mjparrott

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by mjparrott 5y ago
Turns out it is more profitable to just take everyone's inbox cash than to offer them a service to make their own cash visible to them for a % fee
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Yes they resell the gift cards. If I quote the article: "... these accounts can all be cleaned out and deposited onto a gift card number that can be resold quickly online for 80 percent of its value" Additionally, a quick google s
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by mjparrott 5y ago
But how am I supposed to get mad at that headline?!
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by mjparrott 5y ago
I brought my kindle with me on international trips because back then it wasn't so common to have a smartphone/wifi everywhere. I used its browser feature all the time when traveling. I even used it for texting people, gmail, etc.
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by mjparrott 5y ago
It shouldn’t require a HN front page story to fix something like this
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by mjparrott 5y ago
A bit cynical take here? What if people vote for GOP for other reasons and because there is a two party system they have to weight this issue amongst others.
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Here is an awesome take on this subject: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/01/the-low-informati... I’m going to suggest that unless you work directly in the news media industry yourself, you too should
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Almost all media outlets are shifting towards more and more opinion content, which drives clicks and revenue for them. Even the New York Times has dramatically shifted to opinion content and even dramatically increased the share and promine
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Social media is great for finding people with similar interests. I like to cook a certain type of food, and there is a community there of people who share ideas and the dishes they have made. I like it. It's great. If 'hate'
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by mjparrott 5y ago
This argument makes every single law moral. It also is telling you to not question laws that are in place. If "crime" is your definition of moral or immoral I'd love to hear your take on any of the civil rights movements of t
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Malcolm Gladwell published a pretty interesting history on LeMay in his new book The Bomber Mafia https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobook/bomber-mafia/
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Security theater is a great comparison. People already have an opinion before they look into the facts, if they ever take an honest look at the facts. As a final step that no one does, do you check how the facts evolve over time and go back
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by mjparrott 5y ago
I had two jobs in high school and learned a lot from them. In the first, I was a temp worker for a P&G re-packaging facility. This means some temp agency was paid $12/hour and they passed on $9/hour to me. The job was backbrea
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by mjparrott 5y ago
If it was by accident, then it calls into question the quality controls over labs. It isn't "equally likely to happen anywhere" if the quality and safety standards vary by location. Operating a lab with poor safety standards
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by mjparrott 5y ago
A lot of spoken text is highly inefficient to read.
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by mjparrott 5y ago
"Without passwords" ... by importing your passwords to google! haha
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by mjparrott 5y ago
I would never want my laptop to be my authentication device for my personal life. I am away from home when I need to log in to things. Even if I'm at home, I am not sitting at my desk when I need to log in.
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Companies break contracts all the time. The consequences range and can include legal action, hurt relationships, lost business ... but also could be minor ('business is business').
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Won't repairable phones be bulkier? I would think its hard to be able to have as compact / integrated / low-toleranced of a design if you make more exposed screws, clips and replaceable seals etc.
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Thank goodness we have states with different policies so you have some ability to move if you don't like the tax policy of your state. Obviously many can't.
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Haha yes ... earmarking funds for noble causes is the ultimate fake out. Lottery money all goes to noble causes right, right?
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by mjparrott 5y ago
For what it's worth, as much as people here are criticizing consultants it's also very difficult to run massive corporations and make some of the decisions executives are asked to make, in timeframes required. While some answers m
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by mjparrott 5y ago
The technical language in this makes me ditto the first comment that this is too much for many people out there like myself
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by mjparrott 5y ago
Is there any analysis of the scale of foreign investment and its impact on pricing and valuations? The every-so-often headline is 'international billionaire has high rise apartment over central park for his/her cat' ... but I
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by mjparrott 6y ago
I'd encourage anyone with advice for the farm industry to work 1 week on a farm if they haven't before. Many probably were born and raised on it but if you weren't, it'd be worth it.
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by mjparrott 6y ago
apples and oranges
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by mjparrott 6y ago
In 2016 when objective journalism died in major news institutions. Since then it is a cesspool of opinion pieces and advertising masquerading as content.
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by mjparrott 6y ago
This. If you can cancel college debt, colleges will more willingly dump piles of debt onto their students as well. It will also fuel the soaring cost of education to go even higher. The problem is that debt financing is given to people who
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by mjparrott 6y ago
Relative to MDs and JDs, is there a credible and in-use ethical creed for MBAs? MDs and JDs have some figment of doing no harm to try to help people. MBAs do anything legal to make a buck?
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by mjparrott 6y ago
One of us will wake up in a gooey casket attached to some sort of harvesting machine in the future. We will have to fight an army of men in black suits as we try to save the human race from the robots.

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