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by conductr 20d ago
So maybe you have stated a reason a pause is better than an explicit no. No history of a denial is maybe a better thing. I get the human component but I can separate that from policy. I have my own risk assessment on it and it’s that I coul
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by conductr 21d ago
Pause is a silly way of saying No for now. You can try again later. But they’re not advising when that may be happening. To me, that tells you everything you need to know. That they don’t know themselves because it’s to be determined, maybe
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by conductr 21d ago
> The issue here is that, if you just left the country to do everything the country asked you, you are now in limbo. I feel like I’ve said it a few times but - Yes, exactly. The country wants you to leave and then get’s to decide if you
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by conductr 21d ago
It’s going to be funny when the Tesla robots start showing up at tee times because the CEO couldn’t make it. Like a meeting agent taking notes for people who didn’t attend
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by conductr 21d ago
I’m just laying it out there in a obvious way because if someone said “if you push this button, you could get electrocuted” you wouldn’t call it inhumane when someone pushed the button and got electrocuted. I didn’t want to get into the pol
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by conductr 21d ago
But my point is it’s a known factor up front, and it’s so they can (have the option of) getting you to leave without allowing you back in. The thinking is that if people had visas that expires or revoked, they just wouldn’t leave and enforc
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by conductr 21d ago
Not trying to make a political point at all and perhaps a controversial take. But, it’s specifically and maybe implicitly by design. Meaning they made this way precisely so you have to reapply so they can change their mind or block you out
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by conductr 22d ago
My 12x16 took way more time, but I did it all myself. I mostly worked at night once the heavy loud stuff was done because of the young kid factor. But at only a couple hours a day, it took about 4 months. Although I did build mine down into
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by conductr 22d ago
I am part of the problem in the first. It's because early HNer's were early Bitcoin users and adopters and I feel we (I) had a hope that it could take hold as an actual currency (I no longer feel that). But, we were so early I can
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by conductr 22d ago
I joined in 2008, that was even after lurking for a while, and it’s almost unrecognizable now in comparison has been for many years. Was mostly entrepreneurship, tech was present but was a means to an end. It wasn’t tech for the sake of tec
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by conductr 23d ago
I live in a part of the US where ample free relatively clean restrooms are available and actually quite large. I can drive hundreds of miles in any direction and generally a restroom can be found with minimal advanced planning. All to say,
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by conductr 23d ago
I think it follows the path of the spreadsheet. For a long while, only geeks and finance or accountants or data monkeys used spreadsheets. Then, it was such that anyone could create a spreadsheet. Vlookup was something you learned early in
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by conductr 23d ago
The door situation is more so security than privacy IMO. The common setup in the US is we drive right into our garage and nobody even sees us enter or exit our car, depending on garage location I suppose. I guess it’s easier to watch a hous
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by conductr 23d ago
Fences are more common than hedges here. I’m failing to understand how any shared wall apartment tops a single family home in terms of privacy.
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by conductr 24d ago
Agree. And you also then should ask, why is it so? It’s usually not because they were after some pedestrian nirvana. It’s because land is so expensive they have to utilize it to a high degree for it to make sense. It does help that once you
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by conductr 24d ago
I don’t know that industry as well. But I can look at it through a similar lens and would guess that it’s high. I say that because every thing that goes into the service is expensive. Large capital expenses (planes, probably a lot I don’t e
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by conductr 24d ago
When I was a mischievous kid, me and all my mischievous friends had our stories of learning how serious fire and explosions were considered by authority figures. We learned fast not to do that or the consequences would be grand. These were
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by conductr 26d ago
Don't most evolutionary traits/changes come at times of restrictions? I don't think many traits are developed during times of abundance, it's when there is a shortage and they have to seek out something else; like protei
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by conductr 26d ago
Have to consider meat digestion from a net calorie perspective. Eating raw meat is possible sure. But once you get to dense protein meats like a red meat, your body expends a lot of calories in the act of digesting it raw. Cooking it is lik
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by conductr 26d ago
My interpretation was similar. The carb-sugar diet was never a highlight because it was a given. The article talks about primates that have high carb-sugar diets but doesn't explain why their brains remain so small compared to humans.
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by conductr 26d ago
I'm envious, although I think my experience is the rule and your's more of an exception. It might be more common on HN given the demo, but IRL, people mostly want to talk. Or even if they read email, they can't be bothered to
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by conductr 26d ago
If this is one of their major expenses and only represents 5% of annual revenue, it’s not. Often SaaS companies can run at 90%+ gross margins even with a highly utilized free user tier. Their selling expenses and labor/opex and SG&
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by conductr 26d ago
It’s also just less risky and easier to work with people that you are near, speak your language, etc. more so back in the 80s before most people were even using email, we Americans had virtually no contact with people on other continents ev
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by conductr 26d ago
Absolute numbers aren’t useful in this analysis. We know capital is easily available for the expenditure. You have to consider it as a relative number to revenue or users otherwise big numbers always look scary.
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by conductr 27d ago
Conversely, what suggests GitHub has a huge operating cost? Running a GitHub clone at their same scale as a customer on cloud pricing would likely be insane. But y’all know infra is actually quite cheap when you run it yourself right? It’s
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by conductr 27d ago
I commented elsewhere but my schooling had a pattern of: read > analyze/discuss > watch movie > analyze/discuss. Most of the material has film adaptations and this was fairly sufficient in closing the loop during the cour
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by conductr 27d ago
A lot of people revisit these works later in life and have even further appreciation of them. I think it all validates the goal is to teach learning as a life skill. Learning is never complete. Even things you know, you may not understand u
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by conductr 27d ago
This was my thought as well. They were teaching us not to just read the words for their face value, to imagine the time and place the events occurred within. Honestly, this is why at the conclusion of many books we would watch the movie (wh
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by conductr 27d ago
This probably differs a bit by your exact profession and circumstances. I could see devs and technical people (most of HN readers) to prefer and have success with this when operating with like minded peers. It doesn’t scale much outside tha
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by conductr 27d ago
Hard disagree back. Email has multiple contexts when I would say that short form is ideal and should be the default but at times a thoroughly long form email is needed. Or, honestly, you just need to create a document at this point. It coul

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