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I was constantly sick when I worked in downtown Seattle and rode the bus. I've been sick exactly once since I started WFH full time in 2019.

Good news, he does geology too

Also somehow defines "Operating System Provider" but not "Operating System"? > The term operating system provider means a person that develops, licenses, or controls the operating …

Parents should parent their children and not make it everyone else's problem. This is a social and political problem, not a technical problem with a technical solution.

Text of the bill: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s5090/text

It is more that labor protections in most of the industrialized world actually mean something, such that this sort of behavior is generally not even to be considered an option by a…

> (I assume Amish has a large corpus) Pennsylvania Dutch does not, it is primarily oral and the Amish generally don't allow themselves to be photographed or recorded.

Zero trust or bust. I actually cringed when I read "done right" applied to split-horizon DNS.

Yes, they solve the problem that you called the company.

RTO has always been about cheap layoffs so yeah, of course they'd do this.

I hike at night fairly regularly and use either a dim red light or no light at all. I'm willing to bet that most people don't have any idea how good their fully dark adapted night …

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Yeah there's a Pho place in Seattle I'd go to lunch at (iykyk) where we'd regularly have 20 people at a table and pay individually. But they didn't even use the check for that, the…

> But when 6 people simultaneously tried to pay their share of the bill, chaos ensued. I'm guessing the author has never worked as a server themselves... Is there any part of the w…

It was also designed by European engineers, not in Michigan. Not saying that's the reason the Focus is more reliable than a Taurus but they didn't follow the "typical" Ford design …

I see this question as akin to "do I really need to learn basic flight skills when my A320 has autopilot?". Yes. Yes, you do. For exactly the same reasons. AI is workload reduction…

Science is evil and must be destroyed at all costs.

> In the early 2020s Texas was luring in remote workers And not a single one of the people I know that moved there want to still live there. ymmv I guess

compare to https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr... rest of america == bottom 50% hedge funders, fascist VCs, etc == 50-90% walton children == 90-99% elon be…

Highly recommend the book Fixing Your Feet if you found this useful, it is a gold mine of helpful info. I used to get really awful blisters even on short hikes but after applying s…

Thanks, I needed a laugh. Only on HN...

So the numbers will need adjusted for inflation. Eventually. Like any other tax. If you're making an argument it is entirely unclear what your position is.

Sure yeah, all those middle class families with second homes in New York City . Right. Nobody affected by this is middle class. Nobody that will be affected by this in the next 20 …

"Separation" seems like clear bad faith to me as well. Alberta as an independent country? Yeah right, they'd pull a Texas for sure.

I also work at Amazon and my coworkers are playing 20 questions every morning to keep their metrics up. Like anything else there it depends on your org & managers.