HillaryBriss

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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
c'mon now. is this really a proper topic for an HN discussion?
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
at first, i thought you were concerned about Google accounts and the privacy of your data within Google's servers. i feel like i have not put enough consideration into this other kind of risk which you're describing. if it's
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
after it says in the absence of immigration, wages for US computer scientists would have been 2.6% to 5.1% higher in 2001 the NBER study's abstract continues US workers switch to other occupations, reducing the number of US born com
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
what percentage of FedEx pilots are ex-military?
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
I'm definitely not against it, but my guess is the best minds will now be put to work figuring out how to defeat, avoid, mitigate this regulation.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> There are entire IT departments at companies like Disney, for instance, that are de-facto off limits to American workers. what I hear from people who work or used to work in IT at Hollywood media companies is that Disney is not alone i
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> You don't need a legion of smart lawyers to hire from this large, unemployed, qualified, bonafide American talent pool true, but I think the point is that the lawyer fees are less than the extra costs and risks associated with h
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
Historically there's been a lot of anti-foreign bias and discrimination from US workers and companies, which in part goes under the heading of "cultural fit." But I've often wondered about it going in the opposite direct
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> does the difference even matter? The article seems to say the answer is yes: ...scientists think that the initial exposure to bacteria at the moment of birth could be a “thermostat” moment for the immune system, defining its sensitivi
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Bat Found in Orange County Tests Positive for Rabies(nbclosangeles.com)
1 points by HillaryBriss 7y ago|0 comments
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
Good point! The plan needs refinement. I guess they could break the job down: use one team of 4 drones to lift multiple 1 square yard tarps. Let's see, 12 square miles is roughly 37 million square yards. Multiplying by four they would
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
It would be too easy for electro-terrorists to stop production at the solar park: four drones (one on each corner) could simply airlift a rectangular 3x4 mile opaque tarp from Sudan or outer space and drop it over the panels. Probably only
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
> The article's author says Gmail filed it into the 'Promotions' folder. Yeah, but they have to contact people by email because they don't have anyone's physical home address.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
I ate at Cliftons some years ago, before the remodeling. It was pretty cool but also pretty worn out. Standard cafeteria fare, nothing really exciting. Mostly it was about the ambience. Some of the interior decoration (i.e. the fake animals
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
here's a theory. shoot it down: work and cash are more abundant and salaries are higher in urban areas and this causes demand-pull price inflation. why are salaries higher? because the labor pools in high density urban areas have, in s
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
mostly agree. currently, US city life has too many unappealing aspects unless you're either super wealthy or truly broke. in the US high quality of life cities are actually quite scarce and in time almost always overwhelmed by large nu
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
What are the pros and cons of charging a fee to transcribe someone else's audio content? Does ListenNotes need a lawyer to deal with contracts or problems related to original content creators?
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
I'm guessing the $4/hr price estimation is based on an average of the prices ListenNotes actually charges to transcribe a podcast, as shown on ListenNotes.com for various individual episodes.
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California Has Completely Crapped the Bed Rolling Out Legal Marijuana(reason.com)
3 points by HillaryBriss 7y ago|0 comments
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
just a quick note: the US couldn't conquer Vietnam either
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'I Am Awesome': How a Millennial Built a Fentanyl Empire(nbclosangeles.com)
4 points by HillaryBriss 7y ago|0 comments
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
TV was/is heavily regulated. And starting a newspaper was much easier than starting a Google or FB competitor is today. IOW, big tech dominates in a way that is more complete, closer to total, than TV and newspapers did.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
The national political season so far has surprised me because, AFAIK, none of the presidential politicians has made a direct attack on age discrimination at work. It seems like the perfect combination of issues: a highly motivated voter seg
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Feces is contaminating the American river. Sacramento wants to know its source(latimes.com)
1 points by HillaryBriss 7y ago|0 comments
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
yes. something is very wrong. everyone in America has known that for decades. the LA Times very often states the obvious in its headlines.
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
it always cracks me up when I visit the website of a "very serious newspaper" and see a critically important op-ed headline about "saving democracy" or "defending life on planet earth" but cannot read the artic
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
Based on the article's conclusion, I thought it was part of a funding campaign by the US R&D complex: One solution might be to cut $60 billion or so out of the US intelligence budget and divert it to a crash R&D program to bri
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
This article tries to characterize Google's use of open source. The general conclusion is that Google only uses open source to further its own interests. There's no altruism. It's predictable really. I mean what else would I
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The Tent That Might Be a Partial Solution to Homelessness in LA(nbclosangeles.com)
1 points by HillaryBriss 7y ago|0 comments
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by HillaryBriss 7y ago
right. the veil of anonymity was torn apart in this case. this doesn't seem like a robust test case for Lessig's theory of anonymity.

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