McAlpine5892

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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> 1) the average American is heavily dependent on equities in their 401k for retirement, > 2) so the stock market has to go up This is why I've come to despise 401k's replacing old-school pensions. Yes, pensions had their pr
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Makes me think of notices around adult clubs I've seen such as: "CONSENT: A clear and unambiguous agreement, expressed outwardly through mutually understandable words or actions, to engage in a particular activity. Consent can be
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> I think I’m past being curious about the kind of person that makes claims like it’s dangerous for a person with right-leaning political alignment to walk through Portland Please, please continue to be curious. I feel you. Every day I f
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> If not, expect lower levels of safety. Citations. Have you ever been to Portland or do you just believe Trump? There were few (not many) Trump flags in Portland during the election and I don’t recall a single person being hurt for it.
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
It’s a bizarre tactic. The DNC plays very dirty with their own members. On the outward public stage they “take the high road” and seem to constantly neuter themselves to prove how much they care. Democrat voters didn’t turn out this past el
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
This pains me so. Every time I have to hear "individual contributor", "leadership", or "the brand" I die a little inside. Please just call me an employee or engineer. As for "leadership", I am somewha
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
We already have solutions for this called trains, buses, subways, etc. Public transportation. Yes, America is huge but look at China building out high-speed rail at an incredible pace. The amount of money dumped into self-driving could have
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. Matthew 24:34–35 Of course when the prediction doesn't fit, the
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
My bad! Learned a new expression today.
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> Meanwhile, the left out there pointing at Obama's extrajudicial killings, Bush's whole post 9/11 fiasco, Clinton's "Superpredators" nonsense, etc. etc. and making tons of noise about how this was all going
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Sunscreen is, overall, a terrible experience. Five or six years ago I started getting into sun-protective clothing after running into issues with vitiligo. Clothing is vastly superior from every angle. 1. It’s easy to apply. Slip a sun hood
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Recently I gave up on Apple Music. The clients had gotten so bad from a UX perspective that I found it frustrating to use. Especially on desktop. There is also no easy way to cache your _entire_ library to disk. Other services+clients are h
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> You're being evaluated on whether you can perform the role of someone who could theoretically build Google. I can't agree with this enough. Companies want to believe they're Google or going to be Google. As a result they
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Giving me dreams of a conversion on an old Volvo 240 station wagon :)
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> To update today's government to be an Apple Store like experience Please, no. There are few things worse as a consumer than going to the Apple Store. The overall design is…lacking. It’s fine for a regular website one might stumble
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> I didn't even mention that it's free It depends. If you're fine browsing torrent sites, choosing a download, loading in into your client, waiting for it to download, then plugging your laptop into your TV. Sure it's
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Is there any evidence that LLMs are safe to deploy as practitioners in healthcare settings? Until there is significant evidence, we shouldn't allow them. --- My original ramble below: This is a Very HN Comment. The problem with healthc
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
This looks pretty cool! Do you have a privacy policy?
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> I had the privilege of meeting both Sagan and Randi If the story is even remotely interesting and something you'd be willing to share I would really appreciate the read. Will definitely look into those books. Thanks for the recs.
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
I am quite literally in the middle of reading this now [0]. This would be great required reading for high school students. Anyone that runs across this comment should put it at the top of their reading list. Most frustratingly, many people
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
This kind of crap will only grow the MAGA base. Everyone knows our politicians work to serve the corporations and are sick of it. Democrats won’t allow a real candidate that will be anti-corporate. So we end up with Trump who pays lip servi
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Within a city it really doesn’t matter because it averages out. I’m an avid cyclist in a US city. There’s a pretty large radius around me in which driving is <= 5 minutes quicker, not counting time to park. Plus cycling often leaves me d
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> a $Trillion dollar company can certainly have resources You would think, but look at this whole Liquid Glass thing - they can't get something simple like contrast right. On the other hand, they arguably put out the best consumer c
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Jewels don’t appeal to me or my partner at all. De Beers diamonds are a scam. After reading this, those diamonds grown in Boston sounds so friggin cool though. The amount of technological innovation behind it is incredible. Maybe I’m just w
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> How does experience with nixos-darwin compare against just VMing on top of MacOS? Kinda depends what you want. Both work. With Nix Darwin you’ll sometimes run into packages that aren’t compatible with your system. It’s not an ND proble
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
People complain more about cookie banners than they do the actual invasive tracking by those cookies. Those banners suck and I wouldn't mind if the EU rolled back that law and tried another approach. At the same time, it's fairly
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> Do you really think it's fair to compare a questionable UFO sighting Fair enough. I chose my example poorly. My point still stands: personal anecdotes are a terrible way of understanding most anything. > It's the same as w
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Safari does have heavy restrictions on extensions but I still rarely see ads with 1Blocker (Safari extension) and NextDNS. So rarely it feels like never. It’s also opened up somewhat in recent years. While I personally stick with Safari’s C
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
> I don’t need a source… Yikes dude. > …to back up what I’ve consistently observed with my own eyes People have observed everything UFOs and demons to ivermectin curing their COVID. None of it is real but yet people continue to swear
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by McAlpine5892 1y ago
Thank you for your work

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