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drpgq··on A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans
Well software job salaries would probably go up.
drpgq··on The 34-year-old airline novice who thinks he's Richard Branson
Hasn't fancy London to NYC flights been tried multiple times?
drpgq··on What the debate about Neanderthals reveals about us
Succubus?
drpgq··on Kia, Hyundai Blame Mass Car Thefts on ‘Lax Policing’ in Court Defense
Adding immobilizers to Kias and Hyundais is probably easier than solving fatherlessness.
drpgq··on Square says it has resolved day-long outage
A friend that works there said it was DNS related.
drpgq··on New York’s crackdown on Airbnb began Tuesday
Why has NYC made building new hotels harder?
drpgq··on An unexpected uptick in cigarette smoking in Germany
I co-own a small bar and help run our trivia night. Between rounds the smokers always go out for a smoke and they ended up all knowing each other.
drpgq··on WHO says soda sweetener aspartame may cause cancer, but it’s safe within limits
Have you ever done a blind test?
drpgq··on Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population (2019)
Is England especially bad compared to the G7?
drpgq··on Is Wine Fake? (2022)
I always felt getting into wine wasn't a good idea. I do like craft beer though.
drpgq··on Cancer’s origin story features predictable plot line, researchers find
As a Canadian I wonder how available this new stuff is here.
drpgq··on The One Ring card, Magic: The Gathering’s coveted collectible, has been found
I wonder what ROI is over the years on a card like a Black Lotus?
drpgq··on Canada’s new tech talent strategy
In Hamilton, purpose built rental apartment buildings have a way higher mill rate than condo buildings (even when individual units are rented out) or single family houses. Tyranny of the single family homeowner majority.
drpgq··on Ask HN: Where do people meet up socially at least once a week?
Weekly bar trivia? Although I get there's a bit of a chicken and egg thing with becoming part of a team.
drpgq··on State Farm Won't Insure Theft-Prone Hyundai and Kia Models in Louisiana
In Ontario there's been a lot of high end car theft lately. I'm kind of amazed that insurance companies will still insure Land Rovers as they seem to be regularly targeted.
drpgq··on Eton and all the murder (2019)
Eton is all male and males are far more likely to be killers than females. Still a high murder rate for sure.
drpgq··on Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
Yeah this professor seems to be taking this really personally, like some fictional crusty dean. Simpson!
drpgq··on Neuromancer: Miles Teller Eyed for New Apple+ Sci-Fi Series
I remember playing first the C64 Neuromancer game, which seemed great at the time and then moving on to the novel. I was always surprised they made a game but then never made a movie, especially when Johnny Mnemonic came out.
drpgq··on Decades of air pollution undermine the immune system
So should one always run an air purifier in their office and bedroom?
drpgq··on What Happened at Alameda Research
Unlike in the US, Ontario teachers are paid well relative to the average Canadian, especially with their pensions taken into account.
drpgq··on Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week
If Musk hadn't made a Twitter offer, where would their stock be today? Probably low enough that big layoffs were inevitable.
drpgq··on Vancouver, Toronto saw greatest high-tech job growth in N.A. in last 2 years
Canada's got a lot of talent and cheap wages. Woohoo I guess.
drpgq··on SAT score distributions in Michigan
That's still a lot of students.
drpgq··on Euro falls below parity with the dollar
Wow EUR/CAD is below 1.30 as well. Glad I switched (against my will) to working remotely for a California company from a German one.
drpgq··on Google will push updates to reduce low-quality and unoriginal content in search
"3) The Gen Z focus group participants don't want to read to find information.

They will if they HAVE to. But if they can get a quick video with the answer, that’s what they prefer."

I find this amazing.

drpgq··on On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class
I wonder if when I leave a job if I should message some co-workers what my salary history was.
drpgq··on A Brief History of Peanut Butter (2021)
Probably because it's the Smithsonian.
drpgq··on Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)
Would Elon Musk have been as successful without a hair transplant?
drpgq··on Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
I wonder if they would care more if they got split from AWS
drpgq··on Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
I was hoping there would be a discussion of this here with some inside baseball, but then HN was down.
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