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by utnick 7y ago
Maybe paying more is something that should be explored... I think for $500-$1,000 a month per person you would have widespread behavior change in most companies, and it wouldn't really even be that expensive in the context of total hea
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by utnick 8y ago
Wow this would be a very expensive purchase for IBM , redhat is currently worth about 20% of IBM's market cap
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by utnick 8y ago
Yup this also mean that Tesla's radar and camera systems had 5 seconds to realize it was driving straight into an unmoving concrete barrier and did nothing...
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by utnick 9y ago
by 'blockchain-based' they mean, a normal election happened with traditional voting, and then some of the vote counters uploaded the tally of the votes they counted to a private blockchain
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by utnick 9y ago
The real gem of that WSJ article was that 10% of daily trades on E*Trade were either pot or cryptocurrency related
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by utnick 9y ago
Is that data that valuable though? Its not that unique, off the top of my head there are several companies that have similar datasets, Every movie theatre chain, every online movie booking service, every movie review site
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by utnick 9y ago
Here were mine Here were a few of mine, I’ve tried to get into ethereum a couple times - installing mist and getting it to sync is very difficult and time consuming - connecting to a testnet and getting ether on the testnet is also very dif
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by utnick 9y ago
I think the hate comes from some shady stuff the big brewers have historically done to push out smaller brewers, limiting tap and shelf space for craft, sponsoring laws that reduce ways that beer can be sold direct from the breweries or add
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by utnick 9y ago
Check out backcountry Hunters & Anglers: https://www.backcountryhunters.org/ They fight to preserve and add to the existing lands.
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by utnick 9y ago
Sportsbooks in general don't mind winning players though, especially big ones. They make money off the vig and move odds to get equal money on each side of the bet so that they'll make money either way.
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by utnick 9y ago
There has to be more to this story. I would like to hear the bookmakers side of this. Perhaps the researchers were scripting or triggered some other kind of security tripwire. Winning $900 split across several different bookmakers is absolu
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by utnick 9y ago
A possibly simpler solution would be to not have assigned places to vote that are based on your ID & DOB. Just vote at the polling place most convenient to you, and announce available polling places on posters around town, or facebook &
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by utnick 9y ago
When do you think programming began to have high prestige? I didn't think programming in the 80s or 90s was a particularly prestigous or high status job, salaries back then kind of reflect that too
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by utnick 9y ago
If you want to really see what the environment is like now, read the bitcointalk ico announcement threads. It's absolutely insane. Very little of that stuff makes its way to hn. People are raising money with 10 page vague 'white p
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by utnick 9y ago
My hunch is location, iron yard had a bunch of locations in 3rd and 4th tier markets where there just aren't that many programming jobs. Even in Austin which is probably one of the better markets they had, entry level coding jobs are
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by utnick 9y ago
> in order to increase housing prices for their own private investment benefit. I think its more that most people just don't like change and want their neighborhoods to remain the same If they really just wanted to increase their in
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by utnick 9y ago
Also how would it work if everyone is anonymous? Don't you need to know when people die?
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by utnick 9y ago
I use their papa johns codes frequently, they always seem to be good for 40% off - however lately I've noticed papa johns trying to cut out the middleman and run their own coupon adwords offers
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by utnick 9y ago
If I received a resume from a collegiate track person I would probably google them out of curiousity to see how fast they were, and in this case I would realize it's a fake name and resume, I wonder if that had any effect on the result
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by utnick 10y ago
Great idea, I think most people don't realize how great HSAs are. They are better than 401ks in almost every way besides the lower contribution limit. Even if you are very healthy, the category of medical expenses you can use it for is
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by utnick 10y ago
I don't really see the point of not telling them, if the company has no idea about your previous salary, they aren't going to be tricked into offering you some huge number, they are going to come in at the average wage in your lo
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by utnick 10y ago
the headline doesn't really match the content of the article...
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by utnick 10y ago
The worst part for me is how long the process takes, and how much time is invested for an interview process where the success rate is so low. My recent experience with AMZN was: - get contacted by recruiter, schedule a call with recruiter a
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by utnick 10y ago
I commuted by bike 8 miles in Texas for a while to an office that didn't have a shower Its not too big of a deal, i just packed a change of clothes, wiped off using baby wipes, and took a sponge bath in the bathroom sink . Also I didn&
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by utnick 10y ago
why are there no dots for humanities for schools with lower than 20% accceptance rates? Most ivy schools have an acceptance rate lower than 10%
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by utnick 10y ago
I'm not a great poker player, but I read a lot about them. And most great poker players say reading peoples emotions/cues/or tells isn't reliable or a big deal. So in that sense , online poker is very similar to live pok
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by utnick 10y ago
It could be, but if the service calls generally depend on the response from the previous service call. Or if you need to rate limit your calls to these services, I think its easier to code it not async
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Ask HN: Best organizations to donate to for cancer research?
8 points by utnick 10y ago|12 comments
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To save themselves, small colleges offer lifelines to their hometowns(wsj.com)
4 points by utnick 10y ago|0 comments
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Congress considering making ticket bots illegal(pitchfork.com)
2 points by utnick 10y ago|0 comments

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