qdpb

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by qdpb 9y ago
Yep. At a certain level promotion is not about just doing something well. Funnily enough, his plans now are to go do other things (presumably well) without a particular sense of direction and hope that it works out.
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by qdpb 9y ago
How many minutes before the flight do you usually arrive to the airport? If not 15, why?
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by qdpb 9y ago
The whole story is shockingly boring. It's like a counting cards except you don't even need to know probabilities.
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by qdpb 9y ago
Wonderful to see people reinventing taxation from the first principles: "awesome country to live in, with great education and social security, but these are expensive countries, from a Tax perspective"
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by qdpb 11y ago
It's not appropriate to use the word "confiscate" in this context. If you're not satisfied with the social contract of this country, you're free to leave and earn money elsewhere.
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by qdpb 11y ago
Perhaps an interesting way to interpret what you're saying is that SF is bad enough that people no longer want to move there since all their surplus income will be consumed by housing costs (valid concern!). But new immigrant salaries
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by qdpb 11y ago
If there is nowhere to house new engineers, why do companies apply for H1-B?
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by qdpb 11y ago
> let's be real, this country doesn't have nearly enough STEM professionals to meet demand ... at current salaries.
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by qdpb 12y ago
Do you also have to pay "thousands" of dollars to accountants? This particular bit seems to be an exaggeration, as I would imagine any tax software should be able to deal with foreign income. And with only federal income to report
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by qdpb 12y ago
What is so good about growth if proceeds only go to the people who already have capital?
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by qdpb 12y ago
Does he have any control over future development of javascript and how this future development will affect a wider community? I don't think he does. But he is the CEO of the company, and what the company does going forward does depend
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by qdpb 13y ago
Alternatively, they could probably make all the dates happen at home by offering NYC men some of the money that would otherwise go towards the flight.
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by qdpb 13y ago
Note that I'm criticizing this beliefs, and not the distribution of future probabilities. Of course company might be overvalued now at $250, and sure, it might hit $500 later. But if you're certain it will be $500 in three years,
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by qdpb 13y ago
Is stock overvalued at $250 or is it going to be worth $500 within 3 years? It really can't be both.
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by qdpb 13y ago
He absolutely can do whatever he wants. Just as long as he doesn't call it "taking some responsibility"* *correction: as explained elsewhere, this is potentially a misquote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by qdpb 13y ago
> Mr. Reeves said he’s been “amazed at the changes” and has watched housing prices rise. Local companies should take some responsibility, he said. And to take "some responsibility", he made it easier to push housing prices even
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by qdpb 13y ago
I think that's what you would call a break in a pattern though. Of course, the infinite series will stay infinite.
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by qdpb 13y ago
TL;DR: the country is all right, just didn't like it that much
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by qdpb 13y ago
> I went home that day and realized that Twitter, and the ensuing social media explosion, would dramatically alter the landscape of not only what I do through my blog, but design, fashion, lifestyle, culture, everything. Sounds about rig
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by qdpb 13y ago
There must be a name for a logical construct where you imagine an obscure explanation for a phenomenon, reject this explanation and then extrapolate this rejection to phenomenon itself.
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by qdpb 13y ago
Perhaps it helps to clarify that the evil here is not that college loans exist, but how easy it is to get them to pay for any kind of education, how much you can borrow, and how impossible it is to get rid of this debt burden. The choice be
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by qdpb 13y ago
He most definitely is an American now. Otherwise he would be deported by now.
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by qdpb 13y ago
The article concludes that Windows RT meets students needs perfectly, but it's hardly surprising since the college's workflow is so heavily skewed towards Microsoft applications. It's equivalent to saying Mac OS X is an excel
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by qdpb 13y ago
Nobody? What these examples demonstrate is not that C is "hard", but that it's powerful.
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by qdpb 13y ago
This is not a very accurate quote, very link baity.
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by qdpb 13y ago
I found it very unsettling that there is no way to know how many slides were left -- I know that's probably github limitation, but maybe worth inserting summary/progress slides?
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by qdpb 13y ago
Nobody is forced to go deeply in debt. College education is voluntary.
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by qdpb 13y ago
Don’t sell your time for a living. Starve.
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by qdpb 13y ago
One other thing to consider here is that these $4,500 are not packaged with a felony.
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by qdpb 14y ago
> Puke. I find Glass to be ugly, impractical and completely ridiculous. Well, that settles it then. If only in the past we had examples of innovations that were previously considered impossible.

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