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by hiou 11y ago
I think we just learned what that stock market drop in the US was about.
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by hiou 11y ago
Seattle is a fantastic counterpoint. Of all the cities I've seen, Seattle has managed to have excellent service and ridership using a primarily bus oriented public transit system. It's a great example of how the stigma of buses is
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by hiou 11y ago
> It is telling though that Constine notes that one of Uber’s Smart Routes runs “up Fillmore St. from Haight St. to Bay St. in the Marina, which the Bay Area’s BART service doesn’t cover,” when the route is directly covered by the SF MU
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by hiou 11y ago
> But that's not how it works, because these agencies are bloated, ineffective, and the complete opposite of innovative That's quite a blanket statement that sounds a whole lot like ideology. Data seems to point to a high usa
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by hiou 11y ago
That's a great example of practical documentation. I just want to add that for a fair amount of developers they are not going to be successful unless they get an hour+ meeting a couple times a week for the first month for questions and
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by hiou 11y ago
The piece on the events page[1] is Josh Keyes[2]. Another artist that hasn't done anything new in years. It makes me chuckle when artists that claim to be so anti-corporate practice exactly the same techniques of brand management to in
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by hiou 11y ago
It's almost like defunding and closing all the vocational schools and programs in the 80s and 90s wasn't as good of an idea as it seemed...
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by hiou 11y ago
This is very anecdotal, but in my experience with the people in my life that fall for these cures are very, very concerned with themselves and typically lean toward needing excessive control of everything in their life. It appears to me to
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by hiou 11y ago
Some libraries use annotations in comments. Therefore they cannot be stripped. Off the top of my head I know of some JavaScript testing libraries that do this.
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by hiou 11y ago
I also do not have specific data, but when almost 1/10th[1] of the student body is learning in a second language, it's obvious that test scores will be lower and resources will need to be stretched a bit further and certain groups
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by hiou 11y ago
This will not change until regulators step in and force companies to disclose what they store, how they use it and most importantly, what behaviors they are actively attempting to coerce their users into. Much like the agriculture industry,
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by hiou 11y ago
Do you mean like this?[1] Also, I was unaware of any laws that required unions to charge dues. It is true that many do, but one can certainly create a union without dues. [1] http://www.nrtw.org/c/vartwlaw.htm
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by hiou 11y ago
Can you explain how it is mandatory for wages to be part of the collective bargaining agreement? It is my understanding that bargaining agreements can have nothing at all to do with compensation and instead on worker treatment or any other
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by hiou 11y ago
When anyone uses "Everyone", "Always", "Never" etc it creates strong signaling that the writer is an idealist and not looking at the issue at hand pragmatically. I would find it unlikely that "Everyone&quo
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by hiou 11y ago
You seriously believe that if two people collided on these they would both die? You actually believe death would result? Just... I don't even...
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by hiou 11y ago
The simple solution is to eliminate street parking and use it for all the other better alternatives for driving. Most of the rules are there because of how incredibly dangerous cars and trucks are.
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by hiou 11y ago
I would say that investing looking for growth and creation(Y-Combinator), is much different than buying an unchanging asset, doing nothing to it and simply collecting a non-trivial portion of the renter's value created. It's the d
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by hiou 11y ago
I would love it if the person who downvoted this anonymously would chime in as to why. Because this is exactly what a landlord is.
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by hiou 11y ago
Considering that there are many more qualified willing and able candidates trying to become doctors and many less trying to become sanitation engineers, it actually may be a larger net benefit since the next medical student in line would li
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by hiou 11y ago
It's much more profitable to replace high wage labor than low skill labor so it makes sense that this segment of the workforce would be replaced sooner than later. I never considered the angle of the additional political power this gro
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by hiou 11y ago
Ugh here we go again... no idea what the constant complaining about adding features and functionality to web browsers or the web in general really accomplishes at this point. The ship sailed more than 5 years ago. The likelihood of browsers
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by hiou 11y ago
Rocking compact() niiiice. Probably helpful for your average Wordpress developer, beyond that kind of yikes.
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by hiou 11y ago
I feel like you are not part of this group, but my understanding is that the most common cause of sleep apnea is obesity. So for most a doctor is not even needed as it will go away when the patient returns to a healthy weight. So while your
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by hiou 11y ago
So all people in Zimbabwe do not think exactly the same? And might even have differences of opinion? Mind blown... Not really sure how Cecil the Lion fits into HN, oh well.
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by hiou 11y ago
I have seen very similar things as a freelancer as well. It just seems like management is a much easier path when looking for longevity, money and work/life balance.
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by hiou 11y ago
So you believe that US manufacturing could equal China's output in both drones and supercomputers if there was an immediate and urgent need for them?
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by hiou 11y ago
So then why is food and housing more expensive than it was 20 years ago? https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=8l2 https://us.spindices.com/indices/real-estate/sp-case-shiller...
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by hiou 11y ago
And the race to build rockets in the US was only about going to space 50 years ago... You might want to read up a bit about the reasons for Chinese industrialization. It's a means to an end. I've yet to read anything talking about
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by hiou 11y ago
You do realize you can't buy food or housing with "stuff" that is cheaper or more advanced than it was 10-20 years ago, right?
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by hiou 11y ago
There are plenty of very healthly adults raised on formula. There is not strong evidence either way and your comment is a great example of how fringe and trend chasing nutrition can be. The same can be said for soylent and probably every ot

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