lunaru

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by lunaru 9mo ago
I think people understand the odds are small. However, perhaps they perceive their chances of meaningfully turn around their life in other ways have even smaller odds. i.e. improbable vs actually impossible. At least the lottery doesn'
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US investigates Stanford, UC schools over affirmative action(reuters.com)
36 points by lunaru 1y ago|2 comments
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by lunaru 2y ago
Great to see you launch this! I know you've put a lot of work into it and I've found it fine going through the samples. (Disclaimer: family member of the OP) Bit of feedback: It would be a little easier to jump into the Learning m
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by lunaru 2y ago
Speciation of archaic humans is an attempt at applying discrete categorization to continuous phenomena. It's like looking at a rainbow and trying to figure out where red ends and orange begins. Also interesting is Homo Longi, which can
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by lunaru 2y ago
If any language was written like Chinese has the same answer -- the written form of Chinese was not necessarily meant to be phonetic, although there are portions of it that have evolved to be phonetic. The characters have meanings and the
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All Four Rolex Manufacturing Facilities (2015)(hodinkee.com)
4 points by lunaru 3y ago|0 comments
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“Genotoxic” Warning: Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA(scitechdaily.com)
33 points by lunaru 3y ago|14 comments
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by lunaru 3y ago
Vacheron Constantin was founded in 1755 by Jean-Marc Vacheron, a watchmaker, who later took on a partner François Constantin who traveled the world managing sales of their highly complicated watches. In fact, the two (Vacheron and Constanti
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by lunaru 3y ago
The real joke is that we as a society still give weight to institutions like Harvard. We as a whole are much more educated now and the idea that legacy institutions should serve as gatekeepers of education or validation thereof based on rep
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by lunaru 4y ago
To clarify, this math doesn't work because the price I mentioned is just labor and materials. Land is not included nor are soft costs like architects. That 2BR apartment for $300,000 can't happen because the land and soft costs, a
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by lunaru 4y ago
I think everyone understands this barrier already, it's well discussed and my point was not to diminish the well-known challenges to the problem. The economic reasons I mentioned are another (much less discussed) angle that most people
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by lunaru 4y ago
> What’s so special about it? Nothing. That's exactly what I mean when I say the cost is labor. The quoted price $450-$550 per square foot does not include land, permitting, soft costs, etc. That's just labor and materials.
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by lunaru 4y ago
Just offering up a food for thought, as I recently did some research in the cost of construction (for the Bay Area, California): I see a lot of comments denouncing NIMBY-ism for the lack of construction or other reasons to answer the questi
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Noma Is Closing, Saying Fine Dining Is ‘Unsustainable’(bonappetit.com)
2 points by lunaru 4y ago|0 comments
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by lunaru 4y ago
It bears repeating because this is a common mistake in inflation discussions: a decrease in inflation metrics means price increases are slowing down, it doesn’t mean that prices are going down （that would require a negative CPI print). Also
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by lunaru 4y ago
A rare watch is an IYKYK item and the iconic pieces are immediately noticeable from across the room. I do wonder if the deflation in asset prices (driven by increase in interest rates) will put downward pressure on some of the craziness rig
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Bundle for Ukraine(itch.io)
4 points by lunaru 5y ago|0 comments
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by lunaru 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Magic Wormhole specifically, but I think this may be to solve STUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN . Specifically if the clients are behind NATs, having a third party server coordinate can
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by lunaru 6y ago
We need to start expanding the scope of our anti-trust laws so that internet communication channels go back to what they were meant to be: de-centralized. The fact that the internet and web was designed to be decentralized and then somehow
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by lunaru 6y ago
Xi'an (on this list as one of the oldest cities) has a fully preserved (but often refurbished) city wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_Xi%27an It's complete so you can still walk the entire
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California can seize hotels in Newsom’s new coronavirus order(sacbee.com)
2 points by lunaru 7y ago|0 comments
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Greenlock v3: Easy HTTPS for Node.js(indiegogo.com)
1 points by lunaru 7y ago|0 comments
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by lunaru 7y ago
I didn’t see any contact info on your profile but if you’re looking for a Rails gig, let’s chat. Ping me at my profile email.
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by lunaru 7y ago
Re:amaze | Full-stack software developer | San Jose, CA | REMOTE (U.S.) and INTERNS welcome | https://www.reamaze.com Re:amaze is a multi-channel customer support and messaging platform. We focus on helping businesses support, e
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by lunaru 7y ago
How about a balanced culture that can appreciate eduction, sports AND drama? We don't need a culture where everyone strives for excellence in one dimension. That's a very boring world and implicitly creates a pyramid/caste sy
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by lunaru 7y ago
A huge part of Shopify's revenue comes from Shopify Plus. We're also fellow app developers[1], and we've noticed that if you offer value to their higher end businesses, you'll be running at churn rates that are much lowe
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by lunaru 7y ago
I just want to make a note that Tobi (Shopify's CEO) has made great contributions to Rails open source ecosystem with projects like Liquid and ActiveMerchant, which he started: - https://github.com/Shopify/liquid&#
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by lunaru 7y ago
Also tangentially related, but apparently, moon rocks were once fed to cockroaches and injected into mice: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/us/nasa-lunar-samples-testing...
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How to Understand Conversational Commerce and Adopt It for Your Brand(betterthansure.com)
1 points by lunaru 8y ago|0 comments
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by lunaru 8y ago
On related note and I believe posted in HN before, I've always found the Tea/te vs Chai/Cha naming of tea very interesting and this article shows the spread of the word geographically: https://qz.com/1176962&#

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