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maest

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About maest

The birds work for the Bourgeoisie.

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    Comment #49118497

    You handle this by paginating inside a transaction

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    Comment #49090471

    The US routinely goes to war to secure cheap oil, so I didn't think that's a good example

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    Comment #48920760

    A much larger percentage of bond traders are institutional, compared to equities, where retail is very active in some names. So I wouldn't really give too many points to "the gener…

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    Comment #48912056

    > two orders of magnitude more productive Shipping 100x more features per day?

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    Comment #48853411

    omp.sh is unreadable. I've tried understanding what exactly this is and it's just a wall of edgy sounding slop.

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    Comment #48816439

    Dozens of GBs of compressed text is an unfathomable amount of information from a human POV.

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    Comment #48808582

    Btw, the cosmetics industry functions similarly, but worse. Although I suppose the health dangers are lower (the monetary ones are not). For anti aging stuff, the workhorse ingredi…

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    Comment #48623898

    > the biblical whitewashed tomb. What does this mean?

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    Comment #48564388

    I'm all for hating bad infrastructure, but this roundabout seems pretty straightforward? Maybe it's different when you're actually driving on it, but from a topdown view it's clear…

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    Comment #48549227

    "fair" involves a value judgement and requires a moral system. "even" is pure mathematics. > I think it's fair to say that some jobs do actually deserve to be compensated more high…

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    Comment #48421771

    He's a very MAGA guy, though.

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    Comment #48408417

    > Everyone picking the S&P 500 over its competitors chooses that. I'm fairly confident most people deciding to allocate to s&p trackers have no idea about rules-based vs committee-…

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    Comment #48408391

    > a man convicted of fraud Most practitioners in the field see that as a very strong signal of future fraud.

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    Comment #48301853

    That's "growth hacking" for you

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    Comment #48129502

    You can rotate any solution by 90 degrees, which would toggle the square colour of your bishop, so it doesn't ultimately matter.

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    Comment #48129496

    > In other words, after arranging the five black pieces, it must be impossible to place the white king anywhere without it being in checkmate. I think this is a bit ambiguous and, …

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    Comment #48090930

    > It's weird to me that the Hacker News community doesn't think that sort of competition is good. Negative externalities. The company makes money using a free resource and disincen…

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    Comment #48071453

    You need more hints that it's rude to take up a seat with your bag?

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    Comment #48043482

    Only because you typo'd twice: it's "pervasive".

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    Comment #48013514

    Does this logic still applies if the company is getting other benefits from having me as a user? (Genuine question, I can see arguments for both sides) For example, if I am using t…

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    Comment #48000005

    > I did some manual verification on most of the data because this peaked my curiousity. It's "piqued my curiosity".

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    Comment #47916950

    Not a real problem, as proven by many countries where cycling is encouraged and supported

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    Comment #47916944

    I semi regularly see big cop SUVs parked here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MydRmrTkiJMxt3Pi7?g_st=ac On the bike lane, which is physically separated from the road. The cop car takes th…

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    Comment #47895809

    You should actually try saying something instead of vaguely insinuating something . Like, I legitimately am trying to understand what you're saying but it's frustratingly vague. I …

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    Comment #47822496

    There is a market for custom and rare risk insurance - it's called "surplus lines"