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Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)
Let's focus on a factor that puts even more extreme limits on home ownership - HOAs. And more specifically why you should avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,065 posts.
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Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a
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I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …
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Quadratic Voting (2014)
Glen Weyl has uploaded a new version of his paper, Quadratic Voting (written with Steven Lalley), to SSRN, which now includes the completed proofs. Quadratic voting is the most important idea for l…
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
Report back on how it goes
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Open Letter to Tim Cook
Why do some car and motorcycle companies have the courage to devote significant resources to racing?
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Notes on Nationalism (1945)
"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad'."
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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout
If you are reading this then you most likely know about the recent news from reddit. As a result of these events, Lemmy has grown immensely in the last two weeks. The number of monthly active users has increased over 25 times, from 1.000 to 27.000 at time of writing. Suddenly Lemmy has become one of the largest…
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Looking ahead for WhatsApp
Today, we’re updating WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years, as part of our plans to test ways for people to communicate with businesses in the months ahead. The updated documents also reflect that we’ve joined Facebook and that we've recently rolled out many new features, like…
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Transcending My Father's Abuse
Seeing My Dad as More than a Monster
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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
Experiences navigating disintegrating American health care institutions, and what they might imply for life in 2037
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The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
In 2010, Congress capped fees for debit card networks so merchants don't get gouged by Visa and Mastercard. But the Fed stuck in a loophole for Discover. And that is leading Capital One to buy it.
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More than you want to know about gift cards
Gift cards are a loosely-regulated quasi-financial product and frequently misunderstood. Here's how they operate under the hood.
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’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.
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Notes on Guyana
Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-on-uh), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition. Sometimes whil…
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We are not normal people
Is a product's technical complexity correlated to its revenue potential?
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The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
Much of climate research is focused on implausible scenarios of the future, but implementing a course correction will be difficult
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The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
Why and how the UK Coronavirus Dashboard team built their analytics service on top of PostgreSQL & Citus on Azure.