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Re:Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:58PM (#45818859)
> He is freezing rents only for select controlled units

45% of apartments in NYC

Re:Equinox.space on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:42PM (#40120041)
Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!
Re:Household Size and the Housing Stock on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:51PM (#40099230)
A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.
I wonder whether this applies to actual donors.
They should rename it KSD.
“It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.”

It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with the educational establishment.

Re:Master’s Degree in Computer Science on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:18AM (#31282297)
"I don’t have time or energy to study for and take the GRE right now."

Good luck with compilers...

100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.
This assumption strikes me as ageist.
Do not taunt the happy fun laptop.
Re:The Two Classes of Software Engineer on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:47AM (#26358120)
One could just as easily say that the two classes of software engineer are those who care about business problems and those who don’t.
If Facebook made it this hard to cancel, there would be a New York Times article about it.
Re:AirPods Max on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:24PM (#25354176)
AintPods
Re:Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:58AM (#25237249)
Before the advent of Windows XP, keeping your PC fast and reliable meant reinstalling Windows at least annually.
It’s the New York Times. You don’t even need to read their Facebook-related stories to know what they will say.
Re:Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:18PM (#18949233)
Yet more anti-tech hysteria from the New York Times.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:32PM (#16751117)
I concur on the MIT edX Probability course. I spent at least 15 hours a week on the exercises but it was well worth it.
Re:The scale of tech winners on Saturday October 14, 2017 @09:55PM (#15475447)
You mean the gentrification brought on by restrictive municipal zoning laws?
Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:18PM (#12287929)
Similar to your third example: "Without loss of generality, [ our argument can proceed with the following assumption... ]
This seems analogous to a perpetual-motion machine.
I recommend checking out NPR One if you haven't already: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/

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