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2020aj··on Google lays off hundreds of ‘core’ employees
Is it? You need to normalize the price vs the market or industry. How has Boeing done compared to Airbus over the last 20 years? How about vs the market at large?
2020aj··on Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators
Is the average high schooler you knew as a kid representative of the types of people you now meet in your circles? Each stage of our lives is its own sort of selection bias.
2020aj··on Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake
And what about the Native Americans that lived there before that? etc.
2020aj··on Netflix offers $900k for AI product manager while actors strike for protection
Is it fine? It's better, maybe, but it would still be one less living/breathing actor on the payroll.
2020aj··on Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Yes, well the headline "Is this particular 50/200 day simple moving average crossover strategy just S&P500 astrology?" isn't a sweeping enough generalization
2020aj··on Insurance company drops customer saying a 'drone' took photos of clutter in yard
This is exactly the case. The commission won't let companies take adequate rate, so most companies are unable to make a profit in the state and are pulling out. Doesn't make sense to stay in a market where you're forced to lose money most years.

(I work in pricing for a large insurer)

2020aj··on Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline
Regarding your second point... I think it's still important because recommendation algorithms work better when users can find content they enjoy outside of the recommended content. If they can't then the recommendations will become stale.
2020aj··on Framework Laptop 16
Can you share the screen resolution? I own the 13 but the PPI on that screen makes fractional scaling necessary for me (which doesn't always behave well on Linux/Wayland). I'm wondering if I'll be able to comfortably use integer scaling with the 16. And if you can answer... are any screen replacements with different resolutions in play for the 13 chassis?
2020aj··on Man Accidentally Drove Away in Someone Else’s Tesla Using the Car’s App
Funny story: house locks work the same way (I think usually ~1024 possible key configurations, depending on the lock). When my wife and I were dating we discovered that our apartment keys worked in each other's locks!
2020aj··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
Script to pull, patch and build libinput with a modified touchpad acceleration function to be more similar to Windows touchpad acceleration. Triggered by a pacman hook whenever libinput gets updated. I think they may have merged the ability to create custom acceleration profiles now though?
2020aj··on There Were Half As Many Affordable Homes For Sale In 2022 As There Were In 2021
FOMO for buyers or sellers? Showing how unaffordable housing is right now doesn't make me more likely to rush to buy. It makes me more likely to wait. Sellers on the other hand may be more likely to come off their asking price some, which may increase overall sales.
2020aj··on Show HN: AskHN
Regarding numpy/pandas: What's the reason outside of them being _in Python_?
2020aj··on Last Sane Man on Wall Street
The full article indeed discusses these shortcomings and does not make it appear that short selling is more effective. It portrays it almost as a form of activism
2020aj··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
Each of the 6 have unique p-values, they did 6 tests. The GP is correct.
2020aj··on Google will remove user location history for abortion clinic visits
I actually love location history. Makes it easy to answer questions like: "what was the name of that great restaurant in Edinburgh when I visited 4 years ago?"

Edit: but I do agree it should be opt-in

2020aj··on Plant of the Month: Robusta Coffee (2021)
If you're on the east coast: happymug.

As far as roasting equipment... I actually recommend starting with stovetop/pan roasting. You may struggle more to get an even roast vs buying an appliance or using a popper, but it's cheap, and pan roasting heats via conduction (not convection) which is the de-facto method of most roasteries.

2020aj··on Linux on the Framework Laptop
I'm running gnome 40 on arch/Wayland and ended up settling on 2x window scaling with .75 text scaling along with the compact materia theme. This is effectively 1.5x window scaling, but 1.5x fractional scaling alone is blurry on gnome in non gnome apps. The other alternative I tried was 1x window scaling with 1.5x text scaling, but the UI feels more cluttered/cramped.
2020aj··on China increases spending 500% to influence America
Here's a medium post describing how they've been recruiting Western YouTubers: https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-i...
2020aj··on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market
We might not be in a true bubble, but the set of circumstances that have lead to the market increase have been a "perfect storm". I think once we get to the other side of the pandemic much of what is driving housing prices will revert to or trend towards precovid norms. It's likely there will be a market correction when (if) that occurs, so it's a bit missing the point to say "well technically it's not a bubble".
2020aj··on The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition
Extensive experience writing enterprise apps in many different industries? To me it sounds like you're trying to refute a generality with anecdotal experience. Have you ever worked for a heavily regulated industry like healthcare or insurance? The business logic is heavily tied to the regulations which vary by state/country and can be quite... cumbersome.
2020aj··on The Framework Laptop
Librem was geared towards openness/security, this just has a focus on repairability. Can Framework not just use off the shelf parts that already have the proper firmware/drivers available for windows/linux and then encounter none of the same issues? Or is the issue the interfaces b/w the modules and mainboard?
2020aj··on Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
Cars are regulated beyond just the point of sale. I believe it would be rather difficult to get said car registered (presuming there's a Chinese equivalent to vehicle registration), if you could even arrange receipt in the first place ;)