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by BillyMaize 13y ago
This. USPS for me has also been terrible about updating their tracking information, so I don't find out until late at night when expecting a package to find I need to make this trip. It is like they wait until the end of the day to u
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
As I have said in other threads, just because someone else in another part of the world has a worse life than you does not mean yours is OK. If person A gets beaten 3 times a day and person B only gets beaten 1 times a day, does person B n
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
What he means is, Gates time is so much more valuable to him than his money is to him, where most people time or money might be more valuable than the other, but not to such an extreme. My time is more valuable to me, but there is only so
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
When did the parent post claim Gate's time is more valuable than others? I only saw that the parent comment claimed that to Gates himself his time is much more valuable than his money, but even so he spends all of his time pursuing go
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
Ah yes now it seems obvious, thanks.
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
>In theory, fully homomorphic encryption could allow the best of both worlds above. I completely encrypt my data on my machine --- nobody else has the key --- then send it into the cloud where cloud companies can do operations for me lik
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
>As a side note I love how 80% of the comments here are about the number of books available as a pissing contest versus any real discussion for the merits of the idea. For shame. Real discussion for the merits? I think maybe all of our c
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
Even today I'm disappointed with Nexflix's selection so I never bothered getting past the free trials. I would hope that some day Amazon would require everyone that wants to sell a physical copy join in on the program but I can se
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I have no books eligible, what a disappointment. I really hope they can eventually expand the program to every book out there.
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
Considering the fact that in billions of years of evolution only a few meteors have caused mass extinctions I have always been confident that we will not just happen to live in a time when one of the big ones hit. Human civilization has on
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
All that study seems to show is that schools with more students in the sports programs also produce better students. Isn't it possible that schools that strive for better athletes also tend to strive for better students and those two
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I want to agree with you because it sounds like a great story, the "American Dream", but there are so many kids who want so much and almost none achieve what this girl did. It's like praising a professional sports player for
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
As he said in the post, what a customer asks for and what a customer actually wants can be very different (and by wants he means what they will actually act on). Apparently they didn't act on paying per ticket but they DID act on a si
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I would agree its a bit unrealistic to be able to save half of what you make, unless you are in a relationship. I only make 52.4k a year in a very low cost of living area but once she starts making some money my living expenses will be so
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I have had this problem once before, I was trying to buy a jewelry box for my girlfriend and the picture was way different from the actual item. I think this is mostly because Amazon is willing to put up anything any supplier wants to prod
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
And I feel sorry for those people as I made sure to live within a 7 minute drive of work. I save thousands of dollars every year this way, as well as don't get nearly as much stress and have a lot more free time.
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
There definitely is something to getting a package to open all the time instead of going through a checkout line at the store, sometimes it feels like Christmas every week!
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
Same here. My girlfriend and I both buy basically all non food items from Amazon because we live in a small town and we are a 20 minute interstate drive away from any stores other than krogers. This has saved us a ton of money on gas and
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
Daemon/Freedom was an amazing two book series to look at as well, one of my favorite books of all time.
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Ask HN: Any cool ways to record TV?
4 points by BillyMaize 13y ago|2 comments
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I think it depends on the issue. When it comes to something like abortion or the death penalty I would rather see a politician hold their ground and never compromise on it. If it is about spending some money on health insurance then it sh
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
How do I bring in code samples when all of the code I write has been for my previous employers and therefore is owned by them? Can't I be good at what I do without spending free time away from family and hobbies doing it even more?
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
This happens to me with posts that are at least a year old, but new posts have no problem.
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
How did he react?
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I do the same! There is never anything on TV worth watching when you have the internet and lots of books, so that saves me $50/month at least, and I have a cheap android with a $30/month unlimited text and data with 100 minutes an
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
>But for a lot of these things you live in one world or the other, and never the twain shall meet - and rightly or wrongly, my impression is that more interesting software gets written in the "HN stack" than in the "MS sta
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
So many on HN treat those that write C# code as a sort of lower class of programmers and I have never understood why. I have been writing HMIs for machinery for over two years now in C# and the .NET framework with intellisense is a great t
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Myth: Millennials have no sense of company loyalty(blog.modis.com)
10 points by BillyMaize 13y ago|23 comments
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
I really hate the attitude in the first few sentences. The "your life is better than others so be grateful" idea never really applies, its like saying "your neighbor gets beaten three times a day, so don't complain when
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by BillyMaize 13y ago
Ebay bought Paypal, so they are basically the same thing

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