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by jbob2000 7y ago
> have highly targeted invites, we hypothesize high earners would be willing to help out if we need someone of their demographics in particular, and if this was communicated well. If you have suggestions, we’re all ears! I have had some
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Money will get in the way of solving this problem. The sick thing is that old people actually do provide value, just not in the way you think. In 2016, people over 55 years old accounted for 56% of healthcare spending even though they mak
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I got the feeling that the article was more about how indicators are retrospective; they’re based on events that happened in the past, and not reflective of today’s economy. It was more about how we don’t know what will cause this next rece
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Ok so then the purpose of Pioneer funding isn't to make a product that will actually do something, but just to have cute marketing and be located somewhere cool? If that's their goal, then just go and make an ivy league global c
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Interesting! I have a friend who does audio engineering and soundtracks for film studios here in Toronto. Him and his coworkers swear by the old cheese graters. They're all contractors so they're responsible for maintaining their
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Those professionals use desktops, not the fanless, battery powered, port-less, glue and solder mess that is the current Macbook lineup.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The real problem is pension funds. And when you look at who's benefiting from the pension funds, you'll see another problem; People aren't dying and the pension funds are being asked to fund way more than they expected to. We
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It doesn't work great for language learning, speaking a language is way more than just remembering words. Similarly, being a great programmer is not about how much syntax you can remember. Getting better at speaking a language means sp
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is what people used to call "selling out". There's no money in original content between friends, facebook doesn't care that they no longer serve this need for you. Their new job is to show ads for fortune 500 compan
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Philosophers search for truth and objectivity. A person’s identity (according to today’s school of thought) is not objective, it’s completely subject to their needs. And since you, the academic, don’t fully know their needs, you cannot un
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It's not easy to convert waste to a commodity. Recycling has a big problem with this - if the waste isn't provided in the right way, then it's totally useless (ie. plastics need to be completely clean, all food waste has to b
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by jbob2000 7y ago
So in order for us to farm these flies, they need organic food. So we're back to growing food for our food, just like we do for livestock.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Which is funny because, if you ask any investor who's been around a few decades, they'll say utilities are the best investment because it's the last thing any person would cut from their budget. (ie. I'd cut my cable sub
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You can’t make a new Office or Friends. Those were created by really special groups of people and I’m not confident today’s society allows groups like this to form. This decade of outrage that we’re coming out of (hopefully) has crushed an
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by jbob2000 7y ago
When growing up, did you equally share duties around the house? One of the guys I grew up with was the middle child between two girls. Girls never had to do chores, he helped with garbage and dishes, and in later years, helped with renos an
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I’ve had this thought that intelligence and talent is actually very limiting. You need to be a little stupid to sit in front of a computer for 10 hours straight. You need to be a little stupid to go into a coal mine, or work on a fishing bo
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The question then is, can we lift enough people out of poverty before they reproduce themselves (and us) into extinction?
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Do you change the radio station when ads come on? This is no different.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Actually, that's a great point. In Canada, we passed legislation that caps the amount a phone company can charge you in a billing period. We ought to do something similar for micro transaction businesses (though I loathe the appearance
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Charities are usually focused around the bottom of mazlow’s hierarchy of needs, that is, food-shelter-water. You don’t need skilled and educated people to dig wells, build houses, stock shelves, fold clothing, serve food, etc. These jobs ca
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by jbob2000 7y ago
That’s something for these businesses to figure out. In the real world, we had the advantage of the card holder needing to be present. Maybe the model needs to change to force digital currency purchases to happen outside of the game? That w
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Compare this to the real world. You are in a store and your child heads to the counter with $3,000 worth of goods. He puts your credit card on the counter. At this point, the clerk would ask if mommy or daddy were around and probably would
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is called "effective altruism"; you are more effective if you maximize your skills and then turn the profits of those skills over to a charity. The only argument against it is that people tend seek out and perform charity wor
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Umm... what?? Democrats are and have always been the big business party. The Republicans are a mix of coal and gas, evangelicals, and constitutionalists. Edit: both parties are pro military
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is what’s keeping me living at home with my parents. I tried to move out a few years ago, found an apartment that was $1,100 a month and plenty of parking. 6 months after moving in, after having multiple bad experiences with tenants, I
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Open source doesn't make them that money, servicing open source does.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Open source doesn't make money, you're at IBM now to save their failing cloud business. If you can't do that, expect your time on open source to dry up.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I flagged this because there's nothing interesting here, it's just a promotion piece for the CEO of Poshmark (not even Poshmark itself!)
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by jbob2000 7y ago
> CVE-2019-13053 Is there a word for this type of exploit: I wrap a bicycle in wrapping paper. You don't need to take off the wrapping paper to know that what it covered was a bike. That's pretty much what this exploit is, no?
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Trees plant themselves, they have been doing so for hundreds of thousands of years. It would take a serious amount of carbon for humans to do this task for mother nature - we need trucks to transport the seeds and soil to where we want them

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