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by berrypicker 13y ago
There's a lot of hate on the internet for many kickstarter projects - "who would fund this crap?!", "how is this receiving money?!". This sort of 'trolling' is probably coming from people who don't wa
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by berrypicker 13y ago
"Girl gamers" are well-known on the Internet for being some of the most obnoxiously annoying people on the planet.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Disagree completely: 1. I've gone into hardware stores for small DIY tasks and parts/materials are not stuff you can buy with spare change. Tools and equipment are even more expensive. 2. Getting up and doing something physical fo
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by berrypicker 13y ago
It was this one, starts at around 15 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 Very good talk overall.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I checked out the comments before reading the article since it had a 'sensational' headline which usually follows up with a crappy article, glad I didn't waste my time. I'm wondering where all the up votes came from thou
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Why would the bitcoins be lost with the hard drive? I don't know much about wallets but could he not retrieve them on another machine?
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Nope I hadn't because I always considered myself 'just a coder', and immediately discarded any other kind of job. Thinking about it I have full stack experience and have often been part of the design process, so thanks for th
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Thanks to everyone for the advice, I feel a lot more confident now and will try to write a CV in a way to display my general skills as opposed to specific experience. I initially thought my application would get binned because I lacked thei
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Just want to clarify, I added the HN comment because I was a little surprised (having been in the startup cultural bubble for so long) at the jobs available, not because I'm complaining at the tools these businesses use.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Well the startups weren't doing too well (two failed) and I was getting paid a relatively low salary... I could probably have found another job but I didn't wanna burn up the little money I had saved up just being 'between jo
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Ask HN: I actually need a job now
54 points by berrypicker 13y ago|65 comments
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Those stats are pretty much useless. Technology is more expensive. Hey, women spend more on cars than cosmetics, should they include car columns too? Buying a laptop, an iPhone and a tablet or something will cost way more than a year's
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by berrypicker 13y ago
What problem does this solve? After watching the video, their value proposition is: "my wallet is filled with cards, too many" - i.e. using one card instead of a few. Is it gaining popularity because of the technology, or because
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Let's assume what you say is true, why, still, should I support immigration, when almost all immigrants are from social groups where 'income level, employment status, adult figures in household' are in a range where crime is
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by berrypicker 13y ago
> libertarians refuse to acknowledge the positive effects of equality You just made this up, or, you don't understand the difference between trying to force equality and equality itself. Equality may have positive effects, trying to
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by berrypicker 13y ago
The reparations for slavery argument is a bit of a cop out.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Yes, I think employers should be able to refuse somebody based on ethnicity, whether I agree with the act itself or not is irrelevant, I believe in the freedom to do so. My personal opinions regarding employment do not affect my belief that
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Enforcing equality has historically shown to have the opposite effect. Thomas Sowell, an African American (discrimination is more prevalent in the states) has written extensively about this, as have many others regarding quotas and other fo
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Like somebody else said in the thread, look at crimes like homicide and theft, whose definition are uncontroversial. Crime is rising.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Most immigrants come to Sweden for a better quality of life, and they get it: the government gives them housing, social services, education, money etc. Any place in Sweden, even these 'highly dense, poor areas' you're talking
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by berrypicker 13y ago
A lot of people will find this offensive, but it's mostly because of immigration. Sweden has a one of the most liberal immigration policies in Europe, with more and more immigrants coming in every year, and crime is increasing relative
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I have no problem with Wikipedia links, but some of these today are not going to result in any interesting or meaningful discussion.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Can you link to such a bot please?
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I'm not whining here, I'm a long-time Ubuntu user and want it to do well and become more popular, but if the 'year of the Linux desktop' is ever to happen, there are greater fixes that Ubuntu needs (Ubuntu is pretty much
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Another one of these substitution extensions... https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
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by berrypicker 13y ago
For those interested, a good way to implement this was proposed by Milton Friedman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax which indeed works out to be better than government sponsored programs. Progressive ta
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by berrypicker 13y ago
>Attempts to make technical pages more accessible to a general audience have been shut down repeatedly and resulted in a separate Wikipedia entirely called "Simple English". I am somebody who goes to Wikipedia by default when l
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Since you're nitpicking, a sandwich isn't just two slices of white bread.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
>or instance, one of my teammates, Mischief, spends about 5 hours a day porting packages over to Plan9 and writing terminal emulators in go (why not). Interesting that communities like this one define work as 'your day job'. Se
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I think a bigger war to end is that against carbs. The paleo diet trend has gotten out of hand, everybody's afraid to touch bread now. There's evidence both on a large scale (population wide - there are countries like Italy where

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