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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> quite possibly the same PR team drafted both letters. How cynical are you people that you don't think long-time corporate executives can sit down and write a professional, "safe" sounding, 500 word resignation letter?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> "We live in a strange time when a company that has successfully flown useful cargo into space on their own hardware has a valuation around 50%" We continue to live in a strange time where people speak of "deserved"
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I never understood how companies like instacart explained this to their investors. They don't need to explain anything. Most of the time the founders and investors are in on it together. Just get an exit.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
As a person with a penchant for data, but with limited coding experience, I agree. I have hard time reconciling: "Don't know how to code? That's fine." With: "The code is available on Github, and that's whe
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Both parties save on time and fees. Of course it's good for the Googles and Facebooks, who have the resources to in-source teams to do the deals. But is it equally good for the small companies, the "acquired", the What
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> majority of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 I'm not sure how that's the fault of the mainstream news media, rather than an ignorant population.
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> The only reason they ever published it was because the writer was going to publish it in his own book. This is an interesting interpretation. There was legal pressure from the Justice Department and an implicit threat from the Bush Ad
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
I was surprised to see that this is relatively unknown in the US. I think it's common knowledge here in Canada. Generally, it is the pharmacy chains that sell their own, branded generic medication at the stores. These products have h
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> These people should just suck it up and call themselves atheists. Boy, look at you telling people what and how they should believe. I'm agnostic because I don't know if there exists a God, and couldn't care less when it
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Maximizing short-term profitability is not a high priority for Amazon, and it never has been How do you define "short-term"? Amazon IPO'd 17 years ago. And there's a big difference between "maximizing short-t
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Amazon is in it for the long haul and will likely make shareholders a lot of money in the end. I like Amazon, and also assume that they'll actually make money at some point, but the financial graveyard is filled to the brim with
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Am I doing it right? Maybe. But I couldn't care less what some anonymous dude on the internet thinks about my penis. Won't even skip a beat. Am I doing it wrong?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I think, "Damn, she's hot." And then I hate myself for making that my first thought It's pretty much my first thought when I see any woman (and some men). I can't help it, it's the product of us being an
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> You're ok with that? We should just expect the target of that email to "get over it?" Some idiotic person anonymously typed something idiotic. In that case, yes, you're best to "get over it". There are
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I agree. Consumer Reports did a survey of Model S owners and found that it was reliable enough to warrant a strong recommendation, and that "no owner in our survey has reported problems with the electric drivetrain" Consumer
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> And the 100s of billions (if not several trillion) of dollars that get consumed every year by that industry. Not that it's a good reason against decriminalizing drug use, but you're right. And if they can't send millio
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Automation eliminates jobs Automation moves jobs around, it doesn't eliminate them.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
Never would have ever clicked on Cottonelle's Twitter, but just did. Looks like Social Media success to me.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> This is the movie the food industry The "food industry"? You mean the same one that's slapping "gluten free" labels on anything and everything, while upping the price to take advantage of all these fad follow
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Perhaps they've spent most of their life studying Most of their life studying? How much relevant experience do you think one obtains in years 0 to 16? Up to that point school is a complete and utter joke, especially if you&#x27
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
That's precisely my point. You tried it, it wasn't for you. It isn't for everyone. But trying it out is important. I mean, the OP said he learns best being surrounded by books and smart people; that's college in a nut
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I find I learn best by reading books and talking with smart people How do you know how you "learn best" as a 16-19 year old who has never even been to college?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
This is all "chicken and egg" stuff; does the demand for goods create jobs, or do the jobs create demand for goods? I think it's both. Regardless, the premise is flawed. Rich people don't create jobs, smart and ambi
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
Uh, it was code that would have prevented Windows from running on computers that ran competing software (which never appeared in the release). Is it common practice today, everywhere, to allow your software to run on "competing"
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> This is North Sea oil, right? Hard to generalize from. Wasn't really generalizing, just stating fact. Norway has far fewer proven oil reserves than Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Algeria, Ecuador, Nigeria and on and on... Oil is not a pa
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> the US experiences significantly higher GDP per capita This is to be expected, if Americans are working longer hours than their European counterparts. If you do a little back-of-the-envelope normalization (GDP/capita/average
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Facebook is insanely complex... they have to use right technique and be insanely creative to stay in that spot. Inevitably when one of these articles crops up, someone "in the business" comes out of the woodwork to say, &quo
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> This comment does not warrant downvotes Thankfully the system exists whereby one person (you) doesn't get to decide that. Over-pathologization might be an issue, but isn't really the topic of discussion. Trying to misdirect
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> It has ingrained in people's mind that other people's word are worth nothing. Except that the legal enforcement of property rights is something that separates the First World with the rest of the planet, and is an engine for
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> You're being awfully judgemental about what you think is sane. I don't think it's a slight; and I agree with the poster. There's a social cost to having someone with the intellectual capacity to obtain a PhD and p

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