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by ceras 12y ago
Do you have an example of that sequence happening (other than Google Reader)?
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by ceras 12y ago
I don't know about internationally, but in the US it is absolutely about race. White people simply do not feel comfortable living near a critical mass of black people, and are even less comfortable sending their kids to school with a c
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by ceras 12y ago
Zooming on my x86 Chromebook was ~1fps or worse.
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by ceras 12y ago
Or in Manhattan.
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by ceras 12y ago
This is really offensive and condescending toward people who are leading far more difficult lives than any of us on HN. Do you really not think the choices poor people make are "logical" for their circumstances? Charities like Giv
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by ceras 12y ago
It can be easy to forget given how heated the tech industry is, but it is not so simple to just move and find another job. Moreover, moving anywhere else in the bay could have your not-substantially-lower rent offset by transportation costs
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by ceras 12y ago
Wow. I pay $2750 for a 2br in a hip neighborhood in Manhattan and I already find that hard to swallow. It's amazing that people can move to NYC (Manhattan no less!) to save money on rent.
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by ceras 12y ago
In NYC there are strict requirements[1] that cab drivers know how to get practically anywhere in Manhattan, and to major parts of the outer boroughs. You can report them if they don't. [1]: http://www.nyc.gov/html/
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by ceras 12y ago
I wonder how this differs by area and building type. My apartment walls in the Bay Area were razor thin - I couldn't believe how much could be heard. But in the four apartments I've been in Manhattan (all ~50-100 years old), plus
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by ceras 12y ago
If a poor person with no other options stole a loaf of bread from someone well off to feed their kid, I would consider it entirely moral. But theft should still be illegal.
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by ceras 12y ago
10 blocks is very much considered walking distance in NYC. People walk here all the time - it's the default mode of transport to nearby places. Cabs are usually used for specific reasons: transporting something heavy, bad weather, ride
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by ceras 12y ago
Coding is much safer, comfortable, low-stress, well-paying, flexible (esp. for mothers), and employable than those jobs.
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by ceras 12y ago
By "alone" do you mean not sharing just bedrooms or any rooms? Most new grads share an apartment with roommates but have their own bedroom. I know many recent grads living in New York (myself included), mostly earning from $60k to
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by ceras 12y ago
I don't think that's a fair response to the article - it's arguing something more nuanced. Right in the 4th paragraph is this: > This view does not claim that fighting wars improves economies, as of course the actual confl
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by ceras 12y ago
I'm sorry, but it's not very useful to the community to comment when you haven't read the article. It was written precisely to address your skepticism. I recommend reading it if you're curious about the issue.
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by ceras 12y ago
The official site breaks it down by tech/non-tech/leadership: http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html
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by ceras 12y ago
I think the exact boundaries to use for comparison are really difficult to pick, and vary on an individual level. For instance, the superb connectivity of the public transportation makes me feel as if Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx (sorry Stat
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by ceras 12y ago
My friends in finance definitely make it sound like hazing to me, just like you said. I have a friend whose boss had to talk to him about going too easy on the new analyst, so he had to toughen up and make the analyst's life harder jus
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by ceras 12y ago
Many thanks for the info - this is a topic I care about deeply so I appreciate your time and the resources you mentioned. I understand that scaling is very difficult. But what makes you think scaling these types of programs is harder than s
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by ceras 12y ago
> "We"—schools, society, etc.—can't really control parenting. Programs exist for this with some positive results. Here's one from a quick Google search: http://evidencebasedprograms.org/1366-2/nur
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by ceras 12y ago
> Let anyone apply. Give admission based on a lottery ... not on the basis of an examination ... so no one can accuse you of taking only the best kids. That doesn't fully counter the "creaming effect" argument unless you a
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by ceras 12y ago
Not who you were replying to, but a simple left-click for "what's here?" works for me on a Chromebook running Chrome 33.0.1750.152
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by ceras 13y ago
> Makes me wonder: aren't rents prone to rise to the level that people can bear? If people can bear 30%, rents will rise to that level in attractive locations. In econ this reasoning is related to the diamond-water paradox: http:&#
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by ceras 13y ago
Engineers wouldn't price themselves so high that they would be outsourced: that only happens to people who don't have any room left to let their wages fall, either because they already earn too little to sustain themselves or ther
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by ceras 13y ago
If you're buying in a typical American market (ie, homes selling for $200k) 2.6% annually on taxes/maintenance/renos/insurance does not seem absurd at all to me. I've heard others argue it's too low.
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by ceras 13y ago
Cheaper and simpler. I don't like all the baggage that comes with Windows/Mac: ChromeOS auto-updates, has no bloatware, boots up instantly, backs everything up in the cloud, and has a clean minimal UI that I don't have to thi
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by ceras 13y ago
> And with virtually no price delta, I just don't see the story. What do you mean? I just bought a $199 Chromebook (Acer C720) with 9+ hours of battery life and weighing under 3lbs. It performs well for all day-to-day tasks (email,
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by ceras 13y ago
In the US at least, government subsidizes driving quite a bit. Mandatory free parking is one of the biggest examples: building parking on all roads (which has an indirect tax on alternative transportation methods by reducing density -- wors
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by ceras 13y ago
Saying they "don't understand" is really condescending, especially given that "you are the product" sounds more like a political slogan than anything. It's more accurate to just call it a two-sided market. Real
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by ceras 13y ago
I don't know anything about the OSS world. I'm just pointing out why that argument doesn't mean anything to me. Someone claiming no negativity toward Asians as a group tells me little about how they think of other races, espe

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