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by BadCookie 2mo ago
It’s not hard to afford Bay Area rent if one partner is still employed in tech, especially if they are older and have savings or home equity to cash in on. The article you linked to seems to say only that employers have been unsuccessful at
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by BadCookie 2mo ago
Or people who were remote got called back to the office. Or they lost their job while living elsewhere and had to move to the Bay to find a new one. An increase in the net number of jobs is not the only possible explanation. The jobs might
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by BadCookie 6mo ago
32x earnings is high. 32x revenue is probably insane.
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by BadCookie 7mo ago
You didn’t ask me, but (aside from the effects of tech and social media) my #1 hypothesis is the rise in single parenthood. Parenting is so hard that I doubt pretty much everyone’s ability to do it well on their own.
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by BadCookie 8mo ago
It doesn’t seem insurmountable. A simple tax credit that reduces taxable income when someone spends money on journalism could make a real difference.
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by BadCookie 9mo ago
If you are okay with plastic, Gravitrax is similar, cheaper, and fun. My son and I like to build marble runs together.
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by BadCookie 9mo ago
I think it is a mistake not to celebrate the holidays. You don’t have to pretend that everything is okay in order to celebrate each other. I am similar to your daughter in some ways but much older. Lately, I have felt that I have reached a
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by BadCookie 9mo ago
Maybe, but the typical person I have worked with in this industry is too smart to do something for 10 years and not learn much during that time. I am afraid that this “1 year of experience 10 times” mantra gets trotted out to justify ageism
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by BadCookie 9mo ago
And the biggest problem of all: They expect it to be free.
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by BadCookie 10mo ago
It comes down to who is liable for the edge cases, I suspect. Adobe will compensate the end user if they get sued for using a Firefly-generated image (probably up to some limit). Getting sued occasionally is a cost of doing business in some
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by BadCookie 10mo ago
Getty and Adobe offer models that were trained only on images that they have the rights to. Those models might meet Netflix’s standards?
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by BadCookie 11mo ago
It’s better than “RIFed,” at least.
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by BadCookie 1y ago
What about requiring new employees to sign non-disparagement agreements? Maybe companies are getting “smarter” and requiring employees to agree to not say anything negative about their employer from day 1 … not sure about the legality here.
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by BadCookie 1y ago
The ad load isn’t heavy to convince you to subscribe. It’s heavy because many readers use ad blockers, and the publisher wants to stay in business somehow. Hijacking the back button, on the other hand, is just rude.
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by BadCookie 1y ago
No, it’s not. Yes, we have Medicaid in the U.S., which makes everything free for the poor, but GP is saying that effectively everybody (including the not-so-poor) can get this level of care in Hong Kong. Definitely not true in the U.S.! Pri
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by BadCookie 1y ago
I grew up in a blue collar family. One thing that Dems tend to overlook, I think, is that most people do not want to receive charity. They want to be able to afford things on their own through their own hard work. It hurts their pride to re
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by BadCookie 1y ago
This reminds me of a case report that I ran across about a boy on the spectrum whose toe-walking gait was resolved via lymphatic drainage massage: https://web.archive.org/web/20200506111344id_/https://www
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by BadCookie 1y ago
Maybe not restaurants, but other small businesses import directly from China. Ever heard of Alibaba?
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by BadCookie 1y ago
“Difficulty accessing healthcare” brings to mind doctors and hospitals being too far away—a real concern for lots of rural Americans, especially the ones who cannot drive. Or perhaps doctors are nearby, but wait times are too long. This is
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by BadCookie 1y ago
I’m not sure if “difficulty accessing healthcare” captures the whole problem. Even if you live next door to a hospital, you still don’t know how much it will cost you if you check yourself in. Sure, there is some theoretical maximum out of
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by BadCookie 1y ago
Children kind of are scarce, though? Most countries aren’t reproducing at replacement levels. Were that to continue forever, the human population would go to zero. School districts around me are closing schools because there aren’t enough k
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by BadCookie 1y ago
The disability part of Social Security is very much like insurance…
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by BadCookie 2y ago
I agree that the video I shared should have included those words. But the words do not change the meaning of the gesture, which is very uniquely recognizable and important historically. Doing this gesture during WW2 in the U.S. would’ve led
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by BadCookie 2y ago
I think yostrovs was talking about Musk, not Trump. And calling someone who did two Nazi salutes in front of a crowd “Hitler” is maybe not as unfair as you are making it out to be. My guess is that Musk did it for outrage purposes rather th
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Wow. Every request is AI related! I thought maybe the systems programming one wasn’t… but alas, I was mistaken.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
No? I see under 10% of the HN front page stories being related to U.S. national politics at the moment, which feels very low compared to Reddit and Facebook for me (which are well over 50%, but I realize that each person sees something diff
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by BadCookie 2y ago
I have wondered why there is so little discussion of these things on HN compared to other social media.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Perfectly willing, yes. I believe in making decisions for the right reasons regardless of the eventual outcome. I wouldn’t support her putting her retirement savings all on black either, even though she might win plenty.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Same. I own a mix of ETFs, some from Vanguard and some not. I will be even more inclined to buy Vanguard ETFs going forward. I am so, so tired of trying to explain to my retired mother why she should not buy any more bitcoin … with money th
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by BadCookie 2y ago
There’s tension between what is best for the company and what is most fair to applicants. I acknowledge that, but think that the onus should be on (large) companies to figure out a better interview process. I don’t see why references have t

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