B0btheBuilder

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by B0btheBuilder 2y ago
I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making. I also read the page in the PDF you linked that was the source of the table and became mo
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
There's a great episode of the "Hidden Brain" podcast about scarcity: https://www.npr.org/2017/03/20/520587241/the-scarcity-trap-w... One claim made was that poverty and loneliness are two
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
I'm struggling to see a distinctive difference between a middleman and a platform...
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
Actors, comedians, and politicians all have memorized scripts, lines, routines, and soundbites. I'm very curious as to what hathawsh's eventual answer to baxtr's question will be, because I consider their comment at the top o
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
I don't know about the salaries, but let's keep in mind that Alibaba and Tencent are two of the biggest companies in the world.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
I am also younger (mid 20s) and I've had my FB deactivated for several years now; I also don't have Instagram or Snapchat. I admittedly do use Meetup.com and its app. Initially, I deactivated FB because I felt it was an addictive
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
Considering that NYC, Chicago, and LA are the three biggest cities in the country, I would say, yes, quite a few of them grew up in these regions. If anything, boomers would be the only generation that could afford living comfortably in sai
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>iCloud data doesn't contain phone call contents or iMessage data contents. Literally the first paragraph of both of bduerst's links suggest otherwise. Also, I don't know if you've used iCloud on multiple devices befo
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>it’s not the checkbook that pays salaries Doesn't the checkbook of a business literally pay salaries? I'm unclear as to what you're arguing here.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>The truth is that it's better for children if parents in a low-conflict marriage to stay together. My siblings and I are all young adults in our twenties, but we've wanted our parents to divorce for years now. It's a toxi
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
Nope. Which is why I refuse to use services like theirs.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>It is just not my impresion that men who hop relationships look all that better. The comitted ones are not ugly ones. There are plenty of good-looking men in committed relationships. You're reading the relationship in reverse. It&#
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>remember that British kid who sold a recommendation engine to Yahoo? Nick D'Aloisio? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio ) I was confused when you mentioned him, then I realized you think he didn
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
Zuckerberg's mom's a psychiatrist and his dad's a dentist. His dad taught him BASIC programming as a kid and then hired a software engineer as his tutor. Gates' dad's a prominent lawyer and his mom was a prominent b
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
Even competent people with good training aren't perfect. Competent people make mistakes. You mention bridges, buildings, and ships, all projects built by massive teams of people and stringent processes. These massive teams of people an
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
I think it has to do with the idea that technical skills are more transferable than product management and that there are more job openings for technical roles than management roles.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
The parent comment wrote one sentence. How did you miss the "working for a low wage" part?
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>vocab is very highly correlated with IQ, which is stable thought life and cannot be boosted. Yet, from Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient ): >Raw scores on IQ tests for many population
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
I have three siblings and one parent still using Yahoo. The other parent uses Outlook. They just don't wanna deal with the hassle of moving to Gmail.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
On top of that, said toxic people usually start harassing other users.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
Google - 85,050 employees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google ) Facebook - 25,105 employees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook ) Amazon has 566,000 employees ( https://en.wikipedia.
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>They are simply not important enough (by hiring volume) to carry the weight they currently do. Unforunately, they are. A large proportion of the tech industry is startups / small businesses. I'd be surprised if Google/Fac
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
On top of the convenience, I don't have to risk putting my credit card information into random websites. My parents dislike online shopping because they're fearful of getting credit card information lost or stolen online. Amazon i
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>Doesn't immigration law in America apply equally to immigrants from everywhere? Isn't part of the whole immigration debate in America the fact that Latinos find it easy to illegally immigrate here? Asians literally have whole
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by B0btheBuilder 8y ago
>The second is a fictional prize created to let Americans have prizes too. Huh? Doesn't the U.S. have more Nobel laureates than any other country?
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by B0btheBuilder 9y ago
"A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811
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by B0btheBuilder 9y ago
To be fair, you can pay off the full amount of your credit card every month and never have to pay interest. A common misconception is the idea that you have to pay interest to build credit.