indecisive_user

This is the spanish wording from the original article

>Como tal, no serán anuncios publicitarios con fines comerciales, sino más bien de servicios, siempre ligado a la comunidad o a la app

Which has the same meaning as the english translation in the article.

As such, they will not be advertisements for commercial purposes, but rather for services, always linked to the community or the app.

It doesn't take into account splitting the jackpot. Maybe the expected value is positive if you're the sole winner, but not when 3 other people picked the same numbers as you.

Oh so that's what that was.

I just ran into that issue trying to download a few different apps an hour ago but figured it was my phone. Something is definitely up, too much of a coincidence for these issues to be happening at the same time

Is this supposed to be an insult to the US? The literacy rate is 99%, and a higher % of the population has a tertiary education than finland, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiar...

That's a valid complaint, but at the same time it's not always easy to come up with a good name from the start. I often find myself putting in placeholder names for variables/functions because I'm really not sure what it's going to encompass by the time everything is finished. IDE refactoring makes it easy to clean up names after spending some time with the feature and better understanding what the scope of each function is going to be.

It's great to pause and come up with meaningful names and I agree more developers should do it, but refactoring is a normal part of coding and I'd rather have an easy way of renaming things as the code evolves.

In what way is Seattle affordable?

The median household income recently surpassed 100k[0], and an average studio will run you $1800 per month (let's not even discuss owning anything). Sure if you're willing to put up with an hour commute (pre covid) or live with roommates you can find something more affordable but I would not describe Seattle as being at all affordable to most of the working class. Even as a tech worker, I had to compromise on a lot of housing criteria, compared to when I lived in the south, just to afford to live here.

[0]https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattles-medi...

But the same is true for soda or tea.

Sometimes I just want almond milk to be cold right now. And also, the refrigerated milk section tends to be much easier to find than whatever place the store decides to put non refrigerated milks.

What were the team building events? I'd love to try some with my team but I'm worried if the first one sucks then no one will be onboard for a second try.

Sure, you can interpret the flag however you choose. That has nothing to do with the perceived rise in white supremacy though. Confederate flags have long been flown in the south, and if anything, flying the lgbt flag next to it is new.

On the contrary, I've been traveling across the US quite a bit over the last several months, from New England, the PNW, and the South. While I've seen plenty of signs and a few rallies supporting BLM and other progressive causes, I've yet to see, in person, a single sign or rally or any supportive material for white supremacy. I hear about it a lot on the internet but from my travels anyway I haven't seen it yet.

Edit: I did see some confederate flags being flown in middle of nowhere Mississippi, but I honestly believe they're not flown as a symbol of hatred (at least not always) as some people had banners next to their flags saying things like "Pride not hate", or the rainbow flag, or other phrases trying to distance themselves from the negative connotations of the flag.

As I understand it, sugar feeds the main bacterial catalyst for cavities (s. Mutans), but food stuck between the teeth provides them protection from the mechanical forces of brushing.

As a counter point, I was in an interview loop recently with a candidate that ended up solving the question eventually, but didn't hit a lot of the bullet points in the parent comment (asking clarifying questions, edge cases, abstraction).

After discussing feedback from other interviewers, it was apparent that the same considerations were lacking in multiple interviews, and so the candidate got a no hire decision. For any single interview it probably would have been okay to omit these things, but when there's a negative pattern across multiple interviews, that's when it really hurts your chances.

>Obviously, each company can't blindly trust the interviewing practices of everyone's previous employer.

But even two teams within the same company often don't trust each other's interviewing practices though.

Transferring from one team to another often requires doing the same algorithm interview that new hires go through, even though you were good enough to get hired in the first place and are ostensibly a better engineer than when you started with the company.

I think the population density in the US makes this difficult.

If you can't get into the nearest one or two high schools, you may end up with a 40+ minute commute to get to school which would make morning classes and extra curriculars pretty difficult.

Most common by number of languages maybe, but if we look at most common by number of people who speak the language, the top 3 most popular languages in the world(Mandarin, Spanish, English) are all SVO.

