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This can be done with a remote job timezone arbitrage. Someone on Pacific time working for a company on Eastern time (6am-2pm), can easily fit in 3-4 hours of work for another company after 2pm PT. Th…
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Forgive me if this is a naive question, but how are molten salt reactors different from the reactor in the 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment [1]? [1] https://www.etec.energy.gov/Operation…
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I may have overstated my case there. Absence of evidence != evidence of absence, after all. Curious to see what the HN community makes of this though. Maybe it's a nothingburger.
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As the article points out:
> causes for flight diversions can range from medical (related to crew and passengers), weather (unlikely), unruly activity (we would have heard about that), and mechanic…
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I don't know why but I can't help but feel this role is going to exist. "Senior Prompt Engineer", "Principal Prompt Engineer", etc. The future's wild.
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Ah yes, a Silicon Valley classic. The deck infamously known as "RIP Good Times"
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> Makes me wish I had never spent so much time pirating in my youth. Listen, I feel your pain, but don't feel bad about this. Streaming services didn't exist back then. The best we could …
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There's also Alfred's own Music feature (commonly mapped to ⌥+⌘+return), which will let you search your library and play songs without going to the Music app first.
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I'm so glad someone finally wrote an article about this -- I've been feeling this way for a while. The Away Message served so many vital functions in the synchronous chat modality. We need i…
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100% this. People often ask me "How do you stick with keto? It's such a strict diet." I always answer: "It's actually one of the easiest diets: the answer to most 'can I …
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I love this comment. This is a hugely under-appreciated fact of the now-mature Information Age: that we are oversaturated with all the ... information! This occurs across a variety of dimensions: too …
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It's remarkable (or maybe not?) how much of a similar experience I've had with my own diet, in relation to my wife. It's the exact same narrative between us -- she needs breakfast eve…
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I wouldn't so quickly jump to "that's an ADHD symptom". I know many people inarguably not ADHD who exhibit similar task timescales. I don't want to discount the fact that th…
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Is there a particular reason this announcement was made today? Just seems like such an unusual announcement. Didn't realize I needed the 5 UNSC countries to calm my anxieties about nuclear apocal…
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+1. I've also wondered about this for a long time, especially as someone who wears a lot of fleece products. This blog post ( https://alexdanco.com/2019/12/17/ten-pr…
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I think this applies in most cases. That said, many more startups are now bootstrapped, and don't go on to raise beyond a Seed or Series A, if at all. If you're an early employee at one of t…
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This. Getting something like the Belkin 3-in-1 Wireless Charger with MagSafe at work has been a lifesaver. I get to work, throw on my phone, watch, and AirPods, and within an hour everything's ch…
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Get the iPhone 12 mini -- you won't regret it. It's a safe assumption that most HN members spend a lot of time on their computers, so their phone should embody what a mobile device truly is:…
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Wow, there's a lot of Airtable in here. My team used GitHub Issues/Projects for a while, but ultimately moved to a custom Airtable solution for project management, release management, etc wh…
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Interesting! Yes, I believe there's a genetic component here to how covid impacts sense of smell/taste long-term. What I'm just surprised by is how my smell totally recovered after 6 we…