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by bobby_9x 11y ago
The IT staff at this hospital should be fired. They should have never been in a position to be compromised.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
It's more the 'unions' than the 'regulations'. It's in the best interest of any union to keep prices inflated artificially by utilizing government regulations, like the medallion system.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Pretty much all tech jobs, by definition, have automated someone out of a job, but they aren't included in these statistics.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"Latinos are incarcerated at 1.5x the rate of whites, blacks 3x as much, despite drug use being equal across the board" These studies are flawed. They are based on the person telling the truth about their drug usage. "Do we
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Yes, a thug that has to spend all of its military money defending other countries..so they can throw it back in their face that they don't spend as much on the military. Without the US, the world would be fucked.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I'm fine with some people using Ad-block because they don't like ads. But, when it's automatically installed on masses of computers, it starts to really become a problem. This will only create a fractured Internet and make it
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
They took spaced-repetition and added another level of study to it. Very cool.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I'm fine with some people using Ad-block because they don't like ads. But, when it's automatically installed on masses of computers, it starts to really become a problem. This will only create a fractured Internet and make i
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Google worked with the NSA and Facebook not only worked with the NSA, but now has ties to China and the Chinese government (which have the most advanced spying and censoring Internet technology around). So, I'm doubtful.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
This 1000 times. We are also doing our college students a disservice by creating 'safe spaces'. This is just a continuation of the mentality that 'everyone should get a trophy' that started in the early 90s. I still rem
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
The irony isn't lost on anyone, I see.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I find it pretty ironic that HN groupthink modded me down for talking about why I don't like groupthink.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Might isn't right. There are groups for pretty much anything out there, even when it's factually, morally, and ridiculously wrong.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
No. P2P Finance will never be able to cover the risk that a bank can cover. It's the same with bitcoin: With a credit card, I can pretty much dispute any charge and get my money back. Bitcoin is as risky as cash and I won't ever
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
It's not being offended by 'attempts to be considerate`. I feel like many of bullied are not getting the therapy they truly need. Instead, they are becoming the bullies through sites like Twitter and big companies, schools, and n
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
The guys is a bully and just looking at some of his tweets and emails, looks like he has a mild mental illness.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I disagree. Most people don’t want to hear the truth and will take anything they don’t want to hear as a personal attack against them. I’ve seen it time and time again.. and then pushed out on social media to make the person that said it l
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Software developers already have the best benefits, a union will not be an improvement.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Win an argument online? Lol! The real problem, especially on a site like reddit, is that there is no winning. Even if you have evidence and facts, if you go against groupthink, you will be shouted down, down voted, and ignored. If you real
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I've also seen honesty being confused with being an 'asshole'. You tell someone something they don't want to hear, but need to hear, and you are now known as an asshole.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"As it is now, very few specialists have enough clout to arrest the current momentum, and software professionals, hardware professionals, healthcare workers, and engineers are likely the only ones that wouldn't be scoffed out of t
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Why wouldn't you transfer your money out of China? Billionaires are going 'missing' every month and the government can pretty much take over your business and take all of your money, for any reason. To make any kind of money
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
For web projects, I still use PHP+Codeigniter. There still aren't good, mature, battle tested frameworks in any other language. If I could, I would gladly replace my code base with Python. Edit: It's pretty telling about the HN c
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"rote learning, treated like any other subject, lack of practical application" I'm onto my second foreign language and you need rote memorization. A good method for learning involves a combination of practical application+rot
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Go doesn't have anywhere near the amount of libraries or support that we see with Python. Python isn't being assaulted on any front. We have always had multiple programming languages and some are better than others. My issue is t
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
There are tons of sites like Reddit. However, people need a reason to leave Reddit to go to one of these new sites. Unless they pull a Digg, this probably won't ever happen. Reddit actually got really lucky that Digg collapsed when i
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
It makes Swedish startups stronger (and any other startups) because you don't have to put as much money into software licensing. When you have more time than money, it makes sense. When your company gets big enough and you have more m
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Can we please stop with all of the political articles. HN is a place for hacker news.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
The problem is that he is saying he will only tax Wall Street, but it's pretty obvious to anyone with an interest in economics, that it won't stop there. To fund everything he wants, everyone will be taxed. He said one time that h
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
One issue many founders never think of is that if you get VC and focus on growth and not profit, you are putting yourself in a riskier position where your shares could be worthless. If the company ever sells, they will definitely be looking

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