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Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:50AM (#50099708)
no rules/syllabus is an opportunity to be creative. No one has it figured out. Everyone is winging it. If you lock in, you will be the expert!

Never kill yourself, life is awesome after overcoming challenges

Re:Meat Yield Calculators on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:32PM (#49731069)
Where did my meat go? a common question butchers get when a customer is surprised at the retail cut weights compared to the live animal weight. I made a tool you can share with your customers to manage these expectations. Happy to hear your feedback.
Re:Find a meat processing plant near you on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:20PM (#49578603)
many small meat farms struggle to find a partner to turn their animals into retail cuts. I grabbed a list from USDA that's poorly presented and added a better interface to search the list. Thanks for your feedback in advance.
Re:Show HN: Curated Domain Name Marketplace on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @07:00PM (#45817367)
it looks decent, but there's no search. Do you expect me to scroll through 10 pages to find something of interest?
Re:H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:42PM (#44946088)
this is solved so simply. Find the 90th percentile pay for the position, set that as the minimum for H-1b.
Re:Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:52PM (#28426714)
my interest in animals has waned as I've aged.

I believe this is because I didn't know how to win another thing's affection. A dog just gives it to you. Unconditionally.

Re:Facing Fears and Learning to Code on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:28PM (#24031925)
This. Market yourself or work for someone that does.

Facing Fears and Learning to Code

In 2017, I read about AI beating professional poker pros. I felt a stab of fear. My work as a trader was similar. I thought: am I next?I channeled that fear into teaching myself to code. I moved to Medellin, Colombia and got busy grinding youtube tutorials. This led to paid freelance work through Upwork and a bootcamp TA position at the University of Texas.I learned that fear is a signal for...

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Re:Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:25PM (#23162756)
you'd be surprised how far 600/month goes in south america
public education's primary goal is daycare. That is not essential.
I switched from Linux to wsl for a while. I'm back to Ubuntu after unexplained blue screens. Ubuntu running fine.
Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:29PM (#22800114)
Buy SPY and save a bunch of time
Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? on Saturday April 04, 2020 @03:07PM (#22780645)
As a result of china's partial capitalism adoption: https://ourworldindata.org/exports/size-poverty-gap-world_v2...
Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? on Saturday April 04, 2020 @01:35AM (#22776413)
Capitalism didn't give people an appetite for bat.
Re:Ask HN: I lost my job on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @09:12PM (#22755287)
trial & error >> book knowledge on this topic, IMO. Get your reps in: - start a business - teach a live online coding course
Re:Show HN: From Markdown to Video on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:04PM (#22721621)
this is where views/rating help out.
Farming doesn't strike me as high margin. This increase in costs could send many farmers out of business. That will push up food prices.
Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:48PM (#22656352)
This is not a true representation of the population served ads. Are you confident the small benefit most receive is worth throwing out to avoid outliers like this?
Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:04AM (#22644859)
yes, great point. But, the bill isn't due til you're ~65+. It takes patience to think "unhealthy eating is more expensive than it appears because present-value for old-age healthcare costs aren't included".
Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:29PM (#22644147)
If there was a cost to eating terrible, we would have less to lose from this virus.
Re:Ask HN: Have you been laid off? on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:25AM (#22627217)
It will give his business a better shot of surviving. This also means a better shot to continue paying current employees
Re:$5000 per violation of price-gouging in CA on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:20PM (#22577378)
If I'm an 80 year old with a heart transplant, I'm happy they're doing this!
Re:$5000 per violation of price-gouging in CA on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:18PM (#22577361)
> and in many cases it is for the explicit purpose of creating artificial scarcity to increase the price of a product.

So are you suggesting:

- I create a toilet paper cartel with all my buddies

- we hit surrounding area grocery stores with surgical TP buying

- Hoard til prices rise

- dump on muppet consumers

- profit??

this is ridiculous

Re:Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018) on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:16AM (#22391393)
In other words, if a banana costs $1 and I buy it, its value to me is at least $1
Re:Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:19PM (#22370184)
seems like a decent approach. Care expounding?
Is the alternative better?

If the retiree didn't get a low-paying job (Uber driver etc.), his neighbors would be forced to care for him through social welfare taxes. With a job, he supports himself. All the resources freed up can be put to more productive use.

Are you so sure you wouldn't act the same in his shoes? We're all human.

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