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by eqdw 13y ago
> Sure, more housing supply will lower housing prices -- and the resulting increase in population will increase the demand for everything else that plays into affordability of living in the city. What do the laws of supply and demand say
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by eqdw 13y ago
They also continually refer to "IT workers". "IT" is very different from "programmers". You wouldn't expect an engineer to be interchangeable with a mechanic. I'm still trying to find out if this is a
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by eqdw 13y ago
Blurb Inc - San Francisco, CA, various positions [H1B] [TN] The following positions are open as of an email that HR sent out on 2013.08.30: (US) PR Manager (US) Senior Payroll Accountant (US) Senior Financial Analyst (US) Software Engineer:
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by eqdw 13y ago
I used this site to gauge my future cost of living before moving to another country. Once I moved I noticed it was off a bit, but didn't think much of it. Then one day, while bragging about how cool this site was, I noticed that it doe
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by eqdw 13y ago
> One big problem I have with college loans is that people that sign up for it are not adequately informed on the long term consequences of their action. Since this is a loan for education one would expect that before being allowed to si
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by eqdw 13y ago
So....... how bout them NSOs and the tax I'll owe on them? Clearly it wasn't all I need to know
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by eqdw 13y ago
Usually I'd make a joke about not wanting to search that (lest I end up on a watch list). Now it's not so funny anymore
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by eqdw 13y ago
This is a really cool post, and education is somewhat of a passion of mine. Does anyone know of any other posts like this?
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by eqdw 13y ago
> None the less, there WILL be a growing population of people who we've taken away their capability to work for a living. So when we offer a basic income, its not us graciously giving them a gift of our hard work. Its giving them th
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by eqdw 13y ago
I'm a RoR developer working at a company in the Bay Area called Coupa Software. We're a provider of e-procurement software, which is enterprisey stuff that helps large companies manage their internal spending. Tech reporters often describe
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by eqdw 14y ago
> There's some humor involved (the bird, the silly Archangel names, and pretending that misogynist conspiracies are real) The reason I so strongly dislike them is because I know several people for whom it's not humour. They are dead ser
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by eqdw 14y ago
This is fundamentally untrue. The most charitable reading I can give you is: /b/ has more, and more diligent, mods.
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by eqdw 14y ago
OH MY GOD SOMEONE HIT ON ME, I BETTER YELL ABOUT IT FOR TWO YEARS.
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by eqdw 14y ago
To be fair, it doesn't. But every time I'm invited to read what she's written, it is 50% her complaining about people being mean to her, and maybe 15% the actual issue. Excuse me for inferring her priorities
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by eqdw 14y ago
The guy I'm replying to can go look up these things himself. I fundamentally disagree with you on this, but I'm not discussing it. Someone else can, if it's that big a deal
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by eqdw 14y ago
> I preface this by saying I don't know the author and I don't recall ever having read anything by her previously before, so all of this drama about past things she's spoken about is new to me. RW has a reputation for courting controver
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by eqdw 14y ago
I find it hard to believe she really cares about the bigotry and child porn on Reddit when half her post is about people who were mean to her
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by eqdw 14y ago
Only Rebecca Watson would accuse someone of wink-nod ignoring child porn, and cite it with a link that says "We weren't aware of this content and our DNS host couldn't reach us to tell us because our contact info was out of date"
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by eqdw 14y ago
THIS JUST IN: man spends 4 months confirming what everyone already knows
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by eqdw 15y ago
I'm friend of one of your developers. I've had alpha access for like a month or so. I've chatted him a bit about the project, but I'll give you some feedback directly. In short, I think your project is cool but I don't think it is for me. A
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by eqdw 15y ago
> - Having to use Command-c, Command-v, ..etc instead of Control-C, Control-V, .etc You can just remap the keys to be the opposite. Map control to command and vice versa
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by eqdw 15y ago
Heat issues. My MBP is by far the hottest-running laptop I've ever had. I chalk it up to the fact that it is significantly thinner than any other laptop I've had. No ventilation in there. The fact that it's an aluminum case doesn't help, ei
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by eqdw 15y ago
Exactly. It would be exceedingly difficult to locate the silk road server, but trivially easy to find someone who was going to it
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by eqdw 15y ago
You've actually got a really good idea. The author touches on it VERY briefly when he says "If the nations of the world had the equivalent cost invested in submarines or destroyers, maybe the same thing would have happened.", but I get the
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by eqdw 15y ago
Wait. Chording is bad? But I use EMACS... How else will I type command-control-meta x?
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by eqdw 15y ago
Idea: Instead of asking for someone's vote, have them type out a paragraph and measure which shift they use
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by eqdw 15y ago
Even if they are, it's not worth it. Using my laptop CPU, I can expect to get a payout of about 0.0003 BTC in an hour and half. Using my gpu at home, I get about 1.25BTC/day.
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by eqdw 15y ago
Here's hoping this price stays this high for at least a month. That'll give me enough time to pay off my shiny new graphcis card
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by eqdw 15y ago
It's about an even toss-up between either a) eating with other developers and throwing work ideas around; and b) eating, usually alone, while playing a game on my comp for 20 minutes or so
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by eqdw 15y ago
I once was doing a project euler challenge of some sort, and I had to find the nth term of some sequence. My code for generating the sequence was taking too long (order of hours), and I didn't feel like googling. So I downloaded the sequenc

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