HillaryBriss

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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   WTF was wrong with the Navy, taking away a wounded soldier's disability benefits and medals and putting him in jail after he'd served so bravely in a deadly sea battle? And why did it take until the 1980's for this man to get
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   Wait. Radioactive copper in the global electronics supply chain? What strategies can an average joe use to minimize exposure to that?
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   Bus-only lanes make a lot of sense in high traffic areas. The time has definitely come for this sort of thing in many California cities. They should put some on the 405 through the Sepulveda corridor in Los Angeles.
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   But sweatshops are often where our cheap clothes and electronics actually come from right now despite everyone's agreement that they're bad. Also, I'm not sure what would make you think that I do not understand that these law
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   Sure ... but ... what about the fact that consumers fucking LOVE to use Uber & Lyft? It's like marijuana or potato chips made of heroin. People can't get enough of that shit. How popular will the politicians (e.g. state attorn
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   Ok. Yes. But when will San Francisco/San Jose/Palo Alto go back to being simple, boring cities with high real estate prices that are no longer at the center of the global software hurricane?
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   so true and so typical. Amazeballs wasn't even invented until 2014. we all know that. stupid recruiters.
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   When the investing community saw Facebook pull a shit ton of cash directly out of the sky, it said "We must be 'social.' Social is the way, the truth and the life." Couple that with the following realization: the folks i
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   by HillaryBriss 11y ago

   I always thought "Baby On Board" caution signs were placed on cars and minivans as a courtesy to other drivers. These signs let other motorists know that the sign-toting car will swerve wildly, stop unexpectedly and misbehave dras
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    If you liked that, you may also like "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Available from fine retailers of books. And Amazon.com.
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    ... appears to have been written by an economist. Is any other comment necessary?
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    Despite this "abundance" of land, Japan has not found a way to produce enough food. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/26/reference/japan-...
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    Re: Japan - Economist Dean Baker makes the case that Japan's population decline is not all bad: "The decline in population is in fact a benefit in many respects for Japan. It is a very crowded island with expensive land prices. A
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    It's much more beautiful if you use Android SDK: private boolean googleSubsidiaryConnectionSuccess = false; private boolean googleSubsidiaryConnectionInProgress = false; private GoogleSubsidiary googleSubsidiary = null; priva
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    I'm sorry I do not have rigorous numbers for you. I can only estimate based on personal observation: in a typical neighborhood of single family homes, about 50% of homes employ a gardening service in Southern California. In my area, i
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    One of the biggest costs of maintaining a lawn in Southern California is the cost of paying the weekly "mow, blow, and go" gardening service. This cost is actually more than that of the water. This gardener service cost savings sh
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    by HillaryBriss 11y ago

    Yes. Great stuff. Just reading it ... Yegge sez: "a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product." I guess that's true. If I had to defend that statement, I'd try to argue that a p