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by irishloop 8y ago
I know it's of little solace to many, but the truth is, I mostly feel safe in knowing that whoever is collecting data on me, I'm not really worth spying on.
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by irishloop 10y ago
Bus riding has a social stigma outside of the very largest cities. Also, people in the US love complaining about taxes, and you know what costs money? Buses.
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by irishloop 10y ago
I'm amazed how many people on HN complain about the content on Netflix. Especially compared to any other streaming service, such as Amazon or Hulu, they continue to provide much higher-end content for my dollar, as well as a (far) supe
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by irishloop 10y ago
I used to work for a company based in Conyers, GA, and would hang out in Atlanta when I traveled there. It is a great city. However, there is a huge cultural shift outside of Atlanta for people used to Silicon Valley or NYC, because the res
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by irishloop 11y ago
That is not really how communism works.
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by irishloop 11y ago
I think it's more of a generalization of the Korean scientific community, of which most Koreans are not a part.
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by irishloop 11y ago
Definitely. Maybe not a senior level dev at Google, but if you can do enough to automate tasks, you can almost certainly do enough to get hired as a junior dev somewhere.
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by irishloop 11y ago
The way I read it, the author was saying that it is a problem of recognition: Because you are not customer-facing, you are more invisible in the system and with it comes the lack of job satisfaction one may get from a pat on the back of a j
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by irishloop 11y ago
audience explodes into cheers
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by irishloop 11y ago
Sounds like $300 well spent. Too often, I think, we take legal matters into our own hands when a small investment up front could save you so much later. If we accept how many others are inexpert at technology, what makes us think we're
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by irishloop 11y ago
Sure. But they still stand the have the most to lose. If a company goes under, an employee loses a job. The founder loses... well... who knows. Everything they've put into it. The equity, the time, the money. All gone. That's the
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by irishloop 11y ago
I believe in the beginning, so did automobiles and horse-and-buggy vehicles.
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by irishloop 12y ago
Yeah, this is a common argument against drug legalization: "But are we really helping the addicts?" The sooner people accept that addiction, like violence, will probably just never disappear completely, the better off they'll
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by irishloop 12y ago
It is utterly mind-boggling that someone can feel threatened by a comment about big dongles or forking someone's repo. I'm sorry, but at this point, you need to seek professional help, and you are trivializing the threats that man
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by irishloop 12y ago
Haven't many tried, and failed, to compete with C++ when it comes to gaming?
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by irishloop 12y ago
Fair, but probably true for predominantly all articles posted on HackerNews. Especially in the startup culture, I feel it's pretty much assumed.
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by irishloop 12y ago
Supply and demand, unfortunately. On the bright side, I think even our use of fossil fuels has gotten cleaner and more efficient, and as solar/wind power becomes more efficient, market forces will give them a greater piece of the pie.
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by irishloop 12y ago
I've had lots of different kinds of apples. I like Red Delicious apples the best. Is there something wrong with me?
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by irishloop 13y ago
If. Polio is a real problem now. Asteroids are a theoretical problem.
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by irishloop 13y ago
If true, the notion that Musk suddenly started whistling an anti-government loan in energy efficiency shortly after paying back his own loans... well, I'd say it's at least a chink in his visionary armor, if nothing else. Doesn&#x
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by irishloop 13y ago
I think the author is trying to imply (somewhat ineffectively, imo) that because Ivy Universities are now seen as bastions of progressive thinking, that perhaps people think giving them money would further the progressive cause, whereas in
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by irishloop 13y ago
Ha! Joke's on you, my Mom died this summer. Oh. Right. :-\
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by irishloop 13y ago
Not at all. The moment someone points a gun at you and tells you what to do, your freedom has been usurped. Without the security to make your own choices, you do not have freedom. Thus, it's important to restrict certain actions (i.
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by irishloop 13y ago
>By the time they're using these extreme powers to smother dissent, you're fucked. It's game over and your ability to speak out using the first amendment is non-existent. This is how revolutions are started. There's
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by irishloop 13y ago
I am (sadly?) not in charge of those high-end decisions, though I think we're pretty tied into Oracle Hyperion.
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by irishloop 13y ago
I don't know, I work for a multinational manufacturing firm in the lighting industry and we have so many things tied up in Microsoft, it's hard to imagine we could extricate ourselves easily. Whether it's legacy Windows API applications st
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by irishloop 14y ago
The problems you're talking about are never going to be solved by ratings companies because you're talking about a completely subjective experience. There is no such thing as an objectively good restaurant. In my town, there are famous piz
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by irishloop 14y ago
One thing I gotta say that a lot of Netflix bears really don't seem to get: it's not that easy to replicate how well Netflix just works. A lot of financial analysts believe that anybody from Time Warner or Walmart could just jump in and ea
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by irishloop 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the alternative? Just allow twenty five-star or one-star reviews to show up and say hey, if business owners want to scam the system by putting in fake reviews, then great? Or just open-source their algorithms? I
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by irishloop 14y ago
I don't really see a good logistical way to deal with this kind of problem. Any algorithm is going to see a bunch of sudden reviews of extreme positive or negative opinions as possible spam, and for users who never review more than once, I

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