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There is no price I would pay to eat Taco Bell before boarding a flight though.

It’s not impossible to have sextuplets. It’s probably impossible for a population to average that rate though.

Sometimes my 5 year old wants to build her block tower just the way she wants, and she says no thank you if someone offers to help. Other times she accepts help and then the tower …

What case is there to refuse a vaccine that is likely to add significantly more protection to the individual and community while remaining extremely unlikely to cause “other proble…

I think most HN readers are intelligent enough to be able to consider the quality of advice as something separate from its source. That is, a source need not be perfect to be worth…

Product idea: chatbot plugin that automatically replies to HN comments about your service.

> Do people really not use libraries in Germany any more? I am really chuckling at the double meaning here. > And I really should not have written my own HTML parser for it

At least Combine is fairly easy to work with since its ideas are already familiar and Rx was so well documented.

Actually, the "essential content" has on average gotten much worse as budget cuts mean much less original writing.

Yes, it's good to be mindful of Chesterson's Fence [0]. We should understand the reasons for policies before changing them. In many cases, we understand the reasons for exclusionar…

That's a strange comparison to make. I highly doubt that the resident yields more revenue over that 1-2 week period than the tourist, or that the resident yields more revenue over …

It _is_ a crisis if there are not enough faculty to handle the number of students. The solutions are simple (admit fewer students or hire more faculty) but not easy (students could…

I live and work in Redwood City, CA, USA. I live 1.2 miles from work. It's a 6-8 minute bike ride, which I prefer, but I usually drive my wife to the train station, which is a bloc…

CA taxes are marginal. My math was overly simplistic, because I only wanted to illustrate that you needed to pay CA taxes on your full salary.

If you move to CA, you need to pay state tax on your entire earnings, not just your raise. 13.3% of 140k is more than 18k, which is certainly significant.

> So in the US, accounting for non-climatic factors ends up increasing the warming trend over the raw data—which we know is wrong. I wish the author had been a bit more careful whe…

Perhaps you meant that she is _really_ well articulated (rather than rarely)?