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There has to be a law about the permanence of "temporary" code.

The number of times I've picked up my phone to do something, see a notification, and completely forget what I had picked my phone up to do 5 seconds later is mind boggling. I start…

Is that the only use of the currency or just one possible use?

> It sounds more like a Ponzi scheme in a Gold farming disguise to me. I would agree with this if the primary income stream came directly from the increase in value of Axies as the…

Is there an equivalent extension to open Hacker News links in an app on iOS? I'm currently using Hacker, but would be willing to switch for this feature.

Sounds like it was in up-peak mode? https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Up_peak_(MIT)

Hard work is necessary but not sufficient. I agree that the essay glosses over the element of luck that is involved, but I don't think that makes the rest of what Paul is saying wr…

Really interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.

I'd like to know the answer to this as well. I'm not sure what I would do if I were to become financially independent before "retirement age", but it certainly wouldn't be getting …

I'd bet 30% of the URLs it lengthens are rick-rolls. I did it immediately and sent it to several people on Slack.

It is not unreasonable to request that devs building on top of your platform use an API. They also aren't requiring it, they are simply suggesting it to avoid future breakages when…

I was going to temporarily cancel my NYT subscription because I wasn't using it enough at the time. Once I found out I had to talk to a person in order to cancel, I told them that …

I wonder how it compares to the average salary for an experienced hardware engineer. It may be a ~50% pay bump in 1996 vs a 10-25% bump today.

Yes, only a billion people in the wealthiest countries in the world who are most likely to own an Apple device.

FWIW I use all of those apps on a daily basis with Firefox and have not noticed any performance issues. It may be worth giving it another try if you haven't in a while.

> a legal case can be filed and it can go through the courts before the ban-hammer falls Once a community that cannot be shut down is declared illegal, what happens? One of the maj…

If Google decided not to pay Mozilla someone else would. Google would lose traffic and eyeballs in that case. Though I do think there is some truth to the monopoly hedge as well.

> If they didn't give all participants a Covid antibody test before starting, it is very likely that several participants were previously infected. Doesn't comparing to a control g…

I moved about 5 months ago and purchased a few thousand dollars worth of furniture. I could have paid cash but since it was 0% APR, I used Affirm and set the money aside in an inve…

What does this have to do with a car being electric?

Love the product! Since you asked, one request that I would find helpful is having the stat comparisons from the previous day based on the same time the previous day rather than th…

Based on the definition of household, it sounds like roommates wouldn't be included in the median income calculation.