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by xenadu02 4y ago
The Mac is document-centric, not app centric. The intended working model is you just open documents in Preview and close them when you're done. You don't concern yourself with whether Preview is running or not. If you Command-Q to
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by xenadu02 4y ago
You're making the mistake of considering these as independent variables and extending them to infinity assuming no one will respond to current state of the world in the future. The only way the fed will keep rates at 5% for 30 years wo
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by xenadu02 4y ago
But the whole idea of a "free market" is that demand should cause new firms to be created and existing firms expanded to serve that demand. We've suffered from an excess of capital desperately seeking profitable investments t
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Besides the research discussed in the other comments we have now many documented cases of people falling into extremely cold water in the winter, being pulled out after an hour, and recovering. The warming has to be done properly though, if
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Bought a house in SF last year. We lost two offers before securing this place. Both of the lost offers followed this pattern: 1. Set a bid due date 2. Ask three best offers for their "Best Final Offer" 3. We increased our offer (5
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> People decide they want to buy something, and then try to get it for a good price, and try to have it so that due dilligence works to reduce the purchase price, while not actually finding anything to block the deal Here's a sales
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Hmmm almost none of the process has to do with HHS. UHC could make this a lot easier. That's why we submit via mail instead - that makes it their problem.
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by xenadu02 4y ago
> liberal lawyers (which is 90% of them) What is the basis for this claim? > believe that their position is not only correct but above debate and above the political and legal process You seem to be accusing everyone who disagrees wit
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by xenadu02 4y ago
There is no scientific consensus on when a developing fetus becomes a person so saying "kill your own son" begs the question to begin with. Your argument is based on a premise that a) isn't shared and b) has no evidence that
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by xenadu02 4y ago
Pregnancy causes permanent body changes for one thing, even putting aside spending 9 months being forced by the state to do something with your body that you don't want to do. I'd hope we could all agree that better sex education
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by xenadu02 5y ago
That pressure still exists. I'm not sure why you might think otherwise. Various parts of current culture came from immigrant communities maintaining parts of their cultural identity while still broadly assimilating, eg St Patrick'
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by xenadu02 5y ago
This is mostly irrelevant today though; the hardware is so much faster and memory so much more plentiful that handling is done by reading the full header (and often full packet) then making the routing or forwarding decision. You don't
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Isn't this fairly standard? It doesn't stop the board from accepting Musk's offer, it just means he can't execute the takeover without board approval.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The conventional thinking was that the Russian Steamroller would flatten Ukraine within 3-5 days. Absolutely no one suspected the war would last this long. In that sense it is far from just a "propaganda war". I don't know wh
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I would be very cautious here. There are many stories about how miraculously people function after brain damage or with half a brain but when examined more closely it turns out there are deficits, just not a super obvious one like inability
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Reminder: never delete data for real as your first step. Always mark it deleted along with a time stamp saying when. Then you can hide deleted itemsfrom everything. When a maintenance script goes haywire you can fix the problem quickly. Hav
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by xenadu02 5y ago
It's difficult to find anything good these days. Search "pedestal fan" on Amazon and you'll be flooded with Chinese imports without any indication of quality or even any ability to search for specific features (eg contin
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Apparently dosing was enough of a difference at some point that this mechanism evolved (assuming the stated reason is accurate). Perhaps our distant ancestors also tended to eat a small bite first, then proceed with other foods, before cons
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Download size is a "tragedy of the commons" situation. The overall size usually isn't owned by anyone and each contribution to increasing the size is usually small so monitoring it daily or weekly doesn't help. It is onl
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The App Store hasn't allowed this for years; only someone who has downloaded or purchased the app can review it.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
It is more complicated than that. The issue is really that sometimes you legitimately need to access or manipulate the bits of a pointer, but once you convert a pointer to any integer type then convert it back to a pointer that allows such
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I am so happy to see that this correct explanation has finally spread. When I first started posting on HN the standard response you would get was the retcon explanation like the parent comment or even more nonsensical ones like "usr ==
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Well you are wrong. All of that was a retcon after the fact. Ask the folks from Bell Labs because that's where the story comes from: /usr meant Users. Duh. They had one disk because disks were expensive. The disk got full, they go
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Why did you not just make telemetry and logins opt-in? That avoids the entire issue from day one. I think that's what is giving people a strange feeling about this. You prioritized your own desires (not needs mind you) rather than your
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I know you see people in this thread saying exit interviews are a trap and others saying they are really productive. Both are true. At crappy companies with bad management exit interviews are a trap. At good companies they can be very produ
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by xenadu02 5y ago
As lotsofpulp said you'd be ahead by at least 50k with both spouses working even accounting for taxes at 40% which is almost certainly on the high side. Total tax rate for federal+state on the extra 150k is likely less but it depends o
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Yeah daycare / preschool is 20-30k in SF but as you noted it is temporary. Once the kids reach K5 SFUSD is free (well paid for by taxes). A bigger problem is after school care. All the programs at SFUSD along with all the independent o
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> …which makes it all the more baffling why many on HN decry decentralization and web3 as scam artistry Because "web3" is a scam. Claiming to solve this problem is not the same thing as solving it or solving it well.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
If anyone is looking for an alternative: I bought a Sony Bravia BZ40H Digital Signage Display. It does have Google's Android TV crap but unlike consumer TVs I refused the agreement when asked and the TV works perfectly fine without tal
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Im not sure which of your many comments to respond to here but we certainly have learned that a small part of "junk" DNA (as that term was originally meant) performs useful functions not directly related to protein coding. So the

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