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by boxy310 11y ago
In a lot of ways Amazon reminds me of Wal-mart, both from the market space they occupy and how terribly they treat employees. I think this is really a byproduct of chasing after low costs without other substantial service improvements. At l
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While I'm not happy that long-read pieces like this go uncommented, I'm glad I can at least find these here on HN where the signal-to-noise ratio is sufficiently high.
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Relative pricing between stocks is due to investors actively bidding up the price or letting it slide down. They do this based on either information about company fundamentals, or instinct on how the market will eventually react to news.
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I think why news of layoffs is so disconcerting is that it can be really, really hard to differentiate between what's fat and what's muscle in the business. A lot of "cost centers" like development end up meaning a lot
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Women also tend to earn less money, being dependent on their husband's income for much of their working-life. The SSA has actually studied this issue, and women tend to be much more likely to exhaust all other forms of retirement savin
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> But the new urban factory jobs were completely different. “These were often debilitating, strenuous occupations,” Sutch says. “People couldn't work in their old age.” Isn't the problem with post-industrial societies that many
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Technology has disrupted and continues to disrupt many industries, but those focusing around human relationships have been the hardest to automate. As technology gets better, you will see more disruptions to how government goes about its
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The point is that adding more grants is less effective than making students aware of grants that already exists. For low-income students whose information through local social networks isn't getting the message passed about potential
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The author is Donald Knuth, in case you didn't catch that. Since most of these are dated from the 90's, you should probably be comparing verbosity to COBOL or PASCAL and keeping in mind this was from before the ubiquity of Linux o
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HAXXORS I half believe it to be a branding thing at this point.
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When a currency disappears on a planned basis (like the Deutschmark) the government issues a recall of the currency in banks at a set exchange rate: e.g. for the Deutschmark it was set by law at 1.95583 DM = 1 euro (source: https:/&#x
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I really think that if Amazon is only surviving with a razor-thin profit margin and they only do that because they treat their employees like beat-up warehouse equipment, then maybe it shouldn't exist as a company. My opinion of them
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At an exchange rate of $284.45 USD/BTC, this comes out to a transaction of a little more than $14,000. However, as creator of the Bitcoin protocol and an early adopter, and that this is one of his oldest wallets, he may be moving unkno
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Inventor of the Bitcoin, which may actually be a pseudonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
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Going through their website, it seems like one of the best Django tutorials I've seen, irrespective of gender.
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His book is pretty fantastic, but I didn't realize he wrote half of the packages I use.
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Assuming 230 volts for UK sockets drawing 1 amp of current, the wattage draw is 230 watts. Assuming this was done for 15 minutes (typically enough for me to get up a few percentage points to make a call or two), this represents 57.5 watt-ho