shipman05

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by shipman05 29d ago
I wouldn't need custom mouse software at all if Apple didn't stubbornly refuse to allow track pads and mouse wheels to have separate scroll directions. (I could just retrain my brain, but old dogs and all that)
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by shipman05 2mo ago
The "build with impunity" doesn't self-identify as such, and they would probably describe their position with more nuance. Something like "ensuring continued American economic growth and tech leadership while taking &#x2
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by shipman05 2mo ago
Yes. They're likely referring to on-demand electric heating units that are installed near the shower head. Our World in Data is based in the UK. Electric showers like this one https://www.mirashowers.co.uk/p/shower
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by shipman05 2mo ago
I'm dismayed by the current political discourse on this topic. Seems like the two camps are 1) let mega corps build data centers with impunity or 2) use NIMBY tactics to oppose them in all cases. I want to see a pro-growth approach tha
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by shipman05 2mo ago
Inflation has been high enough that it messes with our perception of things, but I believe the data shows otherwise (at least in the US). - Disappearance of cheap new cars: You can get entry level Chevys, Kias, and Hyundais for < $25k, w
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by shipman05 2mo ago
The early 2010s, the age of financial bailouts, Occupy Wall Street, and two "forever" wars. No one ever thinks they're living through a Golden Age.
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by shipman05 2mo ago
That's a cool idea. I'm no longer the right age for such things, but I'm glad people are trying to create unsurveilled spaces. It feels doomed, though. Smart glasses wearers are being shamed today, but the tech will only get
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by shipman05 2mo ago
I think many social sites have tried to solve it, but in a world where anything is easily saved or screenshotted, it's still effectively a "universal room". Not to mention that properly implementing a form of role-based acces
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by shipman05 2mo ago
Took me a few reads, too.
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by shipman05 2mo ago
I appreciate this comment, and agree with it in some respects, but some of these specifics are demonstrably false. > It's the nation born of a continent-wide campaign of genocide and plunder Hard to see how that description doesn&#x
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by shipman05 3mo ago
Or we could just build trains (in the US, other wealthy places seem to already get this)
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by shipman05 3mo ago
Going to do my best to respond to this while still following the HN guidelines: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. RIMR says: > nobody will ever challenge this, given the cu
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by shipman05 4mo ago
I'm (genuinely) curious as to what your idea of a less dangerous theology would be. I'm an atheist, but I find the inherent dignity of humans as beings made in the image of God to be one of the more appealing aspects of the Abraha
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by shipman05 4mo ago
Such an interesting comment. I've commuted 1+ hours per day via bicycle for years and never once had a dog encounter. 3 per day is wild.
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by shipman05 4mo ago
If history is any guide, you're technically correct, but it's no help to the lower classes. Many a divine king, high priest, or emperor has died at the hands of those they depended on. But systemic change is rare. A new despot rep
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by shipman05 4mo ago
I remember that whole election starting off very poorly for Nate Silver. After reading this book, The Party Decides https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo592160... , he was a big adv
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by shipman05 4mo ago
Touche, I was thinking of it more as 100 miles in length, not 100 miles in width running all the way down the coast, but your interpretation seems more correct.
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by shipman05 4mo ago
IDK if pretty much everyone can exclude Florida and Texas, the second and third most populated states. (Or I suppose you could be excluding the Northeast Corridor instead of Florida)
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by shipman05 4mo ago
> I make it a point to have 5-10 minute ad-hoc conversations with my directs 1-2 times a week, feels a lot more natural than a scheduled 1-on-1. I prefer the exact opposite, especially when working remote. When I was a manager, I saved
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by shipman05 5mo ago
We call that "pulling an Altman" these days.
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by shipman05 5mo ago
That's the whole point. When people hear "the middle class is shrinking" they intuitively believe people are slipping down a rung and joining the ranks of the working poor. The data doesn't back that up. The middle class
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by shipman05 6mo ago
The American shale gas/fracking boom really distorted a lot of things. The strategic energy situations of the United States, the EU, and China were all pretty similar in the late 20th Century: major dependence on OPEC-controlled oil an
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Ask HN: Best way to track medications for elderly family member?
3 points by shipman05 6mo ago|4 comments
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by shipman05 7mo ago
TBH, it seemed such an obvious point you're making that I assumed the author had to be comparing inflation-adjusted dollars, but from the (very little) digging that I did, it looks like that's not the case. In fact, weddings decre
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by shipman05 7mo ago
Everyone I know who studied astrophysics ended up in Fintech doing data science anyway. "illusion of choice"
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by shipman05 7mo ago
There's certainly some flukiness to being the only major country on the planet that hadn't been shelled and bombed to smithereens in the preceding decades. That's not the whole story, but it's certainly part of it.
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by shipman05 7mo ago
Hard to believe that people who suffered the atrocities of the first half of the 20th Century were tremendously optimistic about the future, yet birthrates were MUCH higher across the world.
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by shipman05 7mo ago
I think you're spot on. And all of the various theories and analysis are pretty laughable if one has any sort of historical context. - "People don't have kids because they're afraid of climate change" - Wildly overe
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by shipman05 7mo ago
I worked construction during the summers in college. There's quite a bit of sedentary work on a job site. In my experience, the guys who worked on their feet and did hours of physical labor were in pretty good shape. They burned a lot
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by shipman05 8mo ago
The men and women who protested with MLK Jr. risked physical harm and death. Many of them paid the ultimate price. So it's hard to argue they didn't have much to lose. I do take your point, though. Civil disobedience and a digital

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