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by ativzzz 7y ago
A person making $500/k a year living paycheck to paycheck most likely needs therapy, not a financial advisor.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Just went to voat, and it keeps redirecting me to the sign in page regardless of where I go, so looks like they've beaten reddit in terms of unfriendly accessibility.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> in brute economic terms, mis-priced Is this necessarily a bad thing? Or are you saying this is basically an arbitrage opportunity waiting for someone to exploit it? How would we structure something free that provides value, and keep it
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> I would expect a manager with an engineering degree to be more likely to understand the absurdity and danger of building passenger aircraft with missing tools and incorrect instructions, red flag such issues, and push back deadlines to
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by ativzzz 7y ago
You're right, the way I structured that takes away from what I was trying to say. Thanks for your hard work.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Guess you didn't read the original article, because it mentions the exact program you linked towards the bottom about Quebec. One negative found was > But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers,
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Voting and protesting are ultimately pointless if the options to vote for aren't enacting the changes needed, and if the protests aren't causing enough disruption to people in power for them to change anything. If you really want
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I've noticed a lot of posts on HN recently get their titles changed after posting, and this one will as well because it is quite incorrect as you pointed out.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> If I click this button, this websites loads. As a user of technology, I want the exact same thing. I'll do research to build a PC, or install a new OS, and tinker with it until it works to my satisfaction. Then, I never want to to
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by ativzzz 7y ago
LibreOffice has come a long way, but retraining thousands of employees is impractical.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Corporations do not care one bit for > lives of all those users Equifax cares about one thing: earning profits for its shareholders. They got caught with their pants down. Now other companies can look and try to estimate their expected c
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Ah, must be the new kubernetes.js frontend framework :)
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by ativzzz 7y ago
How do you expect someone who doesn't have access to banking to set be able to set up a mining rig? I'm not saying having a bank account is necessary, but the life conditions that prevent bank access (poverty, homelessness, addict
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> do the employees are just as unethical Most people's ethics are easily bought. Does working for a company that operates with questionable integrity outweigh providing a stable income for your family? Remember Facebook is still a v
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> If games aren't art worth preserving, then neither is television, movies, music, etc They're not, unless you're willing to pay extra for them to be. Netflix is not preservable, DVDs are. Spotify is not preservable, CDs&#
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Because for the vast majority of Americans, convenience trumps privacy.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I'm surprised they didn't have something like this sooner. I'm sure there are other tools, but the only one that I know of that people use to send payments to each other regardless of bank account is Venmo. Being able to send
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> 100ms with how many responses per second As always, it depends. Benchmarks are cool, and yes we know that Rust and Go will always be faster than Ruby out of the box. Once the number of responses goes up, you throw caching at the proble
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The vast majority of web apps are CRUD apps, which can achieve sub 100ms responses on any language with caching, background workers and minor optimizations. There will always be problems where you need faster responses, and the solutions to
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by ativzzz 7y ago
It seems Automaticc did something like this. Wordpress was founded in 2003, and the company Automaticc in 2005, meaning they probably spun Wordpress out as the product. Now, the parent company owns a bunch of different products. Obviously s
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Are we surprised that companies choose money over morals? That seems to be the status quo for most companies in the U.S. currently. There are, and always will be exceptions depending on the particular people involved, but generally if you
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Because real life and philosophy are often in conflict with each other. On top of that, cultural values change and fluctuate with time. > Stop swinging, start living. Swinging is living. Life is constantly changing, or "swinging&quo
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I just want to say I love the little built in links/dropdowns within the article to expand information. Much more user friendly and smooth than using formal citations.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I use a $5 simple alarm clock. I don't take my phone into my bedroom. It's improved the quality of my sleep as I don't look at the phone in bed before I go to sleep, and I get up quicker since I don't look at my phone in
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by ativzzz 7y ago
They also murder-rape young seals lol: https://werc.ucsc.edu/Publications/2010%20Harris%20et%20al.p...
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by ativzzz 7y ago
His campaigns also contributed to something like 60+ million deaths[1]. Maybe the Hitler of his time? In his case, perhaps everyone who got in his way simply didn't have any luck. [1] https://www.scifacts.net/human&#x2F
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> You hustle and there is never a lucky opportunity. Do you still achieve success? You prepare for a job interview and you never get the opportunity to interview. Do you still achieve success? You don't achieve success, nor do you e
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> Yes, I worry about that too - any ideas about how to fix it? Create an API that allows any site to be a front-end for meetups, you just store the data. Not sure how willing other sites would be to use this though.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> How can I, as a person, talk with my money to prevent this? With your personal money? You can't. Can you convince extremely wealthy people to spend their money in a way that will ultimately lose them money? Possible, but still los
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Nothing of the sort the OP describes happened as a result of WW1. Yes, some empires "collapsed", in the sense that the ruling parties changed, their governments got completely ripped out and replaced, or countries split up (e.g. A

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