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I doubt the US govt is doing any such thing. There is no advantage for them in doing so even if extraterrestrial intelligence does exist. Space is too vast to allow for visitation or effective communication between planets never mind solar systems.

This is why one should never look for a job and just let the job find you; and where linkedin works so damn well. In my own case I just let jobs find me and I tripled my salary in 5 years.

I'm in the UK and we bought our house direct. We needed a solicitor but not an estate agent. Saved a packet. Most people I speak to are too scared to go out alone in this way. If it became more of a regular thing it would take off.

They did pay for it, with free labour.

Use Mermaid in draw.io. It renders Mermaid into native draw.io shapes that you can rearrange.

I just today discovered that draw.io auto converts Mermaid to editable shapes in draw.io. The best of both worlds!

This is the real comment here. I've worked in all three, scrum, kanban and waterfall, and I know from personal experience that they all have their shortcomings and it really depends on what you are trying to deliver and how well your team responds. We've moved from waterfall to scrum to kanban and back and the one standout is clarity of minimum requirements and boy is that hard to get from the relevant people. If you don't get that then stick with waterfall because then no one is responsible!

The precautionary principle seems like it's often misapplied and dumb and never really applied properly. We shouldn't discard a wonder material for lack of science.

You could literally use chatgpt to start posting on Reddit in order to promote a particular world view and convince other Redditors to the cause. Humans will do the rest.

Curation is the lifeblood of Reddit and some subs are insane in their quality and dedication. Maybe there are some in those subs who would contribute longer form content to Lifhacker in the future but the differing business models makes this unlikely in the near term IMHO

The first class carriage between Bristol and London served free sandwiches, fruit, papers - and wine on a Friday evening. How civilised it was sitting amongst judges and bankers with my discount short haul ticket with a pocket full of free food and a gratis glass of plonk to console me when I got to Reading and the interminable wait for the Blackwater line

The tech is fine, but Twitter is a total cesspool now. Maybe there's more to tech firms than just tech?

They cost 345 million a year in money that we give to them.

Well it is an awfully rich person telling us how bad he feels for our lot in life, much like a lot of the startup founders with rich parents trying their luck with multiple moon shots and sympathising with the state of the world they don't actually live in. So right up HN's street I would say.

Food banks. People are living off food banks. No one is getting a million dollars but they be should at least be able to afford food.

They don't make a profit and they don't give a shit. Britain's biggest recipients of state benefits and they still don't pay inheritance tax.

Oh if only we had a super wealthy patron of sorts who could eliminate food banks with one squiggle in a cheque book

Prob not fitting your criteria but the Withings band does interesting things like detect when my night time heart beat is high and reasonably guesses that I have a fever. Which I do. I have the BP monitor and scales as well and they work well together but it's the band that as seems to reveal the most insights.

Autohotkey beats them all (IMHO)! Hundreds of hours saved per year.

He wasn't doing his job right unless it was all of them. He may be a scum bag but he knew how to play the game.

I was there with you at that age and I am sure that those smarter than me will offer great advice. Now I'm older, married and have a child and I don't even think about myself and what I am feeling anymore. Looking after other people seems to be the key for me. I don't even have an internal monologue anymore!

I mean it's not all Excel, sometimes it's badly updated Smartsheets, badly updated Appian dashboards etc. Even Trello ends up as a dumpster fire. Only place I've seen it work is orgs with Google Sheets and Docs

I second this comment. Ways of Seeing fundamentally changed the way we look at art and by extension the world.

All it proves is that she was good at climbing the greasy pole. She was and remains as thick as two short planks.

The first six months are known as an external pregnancy. Keep the environment quiet, don't take the baby away from home too long, minimise visitors. Do this and you'll avoid colic. Also, don't rock the baby, you'll never stop.

Every year my employer sends a fancy gift box to celebrate the new sales cycle, and it's full of shiny streamers, and tat. It's painful to see all that money ending up in a landfill. Just give the money to charity or something.

What a way to de-democratize solar power!

Something that doesn't delete a file that I accidently deleted at source.

Yes

We're all guilty aren't we, even speaking as a vegetarian, but for me it's about how much cruelty I can avoid, not all or nothing. I don't kill insects but I eat eggs. I try to use public transport but I do have a car. Don't let perfection be the enemy here.