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by heymijo 7y ago
You seem to have interpreted this as monopoly prices were less than today's prices. My read of the parent comment is that monopoly era phone service from AT&T was cheaper when compared to phone service in other parts of the world d
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> We had nationalized telecommunications for over 70 years No. Until 1982 AT&T in the United States was a legal monopoly, not a nationalized telecom. The book, The Idea Factory about Bell Labs has most of the history including why
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In the US there is a lot of law that makes employment discrimination illegal for a number of classes of people. IANAL: I don't know if it is outright illegal to request a picture but it sure seems like a great way to open yourself up t
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Implied in your comment is that today's crisis is one similar to 2008 in that the economy needs "stimulus." Today's crisis is different. The regular economy is grinding to a halt because we have to in attempts to slow th
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This is a massive question: how do we nearly shut down an economy and still meet people's basic needs? Today's crisis is not 2008's crisis. The economic changes seem more akin to WWII when there was rationing and production s
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You'll have to forgive me. I keyed in on your line about servers and glossed over your "I get what you're seeing" agreement with OP. The comments this elicited below harkened back to some great memories of spinning up Ha
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> * I don't think there's anything about the term "server" that implies independence.* Communication is perception. Simian above, and myself grew up in an era where a server did indeed imply independence. Counterstrik
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The fourth estate is the media [0]. For anyone else who was unfamiliar with that term. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
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What does your VIX gamble look like?
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I'm not sure those are comparable. Comparing almost boutique level jeans made in the U.S. with mass produced Levi's made elsewhere doesn't help us determine price differences in off-shoring vs. manufacturing in the U.S. I thi
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That's certainly fair. I read the article Karen Hao (the reporter) wrote when it was published. My read on her discussing the secretive nature of OpenAI and access within its facility was a proxy to show how the organization has change
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> to increase the military presence to a level that they could effectively remove the Taliban This is easier said than done, if it is possible at all. Having recently taken a dive into the U.S.' involvement in Vietnam, this argume
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GREAT QUESTION! tl;dr - don't be afraid to go back to math concepts from elementary school to help you along the way to learning more math. You have a gaggle of responses to go through, but I want to put this out there anyways. Algebra
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> some guy who literally said he got the job because he was friends with Obama There are two kinds of U.S. ambassadors: 1) Career foreign service people 2) Friends of the presidential administration at the time Examples of the latter a
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Hi Sam, HN asks that as discussions intensify, we get more thoughtful and substantive. I'll do my best to follow that norm as well as to converse with you, with Paul Graham's "How to Disagree" in mind [0]. I'm not q
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I’m really sorry to hear you feel stuck. I hope you come out the other end of this with good prospects in spite of the inadequate training Lambda is providing. Thanks for adding your insight and experience to this thread.
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Yes, that is what I meant. Your last line jumps the shark.
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If it is as you say, an immense cost, can it really be an under appreciated topic?
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I can't read this account and say anything other than Lambda School is an ineffective educational program. You can set aside the issue of ISAs or anything about this woman. This poor of a product from Lambda is indefensible. A consumer
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> I’ve seen ex-engineers in management positions...forget how important it is to offset technical debt I see this across industries. It seems easy for former insiders to lose the ability to empathize with those in their former position
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I agree. Although for anyone unfamiliar, GAAP isn't and never was perfect. Like any target it is gamed. Hence the origins of the meme "cash flow is a better indicator than net income." In comparison, startup accounting has en
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> The goal of software engineering is to make that development predictable and cost-effective. Is this true?
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> But isn't that simply the nature of venture capital? Venture capital isn't a monolith. Investing in pre-seed, seed, or series A rounds are significantly different than coming in as an investor in a later round. For Softbank
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> my goal is to make ~$250k a year as fast as possible. To do so at my current company would take at least 3 years and 2 promotions Hi, I don't want to dunk on you, but I would truly encourage you to gain some perspective on just
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My understanding is that the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, which includes Alexandria/Arlington is one area in the country that is all but recession proof due to the high number of federal government and associated jobs. Thus loss
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I wonder what other happenings in the U.S. were eclipsed by 9/11.
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Speaking of Hong Kong, what impact is this outbreak having on the conflict with Beijing?
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Heard loud and clear. You make good points, communicate them well, and I appreciate the satirical link about using cigarettes to enhance endurance training. A++ exchange, would converse with again.
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Like I said, hypothesis! The glycemic index is problematic for lots of reasons. If by "a little bit of sweetener" you're referring to HFCS in packaged foods, I disagree. HFCS prevalence seems much much larger than that. You&#
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A quick search on the history of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in the food chain has a timeline that works. This is where I'd start: > The first corn syrup in the United States was produced in Buffalo, New York, in 1866. A major

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