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by guga31bb 15y ago
> If it's a bit run-down outside, but has tonnes of repeat customers, it's probably good. If you're visiting a new place (presumably the typical use case for Yelp), how can you possibly look inside a restaurant and know if the people in
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> The idea that content can be "better" or "worse", and this can be judged by an individual to the exclusion of the group [...] This happens in every growing online community. As the community grows, the new members don't necessarily h
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> If piracy goes unchecked, over time, the perceived value of that item will go down Do you have any evidence to support this? Both the movie [0] and gaming [1] industries are making record profits. > Many newspapers are going out
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> 10 years ago, if you did well in high school you’d get into college. If you went to college and finished your degree, with fairly high likelihood you could get a job with a respectable salary. That's still true or, at least, as true
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by guga31bb 15y ago
There is plenty of evidence that maternal leave is beneficial for children. Go to Google Scholar and search "maternal leave child outcomes". A sampling from one paper: > We find considerable associations between early returns to work an
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Yes, money for libraries at UCSD has been significantly cut: Since 2008, the Libraries have absorbed cuts of more than $5.5 million (or approximately 16% of our operations and collections budget). In addition to these cuts, the Libraries w
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Three months of free rent and utilities certainly helped. That's a huge understatement! What have we learned from this post? If you don't pay rent and eat all your meals in the office, you can live in Silicon Valley (or, for that matter,
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by guga31bb 15y ago
If your original comment was downvoted (I did not vote one way or another), it was probably because it contributed little. Saying you'd "like to see" something without saying why (as in your parent comment) doesn't tend to generate discus
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Try newsblur: http://www.newsblur.com/ As discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834305 It has folders, hotkeys, and I think I like the layout more than Google Reader (I'm still in the early stages of switching over).
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by guga31bb 15y ago
> Imagine if the top-ten stories for the day on this board were about the conditions at Apple's factories in China. I don't think it would have the same effect. Go Daddy is immensely reliant on the decisions of a handful of tech-savvy p
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by guga31bb 15y ago
I don't see how that could be the only reason for ditching your kindle. Stripping the DRM is trivial, and for convenience of sharing, ebooks win hands down. If you want to share a book with friends it's much easier to send an email attachme
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by guga31bb 15y ago
There's nothing about eating paleo that forbids carbs. For example, many eating paleo eat large amounts of sweet potatoes
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Like the other commented who replied to your post, I'm left with the feeling you didn't read the article (or at least, not very carefully). For instance, you write: >If you drop hundreds of billions of dollars paying for government work
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by guga31bb 15y ago
Sounds like Australia's system [1]: "This funding is in the form of loans that are not normal debts. They are repaid over time via a supplementary tax, using a sliding scale based on taxable income. As a consequence, loan repayments are onl
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by guga31bb 15y ago
>I actually grew up near the Pacific Northwest, so I'm used to the rain, but my wife wouldn't be able to handle it, so it's basically a non-starter. My situation exactly. Every time we go back up to WA/OR to visit, everything looks so b
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by guga31bb 15y ago
I neither have nor want a Twitter account, but even if I did, there's no reason to want to link it to this service.