax increases by cappin
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
It is not unlike like hiring a personal trainer, you are still the one who needs to do the work.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
That's a very good point, I agree. You're always going to run a service at least once.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
Be angry at the currently retiring generation. This was consciously and deliberately engineered for their benefit. They even had the wisdom to carve out property tax exemptions for themselves. Perhaps they did not bother to consider what th
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I remember when I was a kid reading an old fairy tale, perhaps from Grimm's, about a girl given the "impossible" task of getting "strawberries in winter" or face some horrible consequences, but she was helped by a f
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you could measure this with a mobile phone app, if such a thing doesn't already exist. I've already many times used such an app to measure acoustics in a room as part of the setup process for multiple brands o
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
To me it is always a crazy feeling to visit some old school restaurant or bar with heavy drapes/carpets/textiles covering the flat surfaces. They have a feeling of almost being haunted/enchanted, but the exact reason isn&#x27
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
Oh yeah totally. I meant if it was something like chemical that only impacted birds or was caused by driving SUVs or anything like that.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
Amazing how little attention this gets, people just shrug it off. If it were something man-made having the same impact as cats on bird populations there would be protests demanding that it be banned.
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by throw__away7391 2y ago
If only there was some two decades old standardized way for users to specify which languages they prefer, and, dare I dream, the order and relative level of preference.

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