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by automatwon 5y ago
> Beatriz Gimeno, a feminist, writer, activist – and former head of one of Spain’s national equality bodies, the Women’s Institute – attacked the men for creating a female persona in their publicity for Carmen Mola books, over several y
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by automatwon 5y ago
I’ll believe it when Wall Street liquidates their real estate positions. Have these executives shorted the housing market?
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by automatwon 5y ago
I thought management’s job was about creating “culture”. Except when that culture is toxic
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by automatwon 10y ago
It'd be great if Snowden got a pardon in the process, too.
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by automatwon 10y ago
The Trump administration could do much more to damage Americans’ health than just repeal the Affordable Care Act and leave people without access to hospitals and medications. And somehow they manage to tie it back to Trump
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by automatwon 10y ago
The 'Parse', 'Transform', 'Validate' icons look alot like Google Cloud Platform Icons. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vjm5YdmOH5LrubFhHf1v...
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Ask HN: What's the 'social mobility' for lower paid attorneys?
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Southeast Asia ‘Uber for trucks’ hauls $840k seed funding(techinasia.com)
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by automatwon 10y ago
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest" - Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith I tend to think of self-interest being equivalent to
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by automatwon 10y ago
some time There was a time you've seen more math notation written about anarchy? I'm curious. It'd be great if you can link.
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by automatwon 10y ago
I'd get rid of the manual process of driving to the office every day Hmm. No one responded self-driving cars as a solution. Maybe with internet connectivity built-in so people can work en route.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Some companies have used it for language tutoring... What this change will do is chop off those offering free services at the knees and drive the premium services to Twilio, etc. Google's a business. Why does it have the responsibili
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by automatwon 10y ago
Feel free to write an app for non-Google Android users, but not many people will buy it or even encounter it iOS apps generate more revenue than Android http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-app-store-revenue-per-u...
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by automatwon 10y ago
Google's closure compiler already addressed that
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by automatwon 10y ago
Can confirm. Happened to me. Recently made it to the cancellation page. They offered two options: pay a penalty for canceling early, or get two months free. Took the two months free and signed some agreements. Wish me luck!
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by automatwon 10y ago
any test that questions the motivations of the author without asking the author is a big baloney sandwich English 101, Homework Assignment: Write a 8 page literary essay about book-X I presented my thesis and draft to the the instructor.
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by automatwon 10y ago
When comparing the types of function parameters, assignment succeeds if either the source parameter is assignable to the target parameter, or vice versa. This is UNSOUND because a caller might end up being given a function that takes a mor
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by automatwon 10y ago
In the ’80s, a few jugglers with academic backgrounds had developed something called “siteswap” — a mathematical notation for objects in motion. Makes me wonder what other activities academics have / will invent notations for
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by automatwon 10y ago
It does not solve every problem JavaScript ever had. By definition of being a superset, it's still JavaScript. It just induces a prescription to mitigate symptoms of type unsafeness. Null AND Undefined still coexist, though type safety
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by automatwon 10y ago
With just a few lines of JavaScript, engineers can move markets, change lives, and build the future. Either this is exaggerated, or people write incomprehensibly dense JavaScript code.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Theranos said on Friday it has fired 155 employees If you read the article it says fired. This is also reflected in the title, and in the headline.
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by automatwon 10y ago
What a coincidence Snapchat is supposed to IPO in 2017...
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by automatwon 10y ago
The wide array of topics studied by residents reflects the diversity of the residents themselves — some come to the program as new graduates with degrees ranging from BAs to Ph.Ds in computer science to physics and mathematics to biology a
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by automatwon 10y ago
I didn't even know Shopify was in the unicorn category. I previously worked on a project that generated coupon codes programmatically for a Spotify shop. I just closed my testing account a couple days ago, and thought to myself 'w
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by automatwon 10y ago
Looks nice. But $40 bucks though?
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by automatwon 10y ago
Did they 'move' to Wechat? I went to school and made friends with chinese students. They were already on WeChat, and made a Facebook account after coming to the U.S. I agree, though, that they seem to have left Facebook.
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by automatwon 10y ago
Before actually reading the article and just the title, I was curious what's the association with Beats by Dre.
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by automatwon 10y ago
"Anti-uber gang"? How does the article not mention that Uber owns shares of Didi as a result of the truce in 2016? And that their CEOs are on each other's board.
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by automatwon 10y ago
The title "Send website events to Google analytics without code" is not true. "Follow the simple on-screen instructions to add a tiny piece of software on your website." That's like saying a manager can produce a so
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by automatwon 10y ago
1. What if there was a function like the Y-Combinator that returns a fixed point?

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