whymauri

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by whymauri 5y ago
>Despite that, despite still having access to the email the account is on, I cannot recover the Microsoft account. Despite Microsoft notifying me that the account is still, years later to this day, being abused, cannot use any form of re
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For example, there are places where the colloquial term for the 'Internet' is just 'Facebook.' The Hype Curve and how consumers engage with new technology is not universal around the world.
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what is and isn't surprising to our Internet bubble of tech nerds isn't the same for the entire readership she's primarily targeting. her whistleblowing is a net positive for global awareness and provides content that I can e
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by whymauri 5y ago
Welp, I think you posted 4+ more times than intended while HN was having server issues. Maybe dang can fix it or you can delete them, lol. Besides that, 100% agree on the personal investment/grandeur trap for founders.
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>The CEO is probably just having trouble dealing with stress and is acting out. It happens. I agree it's not uncommon for first-time founders/CEOs to see phantom ghosts and lash out; however, we should be careful to not normali
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by whymauri 5y ago
Regardless of whether it's true, one has to admit it sounds like a sideplot from Halt and Catch Fire, lol.
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They offered to hire him before insinuating he was a bad/demanding intern, as well. This is standard manipulative behavior and has little benefit to anyone besides attempting to make the intern feel bad. This isn't the first time
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Yeah, this honestly seems like a nothingburger to me. They have institutional priorities right now for other civil liberties, and once they feel satisfied with progress there they'll probably re-invest resourced into their free speech
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why do people always link the worst possible site to cite the kafkatrap? it's literally a conspiracy theory site encouraging a prosecution of Fauci on the front page.
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This article goes into detail on why it failed despite receiving critical acclaim: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/24/22349175/medium-layoffs-u...
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Having a different interface doesn't mean its broken...
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I'm under the impression that any public commentary about what goes on inside that forum is generally discouraged, but that's just what I've seen. Although this is an interesting point, for sure.
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by whymauri 5y ago
I'm guessing it goes like this: 1. Skipping vaccine line and talking about it is not actually against BookFace/YC ToS, or it would be a stretch to apply ToS. 2. Publicly talking about matters inside the private group is against To
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Yeah, rat cancer is no joke.
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I agree when they're well-groomed and not cranky they're very cute. They love to purr if you scoop them, lol.
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by whymauri 5y ago
Love this analysis. It reminds me of Maggie Mae's breakdown of My Octopus Teacher as eco-horror film -- it ends up exploring the same themes around language and communication that you brought up here. [0] [0] https://www.you
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by whymauri 5y ago
After working with rats for two years I came to the conclusion that they're basically cats that drew the shortest end of the cute stick. They more intelligent than people think and they have about the same variance in personality as tr
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by whymauri 5y ago
Yeah, and it can take a surprisingly small amount of flags to take down a post. So it could literally just be a dozen people flagging them, not even in a coordinated matter. Something similar happened on Jan 6 this year with a lot of indivi
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lol you're totally right, let's just never trust any vaccine or medical developments due to anomalous chance of failure. in accordance to this, i pledge to never leave my home until i leave this barren earth.
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Because unvaccinated people can contract and spread COVID?
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by whymauri 5y ago
>You "know" all that, but do you actually __know__ all that. Companies that underpay fullstack web developers usually don't actually care if their engineers __know__ all that, either. They just want the cheapest, fastest,
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by whymauri 5y ago
Moving out is a popular and valid option, especially with how expensive on-campus meals are. Even if you move out, the school will still calculate a 1098-T based on the total cost of attendance (it might be possible to go out of your way to
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by whymauri 5y ago
A freshman from Compton, CA or rural Alabama who goes to Stanford on a full-ride need-based scholarship is not part of the 'cognitive elite.' Second, these sorts of tax laws can apply to any school, including a UC or CSU (there wi
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What's happened over the last 15 years is that schools keep bumping room and board rates (at nearly 10% year-over-year, which is insane). Since anything outside tuition is taxable, that liability has been increasing. The 'income&#
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by whymauri 5y ago
Students with full-ride scholarships (not just at Princeton and Stanford) typically come from households making <65k a year, with around a third (might have changed since mid 2010s) being near the four-person household poverty line. I wo
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Literally never got a stimulus. Students, especially poor students on scholarships, are so thoroughly fucked by the US tax system. It's gotten to the point that schools like Princeton and Stanford encourage low-income full-ride student
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Well... that's partially why it's open-sourced. What fuller transparency of correctness is there an open-sourcing the entire analysis?
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>1. The eye has immune privilege, similar to that of the brain, meaning it can tolerate antigens that would normally trigger an immune response elsewhere, like your arm. This is my theory, too. I worked on optogenetics in the periphery a
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Anyone familiar with this know what the immune response/impact was due to this treatment?
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Yeah, GP is kinda strawmanning.

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