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www.bloomberg.com 1y ago

Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)

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text.npr.org 2y ago

'We're not stuck.' Why Boeing's Starliner isn't returning to Earth (yet)

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www.npr.org 2y ago

She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Windows 1.0 with Steve Balmer (1986)

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one.google.com 3y ago

Google One now includes VPN

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Google's Enhanced Safe Browsing?

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www.lynalden.com 3y ago

Energy Problems: Yes, Still There

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apnews.com 4y ago

Intel says it will buy Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B

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www.reuters.com 4y ago

Putin and Xi announce alliance at Olympics

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www.reuters.com 4y ago

S. successfully flight tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon

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text.npr.org 4y ago

Blue Origin Sues NASA over Lunar Lander Contract Given to Rival SpaceX

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www.socialcapital.com 5y ago

Social Capital 2020 annual letter

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text.npr.org 5y ago

What McDonald's Shows About the Minimum Wage

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www.dcrainmaker.com 5y ago

Google Completes Acquisition of Fitbit: Analysis of What It Means

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www.reuters.com 5y ago

Hedge fund Third Point urges Intel to explore deal options

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry

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www.japantimes.co.jp 6y ago

SoftBank Exploring Sale of Arm

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text.npr.org 6y ago

Head of NASA's Human Spaceflight Program Resigns a Week Before Crucial Launch

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www.reuters.com 6y ago

Uber CTO Steps Down

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avdi.codes 6y ago

What Is the Ruby Legacy?

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www.scmp.com 6y ago

PLA's Hong Kong Chief says troops are ready to protect China's sovereignty

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mobile.nytimes.com 8y ago

An alternative to burial and cremation gains popularity

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What makes a company worth staying with as engineer?

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jacquesmattheij.com 10y ago

The Myth of the Evil VC

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jacquesmattheij.com 10y ago

Three Roads to the Top of the Mountain

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bugs.ruby-lang.org 10y ago

Ruby lang: code of conduct discussion

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mobile.nytimes.com 10y ago

Tech's frightful 5 will dominate the near future

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rubinius.com 10y ago

Charles Nutter banned from Rubinius

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www.rdio.com 10y ago

Rdio song list export

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www.addconnectionssettlement.com 10y ago

Linkedin 13M settlement over Add Connections [pdf]

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Thank you for sharing your experience!

This is something I’ve been curious about. Can you speak more about how you got into it? What kind of research did you do before getting started? Did you know anyone else who had done it before you got into it?

As long as you're dreaming, perhaps you should also include giving up all his equity in the company. He'd still profit handsomely off someone else running the company well with over 12% of shares.

I wouldn't be surprised if you were correct in your belief and that this became a case of Goodhart's Law when implemented in the egg industry.

I don't think we're near AGI, well any reasonable definition of it.

But wait just hear me out for a second! What if we've also sufficiently lowered the definition of "GI" at the same time...

Grew up in LA. I don't recall wildfires in the winter, generally. There were Santa Ana Winds this past week though, and I'm pretty sure that's the cause. In the mountains near me, wind speeds were said to be 80-100 mph. They were probably lower where I am, but my neighbor's backyard canopy blew over the wall to my backyard. I helped them hoist it back over the wall today and we estimated it was about 100 lbs.

These are gusty and dry winds coming from the desert, so I assume these fires spread from some manmade source.

Does this suggest even bigger fires are to be expected in the summer this year when it is actually hot?

I would assume so, yes. Some insurers have been pulling out of CA in 2024.

I hosted a party one time at an Airbnb I was staying at. A friend invited his buddy who said he’d come and prepare something. His buddy brought a can that needed opening and when he found a can opener lacking, he took the rental provided chef’s knife and stabbed it into the can to cut through the top.

The knife did survive, but I spent a good amount of time bending the tip back to be mostly straight. I’m sure you could destroy a knife by repeating such a practice.

How did you get into amateur blacksmithing? How much did it cost you to get started? Who do you make tools for?

Pardon all the questions but it’s a topic I’ve been curious about.

Re: fabs, Apple did by way of TSMC. Apple provided TSMC with massive amounts of cash in the 2010’s to fund new fabs. These were loans, but with very generous low interest terms that TSMC couldn’t have gotten elsewhere.

I think you’re correct that this was initially because Apple didn’t want to be at the behest of Samsung. But as Apple iterated on their mobile and tablet chips, they had the choice to bring them to their desktop and laptop lines or not to. They took that gamble and here we are today with non Intel Macs.

I’m also in tech. I’ve been looking for work for the last several months. Took some time off after my work contract ended last year.

I likely don’t count towards unemployment statistics. I don’t qualify for unemployment since I was a contractor before.

In my current job search, I’ve sent out more applications and had more interviews than the rest of my career. Granted, I found jobs more through connections than cold applying in the past. I’ve been tapping connections in this search too, though. It’s rough out there. I’ve contemplated taking an exit from tech and picking up a trade.

It sure feels surreal to me when I see reports of a strong economy.

My civil war knowledge is limited. Are you aware of what happened to larger assets like cannons and warships?

I imagine today these would be far more of a deciding power than troops.

Funny that people constantly talk about how they're not voting for Trump, they're voting for the policies of the party etc. but then they can't apply the same rationale to the other side.

Different people, different sides. I guess the Republican Party did something very well here compared to Democrats, though I don’t know what or how.

Right, but splitting isn't sufficient for many people. The person I know was on 50mg. They tried to carefully shave off 1/8th initially, then 1/4 etc. It was error prone cutting them exactly and even a 1/8th change in dose at a time with a two week adjustment period caused them to have terrible effects.

This was the case for me! It took me months to titrate down to 0 from Sertraline. Withdrawal side effects were terrible, and I’m pretty turned off to SSRIs in general now. My past doctors talked them up as “safe”, and treated the ramp down process as a tiny inconsequential mention.

I had tried to stop after stabilizing on a half dose, 1/4 dose, etc., and the side effects were too unpleasant so I had to start back up. I could only stop after I titrated down to 1/8th, every other day.

godlike technofeudalism

Interesting term. On a geopolitical scale, how is the US/NATO’s position any different? There are export controls around advanced semiconductors and encryption algorithms.

Is it okay to do this between countries but not within societies? (Genuine question. I really don’t know where I stand on this, for either side.)