privatedan

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by privatedan 3y ago
Hahahahaha I love this! Almost as good as fixing race conditions with sleep statements ( which I see a lot )
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by privatedan 3y ago
mmm… donuts…
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by privatedan 3y ago
Was on a jury for a murder trial dec 2021. The trial gave me a new found respect for how trials are conducted, what evidence is allowed in, how defendants are protected, and the general thought and reasoning behind it all. Then, the jury de
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Real Life Analytics Looks To Revitalize Advertising(bcheights.com)
5 points by privatedan 12y ago|0 comments
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by privatedan 12y ago
~$50,000 USD per year in dividends from individual, public stocks, which isn't bad considering I do not seek out dividend payers specifically. Was earning another $25,000 or so renting out an apartment, but sold that recently to look f
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by privatedan 12y ago
What are you looking to get for it?
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by privatedan 12y ago
My first thought after reading the article was that it was ridiculous to fire/scapegoat the author for hitting the wrong key, too. This has happened to me before, where a single keystroke ( in my case, a line break in a config file ) c
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by privatedan 12y ago
If I were a pizza parlor owner, I would frame this letter and hang it in my restaurant.
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by privatedan 12y ago
A simplified example of what happens when trade deficits occur over a long enough period of time: Squanderville versus Thriftville (Warren Buffet) - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1053684/posts
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by privatedan 12y ago
Why take a minimum wage job when you can probably contract yourself out doing a number of different things? I worked part-time one summer for $6/hr ( ~ 0.75 higher than minimum wage ) in between sophomore/junior year in high schoo
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Ask HN: How would you invest $1M?
2 points by privatedan 12y ago|1 comments
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by privatedan 12y ago
1.) Graduated from a top engineering school with little debt ( ~$10k ) thanks to wonderful parents who planned from day one to send my sisters and I to our top choice colleges. 2.) Consulted, tutored, did odd jobs throughout school to help