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hackerman12345··on I've Paid $18,000 to a $24,000 Student Loan, and I Still Owe $24,000
> Now, the in state tuition in my state (NH) is over $28K a year.

https://admissions.unh.edu/tuitionfees

Looks like 18.5k$, which is still about 8.5k$ higher than most other states.

hackerman12345··on Amazon offers Whole Foods discounts to Prime members
Because it's cheap enough nobody is actually locked in. The membership price is easily made up within 10-20 small purchases - since shipping is so expensive from many other sites (unless you order more than $50 or whatnot).
hackerman12345··on Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder?
Your country is also (likely, I don't know where you live) much more homogeneous in many factors. It's easy to keep the place safe when you don't allow anyone different to live there in large numbers.
hackerman12345··on Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder?
Perhaps Europe just doesn't care - release them after a few years and go "oh well" when they hurt someone again - in countries where women aren't even allowed to carry pepper spray, there's less emphasis on keeping innocents safe and more emphasis on giving terrible people third/fourth/fifth chances.
hackerman12345··on College May Not Be Worth It Anymore
Does a candidate being left-handed add a significant amount of confidence that he/she is a good candidate?
hackerman12345··on Elon Musk hires 2 Newfoundland interns who solved problems at Tesla factory
What a strange comparison - apples to gang war zones.
hackerman12345··on Is going vegan actually helping battle climate change?
There's a story on the front page right now about how sea weed reduces methane from cows.
hackerman12345··on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University
But presumably some of these are bright kids who could make that rate on their sophomore year engineering internship. It'd be silly not to attend university and instead do the $60k trade route for most of the HN audience.
hackerman12345··on Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall
If you know someone murdered 4 people, does them being on good behavior in front of you really make you consider them peaceful?
hackerman12345··on How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream
A large size nuke plant does about 1300 MW nominally (it is initially about 3000 MW thermally but only 35% or so is successfully converted to power for the grid).
hackerman12345··on Another Reason to Learn Morse Code: Kidnapping
The gun and knife store. :P
hackerman12345··on Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site
This appears to have happened months before Perry became the DOE leader.
hackerman12345··on Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (2010)
A good manager is expected to give an easier schedule to someone who is caring for a sick family member, why would it be horrible to give an easier schedule to someone who has to spend a lot of time taking care of a new baby?

Biology has already discriminated and made her life hard, should we make it worse? Should we make having children as difficult as possible for our fellow citizens?

Paternal leave is important too.

hackerman12345··on China Slaps Tariffs on U.S. Products
Who exactly does the protectionism help? Does Brazil's 100% tax on iPads and computers help anyone? There still aren't any Brazilian iPad or computer parts makers, but that doesn't stop the government from forcing citizens to pay double.
hackerman12345··on Police Say Uber Is Likely Not at Fault for Self-Driving Car Fatality in Arizona
I-70 is a mostly straight highway with a divider, it'd be pretty safe as long as it's not crowded. Autobahn speed limits are certainly doable in many of America's highways.
hackerman12345··on The IRS collects data on Coinbase account holders
I see.
hackerman12345··on Stock trade app Robinhood raising at $5B+, up 4X in a year
Why does it matter? They don't charge fees.
hackerman12345··on The IRS collects data on Coinbase account holders
Why would Joe pay taxes when he didn't make any profit off the 600k?
hackerman12345··on 'Striking weaknesses' in adult financial skills
Here are the questions, if you can't get them correct without a computer handy, than your education is suspect. I would expect them to appear in a 3rd grade math book.

1. If you bought four packs of tea: chamomile ($4.60), green ($4.15), black ($3.35) and lemon ($1.80) with a $20 note, how much change would you get?

2. If a litre of cola costs $3.15, how much will you pay for a third of a litre?

3. If a football club offers the same discount for all season tickets - Main Stand - $50 for single entry, $300 for a season; Stand 2 - $35 for single entry, $210 for a season; Stand 3 - $25 for single entry, $150 for a season - what would the price be for a Stand 4 season ticket, where a single entry costs $21?

The answers are $6.10, $1.05 and $126 respectively.

hackerman12345··on Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
The mob tends to be ok with hate if it's directed towards someone they dislike - e.g. you can find on /r/canada 's frontpage people calling Doug Ford's kids fat and ugly.
hackerman12345··on Crazy things happening in SF because of its out-of-control housing prices
I am using adblock (ublock origin), and the site works fine.
hackerman12345··on Crazy things happening in SF because of its out-of-control housing prices
Peter Thiel or the Oculus guy might disagree, but you might not hear them over the thousands of people demanding they be fired/divested from/run out of town.
hackerman12345··on Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
They also conveniently ignore that pretty much everything is transgenic, the viruses and such that Monsanto uses have existed for a few million (?) years and love to throw DNA around.
hackerman12345··on Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
I've seen personal stories here about those farmers market people stopping by Walmart before hand... probably can get a nice discount on dirty fruit.
hackerman12345··on A week-long programming retreat
Well, people with #timesup and #metoo lapel pins did just vote up Kobe Bryant to win an Oscar.
hackerman12345··on The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
I often wonder if the 'overdiagnosis' simply comes from the scenario that society might benefit (in terms of productivity) if there was microdoses of ritalin (Vitamin R?) in the water.

(not advocating for this...yet).

hackerman12345··on MIT study that found low pay for Uber drivers to be revisited
The damage is already done though. Lawmakers and laymen will bring up this $3/h number constantly while making decisions that hurt Uber.
hackerman12345··on Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard
Probably good for linux, but with Windows you have to be careful during update time or you can easily soft-brick your machine with a power outage.
hackerman12345··on Canada begins Small Modular Reactor strategy roadmap
I'm not quite sure what your question is with the spent fuel pool. The water will just sit there and slowly evaporate probably or be cleaned and checked for contaminants before going elsewhere. It's really not that much water. I think you're making a problem where there isn't one.

The water keeps it from melting as the spent fuel becomes a little more inert each day (it transfers heat to the water, and as we know radioactive stuff has half lives). After a few years, we can move it to dry storage (incased by concrete and steel).

hackerman12345··on Canada begins Small Modular Reactor strategy roadmap
Yucca's issues were political though, a byproduct of democracy.
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