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by gohrt 10y ago
How do I determine where to bet?
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by gohrt 10y ago
This is why it is bad to rely on a private corporation to define where you can play a game. Checkers does not rely on OTA DLC to activate my house as location where I can make a capture.
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by gohrt 10y ago
If these companies aren't really hiring because they aren't offering competitive salaries, that means that someone else is hiring and offering competitive salaries.
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by gohrt 10y ago
How many years ago? Google famously publicly renounced those ~5 years ago.
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by gohrt 10y ago
> If I'm getting taxed, then I'm making money, and that's as much thought as I give it." This is true, but if you are making money and getting tax, but if you are also losing money and not reducing taxes (because you
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by gohrt 10y ago
> I would say "sure this stock is 'worth' $500K but if I sell it I'm going to have to pay a huge amount of tax on How is that possible? After 1 year, you are in Long-term capital gains territory, so selling now vs lat
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by gohrt 10y ago
That article is about a different topic that uses similar words.
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by gohrt 10y ago
> why not everyone else? because you haven't built a startup to do it yet, and Gayle McDowell hasn't figured out how do it yet.
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by gohrt 10y ago
My guess is that Papert believed that IIT curriculum (or similar) should be taught everywhere, not limited to the few seats in IIT.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Why do we eat food at all? It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did.
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by gohrt 10y ago
And the remaining few were successful academics who jumped to industry for astronomical pay raises.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Does McDonald's lay off staff every 9 months?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Current top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12186295 , specifically rebutted 30 years before the comment was written.
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by gohrt 10y ago
What makes an operator "obscure"? Can functions be obscure too? What makes a function "obscure"? You don't like punctuation in your identifiers. It's a a fair objection, and a common one for people whose native
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by gohrt 10y ago
> FANGAM Does Netflix fit in that top-6?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Love the skills grading scale, totally Ivy League material: A+++ A+ A B (There are no A++ players)
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by gohrt 10y ago
$1000 is a stingy payout for a bug that undermines the reason for the product's existence.
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by gohrt 10y ago
By your definition, what's an example of a non-constructive proof (of any theorem ) ?
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by gohrt 10y ago
You do a lot of messy work, and then you clean it up when you are done. https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/proving-the-fundamen...
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by gohrt 10y ago
> or shell out more of their margin for a third party fraud prevention service. It's disgusting. how is that meaningfully worse than your proposed solution, paying the CC processor for fraud-prevention?
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by gohrt 10y ago
> "how much do you make" what culture is this?!
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by gohrt 10y ago
good.is claims to do this, but it's actually a junk viral news site. :-(
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by gohrt 10y ago
Make friends at work or at a community hobby/social/religious/whatever group. connect with people who are into what you are into. find a mate, start a family, or join a family. when you are busy, engaged with beautiful/i
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by gohrt 10y ago
People say that laptop factory workers make barely more than the minimum wage, but when I want to buy a new laptop, Apple wants $1000.
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by gohrt 10y ago
I would love to "fail" by steadily increasing growth, becoming #1 in a ~year.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Are we more civilized when there is no anonymous free speech, and people are abusive only in semi-private situations?
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by gohrt 10y ago
The HN crowd tends toward anti-socialites who don't see the value in human communication or that purpose of life is to live it. What's the point of going to Mars, if not to share the experience with other people?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Yet you think Zuck is in it for more money?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Google wants to flood us with information like zombies. Elon wants us to sit in our cars and spaceships like zombies. Everything sounds bad if you tack on "like zombies" as an empty insult at the end.
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by gohrt 10y ago
bone marrow is one of the parts of the body that has high water content and thus would heat faster than others under radiation. Sauna heat does not preferentially target liquid for heating.

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