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by dba7dba 7y ago
How about The road to "staying just barely afloat financially" is this simple: Drive a crappy car Vast majority of people who drive crappy cars are doing so because they have no other option...
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by dba7dba 7y ago
> Back in the 60s or 70s ( I can’t remember what he said) people were starting to notice that kids were having behavioral problems, trouble focusing etc. Unscientific personal observation, but I wonder if TV has a role in this. Didn&#x27
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I would not say Yang's campaign is struggling. He literally was an unknown guy right before this election cycle, who made a low millions from selling a test prep company and then ran a non-profit for 7 years. Never even ran for a polit
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Any business without physical inventory that can be automated in a way to sell/buy should really worry about Google. Eventually Google will come for that market as their new crop of managers/execs will want to make the number to g
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Yup, I looked up and sure enough 'Winter Sonata' TV series was shown in Japan in 2003. Irony is that of the 10 richest peeps in Japan, 2 are Korean descent. One owns big chain of pachinko. https://www.businessinsider.c
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I loled at that `must have been a Korean` comment. History of Koreans in Japan has a complicated story. But basically ethnic Koreans are treated as a second class citizen in Japan. A Korean-American friend told me this story. He worked with
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by dba7dba 7y ago
think that scarce research funding should flow their way because giving any to other possibly-wrong approaches would be wasteful I heard someone recently tell me how using science to form views on topics (social/psychology/etc
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by dba7dba 7y ago
we find we have this odd situation in which we have a legit company umbrellaring fake/copy sellers and able to profit from such sales and yet appear totally immune from any repercussions. I've known of many small apparel maker&#
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by dba7dba 7y ago
This comment is downvoted but I have to agree with this. Rarely, very rarely do these people ever get caught or have to pay back the ill gotten money.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Your story is my story. And I am positive the story of most dads. When you have young kids to take care of, you absolutely have no life. However as my kids grow older and they need less care for daily basic stuff, I find myself get more mot
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Years ago a place I worked had a team where a manager asked everyone to spend a day documenting stuff. I think it was once every months (??) but they had document stuff all day days.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Your comment has been down voted into invisible state to the point I had to really try to read it. But no, that's now how capitalism works.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Your assumption is that Govt benefit starts coming your way the moment you need or ask for it. From limited personal experience AND from what I read, applying for and getting any kind of government benefit is very time labor intensive and i
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by dba7dba 7y ago
True, we will always have the rich in our society. HOWEVER, the rich got richer at stupendous rate in the last few decades, while the rest got poorer at increasing rate.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
So I am an older dude living in a coastal city with a high cost of living, and not a teenager who's easily impressionable. And I cut the cord years ago so most of my screen entertainment is from youtube videos. And I don't even wa
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by dba7dba 7y ago
when the Fukushima disaster happened in 2011 and the surrounding areas became no-go zone, gasoline cars were stuck because no gas tankers were coming in to refill the gas stations. But electric cars were charging from local solar powered re
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I've seen Elon say he spends about 1% (or something like it) of his time for marketing/presentation preparation. And I think it included press-interviews/presentation-prep/etc. And he was planning/hoping to reduce i
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I spent a few years living near a nationally well known American university with very tight housing. And we had to pay `finder's fee` to apartment managers for the privilege of applying for a rental to the tune of a grand or so. Like 2
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I wonder what makes you think so? Because of low polling #? Just curious.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I am sure you may know this already but iTerm has a prefenrece setting called "Confirm Quit iTerm2 ... command" Checking it on has saved me quite a bit of trouble.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
And then there's this accidental destruction of the phone of the engineer who stamped the plans for the bridge. "Denney Pate, who stamped the plans for the bridge, told a judge June 12 that his wife accidentally put his pants with
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by dba7dba 7y ago
China doesn't really vote with wallet. It's CCP telling/herding/forcing people of China what to do and the populace is going along, because the alternative isn't pretty for them.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Frank McCourt was a really really hated owner of Dodgers for a few years until 2012. When Frank McCourt sold Dodgers to Magic Johnson led group in 2012, he held onto 50% of the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Yup, a guy sold Dodgers for a few b
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Who knew CCP would be able to censor the west with, gulp, the might dollar. The irony.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Just few days HN had a thread where samsung moved its last phone factory from China to Vietnam.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I mean facebook is large and their apps/software are solid too.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
Please make it open source if possible. I would love to be able to use it.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I have been thinking about building something like this also. I work from home and so I open the fridge throughout the day for 3 meals, snack, lunch for kids etc. And I noticed how much is thrown out despite attempts to not do so, because
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by dba7dba 7y ago
How much was vox paid for this pr piece, I wonder? Also I wonder how much bloomberg is paid for posting news related videos using tiktok. It is a new type of marketing I guess.
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I am readying stories about legacy admissions. Let me tell you about a little conversation I had about legacy admission to IvyLeague/Stanford. A family I know (both mom/dad are children of immigrants) had a kid who got into Harva

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