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Comment #25503306
You're probably right. I don't know what would be a sane instrument to compare to bicycle care though. Is it possible to play music with a giant rock? It's weird seeing this kind o…
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Comment #25503023
Thanks. It's hard to express how literally almost everyone who enters a PhD program is coming right out of undergrad and is still in many ways a child. There are no good decisions …
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Comment #25497202
This seems like a fun, slightly expensive craft project but not a serious bicycle. Or maybe the problem is that it's a little _too_ serious of a bicycle. $400 for just some tubes, …
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Comment #25497013
Nice idea and implementation! In case you plan to move this from hackathon experiment to real product, to me the second letter in the logo splash (first image in the readme) looks …
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Comment #25490211
> I'm curious, what advice would you give to a person that is in that position you were when the opportunity of PhD was given? (and have a childhood dream of being a professor) Blu…
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Comment #25474344
Startups tend to at least pay you for your time and effort, I think? But I wouldn't call startup culture healthy either.
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Comment #25474284
> Why don't you quit I did after several years. I, luckily, was in CS and landed on my feet. My partner and many friends did not quit. They, unluckily, were not in CS. So I have th…
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Comment #25474006
Postgraduate student depression and suicidality is at horrifying proportions. The universities don't care. No one cares. Academia is super fucked and super fucked up, and it just k…
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Comment #25439295
Many charities keep their resources in investment structures. These are often called endowments. > a charity doesn't (usually) actually use the stock - they would sell it to spend …
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Comment #25439180
> is it not more effective altruism for those like Bezos and Scott to keep their wealth compounding as effectively as possible, and then donate it much later on, perhaps in a few d…
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Comment #25427651
But most people don't need or even care about those things. Making the MB or Air body bigger (not thicker) and just increasing screen, battery, and heatsink size proportionally whi…
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Comment #25424797
> If Apple makes a 12" MacBook with a M1, it would be awesome. I wish Apple would make everything" MacBooks with M1. I hate that I have to wait another year or whatever for a 15/16…
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Comment #25400835
They're very pretty. But I really don't understand the meaning/value of most of the shown descriptions. (I see that the creator is not from an English-speaking country, which may e…
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Comment #25393927
Riley Reid Estimated MRR: $743,862.34 I'm in the wrong business! Meanwhile Nakedbakers has 174,386 subscribers and $0 MRR. But...uhh...where do these estimates come from?
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Comment #25390815
> I have a pair of Audio Technica A700s, about $150 new that are now 12 years old; I'm on my 3rd set of earpads. So you buy a new set of earpads on those every 4 years. But we can …
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Comment #25367749
I think that's the goal. One side is some special equipment and the other side is their simulation.
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Comment #25353037
Sorry, I didn't mean to give the impression that I was disagreeing. Yes, I agree with you.
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Comment #25352783
If we assume that they'd make more from your (plural) personal 10 than they'd make from their tiny fraction of total revenue, then yes.
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Comment #25333892
There's a broken image on the page. https://i.imgur.com/xwSUXHz.png
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Comment #25309786
https://www.tripsavvy.com/paris-accessibility-to-disabled-tr... Only one Paris Metro line with 9 stations has elevators and ramps for autonomous wheelchair access. There are 16 num…
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Comment #25309393
I do want used clothes, but the average man who donates used clothing in the US is much fatter than I am so nothing ever fits.
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Comment #25307620
> what is an example of a good Good for you is the one you enjoy using. Good for me is the one I enjoy using. Even if I didn't have a problem with Solarized's lower contrast, I wou…
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Comment #25304146
> It is optimized for good readability and contrast It most certainly is not. Solarized is a low contrast theme by design and fails accessibility standards for text contrast.
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Comment #25297651
And also 50% of the battery life.