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autokad
6y ago
i imagine between writing books, youtube adds on a channel, and other ways I haven't thought of that the winner could monetize the heck out of their win
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autokad
6y ago
good point, I didn't use it correctly
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6y ago
i generally use the unfollow button for people who post a lot of stuff I don't like. I got to the point where its really stable, I mostly see what I want, funny memes, pictures of my friends doing things, etc. I use to have 800 frien
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6y ago
I can't believe they thought it was that high. I mean general unemployment is no where near 27% and you'd suspect that with threat of losing visa status, immigrants are more likelier to take a job they dont exactly grok.
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6y ago
thats very interesting. in 2012, I got the worst sick I have ever been. body pain so bad it helped to moan to ease the pain, and a really bad pnenomia. but one of the things that was the kicker, eating food caused me to gag. I couldnt d
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6y ago
and you could do the SAME thing with black people and homicide and aggravated assault rates. Then you would go on to say those particular rates are racist to say. Are you ready to stop rationalizing away the deaths that everyone is facing
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6y ago
> "until we sort the issue of cops indiscriminately killing black people?" Can we please stop making this just about race and recognize we have a general police brutality issue? You do realize cops kill just as many whites as
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6y ago
I actually like Zuckerberg's response. I dont want tech companies being the arbiters of truth, leave that up to us to decide. As far as 12 employees upset they are not getting their way, we all work in companies with people having dif
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6y ago
the business traveler began using other things. its this same mentality ('it doesn't relate, business <insert here> are our customers and they wont go away') that gave a false sense of security to blackberry.
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6y ago
hertz had a 'hackathon' (more like datathon?) at my university in 2013. They gave us data (no PII but demographics such as age) along with other store sales, etc. goal, take the data and draw some insights. I showed them a chart
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6y ago
so far it seems home prices are still high though. however, the data is kind of unnatural because many are not buying homes right now while many are not listing homes. I'm very interested to see how home prices in markets like seattl
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6y ago
why should I believe you? the events mentioned in the video are not under debate. no one debates those actions didnt happen. all you do is make statements and say that since you dont see it, it didnt happen.
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6y ago
The most notable recent example is Aytu BioScience, an aultraviolet light blood treatment company banned, we all know the story. I thought about going into one of the many particular individuals that have been banned, that is well know to m
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6y ago
the way I understand it, they are censoring people, which is why some are saying they shouldn't have the 230 protection
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autokad
6y ago
very interesting. still could be useful against drones, especially as drones get used more and more in espionage and reconnaissance
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6y ago
boeing is having really hard times. Even if it were not for a pandemic that directly effects them, the max issues were going to hurt. I dont know if they had to lay off those workers, but I am not surprised at all.
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6y ago
> "n AI it's been a cliche now how many introductory blog posts and into YouTube videos and "how do I start"" one of the frustrating things its really hard to find great advanced content, and when you reach out t
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6y ago
I dont feel sorry for them at all. > "I also see a lot of people complaining that YouTube/Twitter/etc aren't doing enough to take down false/immoral/illegal content quick enough" I dont want these compa
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6y ago
dude, people literally wake up in morgues. if there was a list of most certain things in the universe, the answer being > 0 is on that list You could argue, the number is so low the benefits outweighs the costs, but that's not your
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6y ago
No, thats flawed thinking. When you invest in a company, you are investing in an organization that will (at least its their responsibility to) try to succeed. They want to make money and/or grow. On average, investors are virtually
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6y ago
when you invest in a series of companies knowing some will fail but the ones that dont will hit it big, and thus make money on average, that is not gambling or anything like buying lottery tickets. Think of it like a machine learning ensemb
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6y ago
> "Amazon should have been fined billions for those infractions." They were not infractions, that was the tax code. Governments (whether you like it or not) decided that in order for these markets to grow, they need to forgo t
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6y ago
considering the costs of telescopes, that's not a bad return on a hobby
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6y ago
i hate giphy, its a SV solution to a problem that never existed. gifs were fine, now some silicon tech forced them out and we get all the fun of copy rights and lack of saving the gifs for our personal use /s
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6y ago
I have been playing escape room games on steam with my friend from NYC, lot of fun. We got into it after playing this free two player escape room game: https://www.enchambered.com/puzzles/alone-together/
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6y ago
> "The author seems to be implying that we have a hard choice ahead of us with no middleground: We can either accept object oriented programming, or we can turn to pure FP." I disagree. I dont think that is what the author was
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6y ago
I personally have always been against paying people different rates based on geography. if a person offers value, they should be paid for that value regardless. some people say, but shouldnt their cost of living be taken into account? yes
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6y ago
I agree, I think we need to get away from proof of skill things like leetcode. In its best light, its discriminatory. How is someone with a life, such as children or other things going on, supposed to take huge amounts of time away from th
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6y ago
of course, lots of insects pollinate, including mosquitos. It reminds me of when someone said if the honey bees die, all plants will die. and I was like ... you realize that honey bees came to north America with the European settlers right
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6y ago
Because you have to sell them, and they actually have a product in the market. if you don't intuitively understand that, there is nothing more to say because you just don't understand it to make an informed thought on it. I'
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