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Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor(foxbusiness.com)
358 points by buckbova 9y ago|280 comments
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by buckbova 9y ago
Doesn't appear this was intended as an idea to build software from, but a proof on how SQL vs noSQL is really SQL and coSQL.
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Is California Bailing Out Tesla through the Backdoor?(wolfstreet.com)
38 points by buckbova 9y ago|42 comments
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by buckbova 9y ago
Looks great actually. For the same reason I leave every community (namely digg and reddit), I'll have to leave this one. Far too much politics and I get sucked right in. I find myself reading and commenting on stuff that's a compl
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by buckbova 9y ago
The argument they're making is at one point the drivers were making more money and could afford to buy a new vehicle or whatever. Then because of fare reductions and therefore reductions in pay they're now saddled with debt and c
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by buckbova 9y ago
Yes. We'll go with "dearth of resources." Thanks.
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by buckbova 9y ago
"Americans will die needless deaths" when they're on long wait lists for procedures because of a glut on resources when they no longer have access to the high quality care they once had when there's a greater shortage of
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by buckbova 9y ago
> In the meantime, Americans will die needless deaths from not receiving basic healthcare No, it's the typical appeal to emotion nonsense that got the ACA passed to begin with. Now that's going to fail before it's even com
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by buckbova 9y ago
> Americans will die needless deaths First off everyone dies. Who's not receiving healthcare right now that would be ultimately saved by the government? Secondly let's cut the hyperbole and have a rational conversation about th
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by buckbova 9y ago
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14744560
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by buckbova 9y ago
Has anyone used RDS from lambda? Don't want to use Dynamo but perhaps for some key Val store.
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by buckbova 9y ago
And in 20 years there'll be a whole new set of doomsday predictions and this'll be forgotten. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=earth%20day%20do...
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by buckbova 9y ago
Majority is truly just that, benevolent aid. You want to spin some tall tales conspiracy then let's see some citation on the matter. http://www.care.org/our-impact/usaid-technical-project-brief... Sure American co
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by buckbova 9y ago
To Israel it's military spending. https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/ISR It's not a secret.
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by buckbova 9y ago
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_aWCzGMAwI3W_JlcBbtYT... Some more decent data structure vids.
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by buckbova 9y ago
Then why must Africa receive millions in aid from the West every single year? Why can't they help themselves? http://www.chronicle.co.zw/one-million-receive-food-aid In 2015, the U.S. provided more than $8 billion in a
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by buckbova 9y ago
Good excuse to refactor I'm sure.
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by buckbova 9y ago
> The cons being you are fired (which probably would have happened anyways) or you are outed as a false accuser (very hard to prove in the realm of public opinion). And probably never getting hired again, at least by any reasonably ratio
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by buckbova 9y ago
Seems a little arrogant to say most developers don't know how to refactor or do it poorly. Maybe it's true. I really can't say one way or the other because what I see is most devs believe they don't have time to refactor
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by buckbova 9y ago
> Now the German government is considering legislation that would allow social networks such as Facebook to be fined up to 50 million euros if they don’t remove hate speech and fake news quickly enough. As an American I can't imagin
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by buckbova 9y ago
> Why should that be noteworthy? Because there's perceived ageism in this industry, so saying you're just getting started in your 30's is interesting.
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by buckbova 9y ago
Haven't you heard of culling the herd? Meaning, in this case, deliberately killing off weaker brain cells to make the brain as a whole work faster.
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by buckbova 9y ago
CS Monitor shoots pretty straight https://www.csmonitor.com/ .
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by buckbova 9y ago
> Especially the kitchen with its "update" Wow. I really expected you were exaggerating but it really is terrible. There's not much square footage why the hell didn't they put in new cabinets at least?
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by buckbova 9y ago
Don't agree with the approach because using a proven solution can be superior and net a simpler code base than rolling your own. Fyi, by using webpack, couple loaders, babel, etc I net 100s of dependencies just for the build. Ymmv.
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by buckbova 9y ago
Looks like a shame piece for this fellow Justin Caldbeck. Was he given a chance to respond and is that in the article?
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by buckbova 9y ago
> No subscription? You’re missing out. Ha. I'm not exactly in the know but this is the first I've ever heard of theinformation.com.
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The Amazing Arrogance of the Paris Climate Agreement(fee.org)
6 points by buckbova 9y ago|0 comments
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by buckbova 9y ago
Uh huh. Paris agreement is non-binding. China has no obligation for 20 years. It's not ratified by Congress. Nothing from agreeing to this was going to affect your descendants other than draining American coffers of billions.
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by buckbova 9y ago
> Ultimately the only consequence of the move is optical and political. Exactly. More faux outrage.

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