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8y ago
In case anyone is wondering "What is a Juggalo?" https://genius.com/Insane-clown-posse-what-is-a-juggalo-lyri... Among other things, a Juggalo... > He's a graduate He graduated from...well At least, he got
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8y ago
> Relax and celebrate the fact your addiction reflects a normal urge to connect with others! Addicting partly because it's so easy. It's much harder than going into "impro" mode and striking up a conversation which wi
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8y ago
I live in the Philippines. The trash you see everywhere, in the streets and in the rivers is plastic bags and bottles. It sees that packaging actually makes its way to the dump.
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8y ago
Well, consider that it's enabling you to watch porn, that has to be worth some of the premium. ;)
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gexla
8y ago
Looks like the "proofof.js" namespace is available if you wanted to create another JS framework.
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gexla
8y ago
I'm a web developer. In my 20's I used to love picking things up just for the of it. These days I'm more of a fan of JIT learning. Push the edges of my map as I go. I'm still constantly learning, but it's more
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8y ago
Productivity is a personal journey, yet everyone who writes these articles feels they have the holy grail and everyone should know about it. Worse is that most likely a few months down the road, they could (and probably will) write a differ
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8y ago
Feature creep already? You have already launched. Add Stripe and go! While you're adding features, can you offer "customer support?" I don't need to actually answer the thing. I just need for it to loop in some elevator
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9y ago
There are other coins to mine other than Bitcoin, such as Monero.
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9y ago
> This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose). Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?
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9y ago
There's a group of rich people mentioned in this post and now they are telling their followers to delete FB _after_ getting rich. If we were to ask them how FB plans on making money when they started their involvement with the company,
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9y ago
Uber: 1 Pedestrians: 0 Game on.
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9y ago
> and concluded the small stuffed animals, a craze from the 1990s, will one day soar in value, like the bitcoins he bought in early January. Bitcoin. Beanie Babies. The Beanie Babies aren't worth anything by themselves, but I think
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9y ago
This isn't newsworthy enough to get posted on HN. If you follow smart people on crypto Twitter, this is a routine reminder.
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9y ago
Poker isn't checkers. It's a game of hustling for money. The computer doesn't even need to be better than the pros, it only needs to be good enough to erase the margin of profit for these players. You don't make money of
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9y ago
> Huge expected value can also make people fools, without a scrap of real hope of future returns. See also, Gambler's Ruin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin That's only an issue if you are ma
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9y ago
More info for those who don't know who he is. https://angel.co/argv0
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9y ago
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/9kn745/eve-online-millio...
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gexla
9y ago
Unicorn is a startup term. Atlassian is TEAM on the NASDAQ.
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9y ago
Doing 14 minutes when you aren't in your optimal energy zone can be worse than zero. When you are fatigued, you create more work by being sloppy or in general doing things which require more work down the line (especially for programme
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9y ago
The Philippines allows you to extend up to a year (longer if you jump through some hoops). That's multiple extensions, but you don't have to leave the country until you approach the 1 year point. After that, you can come right bac
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9y ago
Thank you. I have already been getting some pretty good practice in ignoring any of the current paywall sites. It's a great way to cut down on distraction. If the best content sites do this, then I can ignore the rest as well. I feel t
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9y ago
If you are creating FB ads, you target by the segment which gives you the most leads. I imagine age is just one parameter of those segments. Personally, I would never think to find a job through FB. IF someone wanted to target me, being out
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9y ago
The noisiest part of the process in our house was the constant dialing to get onto AOL followed by the busy signal. Most fun when I was trying to sleep in.
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9y ago
We start out playing, I don't think we should ever stop doing that. If more knowledge was the answer, then all the super smart people of the world would have everything. But it's often total idiots who end up having the most fun.
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9y ago
ETA: I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my post. Thank you. I think I had my lightbulb moment. People are comparing services like Upwork to a typical contracting arrangement in the U.S. Amazon hires contract workers for their ware
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9y ago
I'm also an asshole because I was downvoted heavy for the same sort of stand. As with any business, he needs to realize this isn't working and move on to something else. If he's staring at the possibility of being homeless af
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9y ago
In what universe is marketing and sales not a key element of a business? That's like saying Samsung doesn't have to put effort into marketing and sales just because it's important for Apple. Sales and marketing IS a universal
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9y ago
Getting screwed occasionally is a cost of doing business. You price that in. If the business isn't worth it after pricing that in, then you look for another business. There are lots of businesses which have gone down from fraud and the
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9y ago
Medical expenses are a top cause of bankruptcy in the United States (and many other countries). Dealing with this possibility should be a top priority. A person who is going to get wiped out financially by a car wreck is far more susceptibl
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