Mountain_Skies
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- Mountain_SkiesRemember, Hacker News posters were wildly in favor of banning the discussion of the Lab Leak theory. Only a few spoke out against such bans and they were commonly met with floods of downvotes. There's lots of support in this community for controlling access to information and shaping narratives as long as it conforms to their particular ideology.
- My high school would pull the book from the shelf but make it still available by request. Before the start of the next school year, it would be placed back on the shelf. Typically, whoever complained the previous year would have moved on to other things by then.
- Two thirds of Republican voters support reclassification but guess these Senators feel comfortable with that margin against them.
- It's a sort of stream of consciousness. That style of writing goes in and out of style from time to time but some people use it consistently.
- Lots of things work out of the box, but yes, it's still far from being the default. Kensington is releasing an update to its Expert Mouse trackball. The MSRP looks to be USD$150, so not an inexpensive accessory. It supports Windows and Mac but has no Linux support. No doubt in time there will be community supported projects to give it functionality on Linux close to, but not entirely like, what it has on the other two OSes.
- How many different courts does the typical attorney interact with? While it would be ideal if all courts used the same standards, that courts in very different jurisdictions have different format preferences doesn't seem like a big deal. If you're a real estate attorney in central Florida, are the requirements of the counties you operate in different and then the state courts different too? That seems like it would be somewhat of a hassle.
- The Ford Bronco assembly plant is near a large landfill where the methane is captured and used in the plant. Fans of other brands joke that the Bronco is literally made from garbage.
- Reminds me of Amazon discovering most people don't use Alexa for much beyond setting cooking timers.
- These are domain block rules I got from a previous HN thread about LG shenanigans. No idea if it is still up to date.
ngfts.lge.com us.ad.lgsmartad.com lgad.cjpowercast.com us.info.lgsmartad.com aic.recommend.lgtvcommon.com aic.homeprv.lgtvcommon.com aid.rdl.lgtvcommon.com aic.lgshopsvc.lgappstv.com ^aic.*lg.* us.emp.lgsmartplatform.com snu.lge.com us.lgrecommends.lgappstv.com api.thetake.com us.lgtvsdp.com aic.service.lgtvcommon.com lgtvonline.lge.com (\.|^)gracenote\.com$ (\.|^)prehook\.com$ raw.vidyard.com (\.|^)vidyard\.com$ (\.|^)wistia\.com$ - In the US about twenty years ago, there was a minor movement for a flat sales tax that would replace all other taxes. I lived in Georgia at the time, which was the epicenter of support for the idea. Proponents got themselves stuck in a metaphoric tarpit when they wouldn't accept that most people's way of calculating sales tax was different than what they promoted. At least in the US, if there's a 7% sales tax, it means if you buy something for a dollar, you pay seven cents in tax. Their flat sales tax would have been 30% using this method, but they wanted to promote it as being only 23% since $0.30 is 23% of $1.30.
I'm sure there were other reasons why it failed, but for the people I knew who supported it, claiming it to be a 23% sales tax instead of a 30% sales tax was a hill they were willing to let the whole thing die on (and it did die). Lots of people who casually supported it at first when they heard 23%, lost interest when it was clarified what that really meant. The difference between 23% and 30% isn't all that great but if you're going to overhaul the tax system, trust in those who are doing it is needed.
- Weird that with as much as they're pushing Co-Pilot everywhere, they for some reason can't use it to maintain Publisher. Maybe Co-Pilot isn't as good as Microsoft claims.
- In my family it's been difficult for some to accept my sister's autism diagnosis because Rain Man is the prototype of autism they have in their heads. Younger family members who have been exposed to classmates who are on the Autism spectrum have been accepting of the diagnosis as their image of autism is very different than the one older family members have. Good thing is despite some not believing in the accuracy of the label, they're still supportive of her.
- For my sister, getting diagnosed was important to her because she always felt like she was broken but now sees herself as simply different. I'm not aware of any workplace accommodations she has requested but it has been good for her self-esteem, which is a benefit in of itself.
- Employers have some insight, perhaps not perfect, into which existing employees are good but for some reason there's a pathological need to treat existing employees as undesirables, leading to a constant need for hiring new employees, whose abilities are unknown. Stop trying to save a couple percent on compensation by letting employees leave when they want more of their true value recognized financially. Stop expecting employees to adjust to constantly changing business fads on their own time and dime. Stop letting toxic management run off employees for non-business reasons.
Or continue to be in one of the most labor rich markets of all times while starving to death from not being able to be nourished by any of it. Make use of the employees you know instead of having an extreme preference for the potential employees who are a complete mystery.
- They were practically daring Microsoft to create VBScript, which it did.
- Good news is that Microsoft no longer considers your documents to belong to you, so they did away with that part of the name.
- I stopped staying up until midnight for the new problem set to be released and instead would do them in the afternoon. Even though I could compare my time to the leaderboard, simply not having the possibility of being on the board removed most of the comparison anxiety.
- Take a look at Everybody Codes. It occurs in November instead of December, so this year is wrapping up. Like AoC, it is story based but maybe you'll find the problem extraction more to your liking.
- Which gives employers incentive to illegally discriminate against older job candidates but good luck proving it at any specific employer.
- American high schools are already doing a form of this, with certain classes earning more than a 4.0 score in GPA calculations. 5.0 is quite common now, with 6.0 and even 7.0 scores on individual classes being possible.