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United Airlines Replaces Bonuses with a Lottery(inc.com)
43 points by jacobkg 9y ago|26 comments
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"It was an unmitigated disaster for the Grand. Financially, it was the worst week they’d ever had. After the conference was over, APS was politely asked never to return—not just by the MGM Grand, but by the entire city of Las Vegas.&qu
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I attended the annual meeting several years ago. It is a tremendous experience and I highly recommend it to anyone investment-minded
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"The Elements of Poker" (2007) is a great, well-written book with lots of good advice about improving your mental game that applies outside the realm of poker https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Poker-Tommy-Angelo&#x2F
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Program like a poker player(theleancoder.com)
2 points by jacobkg 9y ago|1 comments
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Do you also disable autovacuum while this is running? That is another good trick for speeding up large database imports.
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Does anyone know if they hire store managers from outside or whether they have to rise up through the ranks?
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Loved Moon!
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Work work. I used it as part of the workday so I spent about 6 hours at the office and 4 hours on the train
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I used to commute from Redlands (60 miles east of LA) to downtown. I rode the Metrolink train. It cost $26 round trip and was 4 hours per day. This was better than driving which I also did. I could work on the train (Ruby on Rails, on Rails
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I'm really confused about what this means for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS. We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS. Is there another way to release apps
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In 2015 Heads-Up Limit Hold'em was solved: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145.full
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It would be worth adding to the article registering your Google account for the Advanced Protection Program: https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
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I have had C Diff. It is extraordinarily unpleasant. In addition to the normal symptoms it also came with extreme fatigue and a weird sense of doom about the future. The antibiotics need to be taken every 6 hours (limiting your ability to s
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Ask HN: Where can I find a complete home security guide for hackers?
2 points by jacobkg 9y ago|0 comments
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This problem is very evident amongst single female friends who are just out of medical residency. The ones that are married mostly met their spouses in undergrad but the others are having a lot of trouble finding men of similar education le
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The Story of WorkFlowy (YC S10): From $0 to $800,000 a Year with Jesse Patel(indiehackers.com)
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PBC = "Public Benefit Corporation" https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-now-a-benefi...
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Can this technique be used to write a strong chess engine?
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This makes it even more incredible that Seinfeld ended its run after 9 seasons at the height of its popularity. Jerry Seinfeld reportedly turned down $100 million dollars to make another season
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My wife went through Breast Cancer treatment last year. We both agreed that this metaphor is the most accurate description of the experience we could find (with enough levity to make it readable).
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Cancer: the mountain lion in your fridge(somehedgehog.tumblr.com)
2 points by jacobkg 9y ago|1 comments
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If you don’t think that your company would counter because they think you will have “already checked out” or “can’t be saved” there is one option you can try. Go out and get some job offers for higher salaries and then decline them all. Com
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After you sell how do you know when to buy back in again?
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Relatedly, I have certainly had the experience of remembering something as being hilarious only now to be turned off by how clearly sexist it is (which I never noticed at the time). This is especially uncomfortable when recommending content
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Made me laugh =)
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That is not generally the case. Most index funds are 'market cap weighted' which means that hold funds in ratio to their market capitalization. If stock A doubles in price, it's market cap also doubles and the index fund will
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Sad to hear it. I just started selling my old books on half.com and found the experience to be pretty great. I sold a couple hundred dollars worth of books in a month or two.
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This engaging story also has an important reminder: startup work can be silly and fun
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Hammocks?

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