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by hooande 5y ago
Section 3.6. "Family background" of the pdf you linked to discusses the impact that parent's educational attainment has on how much money someone earns as a result of going to college, not whether they attend college. It&#x27
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> Average College grads make more money over their lifetime, period. Stop this. The most accurate predictor of a person's lifetime income is the income of their parents. Children of wealthy parents are more likely to go to college
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why would you assume that half the player base would pay for this? Most free games have an average of closer to 5% paid conversion, to my knowledge. This would make him closer to $100k from one time purchases. Before taxes and expenses. I d
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by hooande 5y ago
The methodology in this article is terrible. It makes me doubt that the people at Surge HQ understand even the most basic scientific concepts. This is like doing a taste test between two sodas where one is clearly labeled "Coke" a
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by hooande 5y ago
how? think about how many people have been vaccinated. if it caused strokes or severe respiratory illness there would be ample evidence of that by now. it wouldn't just be this or that relative. think about even 1/10th of 1% of 20
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by hooande 5y ago
A vaccinate is natural immunity. it uses dna from the virus to teach your immune system how to fight this particular type of virus. if you believe that your natural immunity is strong, giving it an extra training course can't hurt in
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by hooande 5y ago
hundreds of millions of people were vaccinated. shouldn't the hospitals be full of stroke victims if those two things are related? if you don't want to get vaccinated, don't. no need for poorly reasoned rationalizations
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by hooande 5y ago
This is the test. People can talk themselves out of any positive thing based on the reasoning of "I don't trust authority". but those who are considered very successful in any profession have to learn to 1) delay gratificatio
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by hooande 5y ago
Who makes the decision that covid is over and no one has to wear masks any more? There's no central authority here. Business and government offices are closed not because of any mandate, but because people don't feel safe going th
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Everyone thought that covid spread via touch back then. remember all the hand sanitizer and UV lights? then we learned that it was mostly airborne This goes back to the comment you replied to. The government can't give perfect hindsigh
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by hooande 5y ago
So the idea of web3 is that the only thing stopping me from making my own twitter is that I don't have their past and future data. If I had real time READ access on their database of public tweets, I could make hooande-tweeter.com and
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by hooande 5y ago
the existence of an obscure excel modeling competition is 100% hackernews content. if you're trying to get your work life balance, check out the reddit home page instead
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Only a small percentage of students take part in any extracurricular, especially the time intensive ones. Better to let everyone sleep in and let various sports and clubs find ways to adapt their schedules
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by hooande 5y ago
You're not getting it. This is a game where the point is to collect deeds to houses, not the houses themselves. What's valuable to NFT enthusiasts is owning the deed to a famous home, even if the home is destroyed. Like saying you
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by hooande 5y ago
the data has no value. anyone can right click copy an image. the value is that you own the blockchain address that points to a url. picture of a house = no value. deed to the house = value. even if the house is destroyed (data changed), the
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by hooande 5y ago
So the idea would be to create a giant file of every Rolex transaction made in the future. And then search through that file for a given NFC tag to determine authenticity. Doing all of this in case Rolex goes out of business and can no long
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by hooande 5y ago
In practice none of this is happening. All the major wallets query OpenSea to determine what NFTs an account has (according to the article). anyone can access the data but that doesn't change what the wallets query. I can start my own
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by hooande 5y ago
Antitrust is a cult classic to people of a certain generation. It's a terrible movie, but I love it. The hacker character was a pretty boy in glasses (Ryan Phillipe) instead of a total nerd. And Tim Robbins is the worst Bill Gates ever
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by hooande 5y ago
how do they get their money out of crypto? they have to convert it back to fiat in order to spend it. can't the government impose whatever rules they want at that step, like the US government does? and how is crypto better than gold or
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by hooande 5y ago
it's not possible to automate away all components of the concept of "service". there will always be time consuming or tedious tasks that people will pay other people to do. they likely won't look like anything we can ima
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by hooande 5y ago
No. Declines in fertility are correlated with increasing incomes. Broadly (not uniformly), in all cultures through out time. It's a thing, look it up.
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by hooande 5y ago
> They will have rebelled against long hours; the chances are that in 2022 few people will work more than seven hours a day, if as much. honestly, with remote work, seven hours a day seems about right. A lot of that isn't even lost
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by hooande 5y ago
you bootstrapped one hell of a business. SaaS is hard, but y'all made it look easy
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The whole post is worth reading, it's quite good
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You're describing Visa. They've invented debit cards. The only advantage to cryptocurrency is the concept of decentralized trust. A blockchain only has value in situations where no central authority can be trusted. If Nano solve
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by hooande 5y ago
I don't use Airbnb much, but last time I tried to it was highly recommended to upload a profile photo and they required me to upload a pic of my id. The impression I got was that hosts were looking at the profile picture and choosing w
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by hooande 5y ago
Previous generations endured wars and much more deadly pandemics. Do you have any idea how difficult it was and how long it took for black children to be able to go to school, at all? Man, it sucks that kids have to deal with this pandemic.
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I feel like you completely missed his point. Which was that since the brain functions by making short term predictions about the future, it makes sense that every human culture has focused on the ultimate prediction about the unknown: &quot
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The problem with this is illustrated in another comment where nixcraft's site, cyberciti.biz, was added to a personal block list. The content on the site does seem to be original and productive. I'd guess it was added based on the
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by hooande 5y ago
She clearly believed in what? The vision of low cost, multi function blood testing? Maybe she did, but she made almost no progress toward that goal. All while accepting credit for having already accomplished it. Not to mention that she&#x27

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