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by a_c_s 11y ago
Being at one job for a short period doesn't make you a job hopper, rather it is about the long-term pattern. You can honestly say to potential future employers that this job is just a poor fit. Better to cut your losses early (and save
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by a_c_s 11y ago
People don't buy TV's that often: 5 years after release HD TV penetration was only 3%. It took 15 years to reach 81%. 4K TV's aren't going to "explode", they are going to continue to be a slow trickle. http:&#
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I don't see the value in allowing people to discriminate geographically: the artist shouldn't have control over who can purchase their product or consume their work so long as the artist is properly compensated. (Similarly for phy
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Bioavailability is rather complicated: for any given nutrient it can be enhanced by the presence of certain other nutrients but diminished by others. Your comment also ignores phytonutrients* (which includes flavonoids and some anti-oxidant
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Workers, white-collar or not, are seldom sold a job with full information: working through vacation isn't the kind of thing mentioned in job postings. I don't think anyone should be forced to work through their vacation: that&#x27
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by a_c_s 11y ago
The general rule of thumb for stock market returns is a 7% real return. Here's a nice little tool if you want to play with the numbers yourself over particular periods of time: http://www.moneychimp.com/features/ma
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by a_c_s 11y ago
There's no intrinsic reason Uber's take is fixed at 20% - maybe their business can only viably employ humans (with all of their attendant needs like health insurance) with a smaller take.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Chutzpah is exactly the right word. "Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do
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by a_c_s 11y ago
In NYC there are brokers, property managers, supers and landlords. Landlords own the building. They may do everything themselves but often they hire the other three to help them out. Supers (short for superintendents) often live in the buil
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by a_c_s 11y ago
WalMart revenue: $482bn Amazon revenue: $89bn WalMart sells over 5x as much: if Amazon were to scale proportionally it would have 835,000 employees. (And if we looked only at the non-AWS portion of Amazon I'd imagine the difference wou
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by a_c_s 11y ago
You can simply and easily do instant results by using an optical scan voting system: ballots are scanned as they are submitted by the voter to the ballot box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_scan_voting_system
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by a_c_s 11y ago
The best thing about paper ballots is their simplicity: even children can understand how to count and monitor them. Nearly any citizen has the skills to participate and to spot fraud. In comparison only a small percentage of the populace un
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by a_c_s 11y ago
The vast majority of bureaucrats are not elected officials
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Due to "Romeo & Juliet" clauses, this isn't actually true in many states. For example, in Iowa somebody 14 or 15 can have sex with somebody less than 4 years older than them. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Cutting all the programs needed to enable basic income would mean most public servants would lose their jobs.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Netscape used to be a paid product* before Microsoft made IE free. What Microsoft did was make a free competitor and install it on every machine running their OS. So what Microsoft did that was illegal was use their monopoly power to destro
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Yes, unfortunately: other providers like Verizon also price their data at $10/GB increments.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/10/2... The key point about the Idaho ministers is this: "The Hitching Post has apparently in the past operated as a for-profit business and o
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I think "cute and harmless" is actually the right approach for these cars, at least while they are in development. It is harder to project fears of unsafe, dangerous, menacing AI on something that looks likes a kid's toy. Onc
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by a_c_s 11y ago
"ordinary mortals" who can make their payments on a 30 year mortgage will have it paid off in 30 years.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
You mean the same game that Cisco & Microsoft have been playing for years now?
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by a_c_s 11y ago
HN has always blocked these kinds of responses, just as how they block pun, joke and meme threads. Memes are arguably more indicative of a community as they are an in-group norm, but HN has a clear stand against them as they dilute the qual
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Aha, thanks for teaching me how to do this!
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by a_c_s 11y ago
"I came all over myself when [person] died" This is one of the most crass comments I've ever read on the internet
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by a_c_s 11y ago
It depends on what you mean by "culture fit": is from the same social culture (watches the same tv shows, enjoys the same activities etc.) or professional culture (dress code, communication style, etc.). The former is clearly ripe
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Source for the claim that fraud has increased?
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by a_c_s 11y ago
I think this would be far more informative if they started by explaining the single teller case: it isn't obvious how customers that arrive at a rate of slightly less than 1 every 10 minutes and take 10 minutes to serve would have an a
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by a_c_s 11y ago
Trying to overthrow a government is not terrorism.
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by a_c_s 11y ago
As somebody who's read a lot of MMM, I think your impression is mistaken. (At the very least, MMM hates commutes: he'd rather everyone live close to work and walk or bike everywhere.) Everyone wants more, but more often doesn&#x27
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by a_c_s 11y ago
1. Crimea was Ukrainian from 1954 until Russia's invasion. 2. The election held after Russia invaded was neither fair nor free. Non-citizens were allowed to vote and militias coerced voting.

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