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by dividefuel 7d ago
I agree a lot with your point on Minecraft. The farther you explore and the more you see, the higher the bar feels for what's worth your interest. When you first start playing the game, a medium sized mountain is exciting. Then the bar
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by dividefuel 7d ago
There are different ways to take it. There's the Kerbal Space Program approach, where space exploration is tough and you need to learn a LOT to succeed at it. The tradeoff of this is a high sense of accomplishment, where simply landing
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by dividefuel 21d ago
I agree with this. People buy a place to live usually because they like the qualities of that place. Changes to those qualities affect their day to day experience, whereas changes to their primary residence value usually only materialize wh
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by dividefuel 27d ago
As a physics major I agree a lot with this. Most of my courses were very "Point A" to "Point B". You're given a set of formulae, then a problem, then you use some combinations of those formulae to solve the problem.
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by dividefuel 1mo ago
Thinking more about this, I feel a good solution might be to let students decide whether they want to keep the first semester letter grades once they receive them, or simplify them down to a pass/no-pass. That way there's still an
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by dividefuel 1mo ago
I'm not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, this is good for people who need time to adapt to college. It's a big change, especially for young people who are living apart from family for the first time. You have to adapt
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by dividefuel 2mo ago
Small clarification: the post's screenshot is of the News mode in Search, and not news.google.com. I think the latter is what people think of when they think "Google News". Whether the same problems are there as well, I don&#
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by dividefuel 2mo ago
I have a family member who's a lobbyist. When he talks about his job, a common theme is that a huge amount of his work is trying assess the impacts of policy on businesses (albeit mainly big businesses) and make sure lawmakers are able
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by dividefuel 3mo ago
Does this really demonstrate what the author thinks it does? Other than menus, none of this was really easier before technology. - Parking meters: you'd have to remember when yours would expire and manually check your watch (if you bro
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by dividefuel 3mo ago
I agree it's primarily cultural. I wonder whether there's anything that a non-totalitarian government can do that would significantly change the cultural side of it.
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by dividefuel 3mo ago
How people feel about having kids doesn't seem to be a uniform thing. The majority of parents certainly seem to love their children, but I do see a lot of mixed opinions about whether they love being parents . In my peer group, it&#x2
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by dividefuel 3mo ago
I agree a lot with your hypothesis. Most people in my demographic (mid 30s American) that aren't having kids are choosing not to primarily because they don't want to really interfere with their current lifestyle. Money seems to
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
Coming back a few days later, but here's my current todo list: - Lawn care - Pool care - Trim back trumpet vine in side yard - Fix a leaking drip irrigation adapter - Prune dead branches in liquid amber tree - Repair / replace squ
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
In my anecdotal experience in a FAANG, weak junior hiring started during the hiring freezes in mid 2022, and was made worse by the layoff cycles that began soon after. Once you know headcount is going to be extremely tight indefinitely, you
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
Beyond financial costs, I was caught off guard at how much time home ownership took up. House maintenance and projects have taken up most of every single weekend of mine for the past few years. Part of it is simply that I bought a house w
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
Born in 1990. In the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s, many of my friends lived in the same neighborhood. That's how we became friends in the first place: you'd see each other outside and gradually become friends. By the time
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
Yes, I often wonder this too: It's said all the time that communities are much safer than they were, so why restrict kids? But that raises the clear possibility that those preventative measures might be why it's safer now. Wheth
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
I think walking VS driving is also about convenience. In the example we're replying to, the shared suburban street has a marked median (implying medium traffic), minimal shoulder, and no sidewalk. While the houses and foliage are very
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
I know the discussion of urbanism vs suburbanism is a common topic on HN, but I don't think suburbs themselves are the root issue here. When I was growing up in the suburb, there were kids outside all the time. Yes, some friends lived
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by dividefuel 4mo ago
The opinion polls cited here show people thought the force was unjustified/inappropriate at about 2x the rate of those who thought it was justified/appropriate. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/politic
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
My take is the shift to mobile is what really caused the biggest change in the Internet. By the mid/late 2000s, the UX for surfing the Web was mostly pretty good. Navigating to another site was as easy as typing in its URL or issuing a
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
I do think that once an elderly person loses the ability to drive, it's often a big tipping point towards their decline. I would suspect that losing the ability to drive usually (but not necessarily) comes before losing the ability to
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
I think you have a point: many men work hard to provide stability for their family, and are effectively sacrificing family time to provide that. This kind of hard work feels undervalued in modern parenting discourse, which seems to put most
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
Do you have a source for this? What threshold is needed for it to be 'dense'?
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
Agree with this. I'm a little more sensitive to the idea of horrible things happening to small children (e.g. sad news stories), but for the most part I didn't find kids to be a major shift in my beliefs.
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
Ah I wish I could agree. I've found having kids to be a major challenge. Maybe I just need to wait for them to get a little older.
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by dividefuel 5mo ago
I firmly believe that many goods like this fall into a cycle. Existing products are cheaply made and poor quality, so a new company emerges producing a higher quality product. Eventually word gets out and their sales blow up. But to keep th
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by dividefuel 6mo ago
This drives me nuts. "What a clever question to ask! You must be one of the brightest minds of your generation. Nothing slips by you. Here's why it's not actually safe to stand in the middle of an open field during a thunders
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by dividefuel 7mo ago
I agree with this a lot. In the late 2000s, which for me was when I was about 20, posts were very throwaway and low effort -- in a good way! You never really knew what you'd see when you logged in. Photos of stupid things or silly stat
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by dividefuel 8mo ago
When I think of times in which I've made friends, it usually has to do with being in a group of similar-ish peers for an extended period of time, ideally with a shared goal. School is the obvious example, but work can be too if your co

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