muffinman26

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by muffinman26 1y ago
It's actually pretty simple. "Where I can't interpret the tax code myself" means "where my attempt to interpret the tax code leaves me with two or more possible interpretations." The tax forms are very comprehe
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by muffinman26 1y ago
I never hand my taxes off to a tax expert. If I run into a problem where I can't interpret the tax code myself, I'll schedule an hour appointment with a tax expert to get the answer to that specific question. If their answer sound
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by muffinman26 2y ago
From my perspective, writing comments on Hacker News and posting submissions are completely different skills. When there's a topic on Hacker News that I'm knowledgeable about or that sparks my curiosity, I know how to write a comm
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by muffinman26 2y ago
If you grew up with even the slightest feeling of financial insecurity, dipping in to savings can already feel like the end of the world. I can't imagine living with only 6 months of savings. There's no guarantee that I could find
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Have you modeled to them how to make and develop friendships? Have you tried asking them what they've tried to do to make friends? Limiting negative stimuli isn't enough for people to automatically replace it with good stimuli. It
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I'll start. So far I've gotten my Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder certification. I've looked into getting CEFR certification in German or studying for the HSK (Mandarin), but haven't put my money wher
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Ask HN: What credentials have you gotten for fun?
2 points by muffinman26 2y ago|5 comments
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Do you realize that these laws that are supposed to "protect women" mean that I, a trans guy who was assigned female at birth but now have a full beard and look completely male in any clothes considered acceptable in public settin
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I would certainly be a better person if I was the sort of saint that can talk to people who hate my guts that badly, but not all of us are saints. It's currently illegal for me to use a public bathroom in Florida. Or rather, technicall
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I don't quite follow this. Surely each poker player who raises thinks that they will take the pot and the other players will lose. So they don't each think that the raise is mutually beneficial. Player A thinks that the raise is b
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I think you might be conflating two different skills because you haven't seen good examples. First is the skill of being an effective and persuasive communicator. This is an important skill to learn for anybody. The best resource I kno
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Maybe it's true that >> There just really isn't anything out there that is remotely close to SWE in terms of comfort, pay, and accessibility. Making the jump from there to keeping a software job being the right choice for ev
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by muffinman26 2y ago
A variation of this question gets asked semi-regularly on HN, but I think the reason the results so often seem unsatisfying is that the people who actually find a meaningful answer and switch careers aren't hanging out on Hacker News a
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by muffinman26 2y ago
For the existing HIV-preventing medications we have, such as PrEP, the treatments are much more effective in men than women. It can easily take a month for PrEP to be effective in Assigned Female At Birth folks, but I saw studies during the
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by muffinman26 2y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious and wasting people's time, it seems pretty self-evident that knowing about the existence of a species we didn't know about before is more interesting than someone creating an image of something
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Presumably the phone hasn't actually been wiped, or wasn't when the crooks first got the phone number. Smart phones generally let you add an Emergency Contact number that anyone can use the phone to call/text without entering
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by muffinman26 2y ago
There are so many books on learning a programming language, that I'll ignore that topic. Someone else mentioned data structures and algorithms. Algorithmic complexity is particularly important. The Algorithm Design Manual is a great bo
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Why wouldn't they? For some more practical reasons, in some styles of British crosswords, there isn't much intersection between words. A horizontal word might cross only 2-3 vertical words. In the standard US crossword, though, th
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Isn't it mid-skilled desk jobs that are becoming worth less and less? You can't automate a lot of tasks firefighters do. You need someone to actually show up in-person, in an area where there might be things that interfere with el
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I've been using a Pixel 2 since it came up, and was surprised by the debilitating headache I got when I upgraded to a Pixel 7a. It looks like the Pixel 2 was the last to definitely not use the technology talked about in this article. I
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My Phone Is Making Me Sick and I'm Not Alone(androidcentral.com)
2 points by muffinman26 2y ago|1 comments
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by muffinman26 2y ago
My layman's understanding is that the key to desensitization is that it has to be below the level of a certain kind of reaction. Allergies occur because the immune system incorrectly associates a substance with a bad reaction, and so a
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by muffinman26 2y ago
If you switch careers, of course you're going to take a pay cut. Why would I expect to be making as much money as an apprentice plumber as I am as a software developer with years of experience? There are plenty of jobs that are importa
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I do think the snowball method also makes sense mathematically, depending on the loan terms and what you're optimizing for. If your loans have a minimum payment and a penalty for missing a payment above and beyond interest (which seems
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by muffinman26 2y ago
By hand on paper. I don't really see the point in worrying about data leaks. A CPA who leaked your data would have their reputation so completely destroyed I doubt it would be worth it. That's 5 years of expensive and high-energy
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I notice several people saying the energy is better spent on hospice, but these seem like different activities to me? Not everyone who dies spends time in hospice. Wikipedia says 7-8% die from accidents and violence, and over 30% die from h
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by muffinman26 2y ago
In general I can understand the quote > I feel like in real life, that's how things work. People mostly accept the brutality of the society they find themselves in, because its normal. For something like modern day police brutality,
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by muffinman26 2y ago
Do you have any modern authors beyond Chambers that you would recommend? Chambers is one of my all-time favorites.
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I read The Fifth Season and hated it, but she's definitely a real author. I'd be interested if she has any other books that I might like better. My main problems with the story were: - The setting was almost unspeakably brutal, bu
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by muffinman26 2y ago
I didn't downvote (I don't think I even have the reputation to do that), but it's probably because you're advocating something that takes more energy but doesn't make the situation any better. Getting into open sour

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