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Then we have the dental industry. Drill, fill, and bill, without much care for anything else. Not so much active suppression as it is neglecting anything that might disrupt the industry.

More money. Much more money. I could afford a house, not just an apartment with a downstairs neighbor who screams at me for making too much noise. I could have a yard and garage. Don't have to wo…

Thank you.

I'm really considering this. I'm thinking of quitting my job as a data scientist, and working part time delivering propane in my truck while I leetcode hardcore to get into a SWE position. I…

Be young & healthy and risk it with whatever state low-income health care exists. In WA, I had an injury that required a 2-night hospital stay. I ended up owing $500 a few months later under Apple…

Eh, many writers are part-time and have dayjobs.

Really? On Amazon US, I still can't see any Thermoworks Thermapens available for sale. Just lots of similar devices.

Heat sinks are holding steady!

Mechanical engineering is one. The problem is gaining buy-in from the old guard that your newfangled tech will make their lives easier, not harder. To do so, you might need to get a mechanical enginee…

shah, ah shah

https://unherd.com/2019/08/the-truth-about-the-female-brain/ Saloni Dattani, another brain researcher, points out there are strong measures of gender-based brain develo…

Daily reminder that his name is spelled Buffett. Two t's.

Can you honestly say you'd prefer to be debug thousands of lines of SQL versus the usual <100 lines of Python/pandas that does the same thing? It's no contest. A histogram in panda…

> Instead, pick a book or a course that teaches ~100 well represented problems. And don't pick a book or course that has only problems. Pick something that teaches you to think about them. The…

No.

Headline missing (YC S17).

It got me LAX-JFK for $361 during Xmas holiday... usually it's like $600.

Housesitting opportunities in places you'd like to visit are extremely rare. I used to live in a mountain resort town, and there were posts in our housing FB group every week seeking "houses…

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p... > The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants from the air…

A spoonful weighs a ton.

The original CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-mo... lacks this editorial spin. Tech people hop around a lot, 5 years is a solid te…

I think he meant named places where this has happened with a large impact, not general scenarios.

Wouldn't go that far. HK has people living in cages: https://allthatsinteresting.com/cage-homes-hong-kong …

SF preservations say they don't want their city turning into Hong Kong. So it's not objectively "ruined," just radically different from its current state. They are essentially cons…

This is by design from the SF preservationists. The more development they can prevent, the better. The attitude I've heard is that SF is like Yosemite and it must absolutely not be allowed to cha…