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961.
by debacle 8y ago
> Men are shaped, in their most formative years, by their mothers. [citation needed]
962.
by debacle 8y ago
While that theory is valid, it's not what the linked article is about.
963.
by debacle 8y ago
> Instacart delivery workers are classified as independent contractors Only Instacart believes this.
964.
by debacle 8y ago
They likely just hit an inflection point where it started making sense to do their own fab.
965.
by debacle 8y ago
No, those are specific genes they test for.
966.
by debacle 8y ago
Most enterprise IT is change management. Migrating that database cluster takes 3-4 man hours. Planning the migration might take a half dozen meetings, vendor calls, dry runs, calculating transfer duration, etc. Enterprise IT isn't goin
967.
by debacle 8y ago
DDG is my default search. It's good for 85% of my searches. Its video and maps search clearly lag behind Google (mostly from a UI standpoint). It needs to find a better balance between shepherding privacy and UX. Most local search is w
968.
by debacle 8y ago
I'd like to see a study that makes a distinction between "screen time" and "desk/couch time." Not all screen time is created equal.
969.
by debacle 8y ago
Utility companies like PG&E are highly regulated. I worked at a company that serviced PG&E a while back and compliance made up a large part of our staff and were the first and last word on any business decisions.
970.
by debacle 8y ago
> was recording the full content of every cell phone call in the Bahamas? The what now?
971.
by debacle 8y ago
Your work is more important than you know. Many people in large orgs are still afraid to talk to the "Trolls in IT."
972.
by debacle 8y ago
> the idea of escaping so purposefully just doesn't sit right. I know this feels like a VR thing, but I have found the same sort of issues with Minecraft, Ark, Terraria, etc. It seems like escapism is a huge part of the "surviv
973.
by debacle 8y ago
Colleges are only about learning for the upper quintiles. For the lower quintiles, they are and have always been about jobs.
974.
by debacle 8y ago
A rough timeline of the early 2000s: 1. Google creates the first noteworthy current gen search engine. 2. The web slowly starts moving towards a semantic platform with separate presentation. 3. Google creates the world's largest ad pla
975.
by debacle 8y ago
Flagged. Article title is complete clickbait. That said, this is a hard problem. These people are not technically citizens of the US, but of course Vietnam doesn't want them back. Trump seems to be following the letter of the law, but
976.
by debacle 8y ago
AAA games are pretty much making that decision exclusively based on the financials. Steam takes a big cut (relatively), if everyone already knows about your game and where to find it.
977.
by debacle 8y ago
A bowl of milk with bananas and about 1/4 cup of sugar. My grandpa ate that right up until he died. Man never gained a pound.
978.
by debacle 8y ago
What percentage of Google employees work for sectors in Google that actually make money?
979.
by debacle 8y ago
Why beavers make dams is very interesting - they tend to instinctively build at the site of the sound (beavers are nearly blind) of running water. Canadian wildlife management has used this knowledge to trick beavers into not building dams
980.
by debacle 8y ago
This article is romancing a company that has had consistent quality issues in the last few decades, sold its image out to WalMart in the 2000s, and doesn't appeal to modern riders.
981.
by debacle 8y ago
IIRC their revenue last year was 6 figures. That's very impressive growth for a somewhat crowded space.
982.
by debacle 8y ago
That seems to be the consensus every time this is posted.
983.
by debacle 8y ago
All of this unsubstantiated meddling talk has atrophied my care muscles.
984.
by debacle 8y ago
Most reasonable people on HN stay out of these threads. You're not going to change anyone's mind at this point.
985.
by debacle 8y ago
These days it feels more and more like <50% of the downvoted comments are trolls/jerks, and the majority are just people who might disagree with the hivemind.
986.
by debacle 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Personal_life > They have three children: Jennifer Katharine (b. 1996), Rory John (b. 1999), and Phoebe Adele (b. 2002). Probably has something to do with it. His youngest i
987.
by debacle 8y ago
The altruistic people who genuinely want to help tend to be squeezed out of the system by the power hungry authoritarians. See: pretty much every communist revolution ever.
988.
by debacle 8y ago
We don't need this kind of accusatory commentary on HN, I don't think.
989.
by debacle 8y ago
How would that work with Wikipedia? You're looking for a solution that aligns with your thesis. You're not going to find one.
990.
by debacle 8y ago
Being a community manager is a thankless, unrelenting assault on your confidence and emotional and social stability. The social Internet's linchpin has almost always (since as long as I can remember) been that it requires a certain ki

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