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by jhamburger 16y ago
Well these engineers weren't savvy enough to figure out that they could make 110K right now. Who's to say they will in two years? Or maybe you just give them a raise to 110K in two years and they'll be happy with that and never figure out
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I'd be more interested to hear how they prevent theft by employees of the money to be destroyed. How hard is it to steal money that nobody will ever be looking for again?
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by jhamburger 16y ago
> And I'm a person who agrees with Gates' larger position on the wealthy benefiting more from society and thus owing more. I just think that the extent to which society can ever expect people to contribute back, is the extent to which w
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I don't know how relevant it is to generosity that the rich give away a higher percentage than the non-rich. Gates and Buffett could give away 99% of their earnings if they wanted to. If I did the same, I would be more in need of charity
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by jhamburger 16y ago
Isn't the chart on the top of the page misleading? I think just about anyone would think on first glance that Groupon's revenue had ~tripled month-over-month.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
Since everyone seems to be foaming at the mouth over the prospect of a facebook/groupon ipo seems like a great time to capitalize.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
One problem I have is that Holocaust Deniers, I think, realize that they aren't going to 'win' the argument, they are mostly looking to plant the seeds of doubt. They're not trying to convince you the holocaust didn't happen, but they're t
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by jhamburger 16y ago
OK I'll play along- I also can't fly to work everyday because there's no airport nearby and I would be broke within weeks. Therefore, driving is more dangerous because I'm forced to spend more time doing it.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
Well just about everyone other than Pilots spends a lot more of their life driving than flying, which is still irrelevant to which is the safer mode of transportation. When you boil it down, you're still saying "Going somewhere is more dan
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I don't think I agree with your logic here. It seems like you're saying that traveling to far away places is more dangerous than close places, regardless of how you get there. I don't see how that makes flying more dangerous.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_III#Greatest_threats
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I don't disagree in principle, I'm just saying that putting up aggregated statistics for something that lends itself to once-in-a-lifetime catastrophic events doesn't tell us a whole lot. I think even the biggest MAD proponents would agree
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by jhamburger 16y ago
Same reason people are much more afraid to fly than drive, despite statistics- We're not scared of dying so much as dying in a catastrophe. Also notice that natural gas is especially low, even though everyone who's ever had gas heat has im
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by jhamburger 16y ago
all sorts of extremely mysoginistic pop culture suggests not that "the Japanese are so civilised", only that they are merely different. It's interesting that sexual violence strikes such a chord with us westerners, but we think nothing of
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I'll just pay the subscription. Their content is exceptional.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I always hated this thing, I think mostly just because of the name- Something about it is just so contrived, so "board room" it just pained me to hear it.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I don't quite see the point of what he is doing. I mean certainly there is power to it if the public at large follows his lead, but he's resigned to the fact that that won't happen. It's hard to imagine a scenario where he will have more
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I wish this were true. Well, you're not completely wrong- An outright asshole is getting by on confidence alone. But a guy who is polite but disarmingly arrogant, condescending in subtle ways, is much more desirable than a confident nice
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by jhamburger 16y ago
In the world of high-stakes gamblers, you're judged more on how much you're willing to gamble than how much $ you're actually worth. So that was an FU on multiple levels.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
OK, but there are degrees of subtlety though. A casual fan might see someone score 40 points in a basketball game and say "wow, he must be a great player" while a hardcore fan might chime in and say "actually he's way overrated. He's a po
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by jhamburger 16y ago
If we were to generalize and put nerds into three broad categories- 1. Lower-case 'n' nerds for whom coding is as much of a day job as it possibly can be and lead rewarding and socially active lives away from their computers. 2. Nerds who
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by jhamburger 16y ago
If you want to put a face to the suffering of north koreans, check out the young man in the middle of the embedded video. Quite unlike anything I've ever seen.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
A fun addition to this would be tagging memorable scenes from the movie.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
Hmm, as popular as ever? I dunno. King's Quest, Myst, 7th Guest, these were the 'Call of Duty's of 80s/90s PC gaming.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
FMV killed adventure games
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by jhamburger 16y ago
I'd argue that everything we buy is an experience, some are just longer term than others.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
Should be a calendar.
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by jhamburger 16y ago
There's a guy who went to my college, Jared Jordan- Fairly nondescript athlete, 6'2 slow white guy. Basketball is basically his life, worked his ass off more than anyone and studied the game to the point where he knows it more than the coa
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by jhamburger 16y ago
That isn't reality. The genetic factors of intelligence are well documented. I could have played basketball six hours a day, every day for the last 25 years, and I'd be really really good. But I wouldn't be as good as Lebron James was wh
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by jhamburger 16y ago
To this day, when I see phrases like, "intellectual horsepower", I cringe. We "smarties" aren't that much smarter than most other people, if we are at all. I don't think this is true at all. People who are average intelligence or below c

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