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by jhamburger 15y ago
I have been a waiter actually, in college. I had no qualifications. I also wasn't very good at it. I did work at a 'Chili's'-type restaurant, not a nice place where the waiters would be more experienced obviously. I do realize that it's
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Not sure what the comparison is with waiters. A lot of waiters are in their teens or early twenties and it's already one of the highest paying jobs for that group without requiring any real qualifications. Restaurants, on the other hand,
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Upvote for that. There are a lot of brilliant people on HN but they seem to forget that to a large degree they are in the right place at the right time. You have a great career because you work in a field that is in very high demand at th
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Is there some kind of widespread anger at truck drivers? I've always found them to be the safest drivers on the road personally. Obviously their livelihood depends on their driving record so this is no real surprise.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I do consulting and have been in many offices of large corporations in NYC, and I have not seen IE6 on a corporate PC in maybe 5 years. Macs on the other hand are practically neck-and-neck with PCs from what I have seen. My image of an IE6
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Speaking as somehow who's rather naive, it would seem logical to me that given the significant U.S. interest in Chinese monitary policy and China's significant interest in our debt policy, some reciprocity would be in order.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
He should have explained that the servers don't have any more PCI slots available.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
No doubt the world needs Steve jobs more than it needs one more nice guy selling life insurance. But Plenty of people have accomplished more than Steve jobs (gasp!) while still treating other people with a minimal level of respect. You do
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I don't know, the fact that they felt their representation in "The Social Network" was accurate tells me something
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by jhamburger 15y ago
He wasn't saying they were a-holes for wearing suits. He was just pointing out the correlation.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I think it would be extremely easy to find. The only reason anyone ever buys a suit in the first place is to go on an interview for a ('real') job or attend a wedding.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Honestly I would have no idea whether that was a joke or not, about cutting the line. I would probably laugh if he said that to me because it's a safer response, Mark went the other direction. I'd like to hear a better example of these so
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by jhamburger 15y ago
It's not the total opposite. This article is saying that the top AND the bottom of society are both very stressful, and those right below the top are in the least stressful position. Personally, this does jive with my experience in human
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by jhamburger 15y ago
What exactly is the definition of "broke"? Declaring bankruptcy and having your house foreclosed doesn't mean you're broke like a homeless person is broke.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
On the contrary he has called for increasing the capital gains tax precisely because he himself (and obviously others like him) pay such low effective marginal tax rates. He even took the time to calculate that he paid an effective 17% whi
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Great feel good story, hard not to see a ton of potential in the 1st world market too though. Imagine a comprehensive self-diagnosis app?
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by jhamburger 15y ago
It would be more accurate if the directors of a corporation had the power to arbitrarily give out dividends to certain shareholders and not others.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
He lives in a modest home in Omaha and will probably give more money to charity than anyone in history when all is said and done. Do you really think his political views are driven by his own personal gain?
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I'm sure it's partially the B&W but it's amazing how old this looks. Without thinking too much about the cars I would probably have been at least 15 years off to guess when it was.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
"Hi, I have 15 customers I've led along to believe they might get a half off deal at your restaurant, are you game or should I just tell them your word is no good?"
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by jhamburger 15y ago
And an extrovert trying to become an introvert would probably find himself incredibly bored and lonely. They're just two different orientations, we don't need to be constantly asserting superiority over one or the other.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
I would describe myself the same way. However sometimes I find myself in conversations where I might for example not respond to something someone says, and rather just reflect on it in my own mind as I don't really have anything meaningful
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Here's a myth held by introverts. Introverts (rightly) believe that extroverts don't understand them, but they don't understand extroverts as well as they think they do. Case in point, the commonly held belief on HN that extroverts mostly
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by jhamburger 15y ago
There has been an annual BRICS summit attended by the leaders on the 5 nations since 2009. Clearly it's a bit more than a clever media acronym.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Might test the BRIC alliances. Russia and Brazil probably won't agree on this one.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
That and the fact that the racy humor was more of a novelty in 1996, when most FPS were in the Doom sci-fi vein of 'stoic hero shoots his way through alien/monster/etc wasteland'. Ten GTA games later, nothing really shocks us anymore.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
It amazes me that the guy who created the PC games of my childhood is only 10 years older than me.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
It may not be inherently religious but there are religious factors that strengthen this partnership far beyond what it would be on a purely strategic basis, namely political pressure from religious jews and evangelical christians.
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by jhamburger 15y ago
The cost paid by the buyer would undoubtably be much higher than the compensation you receive as a "donor", think about all the middlemen, doctors, nurses, etc that need to get their share. If the donor is getting $3400 the buyer is prob
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by jhamburger 15y ago
Sure if you have a great business idea that needs bootstrapping, that money is precious...but $3400 for a poor chinese citizen is like giving an american maybe $50k at best...that kind of money is really great for a year or two but probably

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