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by Top19 9y ago
Seems like that’s appropriate for a bank. Anyone else care to comment or share context?
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by Top19 9y ago
That fact that Facebook even thought they could handle the problem of truth and objectivity in news, an issue dating back centuries, with a cute little flag, speaks volumes about their naïveté.
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by Top19 9y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. Going to church has helped me too. First in no way is believing in god a requirement to going to church. If you look at Catholicism they even say that they believe the Bible is only metaphorical and that they
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by Top19 9y ago
Yes, and they aren’t the only ones. We really have no idea how bad the situation is in China. Their total debt (public, personal, and shadow) to GDP is suggested to be as high as 1660% of GDP. This a staggering amount of money. What we are
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by Top19 9y ago
Interesting, although I believe Alibaba has been accused on multiple occasions of faking about......95% of their revenue. Keep in mind, they are traded on the US stock exchange yet the SEC has no power to investigate them :( https:/&#
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by Top19 9y ago
The amount of corruption I’ve heard against US Senators is staggering. I had no idea stuff like this was done except maybe in some cartoon version of the 1870’s Gilded Age. Good example, Max Baucus shorted various financial companies for pe
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by Top19 9y ago
Confluence is good. I will say I hated it at first, but it’s one of those kinds of software that you need to adapt to instead of the other way around. It has a lot of good, the-way-it-should-be-done processes that if you force yourself to f
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by Top19 9y ago
Tim Ferris mentioned this recently when asked why he moved to Austin, Texas (from SF) during his reddit AMA. His term was “fair-weather entrepreneurs”. Essentially guns for hires without vision who will go wherever easy capital funding is t
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by Top19 9y ago
I very much enjoyed (and even laughed) reading your response. It’s very concerning to see people talk so positively about anarchy. Another word for anarchy is “nihilism”, which is its philosophical twin. Neither of these words are used a lo
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by Top19 9y ago
The HVAC system was how the major Target hack was done. EDIT: http://people.carleton.edu/~carrolla/story.html
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by Top19 9y ago
As others have indicated, the WSJ said EXACTLY this this morning. 80% of Bitcoin investors are individuals from Asia.
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by Top19 9y ago
Just out of curiosity and because I’ve become so jaded with what constitutes upvotes on HN, I scrolled to the bottom to see the most downvoted comment. It seems like yours, which is funny because I completely agree with you. The front page
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by Top19 9y ago
I appreciate your post. For those wondering, China is the place where companies across the world are going to hide slave labor and incredible environmental devastation. That is why their prices are so cheap and 6 million manufacturing jobs
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by Top19 9y ago
Do you hate the liberal arts? Their importance in college was really emphasized after World War II, as many of the leading Nazis were seen as non-intellectuals without moral restraints developed by the study of history, philosophy, theology
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by Top19 9y ago
Blind is a great app that adds a lot of value. Man I sound like such a shill saying that, but it’s just a great way for employees and “the underground” to test people’s feelings on sensitive issues that might need to be addressed in the wor
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by Top19 9y ago
Man calling everything a “hack” really has to stop. What’s next, “six hacks that help a recovering alcoholic not also develop an opioid addiction”? The word has lost all meaning,
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by Top19 9y ago
Please HN don’t censor this comment. I legitimately believe that the US and China are on the road to war, and this war will draw on in all the powers of the world. This comment might be mocked, but if you read into history you can see how u
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by Top19 9y ago
I feel obligated to post this comment: Bitcoin is stupid. It’s a bubble. If you make money it will only be on the backs of massive losses on the other side, and potentially globally destabilizing / destructive effects.
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by Top19 9y ago
That could make it worse. What you’ve described are really just derivatives, which brought down the economy in 2008. An infinite number of bets on a finite amount of resources. Think about it like going to the horse racetrack. Nothing stopp
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by Top19 9y ago
H1B’s are mainly bad. First I get that many immigrants are actually really strong candidates more likely to do amazing things / start businesses and such, but that is precisely why we should not be allowing them into the US. They are v
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by Top19 9y ago
Good example is SAP. They are basically an outsourced dev-shop for their top 50 customers. Everyone else who buys SAP is immaterial.
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by Top19 9y ago
Worked at Oracle for years, the sales cowboys of IT for better or worse. Sales has improved a lot. A lot of the younger people coming in are much more moral than previous generations. A lot of sales has moved to inside sales as opposed to f
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by Top19 9y ago
It’s actually double lock-in, so 2x worse. You used to have to just be afraid of lock-in, which I don’t think is as big an issue as it sometimes seems. But with Google, you’re not only locked in but might be LOCKED OUT when they kill your p
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by Top19 9y ago
Going to church has been easier for me, and it also connects you to the community. Also only once a week. Since this will inevitably come up, I am liberal, and yes I still go. If you’re liberal and don’t like church, one thing I would sugge
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by Top19 9y ago
It's important to realize China is a huge bubble. They are the world's largest company. Why in the world are we supposed to have any faith in their GDP statistics? GDP growth in China has likely been negative for the last year als
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by Top19 9y ago
Your point is interesting. That being said, ughh anyone who pushes this smacks of neoliberalism. Wow now parents have to save from the birth of their child. When will it start being considered “responsible” to save 10 years before a child i
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by Top19 9y ago
China is a well run country, but most countries seem that way with 5%+ economic growth YoY. In reality, it’s slowly becoming a prison of 1.3 billion people that is gently closing its maws on them. Life is good, growth is great, but whenever
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by Top19 9y ago
As others have noted, this article is terrible. That is unfortunate though, because the book it is based on looks really really interesting. I am thinking that The New Yorker (although is seems with Mr. Cohen's help) just chose the mos
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by Top19 9y ago
I asked the CEO of my current company this. He replied “I really don’t know”. General trend seems to be that it won’t affect them much. You’re spending most of your cash, only have a couple of months of cash on hand, not much too tax.
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by Top19 9y ago
Hey I really like that you said “relaxing doesn’t work”. Weirdly enough I’ve found that to be true. I mean there are times when you’re not sleeping enough where it becomes key, but that’s about it for me. I noticed in “Daily Rituals”, a boo

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