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breakbreadon Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

My mom lives in the DFW area and makes $50k. Within the past 5 weeks she's gone for a routine mammogram screening, seen a specialist about a grown that thankfully was benign, and been seen by a surgeon who removed the growth to be on the safe side because my mom is considered high risk.

breakbreadon Ever Plugged a USB in Wrong? (2019)

I had a similar problem with my Nexus 5X. I worked around it as you've described for quite some time before I realized that a small amount of lint had been compressed into the port, which was preventing the connector from going all the way in.

breakbreadon The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous

It's free with NoScript installed.

breakbreadon Teens are spending nearly half their waking hours on screens

Somewhat off-topic.

I recently rewatched Neon Genesis Evangelion and noticed that in many of the classroom scenes all of the kids had laptops. The anime aired in 1995/1996, but was set in 2015.

breakbreadon The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)

Man, you're not kidding. Granted, I live in what I imagine is the wealthiest city in the state, so there's constant new construction, roads, and just a general sense of vitality, but one doesn't have to venture far at all to see exactly what you're describing.

breakbreadon Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy

>In the EU, shops are required to display the price per <appropiate round value>, i. e. all coffees have a (usually smaller, but readable) Euro/500g price.

Grocery stores in the US do this, but it's not something you necessarily see in food service shops.

breakbreadon I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor

I defaulted on my student loans a while back and royally screwed my credit. When I decided I was going to get my shit together it started with a Capital One card with a $300 limit and I’m sure a really high interest rate. But my plan was to, of course, not carry a balance, which I didn’t.

These days my credit score is ~780 and I do some casual churning for travel points.

breakbreadon Making My Own Glasses

Weird. I’m in Mississippi, of all places, and, without asking, my optometrist always sends me off with a printout containing my prescription and PD.

breakbreadon The myth of the teacher pay gap?

I think it depends on the grade and/or subject you're teaching. My wife has taught HS English for a decade and the 45-50+ hr weeks has been the norm for her and her colleagues.

I have the impression (from my wife and her coworkers) that it's much easier for elementary and middle school teachers to work the contracted hours and not bring their work home with them.

High school just comes with a lot of extra baggage too.

breakbreadon Ask HN: How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?

>This variance is also a big reason why there is no "one true way" of raising kids, and why you shouldn't take parenting authorities too seriously.

I have a 7mo old and, naturally, for the first couple months my wife and I drove ourselves bonkers worrying about whether or not we were any given task "the right way". I mean, don't get me wrong, we still check with his pediatrician and do basic online research about certain things, but for the most part you just develop an intuition about your kid and what their needs are.

breakbreadon The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat

For whatever reason, I can stand when people comment on what I've brought for lunch.

"Hey, that looks pretty good!""Smells good! What'cha got there?""Bring me some next time!"

breakbreadon End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car

My wife is the opposite of me in that she's never met a stranger. I like it, because I get to occasionally have these unique experiences that I'd never find myself in on my own.

So we're waiting to catch a train back to Prague and she ends up chatting with this other American who was there with her daughter. They continued talking the whole way back on the train and we ended up having dinner and romping around together for the rest of the night.

breakbreadon Man Who Hired Deadly Swatting Gets 15 Months

It's not like they were knocking on the door. They'd established a perimeter like across the street from the house.

breakbreadon Apple has unveiled the new seventh-gen iPad

I recently inherited a gen1 iPad Pro (9.7in) and did not realize the Pro models were originally released in 2015/2016. I can see it being relevant for quite a while, especially considering I don't use it for anything "Pro" in nature.

breakbreadon Japanese Settlement Found in Forests of British Columbia

Oh man. I was flying ATL to LHR a couple years ago and went went over the southern tip of Greenland. My initial reaction was that of wonder and amazement, followed by a hint of unsettling terror at the vast emptiness of the landscape.

breakbreadon Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

I've often equated proper dogcare to childcare-lite.

