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by wiskinator 3y ago
> Hacker News is the most intelligent bunch on the web. What can we do to help the Reddit mods to keep the steering wheel in their hands? -- Citation needed. But in all seriousness, I think that we can stress that continuing the strike f
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by wiskinator 4y ago
I met Bob when he interviewed me for a position on Square's embedded software team in 2013. One of my previous interviewers told me that I was being interviewed by the CTO and my anxiety spiked through the roof. Bob could obviously tel
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by wiskinator 4y ago
Anecdotally, there is a correlation between being poor and working on your own car. There is likely an aspect of this law that is rich HoA members not wanting to live near poorer families, or at the very least be able to control what they d
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by wiskinator 4y ago
Full disclaimer: I haven't read the article, and am just being a smartass. What if it's because no one wants to get within 2 meters of a smoker anymore :)
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by wiskinator 4y ago
I think the simplest way to express my concern with this article is that I would like to have "just" 0.54% of Elon Musk's wealth direct deposited into my bank account tomorrow.
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by wiskinator 4y ago
So I ended up on a combo of meds that had a “No alcohol” provision. One was your standard mental health medication; but the other was terbinafine for a toenail fungus that wouldn’t die. The latter pretty much got me to stop drinking. Whenev
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by wiskinator 4y ago
This has serious “old man yells at cloud” energy.
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by wiskinator 4y ago
|It’s a Trojan horse firmly embedded in the US with no oversight or regulation. Is there any proof to this statement? It's very bold.
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by wiskinator 4y ago
Yeah - this article seems like an Op Ed.
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by wiskinator 4y ago
The sources this article cites regarding masking is a single pre-print that hasn't been peer reviewed yet, and it cites no sources at all for the claim that | "Then they ignored natural immunity. Wrong again. The vast majority of
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by wiskinator 4y ago
That link goes to an internal “page not found” - would you mind updating it please?
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by wiskinator 4y ago
Hah! Came here to post about our work. I’m so proud to work here.
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by wiskinator 5y ago
YES YES YES. I'm so freaking burned out. I need some time to get my life back to a comfortable pace, and I constantly consider fully quitting my job, but that seems too drastic. More importantly, I don't want to 100% stop working
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by wiskinator 5y ago
What's a 'maximum base' pay? Is that the max salary someone with the right credentials could earn in an entry level position?
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by wiskinator 5y ago
Well this is nightmare fuel.
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by wiskinator 5y ago
I have a feeling that if we spread the theory into small and midsize towns that the urban density laws were a conspiracy by the urban elite to keep cities rich and relevant we'd see them get repealed.
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by wiskinator 5y ago
I mean, I think the why is answered in [1]. I think a lot of people like being in control of what goes on their network. For those who care about personal network security I imagine there's a big desire to not have a blob of closed sou
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by wiskinator 5y ago
I love this website because I went to the link, didn't know what a PWA was, went to the root website and STILL don't know what a PWA is. I'm going to try the old trick of saying the wrong thing so someone corrects me. Clear
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by wiskinator 5y ago
You're getting downvoted, but I completely agree. 'Resistant to censorship' has become a dogwhistle for "you can post your racist / fascist BS here".
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by wiskinator 5y ago
In what ways? I'm just curious. The channel doesn't seem political to me either, so I want to investigate my blindspots.
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by wiskinator 5y ago
It’s so hard not to feel like they deserved it, doubly so since their promotion of false ideas surely lead to other deaths.
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by wiskinator 5y ago
I grew up in this town, and it has a really interesting combination that I call the 'Hippie / Farmer duality'. On the one hand Petaluma is the focal point town for a huge amount of Sonoma County's agriculture business. T
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by wiskinator 5y ago
The only good take on this hacker news comment section :)
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by wiskinator 5y ago
Why are we surprised that workers are showing the same amount of loyalty to their employers as employers show to them? The power dynamic between employer and employee is 100% in favor of the employer. Anything that pushes power back to the
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by wiskinator 5y ago
I too am ex-Square, and in fact I worked on the firmware for the [ https://squareup.com/us/en/hardware/contactless-chip-reader]... Reader for Contactless and Chip). All hardware design, from the external desig
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by wiskinator 6y ago
I'm going to stay right here in San Francisco, I was born in this city and I've gotten lucky enough to be able to afford to live here, so I'm in for the long haul.
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by wiskinator 6y ago
If you think 'homeless people' are one of the bad things, then I think you're part of the problem, and would politely ask you to help come up with a solution.