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by dealforager 6y ago
The incentives of the site are not aligned with high quality moderation at the moment so mods spend minimal effort and find shady ways to monetize such as partnering with marketing agencies. I'm pretty sure HN mods get paid for what t
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by dealforager 6y ago
Man, this is an example of how difficult it is to know what is BS or not if you're not an expert on the subject. On one hand, this article was published in Nature, which I thought was trustworthy. On the other, there's this commen
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by dealforager 6y ago
I think these arguments always end up with these kinds of rhetorical questions that then get upvoted because it makes people feel good about the fact that they themselves aren't doing anything to make the world better. To answer your q
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by dealforager 6y ago
Most of the information I've read about this says that tips do not correlate with job performance. Instead, things like race, sex, attractiveness, and other things have a bigger impact. I've even caught myself doing this, where I&
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by dealforager 6y ago
I don't own a car, so Amazon Prime is almost an essential service to me. I agree with your dad that this is a modern marvel. I know certain things are priced higher, especially cheaper items, but I don't care because it saves me s
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by dealforager 6y ago
I remember when I got out of college a significant portion of companies insta-rejected me because I didn't go to a top school. Many forced you to select the school you went to, and it was just Ivy leagues and "other". If you
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by dealforager 6y ago
For code, I could see it being super useful for a beefed up auto-complete. There are many times I find myself searching for things like "how do I do X in Y language" to copy a snippet that I'm sure has been written 10000x tim
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by dealforager 6y ago
I built a website for finding deals on Amazon Warehouse items. Over the past few years I've been buying a lot of stuff from Amazon Warehouse and have been extremely pleased with the experience. Most are very lightly used items that wer