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lentil_soup

4,010karma·736submissions·October 9, 2014
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> If your household income is $200k or above (which, let's face it, most HNers probably do earn) What? Not everyone here lives in the US
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No, you can critizise Uber and also think the old taxi industry is bad. They're not mutually exclusive and the world is not binary
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They were quite pretty but Ron Gilbert wasn't involved in MI3 and 4. That's why this is a bit like a branch off MI2
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sure, it's a corporation but in the end a bunch of people have to make the call and implement these filters. My guess is the blame gets dilluted and people are really good at rationalising their …
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Last time I rented in the UK it was 1yr contracts that I had to renew and hope it didn't go up in price. Is that not the case anymore?
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The article does say Colombia hasn't actually signed that international treaty, so it seems it doesn't apply to them
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Gamedev here. Each engine and each game will have vastly different asset pipelines, you can't just copy something across and it just works. Models, textures, shaders, animations, etc usually go t…
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I've been there some years ago. I also had a normal job + an hourly gig in the evenings + studying for a master degree. I'm not exactly sure what changed but I stopped caring about that race…
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yeah, long story short, I was unfortunately kidnapped in Caracas 13 years ago. Thankfully everything turned out "fine", a ransom was paid and I was released. But, in the middle of the ordeal…
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A similar situation can arise under duress. On the contrary to what people claim online, in dangerous places you want to cooperate with criminals, not get in between them and your stuff. Under that ty…
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Genuinely curious, would a day of tweets be enough of a sample to do a bot count analysis? Would it be the correct type of dataset?
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what part of leetcode gives you "vague, open ended problems"? It's a database of cookie cutter problems that have a one and only solution
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sure, I often have to do tree and graph traversals in my day to day but, I will 100% fail to do that under pressure with people looking at me and expecting me to "talk throught my thought process…
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it only shows that the person has an interest in solving leetcode problems, though
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Plus the black african slaves brought by the conquistadores. A truly mixed area. This mix gave way to a second generation of "mestizos", "zambos" and "mulatos". I imagine…
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Why so aggressive? What's the problem with the pen? The idea the OP proposes is to use it as a spring board to get a discussion going, I'm sure a pen, a keyboard or a interpretive dance woul…
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WM-DE?
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why would I care as an employer that you spent a year playing video games and doing drugs? When I interview people I couldn't care less about any gaps in their resume, we're going to sit dow…
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While the prompt is annoying the true culprit of ruining the web experience are websites trying to gather as much data as possible
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> ideas that either negatively impact the poorest portion of our society I don't see the connection here, why would it affect the poorest? I don't think people mean that all shops close e…
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2017
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he's not, the poster above is trolling
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If your only option is WFH, would you consider working from a coworking space? I've worked from one the entire pandemic and it has been life changing, only a 5min walk from my house, met great pe…
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Guess it depends in the industry, I've never had to do live coding interviews when interviewing in game-dev. It's been mostly technical discussions, maybe some take home tests, once I had a …
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One detail in the case of Venezuela is that most sanctions were to individual people and companies associated with the government, not to the entire population.
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I'm sorry dude, but you're the only one here talking about us-vs-them and about Asia, the West or whatever. The article is about a farm in Spain in a region well known for it's octopus …
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They seem to take their definition from here: "The identification of electoral democracies is based on the Regimes of the World classification by Lührmann et al. (2018). In electoral democracies,…
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