AlexWest

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by AlexWest 11y ago
Do you have any idea how much a marriage costs?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
That's a valid point, but they are trying to incentivize behavior to fix the issue OP asks about, so it's probably a good thing overall (it's not a hoodie for 5-star reviews only).
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by AlexWest 11y ago
"The cuts amount to about 13 percent of SurveyMonkey’s workforce of about 750. The cuts were made primarily among the sales team devoted to SurveyMonkey for Business."
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by AlexWest 11y ago
"Armed to the teeth" with rocks
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Every relationship is engineered, one way or another.
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by AlexWest 11y ago
If twitter goes full algo I will stop using it just like I did Facebook as soon as they stopped showing me everything in chronological order.
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Yahoo is profitable, right? Am I missing something?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
I should have said "alternative antibiotics"
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Unfortunately many of the effects of humans are long-lasting. The elimination of buffalo, for instance, or the loss of most wolf populations in North America which lead to the explosion of deer, IIRC. I am quite interested in the possibilit
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by AlexWest 11y ago
- Antibiotic alternatives (we're going to need them fast) - As another poster mentioned, how do we suck the carbon from 150 years of burning fossil fuels out of our atmosphere? - Cognitive enhancement - Re-wilding - rebuilding devastat
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Did you completely miss the study he was talking about?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
The bay area is an interesting example. Prices are skyrocketing from demand, but part of the reason why supply has been so slow is that demand has been so sudden. San Francisco has always had a high quality of life, but it did just fine unt
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Look at the most basic need: food. Demand is relatively constant - you need enough to eat, and shouldn't eat too much (obviously in practice there is a certain amount of elasticity and differences in demand for different types of food)
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by AlexWest 11y ago
It is always ironic when the leisure class who have enough money to do as they wish from birth become very concerned that the poor simply aren't EARNING the right to eat, sleep, and rest.
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Thank you for doing this. This is truly the kind of thing the tech industry needs to be doing in order to make a net positive impact on society and promote a more agile, results-based social super-structure. EDIT: So many of the comments he
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by AlexWest 11y ago
But that's really the whole point of privilege - belonging to the group is enough to grant you the advantages of it. Period. It doesn't mean your life is great, it doesn't mean you don't have problems, but the members of
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by AlexWest 11y ago
It's relatively easy to quantify pay discrimination against various groups. Emotional pain and civil rights deprivation are harder to quantify, though.
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7 reasons the tech sector should be scared(sfchronicle.com)
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by AlexWest 11y ago
People who want to move here (for opportunities or work) by definition do not have an established life here, are not part of our community, do not have family and friends they have known for years based here, and have not worked to contribu
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Hasn't 'twenty-something', in the popular vernacular usage, already taken on the meaning of a distinct life phase (not quite adult, not still adolescent)?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
This is great news for all of us in San Francisco
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by AlexWest 11y ago
I assume you have the same problem with Tesla?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Of course it's not genetic, it's environmental.
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by AlexWest 11y ago
yeah guys, Nestle just acquihired the U.S. Forest Service, what's the big deal?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
It's insulting because it addresses its target audience as though they are children, as if they don't know how money works.
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. That random sentence thrown in: "Capitalism is the best system in the world," left my mouth hanging open with it's total lack of justification.
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by AlexWest 11y ago
Rent never dropped in the Bay in 2008, it just stabilized for a few years. Anyone know how rents reacted in 2000?
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by AlexWest 11y ago
So, assuming that certain details might have been changed "to protect the identities of those involved," it may in fact have been Gaikai, a video-game streaming startup acquired by Sony for 380 million in 2012. Check out this arti
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by AlexWest 11y ago
"Broken down to prison type, 19.1% of the federal prison population in the United States is housed in private prisons and 6.8% of the U.S. state prison population is housed in private prisons." Source: http://en.wikipe
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by AlexWest 12y ago
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