Melanin reduces the amount of vitamin D synthesized in the skin for the same reason it has protective effects against sunburns.

Historically this wasn't a problem since people with more melanin live in sunnier, more UV intense regions. In fact, pale skin may have been an adaptation as people moved north from the equator to combat the decrease in sun exposure/intensity. But people spend much less time outdoors today with AC and the internet, so vitamin D deficiency is especially prominent in dark skinned populations.

Now you're talking about price discrimination, which customers DO prefer.

If I wanted premium service and a premium seat, I can pay the premium price for business or first class, or fly on a better airline. Even though people complain about the terribly small seats and lack of service on budget airlines and economy tickets, they still choose the lowest seat price above anything else. And the cost of plane tickets has fallen drastically over the past few decades so it's not like the same product is more expensive, people just want cheap flights.

This is your wife whom you presumably spend most of your time with and sleep next to, right?

With the long incubation period and how contagious it is, I'd assume the chance of a false negative (.1% in the new Abbott test) would be higher than her having caught it and somehow not passing it to you.

The US is doing more stateside recycling these days, and from this article it sounds like recycling bottles is actually a profitable business.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/what-...

If you want clean air and less noise then you should have moved to the country side where those are plentiful.

Telling people in the city, that you decided to move to, that they should be conscientious of your decidedly non-city wants, is kind of pretentious.

So that study seems to conclude that the blood concentration of vitamin D varies according to circadian rhythms.

That's an interesting finding, but what I'm saying is that I don't think taking a vitamin D pill has an immediate effect on your body's vitamin D levels. That's why it takes weeks or months of supplementation before you see it reflected in blood tests.

>I could see how taking vitamin D in the evening would actually be harmful if it disrupts melatonin synthesis.

How would this work? From my understanding, vitamin D blood concentration takes quite a while to build up due to the fat soluble nature, and taking a single pill doesn't cause an immediate spike just like staying inside for an entire day doesn't cause a drop.

Austin? A growing tech city, gets in the 70s nearly year round, no state income tax. I hear a lot of devs are moving there from California

Crime is down, while domestic violence is up. That's evidence people are staying inside more.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52416330

As a counter anecdote, I know many people that only leave their house a few times per week, including for walks. They are definitely more sedentary now.

$2 per 100g is about $8.50 per pound.

I don't know what prices in Ottawa are like but that really doesn't sound that outrageous for a high quality beef depending on the cut, whether it's grass fed, etc.

I lived in South Florida for a while. That art style is so recognizable that I immediately knew where the Apple ad came from, though I didn't know the artist's name.

How do you even begin to quantify the 'likeness' of one piece of art to another though? In this case it sounds easy enough since they consulted with the artist beforehand, but what if they ripped off his style without ever talking to him, how do you prove it's a copyright infringement?

Agreed, it's not that weird of a search. Other, similar queries like "shirt without buttons/collar/pocket" seem to work just fine.

The only difference is that those are all physical properties of a shirt while stripes is a type of pattern.

I don't mean to imply that it's the majority of people here. People are complex and HNers aren't a monolithic group. But I do think the general pro-lockdown sentiment wouldn't be nearly as strong if the majority of posters were in the service or retail industry.

That's not to say people here are selfish, only that it's easier to advocate for safety when you yourself are in a position of relative stability.

Another interpretation is that a lot of people on the internet (HN, reddit) have actually seen net improvements to their life from the lockdown.

For the introverted tech worker that prefers to work from home, the quarantine hasn't really negatively impacted their routine that much, and it might have actually lifted any peer pressure to go out and socialize with friends/co-workers/family.

For someone in that situation, there's not much of a benefit to advocate for reopening, and the deadlier the virus seems, the longer the lockdown will continue.

> An increase in the unemployment rate during the Great Recession has had a beneficial health effect on average across EU countries.

Many animals live longer in captivity than in the wild.

Restricting your caloric intake as much as possible will prolong your lifespan.

There's more to health than just how long you live.