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by jbob2000 7y ago
What's working in our favour, though, is that we (millennials) have nothing to lose! No seriously, if the market crashes, what would we lose? We have no assets that would be devalued. We have shitty jobs so we don't really care if
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Every recession in history has been caused by two things: an overreaction by the feds, or a screw up by wall street. Market crash in the 80s was because the feds spiked the interest rate, dot com bust was because wall street didn't do
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is a shame because if you search for leather goods online, you’ll find whole shops full of garbage quality leather called Premium Crafted Leather aka PU Leather. They take leather fibers and coat it in polyurethane to give it a “proper
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by jbob2000 7y ago
What would we do with that data if we had it? Would we force the ISPs to build out unprofitable infrastructure? Would we direct some funding to the ISPs to do that? Would we incentivize rural folks to move to better served areas? It just se
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Every tech company I've ever worked for has done a project, in some way, with the government. I worked for a small healthcare startup of 5 developers, we had government contracts. I worked for a medium sized dropbox-like startup, we ha
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Who are these developers? Can I hire them? I am having the opposite problem. Our business team cares TOO MUCH about the edge cases and doesn't spend any time on the 80% work. Tell your devs to come work in banking or finance, they&#x27
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The fact that they hate each other lends even more credence to my theory - it’s that much easier to put tariffs on them. 25% of their imports and 14% of their exports are with China [1], China could definitely hurt Vietnam if they become
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It could backfire if China sees these smaller countries as a threat and moves to block them. Vietnam borders with China, no doubt they are as dependent on China as, say, Canada is with the US. I could see China saying "hey if you trade
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I actually like fans. I think of them as an auditory indicator of the workload/heat of your machine. Rather than a blinking light or looking at something in task manager, my ears tell me all I need to know.
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No, reverse osmosis filters out most minerals. But reverse osmosis filters aren't always used for drinking water. And yes, minerals in food can compensate.
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Is that just salt? Or a heterogeneous mixture of salt and minerals? You want just the minerals, no salt. How do you separate the salt from the minerals in that "white stuff"?
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This doesn't make for a good drinking water, this creates distilled water that would drain your body of minerals if you drank it. You now need to expend energy to gather those minerals from somewhere else and then put them in the water
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It sounds like GNU have a very constrained view on what a computer does and is used for. From reading this, it sounds like they want a computer (and by extension, its OS) to be a thing that sits on a desk and is operated on in very distinct
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by jbob2000 7y ago
What did you eat while stuck in the cabin? My arm chair theory is that pre-electricity societies didn’t have food as dense/rich as we have it today, so they didn’t have the energy to feel bored.
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That's where I got this information! Great episode.
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I am not sure, which is why I listed this as a theory.
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Marathon/Ultra swimming is one where women do much better. Multiple theories as to why; higher body fat and low bone density makes it easier to float, bigger hips means more buoyancy towards the back of the body when swimming, and&#x2F
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by jbob2000 7y ago
With a little bit of investment, the Civilization game series could be leveraged to replace that feeling you got from Encarta.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Why is nypost allowed on HN? It's a trash tabloid. This article completely lacks any substance, it's just generic anger at rich white people.
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Ohhh my mistake, I thought they were looking for examples of this in other fields.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Sure. The ecoboost Ford mustang. If you put the engine from a Mustang GT in the Ecoboost mustang, the crankshaft will explode. You can totally mount the engine from the GT in the ecoboost, it's the same frame, but the rest of the car i
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Bitcoin doesn't track who made the transaction, it tracks which computer made the transaction. This is an important distinction because the banking system is fully setup to track who makes transactions, they don't care whic
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The difference is that there were only a few browsers back then, it was easy to list them on a screen. There are tons of search engines out there, how do you decide which ones to show above the fold on a user’s tiny screen?
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Aren't neurotransmitters and receptors just smaller forms of electrical connections? A neurotransmitter is a chemical that causes a reaction in the receptor. You could argue that a chemical reaction is a data exchange, and a data exc
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Ok, I have this theory and it's probably kinda ignorant, so I welcome some criticism. It looks like biological intelligence is purely a product of having an electrical network with tons of connections. That's the brain, right? A
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by jbob2000 7y ago
WeWork is a real estate investment company masquerading as a work space company. As long as real estate continues to provide big returns, I don't think Wework will ever care about losing money on customers. Big money is investing in We
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We just had a project in our app to remove these. We had lists of credit card names and they'd be ridiculous things like "Company(TM) Product(R) VISA(TM) for Business(c)" and the client had no idea which credit card was the
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Na, that's a red herring. We can reduce our meat consumption and not replace it with anything. Americans are over consuming food, we can definitely reduce meat intake without needing to replace it with foods shipped in from out of coun
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Video games used to push the PC market, I remember when you used to have to pay attention to minimum requirements. The last 10 years of video game development has focused on indie games (Minecraft, pubg, etc), and you can run these games on
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Just so you know, free range is an industry term that doesn’t mean anything: > The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) requires that chickens raised for their meat have access to the outside in order

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