positivejam

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by positivejam 4y ago
With the number of comments on this post, I doubt anyone will read this, much less the OP, but I feel compelled to say: GO TO THE FUCKING DOCTOR!!! If you're noticing something wrong or different with your body, go to the doctor to rul
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by positivejam 4y ago
What's your preferred medium (one-on-one conversation, book, audiobook, podcast, article, etc.)?
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by positivejam 4y ago
I don't mean to be alarmist and I have no idea what the likelihood is, but one thing you didn't list as a possible cause is something that has changed in your brain. When I was 32 I started noticing an increase in typing mistakes
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by positivejam 4y ago
He has one on the ICE actually, though I don't have the link handy.
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by positivejam 6y ago
Please correct my math if I got this wrong, but a less click-baity headline would be: > IRS Says Its Own Error Sent 0.0016 Percent of a $2.2 Trillion Stimulus Package to Non-Americans Overseas 34 million / 2.2 trillion = 0.00005454.
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by positivejam 6y ago
Agreed. Would renaming it vertical-split or vertical-alternating reduce confusion?
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by positivejam 6y ago
I don't want to just spread negativity, but I see this so often on HN I feel like it's mean not to comment. I would strongly recommend anyone considering developing an app to have a list of potential customers before they write
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by positivejam 6y ago
> I'm guessing that video is taken in the US since she is planting corn. Yep, Nebraska. I grew up near(ish) the town on her sweatshirt.
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by positivejam 7y ago
Has the ACLU's stance on the right to bear arms has been inconsistent, as in, changed quite a bit over time? Or they just haven't had much of a stance to speak of? Honest question.
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by positivejam 7y ago
> I would bet that most people who join the military today (at least in the US) do so hoping to avoid ever having to see action, rather than looking forward to killing for their country. Most of the guys I went to basic with or deployed
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by positivejam 7y ago
I had also heard that. This was the first source I found, which paints a slightly more complicated picture, but does seem to indicate that divorce is less common among the affluent. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/201
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by positivejam 7y ago
> nervous people who are very self conscious in an interview setting may respond completely differently than they would if they were asked the same question on the job by the coffee machine. This part is crucial. If an interviewee is pus
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by positivejam 8y ago
Relevant Computerphile episode (w/ Tom Scott): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
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by positivejam 8y ago
http://www.flexboxdefense.com/ Really appreciated this back when I was first introduced to CSS Flexbox.
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by positivejam 8y ago
Binging With Babish has gotten me cooking more than at any other time in my life. And Primitive Technology is mesmerizing.
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by positivejam 8y ago
>Another popular algorithm is PageRank developed in 1988 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page... I think you meant 1998 there.
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by positivejam 8y ago
Got an email signup for that?
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by positivejam 9y ago
Re: the notion that "airlines bump people all the time", there are those arguing that while it is indeed lawful and routine for airlines to bump passengers due to overbooking, this was not a case of overbooking, and once a passeng
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by positivejam 11y ago
Just a word usage nitpick: In your "Hacker News for Moms" idea description, you say, "Higher quality posts and articles than the dribble that most moms read on their Facebook feeds" (emphasis mine). I believe you mean
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by positivejam 11y ago
> Good. Censorship and other attacks should be as noisy, obtrusive, and damaging as possible Agreed. It's human nature to not bother to speak up when a group you're not a part of is attacked. If widespread encryption means th
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by positivejam 11y ago
> My sister One anecdote > My girlfriend Another anecdote > During high school a huge percentage Now we're talking percentages, which is better. But you'd still need something better than your recollections (and probably
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by positivejam 12y ago
Maybe it's not so much about drawing developers to them but trying to keep existing .NET developers from straying?
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by positivejam 12y ago
Agreed. Everyone here saying that nothing could have stopped Netflix from triumphing needs to go read the second article you mention. According to it, seeing Blockbuster's demise as inevitable is a fiction born of hindsight. http:&#x2
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by positivejam 12y ago
Very cool, thanks!
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by positivejam 12y ago
> - Build agents for TeamCity, this was one of the first scenarios and it's been amazingly helpful so far. Can you expand on what you've done with them and how it's been helpful?
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by positivejam 12y ago
Ah yes, my mistake.
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by positivejam 12y ago
Obviously I don't think it's okay for a hotel to provide services in a slow or rude way as long as they eventually provide them. No one would seriously suggest that.
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by positivejam 12y ago
personZ understood the sarcasm: -literal meaning of Spooky23's statement: it's unreasonable to expect ice in the middle of summer. -sarcastic meaning of Spooky23's statement: it's completely REASONABLE to expect ice in t
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by positivejam 12y ago
Just a guess, but I'd think most of the folks who like to live out in the sticks like to live in "their" sticks Agreed.
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by positivejam 12y ago
From the page: "Code Spaces will not be able to operate beyond this point, the cost of resolving this issue to date and the expected cost of refunding customers who have been left without the service they paid for will put Code Spaces

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