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by doktrin 8y ago
I spend a lot of time in central and eastern europe and I have not once heard this comparison, certainly not from anyone who actually lived through the USSR. I'm a staunch EU skeptic, but this comparison is just ridiculous.
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by doktrin 8y ago
I'm sure it helps if Putin has a personal antipathy for Soros, but the latter has been a go-to punching bag for conspiratorially minded right wingers for decades - easily predating the modern incarnations of Russian troll farms.
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by doktrin 8y ago
After my 2017 mbp developed several concurrent issues (screen, keyboard, speakers) I switched back to running Ubuntu on a lenovo x model. I'm satisfied, honestly, and won't be returning to Apple until they veer off this almost com
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by doktrin 8y ago
> A surprising number of HN commenters in those threads supported both Facebook and the genocide. I'm skeptical that there actually were non-grey comments in support of the genocide
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by doktrin 8y ago
That magical $70k figure has been bandied about for the better part of a decade, yet nobody ever seems to adjust it either for locality or inflation.
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by doktrin 8y ago
Fair enough, honestly. As someone who's broadly sympathetic to his managerial style, I totally understand the desire to distance himself from those in the 'underbelly of the internet' who use an 'anti PC / SJW'
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by doktrin 8y ago
Yes, and I'd prefer it. TurboTax, H&R and their ilk are unnecessary parasites feeding off of a diseased whale. The fact that people feel the need to utilize 3rd party solutions just to file completely run of the mill returns is a s
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by doktrin 8y ago
> Which is so stupid because so many people have no idea at all what they pay in taxes because of employer withholding. Which makes me think that it's not so much about people being informed as people being annoyed . I don't
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by doktrin 8y ago
> as far as I can tell the reason is that they've more or less openly abandoned any pretence of political neutrality. They've become anti-Trump cheerleaders that are more in the business of helping their readers feel superior t
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by doktrin 8y ago
I can't really answer at the macro level, but I really don't think this is just a knee jerk reaction to 'change'. Just personally : * I don't miss the CD rom at all - even at the time. I think that was a totally val
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by doktrin 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. The new MBPs are basically lemons. Mine absolutely is, and is unusable and sent out for repairs after only 1 year (defects include but are definitely not limited to this ultra brittle keyboard). I will definitely
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by doktrin 8y ago
> Employees here are really tough on Chinese developers. Immigration is even tougher Can you elaborate on this? I'm just curious.
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by doktrin 8y ago
> we're pretty sure that tyrants or slaveowners don't want their subjects armed. Tyrants and slaveowners always want some of their subjects armed. People often cite Nazi Germany as an example of tyranny via gun control, but i
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by doktrin 8y ago
The US has unquestionably played an outsized role in shaping international drug policy over the last 100 years. I'm also pretty sure that the 'war on drugs' is a uniquely American phrase, and if it isn't it was certainly
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by doktrin 8y ago
Weirdly enough "it's illegal" does in fact work just fine in a lot of countries. The US legal system being a borderline p2w scam is probably part of the problem, likewise that American companies rarely feel like they have a s
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by doktrin 8y ago
Interesting. I'm genuinely surprised that a company like Google with both massive financial resources and who actively court a progressive public image would be so shortsighted as to start systematically discriminating against pregnant
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by doktrin 8y ago
Children are sort of a social necessity, hence carrying more gravitas than conventional hobbies. Obviously "I can't work because I'm cartooning" is gonna be met with more skepticism than "I'm taking care of a s
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by doktrin 8y ago
I think his point stands, honestly. Apple's "pro" machines aren't really all that pro anymore compared to the PC market. Nor are the new machines very "pro" in the rugged or robust sense. Hell, the new keyboard
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by doktrin 8y ago
> If it ever fails, there're simply no Macs for her on the market that it could be replaced with and I don't see her going back to Windows - which means I'll probably have to setup a GNU/Linux working environment for
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by doktrin 8y ago
I'm honestly blown away by how many hardware problems I've experienced with my 2017 macbook pro after barely a year : * the top 5% of the screen is nothing but horizontal flickering lines * there's a similar vertica
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by doktrin 8y ago
yeah man like I said my experience is that macbooks these days are anything but polished - in the sense that even when everything works, the experience has some fundamental flaws (sub-par keyboard, unnecessary smartbar, dongle bonanza). T
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by doktrin 8y ago
Spec wise every single PC manufacturer has more performant machines than Apple at the same price point, and I at least definitely wouldn't describe the current line of Macbooks as polished or solid. My personal experience, at least, ha
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by doktrin 8y ago
I had my tonsils removed when I was 19 because of sleep apnea. Even after reading this piece I'm reasonably confident, though not certain, that it was a net-positive.
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by doktrin 8y ago
Ok, that's a more extreme form of malpractice than I had in mind. If true, this guy should never practice medicine again.
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by doktrin 8y ago
what's the point of ordering a nonsense lab test? Is a HHV-6 test significantly cheaper than one for HHV-2?
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by doktrin 8y ago
> If the middle class has any hope of allying with the lower class then those two traits will have to ascend from ashes. The real questions is: are we too far gone and is it too late? I'd honestly ask a slightly different question :
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by doktrin 8y ago
> I would expect that west coast salary increases should also pull up the entire market. Logically it should at least not hurt the rest of the market, but anecdotally : during my time in the midwest, salaries were stagnant / sticky
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by doktrin 8y ago
> We should constantly appreciate how fortunate we are are This only applies to a small fraction of engineers clustered in a literal handful of geographic areas. I personally don't know a single engineer in my country that makes $20
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by doktrin 8y ago
> I'm sure those 9.9% would be very surprised they belong to the top 10% Someone with over $1 million in assets is going to be surprised they're in the top 10% of the country? I don't buy it. > You could strip out the
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by doktrin 8y ago
what a completely weird criteria for a 'bullshit' job, and one that's also totally at odds with the stuff described in OP's article.

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