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by guyzero 9y ago
given that the biggest software companies of the last 20 years have mostly been in the Bay Area, maybe there's a flaw in your assumption that there are "more experienced people pretty much anywhere."
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by guyzero 9y ago
Any children's literature from 1940's England is going to be classist to some extent, but sure, it's definitely classist as all get out.
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by guyzero 9y ago
This is only news to someone who has never watched Thomas. It took me until the second or third Thomas book and I was pretty surprised how authoritarian it all was - and that was circa 2000. But the books are from the 40's and like a l
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by guyzero 9y ago
It's nice to see a US newspaper acknowledging that other developed countries exist.
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by guyzero 9y ago
Has the situation where few doctors accept Medicare changed since 2009? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/retirementspecial... edit: and I should clarify that yes, this is Medicare and not Medic
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by guyzero 9y ago
"In the US we don't ration care nearly to the extent that they do in eg Canada" Sure you do. Poor people don't get any health care, people with insurance get all the health care they want. You ration based on income and
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by guyzero 9y ago
Lack of state income tax?
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by guyzero 9y ago
No one parodies Hacker News comments as well as Hacker News commenters. This is a piece about one guy's emotions and feelings about the rise of e-bikes. He's not policing anything. He's not setting government policies. He&#x2
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by guyzero 9y ago
As much as I give blue-beetle credit for having one of the earliest print references for that exact turn of phrase, I had definitely heard it before then. I don't think he really brought it into the zeitgeist, but then again I haven&#x
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by guyzero 9y ago
This has long been my assertion about elite undergraduate engineering schools. The teaching is usually just OK but their main advantage is that they get to "skim the cream" from the applicant pool.
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by guyzero 9y ago
It seems crazy that BAMTech grew out of MLBAM - no one would ever have predicted that Major League Baseball would end up being the starting point for one of the biggest companies in online video streaming.
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by guyzero 9y ago
I couldn't make it very far into the article. I enjoy open-water diving but cave diving induces way too much claustrophobia.
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by guyzero 9y ago
Per Diane Greene's post, this has always been the case for GSuite and now consumer Gmail will catch up: "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change" https://blo
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by guyzero 9y ago
https://www.spreadshirt.com/create-your-own?product=10193909...
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by guyzero 9y ago
Thankfully Cupertino's children are only sociopathic about getting good marks to get into college.
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by guyzero 9y ago
Announcing an unreleased major feature the week before Google I/O? What a surprise.
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by guyzero 9y ago
How could you forget Ottawa? It was Silicon Valley North for years before Waterloo or Toronto even were on the map.
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by guyzero 9y ago
It makes me feel proud that Canada has been North America’s up-and-coming startup center since I graduated from Waterloo over 20 years ago. That's a solid, consistent track record of almost being there.
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by guyzero 9y ago
Sure, but why? Why isn't there just one test? Why are merit scholarships handed out for PSAT results and not SAT results? I can't see any compelling reason other than making more work for the College Board.
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by guyzero 9y ago
Ah, the PSAT. Because one high-pressure standardized test isn't enough.
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by guyzero 10y ago
I'll pay $500 a month for an all-you-can-ban button.
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by guyzero 10y ago
I suppose but when you're already using Chrome using the Widevine CDM isn't a huge difference. When you're using Edge using the PlayReady CDM isn't a huge difference. I see the general theory of the argument for Opera an
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by guyzero 10y ago
The major EME providers are PlayReady, which is Microsoft, and Widevine, which is Google. You've already given those two companies pretty broad permission to run binaries on your computer (unless you use Firefox on Linux) so I'm n
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by guyzero 10y ago
Miele machines are small compared to most washing machines for the US market. I had an imported AEG and when I replaced it with a LG frontloader it seemed impossible how big the drum was. I used to only be able to wash 3-4 pairs of jeans at
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by guyzero 10y ago
You could move. Oh, what's that, Marin is really great and a lot better than taking the tax cut and moving to rural Nevada? Exactly.
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by guyzero 10y ago
That plus each CA senator represents over 18 million people as a contrast to Wyoming's senators which represent a hair over 284,000 people each.
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by guyzero 10y ago
Every state gets two senators and the one that's served the longest is called the "senior" senator and the other the "junior". By definition a state can't have two senior senators.
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by guyzero 10y ago
That was also my first thought.
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by guyzero 10y ago
Sports fans watch live TV. Some people basically consider Sling to be a bunch of stuff you get with ESPN.
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by guyzero 10y ago
It's probably not even possible to offer US cable networks outside of the US. They only have licenses from the content creators to show inside the US. Besides, all their competitors are US only as well - Sling TV, DirecTV Now. Someday

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