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by kneath 9mo ago
I appreciate this intent. I do wonder: do any of your team use this setting? I, too left VS Code after having to disable Copilot for the umpteenth time in a fit of frustration. I was aware of this setting and had it to disable all AI, alas.
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by kneath 2y ago
Yes, if you assume coffee costs half as much as previously stated, it does almost halve the cost.
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by kneath 2y ago
Might want to check your math there. At $20/lb, zero waste (!!), 18g of coffee is $0.80/shot. Add in 10-15% waste (accurately predicting exact supply of beans is almost impossible, plus dialing in, mistakes, and training) and a mo
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by kneath 2y ago
Not going to enter into anymore baiting, but no — that is not at all the extent of Chapter 7's protections against external fire. https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2018/chapter-7-fire-and...
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by kneath 2y ago
Chapter 7 addresses both interior and exterior fires. Exterior fires are a danger to buildings everywhere (see: Great Chicago Fire).
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by kneath 2y ago
It is never really that simple. Here is a thought experiment: How does the idea of defensible space work if your neighbor's walls are 5 feet from your walls? What happens when an entire neighborhood is that closely spaced? How do you r
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by kneath 2y ago
Many comments seem to be under the impression that we do not know or do not choose to build fire-resistant buildings. We do know how. It is required by code. Chapter 7 of the IBC code is the specific section. It was adopted in 2007. Most ho
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by kneath 2y ago
It is not anything even remotely like that. Fuck, I love programmers.
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by kneath 2y ago
I have seen a lot of companies, a lot of rounds. I have known zero founders who have turned down an option to take money off the table (and zero A raises that offered that to employees). I love the idea of your universe, though.
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by kneath 3y ago
My MY definitely builds up ice in the wheel wells a lot worse than any other car I've had in snow climates (VW R32, F150, 4Runner, Subarau Crosstrek). If we don't remember to clear them every day, they can build up and freeze into
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by kneath 4y ago
For most urban areas where this contamination is prevalent (old dry cleaner & brake cleaner spills), there are a limited number of well heads that pull from the polluted aquifers to supply municipal water.
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by kneath 4y ago
No need for fancy financial products. You can literally buy carbon removal today. https://charmindustrial.com/ https://climeworks.com/
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by kneath 8y ago
Capital gains is wage theft. If you have money, you are taxed at a lower rate than people who have to earn it. Carried interest is just a follow-through of this principle that is apparent at every level of American government. Those with mo
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by kneath 8y ago
Yes, capitalism has infested every corner of our existence. Universities and conferences are massive distributors of marketing materials. They are both capitalistic enterprises. It is very difficult to find non-marketing content in modern t
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by kneath 8y ago
All of the examples in the article (zeitgeist-style newsletters) fall very clearly under a marketing umbrella by my judgement. They're the TV Guides of cryptocurrency. Maybe they don't (all) have affiliate links, but advertising i
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by kneath 8y ago
This is an extremely poorly written article. I'm glad most of the comments seem to be ignoring the actual text in it. What collateral damage is being done? It seems to me the opposite of collateral damage is being done: Mailchimp has b
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by kneath 9y ago
Where do I put a bid for a short on the ability for the earth to support human life comfortably?
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by kneath 9y ago
I … oof. I'm sure this stuff does look good from the outside. From experience, it is not anything close to that. Most stock options have short expirations (10 year is still very uncommon). There is no "now vs. later" choice,
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by kneath 9y ago
Yes, there are several strategies. Each of them impacts significant discount on sale price, requirements to make a sale, or significant risk to option holder. Kind of like saying "anyone can buy a car without having a job or savings&qu
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by kneath 9y ago
Yes. This is SOP for law firms authoring stock option agreements after Facebook IPO'd. OP is extraordinarily lucky that his company allowed a stock transfer, with extraordinary being too weak of a word to describe his circumstance.
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by kneath 9y ago
In the context of this article (Coinbase going after Wall Street, looking to join Big Finance), I would guess that $1MM/day isn't significant enough revenue to count. Especially if they have overhead. Lone traders can make as much
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by kneath 9y ago
The most powerful man on earth, Pope Paul V demanded Galileo silence his thoughts on heliocentrism. He was then submitted to the Roman Inquisition, found guilty, and imprisoned for the rest of his life. Somehow this is seen as comparable in
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by kneath 9y ago
This was literally from the article. > “You create new hives by breaking up your stronger hives, which just makes them weaker,” said Tim May, a beekeeper in Harvard, Illinois and the vice-president of the American Beekeeping Federation b
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by kneath 9y ago
> "…the overall increase is largely the result of constant replenishment of losses, the study showed." Very misleading headline. The bees are not bouncing back, humans are splitting up stronger hives into weaker hives. Kinda li
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by kneath 9y ago
Thanks for removing that! I'd be lying if your explanation didn't sound a little… Well hey, HN is always good for laughs.
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by kneath 9y ago
Caboose was an invite-only group of rubyists interested in rails early on. At the time I joined it was a group of decent humans who would answer your questions, share their work, and banter about the rails ecosystem. I haven't idled th
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by kneath 9y ago
Author here. Hacker News has long ago blacklisted/blackholed my domain (I am often critical of YCombinator's investment strategies), but the original post can be found on my blog http://warpspire.com/posts/pix
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by kneath 10y ago
"Some consequentialists may be vegetarian because of environmental concerns, and others for non-consequentialist reasons, but these are not my main focus here."
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by kneath 10y ago
He does have a tremendous amount of (IMO) anecdotal evidence as to when the various populations crashed, but at the end of the day I came away with a simpler conclusion: there just isn't enough reliable evidence to know what did or did
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by kneath 10y ago
He does go into this a bit. Due to the ecology in the Amazon (a giant mud-filled floodplain), tools and buildings tended to be made of organic materials like wood & fiber rather than rock & metal as was more common in other areas of

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