nohuck13

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by nohuck13 10mo ago
You've been around HN a long time. You know that responding to tone is frowned upon here. If there are statements in those links you think were twisted just say how.
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by nohuck13 10mo ago
"ALSO EVERY AIRPORT SHOULD HAVE MOCK EMERGENCY AIRPLANE DOORS FOR PEOPLE TO TRY OUT." I would pay money for this in the safety amusement park, but in real life way more people would get hurt operating the fake one at the airport t
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by nohuck13 10mo ago
A yep that's a critical piece of information. For context, "In the 2025 incoming class, this group constitutes roughly one-eighth of our entire entering cohort."
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by nohuck13 10mo ago
The UCSD report shows some of the questions they asked incoming students. 39% got this right: Round the number 374518 to the nearest 100 34% got this right: Find 13/16 ÷ 2. 2% got this right: If a=-2
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by nohuck13 1y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that was a thing. Still it's 3 to 4 cruise ships a month according to that article and, while probably hugely dirty, I would be surprised if the asthma rates of kids in affluent Greenwich and Blackheath are a
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by nohuck13 1y ago
> Levels of asthma in London are highest among kids in the vacinity of the docks where cruise and container ships and moor. Wait, what? There are no container docks in London. The nearest container port serving London is Tilbury, near th
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Japan Perfected 7-Eleven. Why can't the US get it right?(bloomberg.com)
12 points by nohuck13 2y ago|2 comments
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by nohuck13 2y ago
The base rate is 1.5 to 2.5 cases per 10,000 people per year, according to the article.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
This is a press release, though. Whether or not Ofcom is independent, their press release writers are not independent, they are part of Ofcom's PR team, a team that absolutely exists.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
Agree, that's why it's a valuable service to make it hard to have skeletons.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
You seem to think I'm arguing that they are insider trading. I'm not arguing that!
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by nohuck13 2y ago
It's also an activist short seller. They make money by publishing negative research reports on companies they've shorted. It's a valuable service. The disclaimer amounts to "we're not insider trading and we really
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by nohuck13 2y ago
Can you elaborate? What is a tax strategy driven small business?
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by nohuck13 2y ago
You're saying that if you as an employer find out that someone you hired lied to induce you to hire them, you should be legally required to continue employing them, as some kind of karmic balancing thing?
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by nohuck13 2y ago
If lying about you employment history is a protected activity, then if a pre-employment background check catches you lying about your employment history, and you say "no I am salting," that also is protection from having your offe
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by nohuck13 2y ago
"The government of Vietnam says that up to four million people in Vietnam were exposed to the defoliant, and as many as three million people have suffered illness because of Agent Orange" according to linked Wikipedia article.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
Same. I didn't know this was something web pages could collect. Apparently these days only Chrome on Android still supports it. Found this helpful comment about the background and timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by nohuck13 2y ago
It's obvious what he meant and he was right.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
Too late to edit but 1 in 3.5 should have been 1 in 7 which is double 1 in 14, thanks adammarples. :/
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by nohuck13 2y ago
Bah. Thank you. You are right. It's too late to edit.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
Also that doesn't mean that 15-20% of people of parenting age are disabled. It might skew elderly.
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by nohuck13 2y ago
I'm sure you're right that bad things tend to be invisible to me, the article even has an example of children trying to keep their shopping a secret. But 1 in 3.5... idk, if you assume households with kids have a couple of kids, t
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by nohuck13 2y ago
As a parent of a disabled child I sometimes feel alone and overwhelmed even with a loving spouse and a well paid tech job. I can't imagine the experience as a teenaged solo carer with no options. Without quibbling with this basic direc
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by nohuck13 2y ago
No, of the 420 suspected chickenpox cases, 20 (4.7%) had herpes. 157 had chicken pox, 47 had enterovirus, and 194 were negative for all four viruses tested.
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Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice(dys2p.com)
4 points by nohuck13 3y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 3y ago
You mean they didn't have go to stores staffed by real people in London or Delhi or Hong Kong?
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by nohuck13 3y ago
"It’s the same story, really: It is a software engineer’s job to build quality software. A scientists job is to solve problems." That's not the distinction. Good software engineers solve problems. That's what the paychec
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by nohuck13 3y ago
Eh, hard disagree. When I was in high school in a US suburb, if you wanted a pair of jeans, you had to take an hour out of your day, get in your polluting car, drive to the mall, go to Old Navy or someplace staffed by real human beings at a
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by nohuck13 3y ago
"goals: ... replace the second page with a scanned copy ...after it was signed by the examiners... reproducibly." Oh man, purist side quests like this are exactly how I would procrastinate a philosophy dissertation. But building a
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A Cyber Attack Has Crippled the British Library(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by nohuck13 3y ago|0 comments

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