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by maest 11d ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignoble
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by maest 14d ago
oh, it's "play war pact". I read it as "play, warp, act"
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by maest 16d ago
> sarcastic burner humor. Give me a break...
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by maest 21d ago
It's not wild to imagine Canada wants to protect a domestic food producing industry. Same how all countries, including the US, heavily subsidize and protect their agricultural sector. I'd call this strategic, not political (althou
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by maest 21d ago
Btw, this is analogous to the argument for positive discrimination: Preferentially treat one group of people (non-white/women/Americans) even if in the short term the revealed preference of businesses is to hire a different group
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by maest 2mo ago
You handle this by paginating inside a transaction
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by maest 2mo ago
The US routinely goes to war to secure cheap oil, so I didn't think that's a good example
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by maest 2mo ago
A much larger percentage of bond traders are institutional, compared to equities, where retail is very active in some names. So I wouldn't really give too many points to "the general public" for this one.
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by maest 2mo ago
> two orders of magnitude more productive Shipping 100x more features per day?
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by maest 2mo ago
omp.sh is unreadable. I've tried understanding what exactly this is and it's just a wall of edgy sounding slop.
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by maest 2mo ago
Dozens of GBs of compressed text is an unfathomable amount of information from a human POV.
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by maest 2mo ago
Btw, the cosmetics industry functions similarly, but worse. Although I suppose the health dangers are lower (the monetary ones are not). For anti aging stuff, the workhorse ingredient is retinol (with a few formulation variations). However,
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by maest 3mo ago
> the biblical whitewashed tomb. What does this mean?
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by maest 3mo ago
I'm all for hating bad infrastructure, but this roundabout seems pretty straightforward? Maybe it's different when you're actually driving on it, but from a topdown view it's clear it's a central roundabout with som
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by maest 3mo ago
"fair" involves a value judgement and requires a moral system. "even" is pure mathematics. > I think it's fair to say that some jobs do actually deserve to be compensated more highly? Agreeing with that is easy.
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by maest 3mo ago
He's a very MAGA guy, though.
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by maest 3mo ago
> Everyone picking the S&P 500 over its competitors chooses that. I'm fairly confident most people deciding to allocate to s&p trackers have no idea about rules-based vs committee-based governance. They just pick the default
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by maest 3mo ago
> a man convicted of fraud Most practitioners in the field see that as a very strong signal of future fraud.
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by maest 4mo ago
That's "growth hacking" for you
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by maest 4mo ago
You can rotate any solution by 90 degrees, which would toggle the square colour of your bishop, so it doesn't ultimately matter.
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by maest 4mo ago
> In other words, after arranging the five black pieces, it must be impossible to place the white king anywhere without it being in checkmate. I think this is a bit ambiguous and, strictly speaking, wrong for the solution as given. In pa
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by maest 4mo ago
> It's weird to me that the Hacker News community doesn't think that sort of competition is good. Negative externalities. The company makes money using a free resource and disincentivises future development. I'm sure you c
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by maest 4mo ago
You need more hints that it's rude to take up a seat with your bag?
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by maest 4mo ago
Only because you typo'd twice: it's "pervasive".
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by maest 5mo ago
Does this logic still applies if the company is getting other benefits from having me as a user? (Genuine question, I can see arguments for both sides) For example, if I am using the free tier of a service and "paying" by seeing a
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by maest 5mo ago
> I did some manual verification on most of the data because this peaked my curiousity. It's "piqued my curiosity".
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by maest 5mo ago
Not a real problem, as proven by many countries where cycling is encouraged and supported
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by maest 5mo ago
I semi regularly see big cop SUVs parked here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MydRmrTkiJMxt3Pi7?g_st=ac On the bike lane, which is physically separated from the road. The cop car takes the whole width of the lanes. It also means t
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by maest 5mo ago
You should actually try saying something instead of vaguely insinuating something . Like, I legitimately am trying to understand what you're saying but it's frustratingly vague. I feel like you're wasting my time with your a
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by maest 5mo ago
There is a market for custom and rare risk insurance - it's called "surplus lines"

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