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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
I was able to quit after like a 5+ year pretty excessive habit. There were three steps that really helped me. 1) I removed all accessories from my home. I sold/gave away all of my pipes, vapes, e-nails, etc. 2) I started taking nootrop
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
You're right. This is definitely low. I currently live in Pittsburgh. We hire our junior devs at about $65k starting with pretty good benefits. I threw Grand Rapids in a cost of living calculator and it had that salary at about $61k in
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
I totally agree this is the root of the problem. You wouldn't be giving out 50k loans for degrees that are looking at making 30k a year. I think the big problem with this approach is that it disproportionately effects poor people. If p
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
Many political philosophies believe THE fundamental purpose of government is to protect. Not performing the reason why people accept government in the first place means that the government has failed to do the reason it was created. It&#x27
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
That's awesome. I personally used to be a daily smoker (like start the day with a bowl, end the day with a dab type smoker). It definitely was insanely beneficial for me at first. After about 5 years, it lost its magical effects for me
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
Although they were big, bulky, laptops I really liked the Satellites. They had pretty good spec to price ratios. I still have a 7 or 8 year old one that is running fine with linux. I have it hooked up to my TV. That laptop helped a broke co
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
This is a very reasonable and levelheaded post. I think part of the massive frustration is that Conservative policies often times seem to feel like dragging their feet. Like you point out, we very often times end up with sub-optimal solutio
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
There were waterproof phones with headphone jacks before the iPhone X. See some of the Samsung Galaxies as an example.
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by zolthrowaway 8y ago
Bluetooth is lossy compression. There are plenty of reasons to still stick with AUX and the 3.5mm jack. It does make a difference in sound quality. Additionally if I'm traveling and forget my headphones, it will cost me $5 to get a pai
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
>What's wrong with using tons of oil? Plastics are incredibly useful. Tons upon tons of bottles end up in landfills, oceans, etc. Even with plastic recycling, PET yields aren't 100%. There is only so much oil and eventually the
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Thanks for your honesty, man. This was an incredible read.
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
>U.S. colleges & universities spent $536 billion I'm not sure this is the best number to use. This is what is currently spent, it is not how much we would need to provide a free higher level education option. The entire departm
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
To add to this, WordML is super powerful. Modern .docx files are basically just big zip files. You can easily edit this and do some crazy things and MS Word will be pretty good about reflecting this in the editor. G-Docs can have some issue
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
My girlfriend is a NP. She does make a good living, but the amount of stuff she puts up with is something I could never put up with. I may be stressed about a production emergency or a looming deadline, but for the most part I work 8-4. She
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I understand you're talking about the reputation, but Linux UI has gotten really good over the years. Recent Gnome, Mate, and Cinnamon builds can be truly beautiful and the Ubuntu based OSes are legitimately beautiful out of the box. I
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Windows as a main OS is a horrible experience IMO. I want a normal start menu. I don't want anything to do with the Windows app store which is full of 99% junk. I don't want most of the preinstalled bullcrap like the XBox app, peo
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I'm not sure that diversity is what we should be striving for in our reporting. Right now, you can get 50 hot takes from a million different outlets. The vast majority are optimizing their headlines and writing for clicks. They manufac
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
That's a really good approach. I hadn't thought about it that way. I think the issue is more with me as an interviewer than with the organization as a whole. We've been pretty successful with our hires in the past. Thank you
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
We're a middle stage startup hiring our first batch of interns. Up to this point, we've only hired full-time employees and a few contractors. I'm not sure outsourcing is really an option for us just based on our size. Thanks
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Thank you. I really like you're idea of coming up with a lower bound and scaling it up. I will definitely try to choose some questions like that.
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Ask HN: Questions to ask a SWE Intern?
2 points by zolthrowaway 9y ago|7 comments
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I swam the 500 as my main event and was fairly decent at it. It is crazy how mental that race is. I found drastically different results based on who was doing my card (for those that don't know, longer events use a plastic number to sh
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
The last mile problem [0]. A rail system could work for a very densely populated area, but there is way too much sprawl. It's part of the reason why cars are basically seen as a necessity in the US. [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
>A 16 year old can waste his or her life by this age if he or she does really badly in school or smokes weed and gets caught. I agree with the vast majority of your post, but I would say this part isn't super fair. Maybe I'm re
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I put together a new computer this week. Everything new but I still have my 760TI in it because I'm not paying $1000 for a graphics card. You can get a 1050 reasonably priced still, but that's more of a lateral move than an upgrad
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
You're definitely right. I'm just feeling idealistic this morning :). I hope you enjoy your build and it goes well. I'm getting my 1600 this week.
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I agree with you, and you are right. However, most people aren't making decisions about what types of chips to use in a data center. It would be wonderful if the people in those positions explored non-Intel options. For the average con
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Vote with your wallet. That's really the only thing that you can do. Intel is too comfortable in their position as market leader. Until they start to feel some pressure, they have shown they don't really care. I know AMD is not a
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
The problem is (at least in part) the two party system. It really helps fuel the us vs them mentality. It allows people to write off people's opinions with a broad stroke. For example, "Oh, that person is Republican. They must be
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but what about pyrite? It has most of the aesthetic properties of gold (which I think everyone agrees is where most of the value comes from), but almost none of the value. Pyrite is a real, physical t

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