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The Mom Who Tweets at Employers Asking Them to Hire Her Kid(slate.com)
1 points by drewrv 8y ago|0 comments
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by drewrv 9y ago
Our government has regulations and conducts research to minimize car accident fatalities. As a result, cars today are much safer than 10 or 20 years ago. There's no reason we can't do something similar with guns.
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by drewrv 9y ago
So does every location in the country need to have armed people around? There can be no "soft targets" anywhere? There is a better way, other countries have figured it out already.
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by drewrv 9y ago
I've been spending a lot of time lately wondering if people who treat colleges and universities as though their job is worker training are confused, or if I'm naive in believing colleges and universities exist to expand human know
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by drewrv 9y ago
> Everyone in Silicon Valley uses equity, and not debt, to fuel their growth because debt is not available in sufficient quantities to poorly capitalized companies without a strong history of adequate cash flows to service debt. A coroll
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by drewrv 9y ago
If the question is about handling their scale, then I would suggest you avoid premature optimization and worry about more immediate problems. If the question is about their features, I think most modern frameworks will be able to handle it
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by drewrv 9y ago
My kids are into her and I like it enough to watch with them sometimes. At first I rolled my eyes (mostly at the baby talk), after a few videos I was impressed. Now having watched dozens of them, I'm really amazed at her combination of
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by drewrv 9y ago
It would only be a wash if you currently believe the chance of developing intelligence is > 50%. To me, the fact that intelligence is rare on earth makes me think the odds of developing intelligence elsewhere is rare too.
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by drewrv 9y ago
If alien life were discovered within our solar system, I wonder what the implications for the Drake Equation would be. Assuming panspermia is ruled out, the fact that abiogenesis occured twice within a seemingly ordinary system would imply
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by drewrv 9y ago
I love reminders like this that "overnight success" is basically non-existent.
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by drewrv 9y ago
I love Garak's interpretation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. "Never tell the same lie twice"
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by drewrv 9y ago
It always reassures me that even Albert Einstein appeared to suffer from impostor syndrome. “the exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler.” Sou
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The VW Bus is back, and it’s electric(newsroom.vw.com)
4 points by drewrv 9y ago|0 comments
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by drewrv 9y ago
I don't know about Google but I interviewed at FB Seattle and was told it's the second largest FB office after Menlo Park, with thousands of engineers and plans to keep growing.
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by drewrv 9y ago
> Presented without comment, except to say: 20 (more) times per year means once every two-and-a-half weeks. Well, supposedly single people have less sex than married people, and you know the stereotype about married couples....
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by drewrv 9y ago
I feel like if I were a pop science writer I would spin this more as a "teleportation" story.
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by drewrv 9y ago
There are all sorts of optional deals that are illegal.
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by drewrv 9y ago
I feel like Orville goes too far in the campy/goofy direction and Discovery is too dark and serious. I wish we could just take the average of the two.
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by drewrv 9y ago
Bezos and Oprah have benefited enormously from public resources, from laws and regulations to roads and schools. To take one small example, how would a book business do in a country without widespread literacy? How would a delivery company
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Ask HN: How is productivity measured in other engineering disciplines?
2 points by drewrv 9y ago|0 comments
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by drewrv 9y ago
Agreed. If something is too easy it gets too competitive and you're working for scraps. But if one is a skilled practitioner, pushing the limits of that skill will be "easier" than learning a completely tangential skill.
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by drewrv 9y ago
People don't like to say it because they're afraid of sounding lazy, but you should do whichever is easier. Is building one of them going to be easier than the other? Is marketing/selling one of them going to be easier? Does
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by drewrv 9y ago
I understand the appeal. I've lived places where I can't even order off a menu. My in-laws don't speak any English. If/when this works flawlessly it has the potential to change the world. It just amazes me that there&#x2
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by drewrv 9y ago
For me it's not time yet because it's a clunky and annoying process to switch bluetooth earbuds from my phone to my laptop and back, at least compared to the simplicity of unplugging something. This is something I do multiple time
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by drewrv 9y ago
Translating conversations in real time is cool, but I need that feature how often? I switch my earbuds between my phone and laptop multiple times a day and it's a pain for every pair of bluetooth earbuds ever. At least Apple tried to s
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What Would a Merger Between Sprint and T-Mobile Mean for Customers?(speedtest.net)
1 points by drewrv 9y ago|0 comments
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by drewrv 9y ago
I can't figure out why this attitude is so prevalent among techies. Imagine if we gave up on computers because there was a bug!
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by drewrv 9y ago
Gerrymandering would be a lot harder with more representatives too.
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A Down Payment with a Catch: You Must Be an Airbnb Host(nytimes.com)
8 points by drewrv 9y ago|0 comments
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Hillary Clinton almost ran for president on a universal basic income(vox.com)
22 points by drewrv 9y ago|38 comments

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