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by hlmencken 6y ago
You can't invest in the s&p like that. > Between January 1, 1963 and December 31, 2014, 1,186 index components were replaced by other components. You can know an index of 500 large companies will go up but not know what companie
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by hlmencken 6y ago
It's a huge shift in behavior. Outside of Covid-19 context something like this could have been a huge red flag. I'm sure people at amazon are working near as hard as anyone to respond to all of these changes. This was flagged and
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by hlmencken 6y ago
I agree 100% on airbnb. I disagree completely on uber. Uber is safer, better and fairer than taxis. The strategy of growing it quickly is aggressive and clearly short term but the value of having uber in a community where driving is the onl
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by hlmencken 6y ago
There is but one interweb.
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by hlmencken 6y ago
I really don't think Target is that upfront. How am I supposed to know Mossimo and Goodfellow are Target brands. I do however understand that Kroger groceries are made by the kroger store.
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by hlmencken 6y ago
Read the room.
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by hlmencken 6y ago
Being a manager and hirer is very different from being the interviewee. It's great to believe that you could have some innate ability to judge one's empathy and character in a set of interviews but so much of that runs to favor pe
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by hlmencken 6y ago
I really am not a fan of showing a price and then only finding out after clicking into a piece of work that that price is not the price of the art but of some monthly payment. On top of that not showing the ∆ between the monthly payment pri
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by hlmencken 6y ago
How do we make our company look like an alternative to zoom when people look for that? I know, bash meetings and say that using another nondescript wiki/document tool is the right move. You waste so much more time having to write in a
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by hlmencken 6y ago
There are a lot of 3d printers out in the world
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by hlmencken 7y ago
Unless leadership skills have any overlap in the private and public space.
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by hlmencken 7y ago
I can't imagine it was a top down thing. It's just a silly point of culture that isn't that important day to day. Take a step back and have some empathy for people who aren't under iron rule and shitpost and have fun in
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by hlmencken 7y ago
They are embracing a lot of technologies because that is how they gain market share and then extinguish them.
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by hlmencken 8y ago
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/15305/the-man-pulling-radishes/
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by hlmencken 8y ago
Born in Greenland, that's a first I've seen.
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by hlmencken 8y ago
This sort of badinage is what makes HN so endearing. Thanks!
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by hlmencken 8y ago
>that's basically anti-net-neutrality Net neutrality is about access to internet, not what your browser and/or software supports. An ad blocker certainly isn't anti net neutrality.
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by hlmencken 8y ago
It was a pleasure but gitlab and bitbucket have continued to improve and I've expected some sort of exit for a while. I appreciate everything the Github team has done, but barring some crazy improvements from Microsoft I think my feet
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by hlmencken 8y ago
Are you missing part of your quote?
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by hlmencken 8y ago
Hopefully google will not expose everyone's passwords /s
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by hlmencken 9y ago
> A massive data breach at Yahoo in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion user accounts, new parent company Verizon Communications Inc. said on Tuesday. Imagine the buyers remorse
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by hlmencken 10y ago
Hiring React Node Scala SDET and Product Owners at Hart, a healthcare company in Orange county. React: http://grnh.se/skjun51 http://grnh.se/ic2hlt1 Scala: http://grnh.se/6xbea11 Node: ht
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by hlmencken 11y ago
Take one meeee.....
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by hlmencken 11y ago
I mean, this is what they agree to in order to keep making the product. This was a settlement and is what apple agreed to instead of having to discontinue the property theft and pay damages. consider this intellectual property in the way yo
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by hlmencken 11y ago
Maybe you could just get bored within the article and they want to show you more content before you leave the page. if you actually want to finish the article a simple button press isn't trememndous. just keep your interest and show yo
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by hlmencken 11y ago
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." andy warhol but tesla seems pretty dedicated to maintaining a really strong pr image and messing up something as simple as seatbelts seems lik
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by hlmencken 11y ago
Some people still keep their data drawn in the suede of the back seat of their car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Familia
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by hlmencken 11y ago
I love that he had also reviewed the orange box OST
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by hlmencken 11y ago
This is not stealing, and even if it is illegal that is a bad way to put it. Also, google's service is primarily to the searcher so this isn't a huge issue for them.
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by hlmencken 11y ago
a. they don't have it trademarked. b. copyright protection is not available for titles of works

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