hnuser847

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by hnuser847 7mo ago
Nah, I don't see it. They've been trying to make smart glasses a thing for over a decade and it's not working. Nobody wants them. I don't think it's necessarily a privacy thing, it's just that smart glasses don
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by hnuser847 7mo ago
> if you think the president can go to war without congressional approval then you are unamerican The last time congress declared war was 1942. That ship long ago my friend.
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by hnuser847 7mo ago
Exactly. As distasteful as it is to put it in these terms, some slaveholders had massive "balance sheets" consisting of thousands of human "assets". Outlawing slavery meant reducing the value of these assets to zero.
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by hnuser847 7mo ago
So if I'm understanding you correctly, prior to AI tools you spent 1 hour per week coding? And now you spend 30 minutes per week?
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by hnuser847 1y ago
The sole purpose of companies hiring foreign workers is to pay less in wages. This results in lower wages for Americans. It’s that simple.
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by hnuser847 1y ago
This law needs the addition of a third kind of person: one who is neither devoted to the goals of the organization nor the organization itself, but merely wishes to use the organization as a vehicle to push their own social and political be
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by hnuser847 2y ago
Are the Elites in the room with us now?
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by hnuser847 2y ago
I mean, it sounds like your kids are just following the example you set. They're watching you sit in front of a screen as a form of recreation and they're simply doing the same. I think it's also worth noting that your hobbie
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by hnuser847 2y ago
Yes, only the best buildings from hundreds of years ago have been preserved, but that still doesn't explain why we build ugly buildings right now. You would think we would be able to draw on centuries of architectural trial and error t
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by hnuser847 3y ago
This article has a graph going back over a century. The percent of young adults living with parents in 1960 was only 29%, so I'd say the current value is pretty significant. [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads&#
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by hnuser847 3y ago
That's not why the electoral college was created. The three fifths compromise was appended to the electoral college system, but it was not the reason for it being created in the first place. The reason why we have an electoral college
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by hnuser847 3y ago
If Amazon did that, sales would drop to zero and retailers would leave Amazon. eCommerce is a low-margin business. Sellers will only stay on Amazon as long it's profitable for them.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
> You pay these fees so the products aren't cheap. Except they are, otherwise consumers wouldn't use Amazon. Whenever I want to buy anything, I check Amazon first. 9 times out of 10 it's the same price as every other retai
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by hnuser847 3y ago
The “hidden tax” described in the article is to sellers, not consumers. Free shipping is subsidy for consumers that costs Amazon billions of dollars. I have personally never seen what you’re describing.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
The TL;DR is that the “hidden tax” is onerous advertising fees paid by third-party retailers to have their products appear high in search results. I don’t really see the issue here, since this appears to be a win-win for both consumers and
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by hnuser847 3y ago
> For his final presentation at architecture school, Hedström proposed Inxect Island, an apartment complex built around mealworm farming, sustained by ocean-borne plastic, on a decommissioned oil rig moored outside Tórshavn. This sounds
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by hnuser847 3y ago
> For me, it's harder and harder to find the initial novelty that made programming fun. I struggled with that for years before finally accepting that the magic wasn’t coming back. I’ve since moved on to other non-tech interests that
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by hnuser847 3y ago
Homeownership by age demographic has been surprisingly stable over the past 20 years. https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf
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by hnuser847 3y ago
Because nobody would want to use FedBook. People on all ends of the political spectrum have reasons to not want to share their most personal and sensitive data directly with the government. Plus, because FedBook would have to be very carefu
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by hnuser847 3y ago
The problem with the concept of covid-induced brain fog is that the symptoms of brain fog are indistinguishable from general anxiety. I'm still not convinced that brain fog is a legitimate, medical outcome of having covid, as opposed t
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by hnuser847 3y ago
It’s fun to drop verbatim quotes from his manifesto into random internet discussions without attribution. A lot of people agree with his ideas without realizing it.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
I'm glad you brought up Singapore, since they can actually force people with mental health or addiction issues into shelters. Imprisoning people for being mentally ill or addicts is a viable to solution to homeless and it clearly wor
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by hnuser847 3y ago
Nah, it’s caused by mental illness and drug addiction. Short of rounding them up and forcing them to get help, there’s actually nothing we can do to get these people off the street.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
React was released back in 2012/2013. The web was already broken without JavaScript back then, and had been for quite some time. Remember jQuery? And FB placing tracking codes in cookies has nothing to do with React.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
Opposite experience for me. After I had kids, I realized how shitty and neglectful my parents had been. They kept me alive but they otherwise didn’t do much. They were more like roommates than parents.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
I definitely felt this when walking through the city center of Florence last fall. The streets and piazzas were jammed with thousands of tourists but it felt remarkably quiet, due to the almost complete absence of cars.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
^^^this. I would find this infinitely more interesting than cloning a wooly mammoth or a dinosaur.
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by hnuser847 3y ago
How long did it take you to forgive them? Are they still in your life? For me personally, I think it's too soon to forgive them. The past six months have been the first time in my life that I've allowed myself to feel all the pent
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by hnuser847 3y ago
My entire life I believed that my childhood was pretty decent, and fairly privileged even. My parents provided a safe and stable home environment in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, sent me to some decent public schools, took me on nice vacatio
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by hnuser847 3y ago
It would be worse in different ways. 1. There’s a lot of backlash against Twitter’s new owner for his change in editorial policy. Users or tweets that would have been previously removed are no longer being censored. On a government-run plat

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