chaqke

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by chaqke 9y ago
i do almost everything on cgpgrey's list, but i don't think i'm unhappy. life is pretty good! i also do about half of the list in the article. perhaps there are just different preferences...
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by chaqke 10y ago
Not clear what happens if two people bid different amounts at the same time, or if 1000 people bid $5+ at the same time (does it just completely fill up the chat?)
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by chaqke 11y ago
whoa - I've recently had that problem start happening. I'm going to go build some more anec-data.
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by chaqke 11y ago
ugh, oh god
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by chaqke 11y ago
Well, they DID take $1500 of cash to join the explorer program. At least they could make it easier for someone to use the hardware if they were going to abandon it.
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by chaqke 11y ago
I've heard several mentions of this over the years as one of the better use cases for devices. Sometimes it takes having a problem really close to your life to drive that devotion - I'm glad someone spent the time and effort to s
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by chaqke 11y ago
indeed, per capita GDP is increasing, and the proceeds have not flowed proportionately to the workers...so it is a fallacy that we don't have enough goods to distribute, but it's a truth that those goods are relatively scarce&#x2F
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by chaqke 11y ago
For an average four-person family, a minimum 350kg of cabbages and 200kg of radishes are required during kimjang. A winter’s supply of the fermented cabbage dish also requires 3kg of garlic and 18kg of salt. 350kg/4people = 87.5kg&#x2F
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by chaqke 11y ago
..the Kim dynasty controls the weapons...
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by chaqke 11y ago
I've claimed a similar phenomenom before. Going back further, when there was much less content, even chain letters seemed awesome and hilarious (and worth keeping around). Now, in a post-buzzfeed world, I don't want any more jun
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by chaqke 11y ago
There's a saying that goes something like: "Any idiot can build a bridge. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that is just strong enough to stand given the weight it's meant to bear". A lot of older structural "
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by chaqke 11y ago
Intuit (owner of TurboTax) lobbied against the "government doing your taxes" for you.
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Ask HN: Flowchart to decide what industries to work on?
1 points by chaqke 11y ago|0 comments
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by chaqke 11y ago
This is definitely a valid problem for anything strongly driven by a network effect. If you buy your widget and pay for it, it's not a problem, but if the product is only cool when many people produce content on it, then it get many p
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by chaqke 11y ago
That would cause usernames with spaces to overwrite passwords ;-)
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by chaqke 12y ago
That sounds upper-middle if not upper class to me ;-) Disposable income going into high-risk investments after securing an excellent education for 2 kids - if the rest of the middle class were so lucky, our entire next generation would be p
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by chaqke 12y ago
This definition is a bit leaky. For example, the executive who lives month to month live in a luxury penthouse "has" to work to pay his mortgage...but has the option to not pay that mortgage, save for a year (or two), stop workin
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by chaqke 12y ago
This is true, but the developer in Palo Alto has the option to scale back her lifestyle and bank a lot of cash, whereas the developer in Arlington Heights will bank much less cash if he scales back his lifestyle. Not arguing, just adding mo
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by chaqke 12y ago
Living in an area can be more than an emotional decision - for example, nearby family members might provide free childcare. Moving elsewhere would cause childcare to be a (large) financial burden. A family on the edge doesn't always h
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by chaqke 12y ago
The struggles of the poor ("poor" as defined by the original post) are not the same as the struggles of a fresh college grad. Households on minimum wage are often paycheck to paycheck, and thus have no buffer with which to even fi
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by chaqke 12y ago
Agree - and in addition, they may not have a 2-week buffer to find a new job even if it were available. They certainly aren't being flown in for interviews.
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by chaqke 12y ago
Financial sense depends on how you price the benefits of living in this area vs other areas. For example, being near family is a a benefit...so is being near people who care about technology, if that matters to you. Consider being a progr
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by chaqke 12y ago
The collection of this data mainly benefits employers.
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by chaqke 12y ago
I agree, the inner (premature) optimizer in us leads us to do all or nothing. It's a bug in our brains.
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by chaqke 12y ago
After years of working as a programmer, I also find something extremely satisfying about doing physical labor. When someone asks me how close my project is to done, I often say "about half", or "it'll take a few more day
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by chaqke 12y ago
A New Way for Google to accept your money in an auction for placement slots (that displace actual search positions). Obviously a winning move for google, but not really a win for anybody else (besides people trying to arbitrage ads for thes
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by chaqke 12y ago
..perhaps he isn't at $100/hour?
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by chaqke 12y ago
Some people have scarce resources and are not "designed" to fight a bureaucratic machine that was designed to not process their potentially-valid complaints. I've certainly gotten erroneous tickets in the past. Secondarily, I
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by chaqke 12y ago
"Although the major effects of the increasing minimum wage won't be felt for a while, we've chosen to close now instead of waiting for two reasons. First, the minimum wage has already increased from $10.74 per hour to $11.05
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by chaqke 12y ago
Some easy numbers: 1k/month is ~12k/year, which is ~15-18k of pre-tax salary. To re-emphasize, 1k/month in lower rent is worth 15-18k of salary. I have friends paying more than $2k/month more than me, which is around a n

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