calderarrow

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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   I'm going to oversimplify here, but negative interest rates effectively mean you pay the bank to store your money. So on top of inflation, you're losing real money. For someone who saves, negative interest rates mean savers end up
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   What would you recommend for site hosting instead of S3?
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   You're looking at a branch and missing the forest [0] >The acquisition of Wachovia by Wells Fargo was completed on December 31, 2008, after a government-forced sale to avoid Wachovia's failure [0] https://en.wikipedi
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   Question for google search users on HN: Do y'all use adblockers? I noticed less of a difference in my one-off searches after I had been using an ad blocker for a while, so I wonder if using an adblocker would be a way for people to tra
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   I'm a die-hard DDG fan, but for some things -- particularly mapping related issues -- google maps is so superior. I append a !gm to my searches for stores and it automatically opens in google maps.
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   I was one of the first 10 cohorts to go through Lambda and it wasn't a requirement for me. Actually, this was one of the primary reasons why I chose them! I was coming from public accounting, and I was concerned I may have to take a pa
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   Coming from a public accounting background, I’ve seen a variety of businesses. Somewhat obviously, I’ve seen some be successful with unions and others be successful without, which makes sense, as unions are neither inherently good nor bad.
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   Ask HN: What makes a programming language fast?

   1 points by calderarrow 7y ago|3 comments
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   by calderarrow 7y ago

   I think building a superior product would be trivial and profitable for a reasonably funded, small team of developers. Most of the accounting profession uses tools that are from the 80s and 90s, so the user experience is horrible for staff
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    by calderarrow 7y ago

    This was the book that got me into programming. About three years ago, I was an auditor looking for ways to automate the more mundane tasks of my job, and stumbled a across this book. I had no prior experience with programming, and at the t
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    by calderarrow 7y ago

    Tangentially related anecdote: As an undergrad, I got to spend a semester in the ROTC capstone for second semester seniors called “Leadership and Ethics.” I remember walking in on my first day in cargo shorts and flip flops as the only civi
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    by calderarrow 7y ago

    This is excellent advice which has even been echoed by Warren Buffet [0]. Time is a finite resource and therefore everything we do is a trade-off between depth and breadth. In a given day, you could spend 1 hour learning 24 subjects, or 24
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    Ask HN: What financial tools or advice do you think are essential?

    1 points by calderarrow 7y ago|1 comments
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    by calderarrow 7y ago

    One of the subtle considerations when discussing non-profits is that any organization can be a non-profit, but in order to get tax exemption you have to meet certain requirements related to your mission and how your organization is organize
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    by calderarrow 7y ago

    During the American revolutionary war, France was a tremendous ally and instrumental to the colonies’ secession from Britain. The Marquis de Lafayette came over to fight for us, without pay, in his early 20s, forgoing his family’s desires a
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    by calderarrow 7y ago

    Often is subjective, but he does contradict himself a number of times greater than 0. http://www.trumpcriticizestrump.com/
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    Ask HN: What is broken with job hiring processes?

    16 points by calderarrow 7y ago|12 comments