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I really enjoyed this.

Hello! I recently released a paid macOS Markdown reader for this reason. You can learn more here: https://terramar.dev/products/filo/ (Please excuse my self-promotion.)

roryokane thanks for this example. I tend to stick with git CLI and this was new to me.

Agreed. Non-competes always seemed incongruous to the tech/startup zeitgeist of the last 10-15 years. But just by walking around in Boston, one can simply look at the architecture …

Indeed. Sports involve risk, and competition is about learning to navigate those risks. This implies a right to self-destruction. Without this sports are void of courage and compet…

Tolstoy phrased it more beautifully “If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull…

I’m pretty sure Lafayette had been training for this since he was around 12-13 years old.

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The individual commits aren’t interesting until you need them. They should be organized such that they remove the desire to squash them together. Having a well written commit histo…

I was in a nearly identical situation to yours about 10 years ago. At the end of undergrad finance/economics studies I recognized I needed more technical expertise, so I went to a …

Which part?

Great point, I wasn’t aware of this.

The variety of investments available to the middle class is already too small. The people who would be disqualified from investing by these increased restrictions are shrewd enough…

Totally. All of this crap mounts up to being a form of prosperity gospel.

I’m glad I’m not in college anymore

I’ve tried to articulate this a few times but you’ve bested all of my attempts.

Totally. The irony of this is lost on so many.

This point is reminiscent of the Chesterton’s Fence concept discussed on HN recently

Indeed if there were a standard format, there would be competitive advantages to using other channels to showcase your experience

It’s a good question. I would be interested to know which economic forces drove the price changes. I suspect that prices could still increase even in spite of public funding decrea…

My original argument still stands. And the government was perfectly capable of bailing out private companies at the end of Bush Jr’s second term.

There’s no need to measure anything. The problem with student loans is qualitative. Banks are allowed to make unsecured loans and the borrowers can’t usefully declare bankruptcy. C…

Interesting observation. What were the implications?

If you don't understand Oxford Commas, you aren't fluent in English.

This is simple economics. There is an "overhead" cost required in order to start a task. Each interruption means stopping, then starting again, incurring this cost repeatedly. The …