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by wan23 5y ago
There are a few things that people find exciting, but for me the idea of being able to pay for content frictionlessly is pretty neat. I'd love, for example, if when you get one of those ad blocker blocker popups if there was an option
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by wan23 5y ago
> Only if the old housing stock isn't torn down to make room for the new housing stock This is about zoning too. Normally, if the demand is there for it a smart land owner would build more housing on the same plot, e.g. turning a si
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by wan23 5y ago
I'm sure someone said something similar when they first heard of the telephone.
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by wan23 5y ago
Normally pensions are funded by investing, not by setting aside cash for the retirement of people who haven't even been hired yet. Even worse, they have to borrow to meet this requirement to hold cash they won't need for years, so
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by wan23 5y ago
Not everything needs to be about profit, but the USPS is self-funded. It doesn't use tax money for its operations so it does need to try to break even at least on the services it provides.
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by wan23 5y ago
> For a poor person, a check-cashing place is generally the cheapest and most straightforward way to cash checks That's the problem, though. It doesn't matter how good or bad their service is because their business model should
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by wan23 5y ago
Human intelligence is about more than just the brain. How intelligent would you be if you grew up in a sensory deprivation tank? If you didn't need to eat, if you didn't crave social interactions. Without family or community. If y
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by wan23 5y ago
You can definitely convince McDonald's to sell you a hamburger on a plate without bread. A hamburger isn't a sandwich, but it is commonly served on a bun in sandwich form. Like how spaghetti is common served with sauce, and if you
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by wan23 5y ago
That was a different building. Since then they've bought two more!
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by wan23 5y ago
I used to live by the bridge mentioned in the article as a place where people got attacked, and I believe it 100% fwiw.
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by wan23 5y ago
The vacancy rate is generally low in New York. During Covid, it rose as high as 10% in Manhattan, as many well off people left the city, but at the end of 2019 the vacancy rate in the entire city was just under 2%. The easy way to tell that
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by wan23 5y ago
An end to single family zoning doesn't imply condo towers everywhere. The most common type of unit that you would see is a two family home, as people convert their basements, second floors or back yards into income generating units. Th
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by wan23 5y ago
Because if there were some major anomaly someone would have noticed, just like they did 10 minutes after these (unofficial, preliminary) results were published.
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by wan23 5y ago
Don't test in prod. Really!
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by wan23 5y ago
Not everyone can afford a higher priced home, even with low interest rates, because funding a down payment can be a significant hurdle in places where modest homes are over a million dollars.
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by wan23 6y ago
They don't need to keep the data around longer than it takes to extract the affected email addresses, and that doesn't need to be done on a server at all.
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by wan23 6y ago
We supposedly live in a democracy, but the ability to affect what laws exist is not distributed equally. Sometimes there are two groups with opposing views of what the law should be, and the smaller group loses out. Oftentimes those people
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by wan23 6y ago
You should consider an NFT to be something like a certificate. Some entity has issued you a certificate saying, e.g. you are the rightful owner of the Brooklyn Bridge. The value of certificates in NFT form is that they are difficult to forg
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by wan23 6y ago
That's why for most people HN isn't a site with a downvote button.
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by wan23 6y ago
This is absolutely the worst thing about hiring in our industry. The reason interviews are so abusive is that there is no way to effectively filter candidates. There's no reason to say a four year degree is the requirement, mostly beca
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by wan23 6y ago
I think it's useful to present a different software engineering analogy. Getting into Stuyvesant is a lot like getting a job at a FANG company. Much like Stuyvesant, these companies tell you up front that you should practice for the te
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by wan23 6y ago
I would also recommend listening to the 'Nice White Parents' podcast. I'd also add to that the 'School Colors' podcast https://www.schoolcolorspodcast.com/ Both of these podcasts explore the issues
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by wan23 6y ago
I once applied for a job at medium-sized startup, passed their phone screen, take home assignment and onsite, and then had a meeting with the CTO where I was told that they have had problems with ex-Googlers before, and then was rejected af
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by wan23 6y ago
When I started at Google I asked what Staff Engineer means in an orientation meeting and people just laughed at me for not knowing. It's weird how people just assume you know some things that are specific to a few Silicon Valley compan
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by wan23 6y ago
Spotify gives you the choice of RSUs or options or straight cash. https://hrblog.spotify.com/2019/06/13/show-me-the-incentive/
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by wan23 6y ago
This is my favorite ice cream shop! Even though it's sad that the founders lost their business, I'm sure they'll be able to start over with a new shop and new flavors. There are so many chains in New York that are spin offs o
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by wan23 6y ago
In our first past the post voting system, the parties will gravitate to positions that roughly 50% of the people have. If there were two candidates that were both ignoring rural areas and were 50/50 with urbanites, it would be only rat
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by wan23 6y ago
People always say this, but it doesn't make sense. The reason there is such a thing as a battleground state is because some voters matter and others do not, thanks to the EC. Look at this map from the 2016 election. New York is almost
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by wan23 6y ago
There's a book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44142112-strong-towns
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by wan23 6y ago
Everyone is responsible for knowing if their actions are legal or not. If you shoot someone on the street and use the defense that you thought it was legal because a court didn't tell you that it wasn't in advance, then you'r

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