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by bbreier 6y ago
https://www.fastcompany.com/90227665/the-economy-is-booming-... Quick Google search turned this up, I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole but this line seems relevant: > Factors like race, gender, and
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by bbreier 6y ago
To elaborate on your point here, gun store owners choosing not to sell firearms to particular customers because they suspect those customers are a danger to themselves or others for any reason (including just the owners' hunch) is very
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by bbreier 6y ago
Yea I'm not sure I understand how people are coming to the conclusion that Colombia will find a way to make selling cocaine into an unprofitable endeavor
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by bbreier 6y ago
You are totally correct- and the worst part is, it hasn't always been this way. I've been doing iOS and Android development since the days of iOS6, and for the majority of that time, I've found iOS documentation to be signifi
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by bbreier 6y ago
This same problem does not exist in many places where urbanization is much further along than it is here, which would lead me to question whether it was the primary factor at work.
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by bbreier 6y ago
> Luxury cars often have high maintenance requirements and poor reliability since cost is not a concern to their owners. This is absolutely a nit and does not disqualify your overarching statement at all, but generally these attributes a
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by bbreier 6y ago
For the same reason people already work unsatisfying jobs to earn money: to earn money
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by bbreier 7y ago
It is true that purchasing a home in Seoul is very expensive, but renting continues to be more affordable than in e.g. Manhattan or San Francisco https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Seoul A 1 bedroom apartmen
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by bbreier 7y ago
Yes, I've lived in both.
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by bbreier 7y ago
How about some of the much denser megacities? For example, Tokyo, or Seoul? Both are far more affordable than the much less dense first tier cities of the US.
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by bbreier 7y ago
Why don't you fill us in on what those reasons might be?
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by bbreier 7y ago
Thank you for the fantastic example for how to respectfully review code. It’s important to remember that a diff does not include the process for how the solution was arrived at, and I try to leave openings like yours so that the submitter o
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by bbreier 7y ago
Houston hasn't had a single Republican mayor since 1982. I'm a Houston native so I know that the city has skewed liberal since long before 2008, and while I can't speak to other cities in as much detail, for Houston specifica
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by bbreier 7y ago
> Cities in Texas and Tenesee happen to be conservative I don't know anything about Tennessee, but cities in Texas are not conservative. See these maps of 2012 and 2016 election results by county: https://www.chron.com&#x
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by bbreier 7y ago
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by bbreier 7y ago
I see you. I hope things get better. Please do not harm yourself, you are valuable and you matter. The people you work with do not define who you are, and neither does their abhorrent behavior.
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by bbreier 9y ago
I really want to give my thanks to the Flutter team. Flutter allowed us to finally (and fairly quickly!) build a music production application on Android with feature parity to our iPhone offering. We're just three devs working on this
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by bbreier 9y ago
Myself and two friends have tried to make music production easier (and more robust) on the phone in our spare time, and came up with our iPhone app, Tize ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tize-make-music-beats-easy&
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by bbreier 11y ago
This is just hearsay, but I was told there is basically a minimum rating and if they drop below it for any meaningful amount of time they are fired.
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by bbreier 11y ago
This sentiment is echoed a lot in relation to Zappos' policies, and I think it holds water. But it crossed my mind that the existence Dunning-Kruger effect might actually result in the inverse. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by bbreier 11y ago
As long as you define "best" as those who get funded by top-tier VCs, sure.
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by bbreier 12y ago
Yes, that's exactly right. In this case, Japanese uses the simplified version, but in others it uses the traditional version (or even a version that is slightly different from the current traditional version used in Taiwan or Cantonese
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by bbreier 12y ago
The author's explanation of what characters Chinese, Japanese, and Korean share is very limited. All three languages use Chinese characters in written language to varying extents, and in some cases the differences begin significantly l