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by h3throw 7y ago
Thanks for the completely uninformed prognostication on my future income! I will definitely not keep it in mind.
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by h3throw 7y ago
I don't understand people who say this. Have you ever tried to hire? I'm 28yrs old and I make ~$400K/yr. That doesn't happen when there's some major abundance of talent sitting around.
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by h3throw 7y ago
> Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget, which is not excellent for this purpose, as you point out. The CPI is composed of much more than that: https:/&
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by h3throw 7y ago
This reminds me of the phrase "if you only have a hammer, every problem is a nail". > Poor people buy less stuff, and presumably rich people get rich by not buying more stuff commensurate with their incomes One implication of t
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by h3throw 7y ago
China, the country != Chinese (Asian?), the race
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by h3throw 7y ago
Or more importantly in this case: sell high, buy low
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by h3throw 7y ago
He's going to agree to one after leaving? As a part of severance?
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by h3throw 7y ago
Only Apple could get shat on for using appropriate but obscure terminology.
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by h3throw 7y ago
That seems like an odd cost increase. How do you figure it would lead to a tripling of op costs?
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by h3throw 7y ago
This is true if you only consider the first order effect of copyright. However, the second order effects would lead to, for example, significant decrease in investment of the creation of any work that has marginal production of near $0. Why
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by h3throw 7y ago
I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it
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by h3throw 7y ago
That could very well be an affect of long term acclimation.
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by h3throw 7y ago
There's a big difference between seeing high concentrations of carbon dioxide as indicative of poor ventilation and seeing high concentrations of carbon dioxide itself as detrimental to cognitive function.
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by h3throw 7y ago
Very valuable to know. Thank you.
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by h3throw 7y ago
Way OT, but, I'm interested in why you and the parent comment are writing Netflix with a capital "F" as NetFlix. I've not seen this in any of their branding or collateral before. Is there a specific reason for it?
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by h3throw 7y ago
You're making a very large number of assumptions. In particular #1, #3 and #4. None of these are clear.
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by h3throw 7y ago
It's all in my head? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629960 (now deleted) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629995 I think wrt
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by h3throw 7y ago
It seems most posters didn't really read the article as the tariffs appear to be in compliance with a WTO ruling on something illegal the EU is doing wrt subsidies to Airbus. Unsurprising that the NYT and HN goes with the lead that Tru
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by h3throw 7y ago
Tried to create an Outline but it seems WSJ blocks them. Very interesting article wrt economics of buffets in NYC. Apologies for paywalled link.
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Gut-Busting New York City Buffets That Won’t Pinch Your Wallet(wsj.com)
1 points by h3throw 7y ago|1 comments
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by h3throw 8y ago
> I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company. In order to make a purchase of X it is required that another party exists to make a sale of
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by h3throw 8y ago
Yeah the listicle type results have really started to increase in search relevance for me. ESPECIALLY when I search on mobile. I think mobile Google Search is a truly awful experience with an extremely cluttered results page that I can neve
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by h3throw 8y ago
What!? I've lived in the Mission for 5yrs and know plenty of others who also have. Never once been mugged our had my house broken into! The car thing, though, everyone in SF who street parks has had their window shattered and car scave
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by h3throw 8y ago
No. Uber gets location data FROM Foursquare. EDIT: That is, the API call doesn't include info about the individual. Foursquare wouldn't know who the individual is for whom the request was made. Except, perhaps, in rare circumstanc
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by h3throw 8y ago
Feels a bit like correlation vs causation. It's unclear what the mechanism of action in GvH would be and it's also clear in this case that GvH was not necessary.
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Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio(confluent.io)
115 points by h3throw 8y ago|30 comments
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by h3throw 8y ago
Not even an Uber or Lyft? Never purchased a product through Amazon or similar? You've never had to enter your credit number into your phone to be used in any way?
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by h3throw 8y ago
You didn't pay attention to the key part "to a third party". Most of the larger companies don't use third party logging software, AFAIK.
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by h3throw 8y ago
When I worked at Uber we used this an it was internally called "uChat". I have two things to note about this: 1) When uChat was first rolled out the team who ran the rollout did everything they could to make it seem as though they
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by h3throw 8y ago
> People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better. I always enjoy it when someone arrogantly poses a subjective statement as fact from a position of arbitrary authority. I

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