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10% of 25% is 2.5%

How recently did you check? There was a debacle in the past year or two and I think the policy changed.

I was taking AP classes in highschool for fun just to take as many as possible. That included AP Computer Science. I felt behind at the beginning so worked extra hard to catch up. …

The word helicopter is not heli+copter but is really helico+pter. Helico as in helix and pter as in pterodactyl. "Heli" is a modern prefix that comes from helicopter, not the other…

Of course it would be impossible for modern society to stop using money altogether despite what this man might hope. Its easy to see this person as someone who just doesn't want to…

(? ((have you written) lisp before))

I am very glad that I did not do all of what my peers were doing.

I love ancient board games. It's amazing to think about chess and how rules have been changed slightly over time for 1000 years. The game has since been stable for about 500. The c…

I would advise people who are worried about this to read more global news. Similarly, read about political polarization in the US during the Nixon era.

You should expect this to be true of any shrinking rainforest. A growing rainforest will absorb more CO2 than it emits. A rainforest that remains the same size will be carbon neutr…

It feels like there are two classes of engineers in the US. One class of engineers makes 60k-120k and the other makes 150k-500k. Is this just a really well kept secret? I don't rea…

This comment makes me want to read a book about distributed systems.

There doesn't seem to be a great consensus on the best microphones to use on my usual sources (HN). This is surprising because the difference between laptop mic or bluetooth mic an…

Rich tech jobs can be very stressful. It was hard for me to realized that I should not be stressed at my job.

The parents were immigrants. They were successful -- just not in the way its normally measured.

Did you live on the green line?

Are you going to ban relocation to a better school district as well? I don't see where the rabbit hole ends.

It's hard to give advice over the internet. That being said, if you're not writing code I'd recommend preparing and looking for a new job. When you interview, people tend to ask yo…

I've always found the real world to be infinitely more stressful than the world of work and school. I also recognize how this is somewhat absurd. During COVID my to-do list was bas…

These are 'God Days' which are special days used to make our equations line up. They have not been observed directly but most experts think that God Days are abundant in the univer…

This is the kind of shenanigans that a software company would pull. On the surface it seems like a great business decision from Tesla.

What happens to all of the people who are too mentally unstable to live in a hotel/SRO/shelter?