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Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)(isglobal.org)
337 points by gregd 6y ago|392 comments
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by gregd 6y ago
HN Special Chrome Extension
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by gregd 6y ago
I'm shocked that people continue to be shocked that this happens under Capitalism.
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by gregd 6y ago
I love stories like this..ones that hit you as a child that completely change the direction of your life.
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by gregd 6y ago
Speaking of floppy's I remember the brand to get for the Apple machines at that time was Elephant. Because "an elephant never forgets".
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by gregd 6y ago
Slightly jealous of your //c.
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by gregd 6y ago
Me too! They single-handedly got me interested in "making a computer do stuff" with those charts of peeks and pokes! Here I am ~35 years later and I'm still making computers do stuff. Well I started on a TRS-80 but quickly
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by gregd 6y ago
I'm fairly certain it's //c to ][c
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by gregd 6y ago
As someone who coveted the Apple //c in high school, I absolutely loved this. Does anyone remember Beagle Bros software?
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by gregd 6y ago
Having to reach out to find the salary range, is already wasting time.
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by gregd 6y ago
Exactly. This process needs to stop. I have never applied for a job where the salary (or hourly) price wasn't listed up front. Why waste my time and why should I waste yours?
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by gregd 6y ago
I'm saying the analogy in this case, doesn't work. Hiring a plumber, carpenter, electrician on a per job basis is not the same as hiring an employee (hopefully for a long-term commitment).
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by gregd 6y ago
I see. So we should start listing benefits to doing our job for a plumber? "Hey there Plumber, if you do this job, I'll give you health insurance for the two days it takes you to do this job. I'll provide a gym membership,
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by gregd 6y ago
Why bother applying for jobs that don't list salary? The whole notion that it's a bargaining tool bothers me to no end. I'm not going to bother applying for a job that doesn't list their salary upfront. Listing the sal
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by gregd 6y ago
What in the world does this have to do with hiring an employee with salary? Hiring a plumber on a per job basis isn't the same thing at all and getting bids for jobs like this, works. Do you seriously think that people should bid to fi
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by gregd 7y ago
This is a really neat project! Good job.
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by gregd 7y ago
While I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop. This is not the way most of the world works and many people are "stuck" in very shitty
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by gregd 7y ago
"And the unit’s always-on blue glow—which indicates when its primary PECO filter is in operation—can disrupt sleep. (You can’t physically block the glow with a coin or tape, because doing so would block the Molekule’s delivery of air.)
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by gregd 7y ago
These cases are not even remotely the same. In the case of the bakers refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple (I followed this case closely as I lived in Oregon at the time), the cake shop owners refused to bake the cake on the
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by gregd 7y ago
You're also wrong in that these are not inherently conflicting things. A platform can moderate their content AS WELL AS have immunity from what their users post.
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by gregd 7y ago
Since the First Amendment acts as a constraint on Government, yeah, it makes sense that YouTube is under no obligation to protect your freedom of speech. This isn't a hard concept.
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by gregd 7y ago
I've worked for various technical help desks over the past 20 years and I'm saying that if a help desk is setup properly, ombudsman services become unnecessary. A big part of this is how empowered you make your various levels. Th
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by gregd 7y ago
A properly setup helpdesk negates the need for an Ombudsman. If a tech company cannot get a helpdesk escalation path correct, what makes you think they'll get an Ombudsman scenario correct?
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by gregd 7y ago
They also didn't magically disable the data collection once you became a paying customer.
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by gregd 7y ago
Oh but the article claims she's done some "soul searching", when in fact, I think they meant she's found all the souls she sucked the life out of.
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by gregd 7y ago
What I got out of the post is that the value you bring to a company, doesn't at all align with what you're actually paid, which is typical of our society.
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by gregd 7y ago
I've been a self-employed IC with numerous large clients and I currently work for a company that I'm an actual employee, but my company contracts me out to another company. I've done this for over 15 years and none of what y
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by gregd 7y ago
Was this a work study program or internship through your college? Or did you just take a contracting position at a company to help make ends meet?
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by gregd 7y ago
You keep stating things that aren't true. Salaried employees negotiate and get benefits and isn't tied to "hours worked". There are lots of jobs now listing flexible hours as a benefit.
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by gregd 7y ago
You keep saying that converting from IC to employee would mean their base salary would be lower. Have you ever been an Independent Contractor? This simply isn't true.

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