> Can one learn to smile while falling? I've never seen an unhappy astronaut on the ISS :P fwiw, I largely agree with mkovach's interpretation because of the direct analogy to modern work culture. But I do admire your…
The federal government does. It was signed into law in 1933[1]. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act
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I'm not OP, but for those of you who saw this comment and were hoping for a link, the one that I use is https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
Not OP, but I am half Asian and worked in various Asian restaurants growing up in the US. When I read the term "basic Asian (brown) sauce" I'd assume some combination of soy sauce, brown sugar, oyster sauce, and…
No Money Stuff today :( Monday is going to be very juicy, though I'm hoping for a special Saturday edition to talk about how this is all so very stupid.
I'm not sure that a book by an infamous conspiracy theorist should be taken very seriously regarding "the most powerful institution in your life." As with many things (and conspiracies especially), there may be nuggets…
AFAIK, monoclonal antibodies are a valid and approved treatment, but a vaccine is much more of a prophylactic measure. Part of managing a pandemic is avoiding a huge crunch on the medical system (like we're currently…
Hypothetical answer: A ban on plastic straws can unintentionally make life more difficult for individuals with motor disabilities. Paper straws break down relatively quickly and can lose suction effectiveness as a…
Correct, which is why it's not ideal to allow folks to volunteer for severance as the GP suggested. The company wants to choose who to let go to avoid putting themselves in a worse spot afterwards.
To expand on your second point: The very first thing you should type after your initial greeting should be your question(s). Don't bury the lede. You can provide all the additional explanation (i.e. what you were doing…
It's a tried and true approach at this point in history. Remember Steve Bannon? [1] Weaponizing (angry, disenfranchised) gamers is the hot trend of the last decade. [1]…
I believe the acronym stands for the title of the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
Independent event probability. A 1% chance of something happening means that there is a 99% chance of the event not happening. 0.99^100 = 0.37. So a 37% chance of no brain eating out of 100 trials. 1 - 0.37 = 0.63, so a…
> Can one learn to smile while falling? I've never seen an unhappy astronaut on the ISS :P fwiw, I largely agree with mkovach's interpretation because of the direct analogy to modern work culture. But I do admire your…
The federal government does. It was signed into law in 1933[1]. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act
If you're using Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) as your upstream DNS or Firefox's DoH (which defaults to Cloudflare as its resolver) then archive.is links won't work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 for context.
I'm not OP, but for those of you who saw this comment and were hoping for a link, the one that I use is https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
Not OP, but I am half Asian and worked in various Asian restaurants growing up in the US. When I read the term "basic Asian (brown) sauce" I'd assume some combination of soy sauce, brown sugar, oyster sauce, and…
No Money Stuff today :( Monday is going to be very juicy, though I'm hoping for a special Saturday edition to talk about how this is all so very stupid.
I'm not sure that a book by an infamous conspiracy theorist should be taken very seriously regarding "the most powerful institution in your life." As with many things (and conspiracies especially), there may be nuggets…
AFAIK, monoclonal antibodies are a valid and approved treatment, but a vaccine is much more of a prophylactic measure. Part of managing a pandemic is avoiding a huge crunch on the medical system (like we're currently…
Hypothetical answer: A ban on plastic straws can unintentionally make life more difficult for individuals with motor disabilities. Paper straws break down relatively quickly and can lose suction effectiveness as a…
Correct, which is why it's not ideal to allow folks to volunteer for severance as the GP suggested. The company wants to choose who to let go to avoid putting themselves in a worse spot afterwards.
To expand on your second point: The very first thing you should type after your initial greeting should be your question(s). Don't bury the lede. You can provide all the additional explanation (i.e. what you were doing…
It's a tried and true approach at this point in history. Remember Steve Bannon? [1] Weaponizing (angry, disenfranchised) gamers is the hot trend of the last decade. [1]…
I believe the acronym stands for the title of the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
Independent event probability. A 1% chance of something happening means that there is a 99% chance of the event not happening. 0.99^100 = 0.37. So a 37% chance of no brain eating out of 100 trials. 1 - 0.37 = 0.63, so a…