Want to go out after work? Gotta go home and tend to the dogs first

Weekend getaway? The cost just increased by however much it's going to cost you to board the dogs or hire a sitter.

Surprise! One of your dogs has developed a thyroid condition and will require daily medication for the rest of its life.

Time for that annual teeth cleaning ($$$$$)

That said, next to fatherhood, it's one of the more rewarding things in my life.

breakbreadon Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others

He's married to a black man...

breakbreadon ‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive

From TFA:

> Welcome to Yujiapu Financial District, which promotes itself as China’s Manhattan...

breakbreadon What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World

This piqued my interest.

At least according to this site [0] (which references a 2013 report [1]) for instance, to be in the 1% in New York state you have to be making at least $517,557. However, the average annual income of those in the 1% is $2,006,632.

In Mississippi, though, you only have to be making $264,952 to be in the 1% and the average annual income of the 1% in MS is $565,813.

Of course, you have to consider cost of living and what not, but 1% is definitely not the same everywhere.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to...

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-in-the-us/...

breakbreadon How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

I spent most of my 20s doing all kinds of things, from installing security cameras, to running cable, to on-site IT work - a lot of it in and around law enforcement (jails, police stations) - and I was often amazed at the kind of access you could get in some places just by showing up with some crimpers and a box of cat5 and telling the person up front that you're here for [whatever].

Like you said, in many situations if you just act like you know what you're doing no one will question you.

breakbreadon The tragic end of Telltale Games

I gotta say, though, that the Digital Foundry crew at Eurogamer consistently put out excellent technical analyses of current and (usually every Sunday)retro games. I love it. No politics, no drama, just an in depth look at the tech under the hood.

https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry

breakbreadon Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point

Can anyone recommend a good article or video (preferably video) that gets into how CPUs work at a somewhat fundamental level? Ideally geared towards someone who's generally familiar with computing concepts and not a total layman.

breakbreadon Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions

Disclosure: I'm what most would consider "white collar". Also , this is tangential to your post.

One of my closest friends has been an automotive tech in the dealership world for the past 12 or so years and has mastertech certifications for 2 manufacturers.

I never cease to be amazed at how fucked that industry/line of work can be, even for someone who is firmly at the top of their game. The incentive structure seems totally out of whack to me, such that it's no wonder that people assume the worst when they are faced with having to take their vehicle in for service.

breakbreadon Americans are spending less on clothing

Somewhat related, but I went to Europe (I'm American)for the first time in December (Prague, Zurich, Munich, Florence, Rome) and kept noticing how much more well dressed people were on average compared to Americans. Not to suggest everyone was balling out of control in designer wear, just more "put together", so to speak.

I considered the fact that I was visiting major cosmopolitan cities, but it was true even in the airports and train stations, where you tend to see a more general slice of the population.

breakbreadon Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city

Where are you from originally?

What people usually do after their shift ends? Just return to their respective dorms? Are their any public spaces in or around the factory where people gather?

breakbreadon How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US

The origin of that phrase is a supreme court case where the court ruled that the First Amendment didn't protect you from passing out pamphlets encouraging men to resist conscription during World War 1. The "fire in a crowded theater" line was just a metaphor used to underscore a ruling I imagine most people today disagree with, and wasn't legally binding in any way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States#The_C...

breakbreadon Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems

It still blows my mind that they didn't at the very least make Metro optional for Professional and Server SKUs. Or, better yet, off by default unless the setup detected a device with a touch panel.

breakbreadon MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete

Yeah, I definitely don't see this as making AC "obsolete" so much as perhaps raising the threshold of when you turn on the AC. As a resident of the Deep South, this could potentially make sitting outside during the height of the summer a more pleasant experience.

breakbreadon OS X Mavericks GM Seed available to Developers

>Also, does Windows handle differing DPIs across multiple displays like Mac OS X handles a retina display connected to one-or-more non-retina displays?

This is a feature in Windows 8.1