ThrowMeDown01

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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Since the major component of Google's profitability is its search business you would have to filter for that. Much of the rest that they do isn't exactly a shiny example for profitability. Also, it's not exactly easy to say w
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
I on the other hand think being shown the randomness in hiring is beneficial.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> there is almost no temperature where I say that it's too hot Did you ever ask a doctor about this? Especially an endocrinologist. One example of many possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothyroidi
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> maybe they would benefit from an earlier bedtime? One can try but you will be limited by biology: The problem is that our internal clocks are reset by daylight. You can't just shift yourself to another timezone, since your circa
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
You may enjoy this blog post, "I no longer understand my PhD dissertation". A sample quote: > This was not the casual read I had in mind. The notation was alien. I even had to scour the examiner’s report to direct me to the ke
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
They did? > And they repeated those experiments many times over, with volunteers from 36 different countries, to see if the studies would replicate in some cultures and contexts but not others. So different sets of people, and differen
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
There is an article on the German satiric website "Der Postillon": "Study: Wages cause billions of damage for German companies" https://www.der-postillon.com/2014/08/studie-lohnzahlungen-v...
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> if only all the lonely people could find each other, and had the social skills to initiate contact, all would be well. I'd say I have very good social skills, never have a problem getting to know people when I take the time. The
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Funny, the linked article itself links back to HN when this was previously discussed (Jan 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451310
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
No, why? The expat money went into local markets (very unequally but that's another point). Vancouver, London, etc. But even in small towns real estate investors are not necessarily local. My mother just moved into an apartment owned b
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Then you are going to like this short study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> I still think it's roughly correct to state that humans are a pretty dumb animal that juuuuust manages to pass the threshold of traits required to develop technology. I think what I wrote is pretty much in support, or at the ver
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
There is more to it - the environment, and networking effects (so., the environment, which causes or prevents them). Only some of the human civilizations went all the way to the Internet, we still have people living as hunter/gatherers
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> From a moral standpoint, You mean from your (current) moral standpoint. "Moral" is not exactly something fixed, it is varies greatly depending on both space and time.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> I don't usually explain this because, as you can see from this post here, it takes too long. Wouldn't the solution for this type of problem be to write it down only once and thoroughly in a blog post, and then refer to it?
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> the horse does not enjoy it That's a bold statement. I don't even know where to begin, there are so many levels here. Like, why would you even make such a claim? I mean I'm not against the claim per se, but it does not
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
Original title was too long, HN asked me to trim it, so I cut beginning and end. Actual title: > Trump administration's reported effort to 'barter' a US resident to convince Turkey to ramp down Khashoggi probe stuns foreig
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Effort to 'barter' a US resident to convince Turkey to ramp down Khashoggi probe(businessinsider.de)
3 points by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago|2 comments
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
The information is not in the thing itself as you say, it is in the first derivative, or in plain English, it is about the change . Not the presence of this or that perk, but when it was there and is taken away.
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> I use the Plume Flow Uhm.. how? "Shipping November 2018" and the order button is labeled "Pre-Order". I'm a bit amazed - and disappointed - by how little information there is on that product page. The "tec
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
> before getting actual integers Javascript has always had "actual integers". As long as you stay within Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER...Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (-9007199254740991..9007199254740991) the internal representation is a
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by ThrowMeDown01 8y ago
That's a non sequitur if I ever heard one.
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by ThrowMeDown01 9y ago
Or, for those who prefer to listen to a lecture: Lenin and the Russian Revolution - Professor Catherine Merridale FBA -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRIzW7A9lhs&feature=youtu.be The Fate of the October Revolution Un
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by ThrowMeDown01 9y ago
You are taking this way too far as an argument. Russia at the time was miles and miles behind any Western nation in terms of development. They knew it, which is why they thought their revolution would fail unless Western nations, German wor