nhebb

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by nhebb 6y ago
> doesn’t need a bunch of number keys that no one is ever going to click on Don't underestimate the number of people who like to lean back in their chair and do everything with a mouse.
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by nhebb 6y ago
I don't want to get between a Frenchman and his butter, but I just use a potato peeler for cold butter. I find it works well enough. I've also used a cheese slicer, but I found it harder to control the thickness.
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by nhebb 6y ago
I'm reluctant to pimp my own product on HN, but one of the features of Spreadspeed [1] (my Excel add-in) is a Quick Protect tool which protects the sheet but will unlock individual cells based on styling (e.g., Input style). https:&#x
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by nhebb 6y ago
I don't understand why Sweden is being held up as a paragon. Their death rate is currently 9th worst worldwide and over 2x that of the United States': https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavir
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by nhebb 6y ago
In order for that argument to work, the US would also have to lower the minimum wage. Is that what you're proposing?
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by nhebb 6y ago
In case anyone is not aware, the planned relief for companies in the private sector is in the form of loans, not cash giveaways
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by nhebb 6y ago
From what I understand, the sense of taste is intertwined with the sense of smell. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-connection-between-taste-a...
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by nhebb 7y ago
Not only that, but I find the taste different. I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap. For me, it overpowers all other flavors in a dish, but I find coriander seeds to be mild and pleasant tasting.
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by nhebb 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22565107
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by nhebb 7y ago
Did anyone here bother to check the bio's of the officials listed on the amicus brief? If so, you'd discover that the many (maybe most, I didn't count) were holdovers from previous administrations. But, conspiracy theories ar
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by nhebb 7y ago
If you prefer video, watch the 1998 PBS piece Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet . I won't link to it because I'm not sure if the site is legit, but I just re-watched a few minutes of it and it's funny to look back
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by nhebb 7y ago
It's complicated. The US spends more per capita (PPP) than any other country by good margin [1]. Of that, the US government pays roughly 50% of the total cost [2]. The net effect is that the US government already pays as much per capit
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by nhebb 7y ago
I don't think 5 star general is a rank anymore. There is also one 6 star, George Washington, General of the Armies. As far as branches, the Merchant Marines falls under the DoD as well. IIRC, it had the highest casualty rate of any of
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by nhebb 7y ago
I use airnow.com. The site's usability is fine, and more importantly, their AQI numbers look much more realistic than the data you're getting from PurpleAir. You might consider another data source.
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by nhebb 7y ago
> (1) Americans consider housing to be an investment. Apparently I'm the lone dissenter on this, but I think for many people this is a side benefit that they may hope for, but the primary objective is simply to own a home that they
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by nhebb 7y ago
> Maybe now we can get some wage inflation! We have been. Real (inflation adjusted) median household income has been going up in recent years, from ~$57k / household in 2014 to ~$63k / household in 2018: https://fred
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by nhebb 7y ago
The whole thing is pretentiously written blather. > This is not to say that all women who appeared in public were assumed to be sexually available, nor that middle-class women were forbidden from the streets. The streets enabled a wide
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by nhebb 7y ago
Another interesting one is Hickory (NC) Furniture Mart. It started as a drive-in restaurant and pivoted over time into a mall with over 100 furniture stores.
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by nhebb 7y ago
Good point. Someone on r/cfb made the same point, but the idea of marketing "The" caps and shirts was still widely mocked, even by OSU diehards.
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by nhebb 7y ago
Ohio State University recently tried to trademark the word "The". Thankfully they were denied.
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by nhebb 7y ago
I saw Scott Hanselman speak, and he said he has impostor syndrome. I thought to myself, great, if Hanselman has impostor syndrome, I'm not even qualified. I must be an impostor-syndrome impostor.
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by nhebb 7y ago
I was excited for a second, but ESPN's site still autoplays videos, e.g.: https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401110...
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by nhebb 7y ago
> For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert. I'm over my free NYT limit, but the lead caught my eye. Is this a by-product of raising kids in the city, or just a symptom of a tightly wound
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by nhebb 7y ago
I did this a few weeks ago. I just quit a long tobacco habit, so I might have been a bit impulsive. For the most part, it turned out fine. I needed a second person to help trim the back, though. If you like a clean neckline, that's har
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by nhebb 7y ago
The lead paragraph of the bill: > To ensure the digital contents of electronic equipment and online accounts belonging to or in the possession of United States persons entering or exiting the United States are adequately protected at the
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by nhebb 7y ago
> 14. Oberlin sent a mass email to its alumni association essentially saying that the jury disregarded the clear evidence showing it had done nothing wrong ... In a move of awesome stupidity, that email was sent out while the case was st
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by nhebb 7y ago
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are considered mandatory spending because politicians tend to like being reelected.
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by nhebb 7y ago
Discretionary spending is about 1/3 of the budget, and, yeah, defense is half of that, but when the GP wrote that "military spending takes up more than half of the budget" it paints a misleading picture.
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by nhebb 7y ago
It's far lower than that. There's a fake pie chart floating around the internet showing Defense at 57% of the federal budget. For 2019, the real number was 12%. In previous years it was about 15%.
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by nhebb 7y ago
> media.autoplay.allow-muted = false Which doesn't seem to work on many sites I visit. ESPN's NBA scoreboard, for example, will now automatically play videos in the sidebar. Firefox changed media.autoplay.default from a bool to

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