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by acalderaro 10y ago
Nothing is inherently "wrong" with taxi's, they're just inefficient. Just like there isn't anything "wrong" with encyclopedias, but why would you waste time looking in an encyclopedia/dictionary when
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Yea they really wanted to win. Honestly it was pretty frustrating because I rely on them for 87% of my meme consumption, but I'm glad that we won a "place" on /r/place
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by acalderaro 10y ago
My favorite subreddit (r/2007scape) went head-to-head against r/The_donald for the top left corner. Right now it's "connection lost - please wait, attempting to reestablish" but apparently the_Donald wanted to make
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by acalderaro 10y ago
One question I asked that turned me off from pursuing an MBA was "what happens when the MBA pool becomes as saturated as the <liberal arts degree> pool?" What other degree can one get besides an MBA to demonstrate success at
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by acalderaro 10y ago
I used the Pomodoro Technique to transition from the "Lazy-SOB" side to the "Deep Flow" side. It's a regulative tool, generalized for the average person, so depending where you are on the spectrum, you'll have
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Should we celebrate that a single individual has provided millions of dollars worth of value to society through innovation and willful exchange by all parties? Or should we be saddened that most of society fails to provide similar value, de
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by acalderaro 10y ago
It is mentally exhausting, and I think it's highly underappreciated just how exhausting it is to listen to/deal with other peoples' problems as a manager in any capacity - especially when you yourself are not able to vent (ei
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by acalderaro 10y ago
I've always wondered why LISP was such a hot-topic of discussion for CS people. I'm not technical myself, but the idea of different computing languages being more/less efficient in certain tasks is interesting. I don't k
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by acalderaro 10y ago
What if they put funds towards building out broadband and employed homeless people?
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by acalderaro 10y ago
New York State has the second highest debt of any state - something like $300 Bn. Muni-bonds may be tax free, but they aren't risk free, so that could be an influencing factor. It's also possible that New York is heavily bureaucra
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Ask HN: Has anyone participated in or worked with 1776 in DC?
1 points by acalderaro 10y ago|0 comments
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Ah, a member of the mythical "coastal liberal ideological vacuum," where anyone who brings up the slightest anti-government sentiment gets bombarded with ad hominem attacks and logical fallacies, instead of facts and reason. Is th
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Wired actually did a fairly good piece on this whole thing. The links within the article link to other Wired articles, but if you keep going back their source articles cite scientific findings, federal investigators and other credible sourc
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Because the comparisons are blatantly obvious.
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Nazis tortured and massacred civilians in eastern Europe. US Soldiers did so in Iraq. Did you even bother to read the reports?
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by acalderaro 10y ago
You do realize that this is the exact premise of risk and reward? That company could have been the next Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc, and in those 800-ish days you would have given up for weekends over 8 years you could have earned more th
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Yea, from the POV of the government having the public realize all the illegal, unethical and irresponsible things you've been doing with their tax dollars would be absolutely terrible. Someone may end up getting jail time - or even wor
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by acalderaro 10y ago
On his essay tab, PG's "Risk of Discovery" is loading at the bottom, instead of the top near the more recent ones - is this happening for anyone else?
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by acalderaro 10y ago
Interesting, so would this look like a more expansive take on a "coding bootcamp?" Maybe combine the practical coding skills with some theory?
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Ask HN: What do you think could be improved about CS degree curriculum?
1 points by acalderaro 10y ago|2 comments