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Evbn
14y ago
On a 13" display, those specs are a gimmick, MAYBE useful for examining professional photos.
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Evbn
14y ago
She is trying to slowly step away from her "just be Google" strategy of 2012.
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Evbn
14y ago
Jill Schmoe doesn't read Yahoo press releases.
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Evbn
14y ago
Yes, you have captured the essence of the consultant who wrote Marissa's speech. That is exactly what this thread is complaining about. The corporatespeak BS. "Dynamic" is 1990s codeword for "good", before "rock star" took over as the tech
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14y ago
Tons of people like to play with stocks. The educated elite buy mutual funds.
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Evbn
14y ago
The same crap gets blasted around internally by the disconnected execs, "magical" systems, etc.
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Evbn
14y ago
More like 4MB for $20. I have some in my desk.
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Evbn
14y ago
That's optimizing for mutual benefit. not the same as stuffing.
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Evbn
14y ago
"Unconscionable" contracts are legally void, so to some extent, yes.
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Evbn
14y ago
There is "unlimited" and there is "reasonable and customary so let's not waste energy metering it".
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Evbn
14y ago
The cost of healthcare doesn't have much to do with nurses, it is drugs and machines and surgeons.
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Evbn
14y ago
The social gifting bit is nice, to save the hassle of accumulating attacks of $50 securities that cost more to track and redeem than they are worth.
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Evbn
14y ago
I think your point is misdirected. It is virtuous to spend time with kids and save money as well. Your hippy friend may enjoy financial aid (not to mention social welfare) that the taxpaying middle class do not qualify for.
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14y ago
The lifetime limit is equal to 400 years of gifting ?!
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Evbn
14y ago
Vanguard will tell you exactly how to allocate: in the retirement 20xx fund for the year you want cash.
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Evbn
14y ago
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Your savings account is held by a Delaware corporation. Oh no!
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Evbn
14y ago
If you write a will with a lawyer, it doesn't get cancelled when the lawyer dies.
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Evbn
14y ago
I am not pleased with engineering for taste without regard for the corresponding nutrients that our taste evolved to detect.
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Evbn
14y ago
That article is useless without pictures. If people liked old apples better, why didn't growers just switch back? Maybe people just happened to like other varieries that entered the market.
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Evbn
14y ago
Opportunity cost. PhD stipends pay less than unskilled labor, after you subtract "tuition"
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Evbn
14y ago
Read a "plain English" document from 1850. Special constructs ("terms of art", or "programming languages"), are very useful.
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Evbn
14y ago
I bet you can guess. Hint: $
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Evbn
14y ago
It doesn't demand anything. It offers what you want from it. Just like your phone.
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Evbn
14y ago
When it's been said forever, it's not really a new threat. Small talk was always pointless.
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Evbn
14y ago
She's just not that into you. The virtual world is more interesting than the real world. Don't hate the messenger.
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Evbn
14y ago
That's completely the opposite of why games exist. If I didn't want a chance at forgiveness, I would just play real life.
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14y ago
People prefer short-term gratification when it is available. "Mundane" isn't relevant. Wik Wheaton or Freddie Wu or someone explained that youtube audiences don't have short attention spans, but that they have demanding attention spans, and
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Evbn
14y ago
Isn't that the cliché of stories like this?
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14y ago
Because the job might not benefit from an overqualified degree holder.
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Evbn
14y ago
Enterprise rental car company made a fortune hiring underpaid non-college-degree-holders for its counter staff.
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