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by harryh 6y ago
More likely a password reset to take over the account. After that an attacker can just tweet from any standard client.
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by harryh 6y ago
would you be willing to study for months, go through mock interviews, read books, test your skills etc. to have a shot at working for us The vast majority of people who work at FAANG type companies do not do any of this.
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by harryh 6y ago
A pro tip for anyone reading this who ever ends up in a similar situation: just postpone the interview. I promise you that everyone will understand. Everyone gets that these things are a little goofy[1] and wants to set people up for succes
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by harryh 6y ago
Accounting details like that do not address the Constitutional concerns.
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From footnote [1] which you generously provided: "If the purpose of the requirements was to inhibit migration by needy persons into the state or to bar the entry of those who came from low-paying states to higher-paying ones in order t
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by harryh 6y ago
In case anyone else is curious, apparently a pre-1982 penny could be worth about 1.8 cents when melted down: http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1909-1982-Lincoln-Cent-Penn...
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by harryh 6y ago
The Supreme Court has ruled ideas like this unconstitutional. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-18-mn-38325...
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by harryh 6y ago
it would be great if states would start implementing their own universal healthcare for their residents This isn't really feasible because residents of one state with no universal healthcare + lower taxes could easily move to another
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by harryh 6y ago
You know what's definitely going to be valuable in a post collapse world where people are making heavy use of bug-out bunkers stashed with food and guns? A digital currency that requires a sophisticated global computer network to funct
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by harryh 6y ago
In the short run, yes. But in the long run it's a weighing machine.
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by harryh 6y ago
if I build an email newsletter list with 83 million subscribers Yes, if Trump builds his own newsletter he is free to do what he wants. But when he's posting on someone else's platform, he's subject to their rules. Welcome
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by harryh 6y ago
who sells personal info that was gathered under a pretense of good faith Google does not sell personal info to anyone.
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by harryh 6y ago
arbitrarily inject warning labels on Trump tweets while ignoring anti-cop tweets calling for violence and destruction It's not arbitrary for twitter to impose a higher level of scrutiny on @realDonaldTrump (~83M followers) than on ac
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by harryh 6y ago
How many people do you think there are that would be willing to pay $3/month but not $10/month? How many people who currently pay $10/month would drop down to a $3/month plan if given the option? I'm fairly certain
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by harryh 6y ago
Pssst: 17th. The 16th is the income tax one.
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by harryh 6y ago
At least some other industries with problems (law, medicine) have an oversupply of practitioners that is limited by cartel behavior. This does make this problem a bit more tractable.
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by harryh 6y ago
Those 3 fewer zeros do make a bit of a difference. ;-)
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Social Security spending is significantly larger than defense spending.
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by harryh 6y ago
"I pay for what I feel like paying for and then I steal the stuff I don't feel like paying for" kind of proves my point.
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by harryh 6y ago
This wasn't a bespoke transaction between Walmart and The Fed. Walmart sells bonds on the open market all the time. The Fed just happened to be a buyer on that market this time.
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Pointing out that all the inflation that people have been afraid of for maybe two decades now keeps not coming isn't a dismissive Fed talking point. It's reality. The idea that it's just asset inflation and not inflation in t
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by harryh 6y ago
These threads tend to bring out the Fed Truthers on HN. There are a lot of borderline cranks.
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They haven't expected cheap debt from the government. Large corporations routinely cary debt to finance short term cashflow needs. Right now Walmart has about 60B worth. The FED, as part of a large program of corporate debt purchases,
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by harryh 6y ago
if restructuring the debt buys a year or so before bankruptcy Walmart is currently worth, checks notes , 336 Billion dollars. It is one of the most valuable companies in the world. It is in no danger of going bankrupt.
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Equity holders vote on board seats, not debt holders.
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by harryh 6y ago
Inflation? What inflation? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA This is a yearly graph, but if you look at the month by month data you'll see that inflation has actually been negative recently.
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by harryh 6y ago
Looking at median income doesn't significantly alter the conclusions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
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by harryh 6y ago
Many universities are certainly going to have problems but it's hard to see an event that causes problems for a single semester (or maybe two) being an extinction event.
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by harryh 6y ago
triple charging the consumer Not really. Licensing fees end up being (more or less) tied to actual number of views. When a piece of content is licensed more broadly the views on any given platform will go down, so the fees will as well.
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by harryh 6y ago
10 years ago pirates complained about cable packages that forced them to buy a whole bunch of channels they didn't want. Instead they wanted a la carte choices. Now pirates complain about "convenience and fragmentation." Sayi

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