andredz

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by andredz 3y ago
I was 16 when I graduated high school not even 10 years ago. And IIRC I had a classmate who was 15. EDIT: Almost forgot: I did skip a year during elementary, not sure about her case.
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by andredz 4y ago
It isn't. Go for it :)
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by andredz 5y ago
I'm surprised at how positive the response to this has been. Whenever I've tried to reason through why we change our clocks twice a year I've found that it makes sense to do so (at least in my case). Also, I've quite enj
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by andredz 5y ago
I've shared this before in a previous thread but I'll do so again: https://wall.org/~aron/blog/ This blog has had a huge impact in my life and I'll be forever grateful to Aron for uploading it to th
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by andredz 5y ago
About insider trading, I've enjoyed reading Matt Levine's Money Stuff column: https://lawsofinsidertrading.com/ Pretty fun.
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by andredz 5y ago
13 days later, but better late than even later.
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by andredz 5y ago
Something similar happened to the Red Delicious apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious#Selective_breedi...
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by andredz 5y ago
U is Sunday and R is Thursday. This is what I found: https://eventguide.com/topics/one_digit_day_abbreviations.ht...
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by andredz 5y ago
Maybe it is because I was a teen then, but I heard about vsco a long long time ago (unless ~6/7 years is not long). I thought it was already on its death throes though, barely anyone I know uses it.
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by andredz 5y ago
Thanks. (Is a simple thanks a valid HN comment?)
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by andredz 5y ago
One would hope that after such a disaster, and given the pros of the underlying technology, more funding and research would be focused on safety, rather than abandoning it. I wonder to which degree has nuclear power's association with
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by andredz 5y ago
You are right, perception… Knowing that those years referred to those disasters, it feels a tad ridiculous to have asked for sources, but thanks :-)
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by andredz 5y ago
I see. Thanks for the explanation. I had been thinking in terms of the technology rather than in its public perception (although sure… that perception influences funding for the technology). Now I see that I would have been well served by l
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by andredz 5y ago
Why? Could you source your statement? Not that I'm doubting you, but I would like to learn more. :)
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by andredz 5y ago
The way of presenting reminded me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o (7 Ways to Maximize Misery) and also reminded me of the 10 commandments.
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by andredz 5y ago
The video, and the write-up ( https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/06/12/lets-port-doom-to... ) seem to be unavailable.
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by andredz 5y ago
It wasn't clear to me that any of the interpretations was, well… clear, and had to check the comments (I could have checked the repo too).
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by andredz 5y ago
With regards to the pagan origins of Christmas I learned quite a bit by reading some of the linked articles here (such as the one about Yule or about the Christmas tree): https://historyforatheists.com/2020/12/paga
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by andredz 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but most (I didn't check the ones that required me to log in) links in your profile seem to be broken.
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by andredz 5y ago
"Three FDA Advisers Resign over Agency’s Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468756
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by andredz 5y ago
I've been using mine for many years. The only big problems I've had is that sometimes the scale doesn't work perfectly and I have to reset the weighting and that after so long the blades have been getting a little blunt; but
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by andredz 5y ago
This is such a great thread, I'm excited to begin reading quite a few of the linked blogs (such as this one: https://acoup.blog/ ). These ones are some of my favorites: - www.wall.org/~aron/blog/ (physics
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by andredz 5y ago
What do you mean by other cosmologies? "Belief in creation by God" is not mutually exclusive with believing that the Big Bang model correctly describes the structure and evolution of the universe. Belief in creation by God is not
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by andredz 5y ago
I would recommend that blog as well; it is among my favorite places on the internet. Aron's writings have had a huge and very positive impact in my life.
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by andredz 5y ago
As seen in this comment in another thread currently in the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27263606 (Although the person that used 'best' in that story is from the UK).
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by andredz 5y ago
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the origin of hazard is as follows: Middle English (in hazard (sense 3 of the noun)): from Old French hasard , from Spanish azar , from Arabic az-zahr ‘chance, luck’, from Persian zār or Turkish za
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by andredz 5y ago
You are welcome (poster here :-)). And thanks to you for maintaining a great, and useful, piece of software. I recently needed something like Firefox Send that could have files uploaded for longer than 1 day but no more than 7 days and Send
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by andredz 5y ago
There's also a CLI for Send (ffsend): https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
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Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send(github.com)
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by andredz 5y ago
I looked up the last name: Siegenthaler

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