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by bronbron 13y ago
> Starting in the ’80s, productivity gains were no longer shared with workers. Has anyone really looked into why this is? It's easy to say 'lol greed' and be done with it, but it seems silly to presume that people were any
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by bronbron 13y ago
Although, that has its own drawbacks! I got used to google maps telling me about service changes on the subway (it's pretty good about warning about planned service changes), and I found myself getting angry at maps when I found out th
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by bronbron 13y ago
What does that have anything to do with what I said? Are you seriously saying that Zynga can't follow the same line of reasoning that Facebook did in trying to acquire Snapchat? Or did you just go off on a tangent for no reason?
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by bronbron 13y ago
It's not at all corp speak... are you serious? It's the same idea behind Facebook trying to buy Snapchat. Facebook realizes another team is much more innovative & successful than them in attracting young users, so they try and
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by bronbron 13y ago
> This is what happens when you raise taxes to absurd levels Wouldn't any amount above 0% be reason for a company to seek tax havens? With revenues in the billions, it seems like even a 1% tax rate would be more expensive than the c
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by bronbron 13y ago
The independent contractor status screws them on all sorts of other things (e.g. health insurance), but I'm pretty sure auto insurance is the responsibility of the taxi company.
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by bronbron 13y ago
What usually happens is people decide to upgrade everything all at once, since they're investing the time anyway. So they upgrade to Ruby 2, Rails 4, JQuery 2, etc. all at once. Since the big driver was to upgrade Rails initially, Rail
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by bronbron 13y ago
It's interesting watching this, because it seems inevitable that Uber will become exactly like the service it was meant to compete with: the Taxi industry. The whole saga has good, bad, and meh elements to all of it. It's good tha
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by bronbron 13y ago
Eh, it just gets grating after awhile. Inboxes are cluttered enough already without getting 10+ emails a day from recruiters, you know? It's also annoying to try and hit "unsubscribe" from a mailing list only to find out &quo
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by bronbron 13y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but.. Doesn't this basically already happen? I would imagine retail space along main thoroughfares (e.g. "Main street" or space right next to a very popular highway exit) is substantially mor
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by bronbron 13y ago
> It's immoral for a man to compete in the WNBA because the league disallows it. Not because there's something cosmically immoral about men and women competing in general, and not because there's something cosmically immor
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by bronbron 13y ago
Eh, I dunno. I'm definitely not one of those people whose champion cause is gender issues, and to be totally honest I rarely even think about it much. My general philosophy is "be professional", not "lol check ur privile
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by bronbron 13y ago
> In another era, the captains of industry would have said, “OK, our workers live here, our factory is there; let’s encourage, enforce, and subsidize the improvement of public transit.” Uh, what? This is kind of a silly point, but I thin
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by bronbron 13y ago
Hey, yet again, citizens arguing at each other instead of focusing their anger towards the government. If the bay area had decent public transportation, these buses wouldn't exist. You know how google employees from Westchester get to
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by bronbron 13y ago
Why? Even on longer train rides (3+ days) I've never wished that I was carrying more than a book or two at most. A novel or two of adequate length and complexity is more than enough, unless you plan to be reading literally the entire t
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by bronbron 13y ago
Hackathons in general should be viewed with a serious amount of skepticism because it mostly is, as Liu notes, a way to get you to work for a company for (basically) free. That being said, this sounds above-and-beyond scummy based on the in
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by bronbron 13y ago
More likely SNP stands for single nucleotide polymorphism, usually pronounced "snip", so "snipedia" is probably more apt. Or maybe I'm totally wrong.
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by bronbron 13y ago
Programming's not a panacea for everyone's problems, you know? I mean, I get that you're just coming from a place of decency and trying to help, but suppose tomorrow every unemployed person decides to become a programmer - do
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by bronbron 13y ago
> If you want to work, the advertised technology enables you to work You want to work at your kid's soccer game? During a date? During happy hour? If the campaign was, "Work from home easily one day a week" this blog post
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by bronbron 13y ago
DHH's arguing that you're missing the very important 4th option here: 4) "Sorry, I'm busy with other things tonight."
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by bronbron 13y ago
Um, why? It's likely that their trip spanned several countries because the animals people are typically interested are usually spread out across several countries. I would wager that most people going on Safari end up visiting multipl
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by bronbron 13y ago
I dunno, I (and I would suspect many others) have the same tendency when reading PDFs - if it's more than 1 page, I skim to the end then go back up, much like I would on a paper document. Are you citing something or just generalizing f
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by bronbron 13y ago
> I think that a single page resume especially in a technical field is difficult if you want to have projects, jobs, schooling etc all included. Not really - I think we have a tendency to, as the article notes, want to list every single
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by bronbron 13y ago
> Europe has largely solved this problem, and using your antiquated American credit card in Europe is not only difficult, but even if possible will elicit crazy looks. Wait what does Europe do? Just genuinely curious, and a cursory googl
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by bronbron 13y ago
>Because this isn't twitter, there is no character/word limit so I consider taking a little extra room to help the reader understand where I'm coming from to be a good use of available comms bandwidth. Similarly stereotypi
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by bronbron 13y ago
> Obvious to you, and me for that matter, but obviously not obvious to everyone or this sub-thread would not exist. Why sacrifice conciseness to try and alleviate every misunderstanding? Language is not a perfect communication tool - you
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by bronbron 13y ago
That sounds repetitive and kind of annoying to read. It's usually obvious from context what's opinion and what's not, and you can always ask for clarification in those rarer instances. For example, it's pretty obvious th
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by bronbron 13y ago
Ah, I hadn't even considered that - I just remember reading a few articles about their projects but it didn't occur to me that it might be complete vaporware.
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by bronbron 13y ago
Man, the worst part is that Intellectual Ventures Lab works on some really cool stuff. Maybe a little impractical, but really cool and innovative nonetheless. I'd totally go work for them if they weren't backed by one of the worst
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by bronbron 13y ago
There's an entire section on the use of antibiotics in agriculture.

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