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by doktrin 10y ago
> not an argument that the US should pay less overall for drugs than poorer countries. I never said that. My point is simply that pointing at nominal GDP paints an inaccurate picture. The US is a complex and extremely heterogenous market
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by doktrin 10y ago
> The US is 8% richer than Denmark, 12% richer than Sweden and 40% richer than Germany on a per capita basis. This seems to ignore the obvious discrepancies between income inequality in the US vs. Sweden & Germany. Our Gini coefficie
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by doktrin 10y ago
> These high prices support innovation, they argue—not just for America, but for the world. I suspect this is in fact somewhat true, but how is it a coherent argument in favor of higher prices? The American people / American elderl
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by doktrin 10y ago
> "Approximately one in thirty £1 coins in circulation is a counterfeit." That took me completely by surprise. Is there really that much of a market in counterfeit coins? The profit margins just seem so modest relative to count
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by doktrin 10y ago
Looking away from the fact that what they want isn't actually achievable, what does the UK risk by beginning to go down this road? What consequences could this potentially have for their domestic tech sector? My intuition says that the
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by doktrin 10y ago
Interesting. I'm not much of a football fan myself, as I'm apparently missing whatever part of the brain is required to enjoy watching team sports. However, I'd certainly encourage any sports fans who specifically dislike foo
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by doktrin 10y ago
> calling American football “sportsball” who does this, and why?
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by doktrin 10y ago
> I see people as young as 25 being set in there ways as well when it comes to the latest hipster trends I once watched a fistfight almost break out in the office over threads vs. event loops. Both engineers were in their mid 20's (
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by doktrin 10y ago
How quickly titles apparently change, as it currently reads "Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident"
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by doktrin 10y ago
> many victims of the Holocaust were non-Jewish, and that the association of the Holocaust with "anti-Semitic" fails to represent all the other groups who were also targeted ... In our current political climate, those advocates
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by doktrin 10y ago
Sounds like a great way to instigate a US-based antitrust suit
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by doktrin 10y ago
Most commenters here appear to think that Google is holding all the cards over these poor schmucks like ATT, but I think you're onto something. Google might be a force of nature, but their income stream is and has always been vulnerabl
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by doktrin 10y ago
> We have managed to be largely blind to this because the amount of work that's available to programmers has expanded hugely to compensate for increased productivity - plus our tools aren't quite as nice as the hypothetical I d
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Asking people to act against their own interests voluntarily never works in the long term. It is safer to assume that businesses will act in self serving ways. Then it's also safe to assume that legislators will act in self servin
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by doktrin 10y ago
I want you to know I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write that. It's both helpful and uplifting. I've been going through a rough patch professionally and in life, and your comment lifted my spirits and brought me to t
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by doktrin 10y ago
Why am I the only one being asked to "stop"? I didn't open this can of worms, and I'm seeing a literal few pages and multiple threads of back and forth from others on this very topic.
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by doktrin 10y ago
The implication was clear enough - which is why I asked for substantiation. 1. does github in fact "only hire women and minorities" at the expense of superior, talented white men? 2. assuming #1 is true, what evidence is there tha
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by doktrin 10y ago
can you substantiate that ideological extrapolation of yours?
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by doktrin 10y ago
I didn't attend college or graduate school (yeah ik ik I'm a pos), so that may well go a ways towards explaining my dumbassery
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by doktrin 10y ago
I honestly can't tell whether the downvotes are from elitist neckbeards or offended plebs pls explain I'd love to hear
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by doktrin 10y ago
> So there I was, implementing a one element ring buffer. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a perfectly reasonable data structure. I didn't even know what a ring buffer was where do I dispose of my programmer membership car
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Ask HN: How to spend 6 months (personal development)
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by doktrin 10y ago
Aston is a class act. He volunteered to act as a mentor to students in a coding bootcamp I attended several years ago, and it was my privilege to meet him. He's the sort of person who is unequivocally a net positive in this world, and
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by doktrin 10y ago
I'm honestly not sure if you're being sarcastic :(
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by doktrin 10y ago
Probably because it's slightly slower to use than magnetic strips (at least in the US), and since we're in a transition period you kind of never know whether a given store supports chip inserts.
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by doktrin 10y ago
> But if your job is to design things, and there is no such thing as beauty, then there is no way to get better at your job Sounds like nonsense to me. Design, to my mind, is less about "beauty" than it is about communication.
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by doktrin 10y ago
I think I can shed some light on this issue - "good musical taste" == "liking the music that I like"
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by doktrin 10y ago
To my mind that's a shitty title, and a lightweight article. The Washington Post pieces, linked to from the OP, is better : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06... Here is th
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by doktrin 10y ago
I too program professionally (shock of shocks), and I also enjoyed solving the problem. However, I'm torn on how informative this question would be in an interview setting. On the one hand, I kind of abhor gimmicky interview questions.
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by doktrin 10y ago
I feel like this reasoning trivializes the redistribution of wealth. Sure, taxing "maximum wealth" and redistributing it fairly sounds like a great idea. In actuality, it's obnoxiously difficult to take something away from so

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