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by bsanr2 6y ago
That limitation is supposed to be an asset, it seems. No, you can't use the currency outside the local network. That incentivizes you to use your dollars only for things outside the network, and to go inside the network whenever possib
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Those sales positions are generally not remote/distributed. They don't work for multiple companies concurrently because it's impossible.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Nope. I was an anime and video game geek in the mid-2000s. People talk about gatekeeping at the time, but I honestly don't remember it.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I'm trying to understand how ordering lunch can ever be described as "elegant." It's a mundane task. I'm largely convinced that it's not the manner, but the body it's done in or the credit card on the pers
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I recently learned that a number of African cultures used "memory devices" in order to assist in the recall of oral histories. Essentially, positions of beads on an intricately-carved board indicated to the practitioner what to sp
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by bsanr2 6y ago
If profit were lower because Google were forced to address cost centers they neglect (to the dismay of a limited but utterly devastated portion of their clientele), then it would effect what they saw as "profitable."
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>Google makes something like $1 million of profit per year for each engineer at the company Gentle reminder that thisbis partly because Google isn't fairly compensating the people actually producing the value it accrues to itself: t
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>After a couple generations, rich & powerful families with status tend to have more attractive families. IIRC this is a common misconception. The son of a traditionally handsome man isn't necessarily going to get all of the trad
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by bsanr2 6y ago
How is that even a thing. I'm trying to wrap my head around how someone would even make those observations, let alone justify changing how they interact with someone because of it. I mean, like, you would think the substance bro brings
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The most egregious aspect is that these companies arguably shouldn't even have the ability to make such large purchases. They don't pay their taxes (using loopholes to appear completely unprofitable while an entity that is all-but
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Does... interest stop being a factor? They gave an x-year loan for $1000 at x% APR (was it subprime?). Also, penalties. Collections can go after you for the full amount. They buy it from the bank for the original $1000+. Or, the loan hasn&#
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by bsanr2 6y ago
"Fail fast and opaquely, good luck iterating ya bozo." Good advice, guys, thanks. /s >So for example if you are denied a home loan, you should be able to request every single scrap of info that loan company collected about
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>If some guy walks into a bank and claim they're you and they believe it, the banks aren't gaining anything. They would have just sold a loan. >If anything, they lost money. Can't they sell the defaulted loan to collect
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by bsanr2 6y ago
SD cards were one of the few items where this happened with non-special SKUs. Off the top of my head, the only other product segment this happened with was cheapo TVs. Almost everything else, if there was a model ID mismatch, there was some
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>and workers seem happier than ever. My entire cohort from when I arrived in late 2017 is gone from my home store, including people who were there before me. For sales and ops, at least, the wave that brought BB its renewed reputation en
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by bsanr2 6y ago
That conservatives see no ownership of problems characterized as specific to their black and brown neighbors (family, selves...) is orthogonal to the issue of what to do about those issues.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
How can something that you claim is unmeasurable possibly be clear enough to pass such judgment on? You're not making sense. >First of all I'm not an American. I'd like to know what then qualifies you to make these stateme
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I would not be surprised if Vinge considered RE an update or reboot of TN, because they share many qualities. TN was prescient because a lot of what it imagined came to pass. I think RE ultimately will be, too; we're just in the middle
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Fast Times is essentially the short-story "pilot" for Rainbows End, which is, yes, fantastic. If you like the former it justifies the longer time commitment of the latter. I recommend it as much as possible, and one of my pet hope
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by bsanr2 6y ago
This is at the direction of a Trump appointee. Career USPS workers are not happy about it and their union is exploring options, last I heard. Unions: They're Actually A Good Thing.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I remember reading several of these in school, as school assignments. I remember being surprised years later to find how recent they were, as well as how uncontroversial their inclusion in the curriculum was. On that note, kinda sad that th
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by bsanr2 6y ago
This statement is filled with qualifications that render it mostly meaningless. "Good enough," "significantly better," etc., are ill-defined and leave room for the weaseling that crashes any notion of a society that is e
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I would define "merit-based" as "measuring and ranking based on directly relevant capability." There are limited cases where the first contributes to merit, but both are becoming less and less justifiable in a global, or
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by bsanr2 6y ago
You mean, they... controlled variables? Between those 3 cohorts, I see a phenomenon that cuts across a wide slice of the population.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I'm appalled that this passes muster for you as a rational statement, knowing all we do about how parental wealth and education, professional network size and health, and even residential location can effect career outcomes in even tec
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Comparing two ill-defined high-level cognitive traits to determine which will more greatly effect success in a unmeritocratic society and extrapolating the results to general humanity: what could possibly go wrong? >The measure of intell
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by bsanr2 6y ago
People don't go to these universities for prestige's sake, but for what prestige gets them. It's not really about the gold medal (for the vast majority), it's about being an elite athlete (i.e., being generally healthy a
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I wonder if you may be discounting the value of a pipeline that's presumably going to be substantially less expensive than going to a private university. Perhaps one of the goals here is to flood the government tech sector with new per
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by bsanr2 6y ago
You misunderstood. I'm not here to "exchange ideas." Neither was this a trap. My intent was explicit: "Here is an example of a topic HN posters have hostile, knee-jerk reactions to, at the mere suggestion that it exists.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Something something Manifest Destiny. Also, the Great Land Robbery ( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-la... ). The Western model of land ownership is perhaps necessary for our way

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