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by harryjo 11y ago
This is also a large part of why the "Ivy League" is perpetuated. Not because the graduates or the education is special, but because it provides a "stamp" that its alumni can give out to clients to give authority to clie
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The bulk cost-effectiveness argument makes sense, but how does the theory survive in the presence of modern hot-company behaviors that spend money on absurdly gourmet snacks and niche perks, that seem to be more about appearing cooler than
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by harryjo 11y ago
Funny how they dedicate their blogging to attacking Bezos's business model, then make their living off of it.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Arial letters have more distinctive individuality.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Ensure is not meant for weight loss. Ensure is liquid food for people who can't eat.
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by harryjo 11y ago
The difference between Ensure and Soylent isn't that Doylent is more sustainable; it's that Ensure protects its reputation by discouraging potentially unhealthy uses, while Soylent just bluffs to "fake it till they make it&qu
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by harryjo 11y ago
Your quotation is less faithful to what actually shows up in performance evaluation than the comment you responded to.
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The rude behavior you describe is not intentionally sexist, but it has a disparate impact on women, who statistically tolerate interruptions more. Often times when you think you know what they are going to say, you are wrong, putting words
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In an argument, a common technique when someone yells at you is to lower your own voice. It makes the other person angrier and look stupider.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Putting the item exactly back in place, is that to increase the clerk's suspicion of shoplifting, or defend against accusations of it?
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by harryjo 11y ago
It's not fair that you have to do this; yet I'm glad you have found a way to mitigate the cost of unfair treatment, and I hope people will curtail their biases in future. About the not-blinking, though --- that seems like staring,
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by harryjo 11y ago
> (as in, "increase unit price by hundreds of thousands of dollars" expensive). that's clearly false. maybe "hundreds OR thousands of dollars.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Hmm, how does the law (DMV, passport office, etc) deal with that?
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by harryjo 11y ago
EFF is being smartass here. I don't know the merits of the case, but the EFF is intentionally mischaracterizing it. The original patent used "integer" in a place where the mathematician's Z can't possibly be what th
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by harryjo 11y ago
These aren't really for home use. They are for Maker spaces and workshops and schools. Your partner should bring her design to a local workshop to cut, unless she wants to open the local workshop.
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by harryjo 11y ago
They want to motivate interested buyers to pre-order. The "actual" price is FUD.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Why would a making a wallet require "half a cow" ? Is making a leather wallet as nearly-impossible as he claims? http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-leather-wallet... The video feels like infomercia
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by harryjo 11y ago
Only the headline says "Russia". The story does not. Headlines are awful; I wish HN would rewrite them more accurately and less clickbaity. (See also: the "Why" clickbait)
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by harryjo 11y ago
> "Your logo could potentially add or subtract 10% from enterprise value"[0]. ...for a very small enterprise with 0 previous brand recognition, choosing logos at random. BCC site's main goal is to not look like a scam, so
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by harryjo 11y ago
Why would you make "transit-accessible locatons" the exact same color as "the ocean" ??
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Note: 500m is 2 long blocks (Avenues); 6 street blocks.
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by harryjo 11y ago
The NY subway is filthy, hot, and loud. (Other systems, like DC Metro, are much nicer). "Sexy" tastes may vary, but buses are much nicer rides when you can get them.
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by harryjo 11y ago
In this, case, it's trivial to word the problem a "sets of objects, each with integer size, partition into sets of equal sum size". It is still polite to state that explicitly outside of the sample data, though.
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by harryjo 11y ago
The number of partitions is 2^90 / 2, since each partition has 2 representations. (The rest of the proof still holds.)
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by harryjo 11y ago
What's the largest example you have verified?
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TC's business model is to publish startup press releases.
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by harryjo 11y ago
They probably have Google contractors, not employees. Or former employees, since their website has already shown to have proven deceptions (like claiming to have solely created Yahoo Weather)
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Greg was not in CA, and snap is open source, so this example is a non-issue and the author didn't care.
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haha. Amazon requires vendors to provide 1 year of free service if they want to use Amazon's name in their bizdev.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Lying is generally considered lack of integrity. Integrity: "I like your offer a lot" (but then something actually changed, and I don't sign). Lack of Integrity: "I'm in." (but then I don't sign.)

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