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by red_blobs 10y ago
Remember when memes were lauded as a part of the millennial culture? Now when they are used for something you disagree with, it's seen as 'evil', 'wrong', or 'unethical'. The problem is that the vast majo
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Okay, then expect expensive drugs for decades when it costs billions in R and D and the drug companies need to recoup the costs (in addition to the red-tape involved in releasing the drugs). Many countries with cheap drugs never had to pay
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Okay, then expect expensive drugs for decades when it costs billions in R and D and the drug companies need to recoup the
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by red_blobs 10y ago
This is why I find many of the global warming papers dubious.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
like I said, it's all about control. It gives a company like Amazon too much control over your business..especially when it comes to price. Most hosting providers take care of any hardware issues and open source has come a long way.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Yes it does. As a business owner, more taxes means less money for employees (and less employees hired). People that don't understand taxes never consider this and immediately think employers are just greedy. Inflation is also never co
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by red_blobs 10y ago
I watched the first couple of episodes and had to stop. The 'I'm special and nobody understands me' theme was incredibly derivative. Being an uber liberal-minded hacker in the US today is mainsteam and trendy, not rebellious
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Many people here don't realize what it costs a business, in taxes, to employ someone. I think if more people realized this, we would have less people demanding a $15 pay-raise for minimum wage workers.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
'serverless' apps are not really 'serverless'. You are just allowing another company to run the actual server infrastructure. While this might be good for large companies, it's dangerous for startups. Someone else
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by red_blobs 10y ago
I don't like these types of boxes because many of the people that get it think they can set it and forget it. When security updates fail in the background (or they know nothing about them in the first place), it gets 0wned.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
I did this in Asia for a year. If you can find a stable enough Internet connection (which costs a lot more in Asia), you will need to be very disciplined to actually get anything done. All of the expats I met were 20 something college-aged
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Friendship needs to be earned, or it won't really mean anything. Bullying is a terrible thing and needs to be stopped, but this will do little to help out the person being bullied in the long-run. I was bullied in middle school and fi
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by red_blobs 10y ago
I feel like many startup founders, including Patrick, build the technology and hope the business will follow...usually with an unsuccessful outcome. He's great at marketing. He should have spent a year building a network of employers
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by red_blobs 10y ago
5 years of 1 year experience repeated 5 times is better than someone that will introduce spaghetti code and security flaws simply because they've never experienced it. It takes years to figure out patterns (when to use and not use them
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by red_blobs 10y ago
I disagree. Aside from an entry level position, you want someone with previous experience. Google wouldn't hire someone to manage their datacenter with no previous experience managing anything like it.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
of course not. People with $500+ limit will automatically be charged for the $5000 in damages they caused. It's all about risk and accountability.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
It's cool to shit on Trump..but the media bias is astounding to me. I don't think I've seen one article linked on HN that shows all of the terrible things Clinton has done.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
This works for small projects that only you touch. However, if you are building a product for a company and plan on having teams make changes to the code base, frameworks are the way to go. It's even easier when hiring because a big p
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by red_blobs 10y ago
"It is a future in which my loved ones and all of those who reared and mentored me will be recognized as first-class citizens deserving of the very best America has to offer, not as restive black and brown folk pathologically inclined
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by red_blobs 10y ago
What ever happened to personal responsibility? It's something that needs to be instilled in our youth before they ever get to college. I know at least 3 people that knowingly got PHDs in majors that will not amount to any sort of high
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Zuckerberg thinks he is a roman emperor..so visiting the pope fits right into the universe of his mental illness.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
What a surprise. Amazon is a terrible company. They built it on the backs of smaller sellers and are now turning around and pushing them away. There is always a subtext to Amazon's actions. The reality is that margins are decreasing
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by red_blobs 10y ago
My thought? Most likely an ill-informed rant by a millennial.
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by red_blobs 10y ago
"#CodeLikeAGirl." The irony of discussing privilege and equality on a forum entitled '#codelikagirl' is not lost on me. If you want equality, you should act like it..instead of creating websites and forums that segregat
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by red_blobs 10y ago
"How can we reach males who have empathy for women’s causes, but are oblivious to male privilege?" Women have higher reading rates, better graduation rates, and more are graduating from college than men. We have a much higher perc
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by red_blobs 10y ago
There are two solutions: 1) move outside a major city. I've never lived directly in a major city and have always been able to afford apartment rent. Even when I was making slightly above minimum wage. 2) Cities need to change the rule
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by red_blobs 10y ago
This will only hurt the science community. You need money to fund these publications and the scientists that are leaking the publications aren't actually funding the research with their own money. A better idea would be to fund public
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by red_blobs 10y ago
It really depends on the data you are scraping. My main business relies on scraping and my data mining application has been running for over 5 years. If you have enough IP addresses available to you, it becomes almost impossible to distin
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by red_blobs 10y ago
Is his contribution just the idea and you are building the product out? I won't partner up with an idea person anymore. I have found that they always feel entitled to more of the equity and I suspect it's because they are insecur
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by red_blobs 10y ago
You should replace 'unfair' with 'competitive'. I have many competitive advantages, but I don't consider decades of sacrifice and hard work that contributed to these advantages 'unfair'.

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