hudibras

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by hudibras 13y ago
Cargill had over $130B in revenue last year. Their exact profits are unknown (obviously) but probably around $4B a year. Not bad for a family-owned business.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, but it's one of the most famous scenes in his most famous movie. (I only snark on the weekends, sorry.)
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by hudibras 13y ago
Here's their blog post about it: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/objectively-stylish...
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by hudibras 13y ago
It'll be interesting to find out the standard startup reaction once he takes on an additional employee and changes "No thanks, I'm a freelancer" to "No thanks, I have my own small business. But give me your card and
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by hudibras 13y ago
I agree, and I for one would gladly pay $15/month for a way to get around the paywall automatically without having to use incognito mode.
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Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?(nytimes.com)
22 points by hudibras 13y ago|4 comments
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by hudibras 13y ago
Agreed. This article (the inspiration for OP's github) is what triggered it for me. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/
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An Ode to Computer Shopper(theatlantic.com)
34 points by hudibras 13y ago|22 comments
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by hudibras 13y ago
This is the right answer. DFAS is not only the largest payroll department in the U.S. (probably the world, unless the Chinese Army has something similiar) but the pay and benefit system is incredibly complex, with different amounts being di
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by hudibras 13y ago
For what it's worth, I spent many years in the Navy and I've seen dozens or hundreds of issues with pay and benefits, but the vast majority of cases (almost 100% of the time) where servicemembers have money "clawed back"
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by hudibras 13y ago
Most home toilets in Japan have a washbasin in the lid.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Don't forget Pikmin 3. A lot of people (including me) have been holding off buying a WiiU until that game comes out. I've been waiting nine years to accidentally kill me some more Pikmins!! /fanboy
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by hudibras 13y ago
Yeah, what a weird solution to his supposed problem. If I saw a blog post titled "Unshackle the Middle Class," I would never in a million years have guessed that one of the unshackling mechanisms was a return to "IBM was up t
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by hudibras 13y ago
$100 trillion! Wow, what a big number! But completely meaningless unless you give a timeframe for the future liabilities. How long do you expect the United States to last for? Twenty years? 100 years? 1,000 years?
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by hudibras 13y ago
Although I won't try to debate most of your points--I think we'll have to agree to disagree--I do think you're being unfair to say that a strike is extortion. The striking workers are also suffering. Every week that the strik
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by hudibras 13y ago
Organize and form a union with like-minded co-workers and then use your collective bargaining power to negotiate better terms of employment. You know you can do that, right? (Assuming you live in America, that is.)
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by hudibras 13y ago
There are so many falsehoods and half-truths packed into this comment that I don't even know where to start.
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by hudibras 13y ago
I imagine that somewhere out there on the internet is a Hacker News-equivalent for public transit workers full of outraged comments about 21-year-old tech workers getting $200K to eat free food and move their fingers back and forth over a k
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by hudibras 13y ago
I had the same reaction ("Huh?") but from the other direction. Centi-millionare implies a worth of $10,000 each, or $14 million for everybody. I guess the moral is that people shouldn't try to be cute when using metric prefix
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by hudibras 13y ago
I know somebody* who occasionally puts his phone on the dashboard like this to watch movies while driving. *me
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Snapchat's early cash-out(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by hudibras 13y ago|0 comments
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A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap(seattletimes.com)
132 points by hudibras 13y ago|184 comments
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Profits Without Production(nytimes.com)
5 points by hudibras 13y ago|0 comments
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by hudibras 13y ago
The title is total linkbait, but very well done. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of 1984 readers go on to read the appendix, so Quartz's title immediately draws in everybody who did.
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Glenn Greenwald's 'Epic Botch'?(thenation.com)
6 points by hudibras 13y ago|0 comments
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Fears of National ID With Immigration Bill(nytimes.com)
35 points by hudibras 13y ago|17 comments
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How to get a job, 2013 style(lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
2 points by hudibras 13y ago|0 comments
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by hudibras 13y ago
Also: No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Why do people eat popcorn? They like crunchy butter. Why do people eat lobster? They like chewy butter.
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by hudibras 13y ago
The "Algebra will never be the same again" ad is awesome. It's like an artist's conception of a mathematician. Or alternately, it looks like that black-and-white freezeframe in every informercial right before they introduce the product that

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