jimmywanger

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by jimmywanger 7y ago
At least Facebook isn't paying for its users. I think that Uber is still losing money on every ride, on average. That might not be the case in a few mature, highly urban markets, but if Uber dropped all unprofitable markets, I doubt th
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by jimmywanger 7y ago
You have to know where to go. The really good innovative stores and restaurants are stashed away in strip malls, because the rents in SF are so expensive, all the stores and restaurants sort of look the same because they have a huge monthly
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Bear in mind they've only started this initiative about 2-3 years ago. Cloud architects are hard to come by, and hard to pry away from their existing jobs. Think about whether or not your want to pay Accenture marketing rates to get a
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
You misunderstand. All new employees come to San Antonio and participate in childish "team-building" exercises. It's not limited to your immediate team. I have never met or interacted with anybody I met during the exercise. F
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I used to work for rackspace. I'll answer any questions you might have, this was 2 years ago. My take is that they were pivoting HARD away from the server business and trying to provide "cloud architecture solutions", where t
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Where are you getting your statistics from? According to a quick Google search, https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc... , China is the highest emitter, followed by the US, which emits half a
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> Now, it takes serious a serious amount of time and investment to do well in the self-publishing world. Well, that's what I was curious about. Has the investment/profit ration gone way up? If so, that sucks for Amazon ebook p
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
The article was written and published a while ago. I've heard stories that the ebook goldrush has ended. Does anybody have firsthand knowledge? I know that romance novels always do well generally, or I've read that. Thoughts?
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/153313-nineteen-eighty...
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I was talking to a guy who worked at a hydroponic store. He said they had to have armored guards at the store, because the thieves knew there was a good chance the customers were paying cash so the store carried a lot of cash and the custom
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
You can tell your vegetables and fruit not to grow into unaesthetic shapes or colors at the very least. That's why commercial tomatoes and apples don't have as much flavor as heirloom varieties. They spend a lot of money on such t
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
It's waste for the producer. If you stop giving a reason for producers to produce goods, the goods stop being made.
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Yes, they found a way to give profit to farmers while still operating as a for-profit. By reducing stuff that is not valuable to the farmer at all they are evil? Food assistance programs take food that is otherwise unsaleable. Making more s
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
According to the xenophobia study, even people under 29 in Japan are twice as likely as the entire US population to object to the presence of neighbors of a different race. Older people are four times as likely to object. And with a UN obse
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I know that Reno locals hate Burning Man and burners in general. Whenever Burning Man comes to town, a lot of canned food and bottled beverages are sold out, they don't spend much money in town, and on the way home, they're still
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> Interesting, by the World Value Survey figures South Korea looks worse than Japan overall. 34.1% of people mentioned that they would not want a person of a different race as a neighbour, as opposed to 22.3% in Japan. Is that enough? Ot
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> I do find it irritating he brought up WW2 within 2 hours after the article was posted, just because it was about Japan. I get the impression he just wanted to use the opportunity to bad-mouth Japan. Trying to read somebody's motiv
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I cited wikipedia and a UN observer. What else do you want as data? Survey data? Who would answer a survey asking if you were racist, specifically if you're racist towards certain ethnic groups? What are you realistically asking for th
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I don't know about quantitatively worse. But if you look here, a UN rep stated that Japanese racism "primarily affects three groups: national minorities, descendants of former Japanese colonies, and foreigners from other Asian cou
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
The wikipedia article indicates that as recently as 2007, the Prime Minister of Japan did not believe that the Japanese government seized the comfort women by force[0]. When we riot over Confederate statues, and yet we're ok with their
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. And Korean people have been oppressed in the past, and no attempt to rectify the situation has been made by the government. That's why a lot of Korean people born in Japan gravitate towards less savo
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
If you're ethnically Asian but don't speak Japanese, Japan will not be welcoming at all. If you don't look ethnically Asian, Japanese people will give you allowances and defer to you. However, if you're Asian and not Jap
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> They definitely can produce so much oil. Venezuela produces around 2 million barrels / day and are ranked no1 by proven oil reserve One thing I find interesting is that Venezuela might have the number 1 oil reserves, and that&#x27
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I don't understand your point. If you devalue your own currency, your foreign debts don't move at all. If you owe 100 bucks plus interest, you still owe 100 bucks plus interest. The amount of bolivars you need just got higher, but
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
You can cancel. They're letting you know.
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
Sure. In the highest income bracket that's half a penny per meal out of your paycheck. In fact, you could just add a stipend to your paycheck, subtract a "food cost", and the food isn't free anymore.
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
You can also use the fingerprint sensor as a replacement for the ubikey. Which works arguably as well - at least it satisfies the criteria that you separate the key and the computer when you yourself are separated from the computer.
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
For a semi, once you want to get rid of it, ram a file down the barrel, take a hammer to the extractor, file the surface of the fireing pin, field strip the gun and toss it in different places (preferably in salt water). That sounds like a
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
> That is a very privileged point of view. What's privileged about it? He said he wanted to do something different, and these were things that interested him. > ...I've done a stint in fast food. He specifically mentioned a
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by jimmywanger 8y ago
I'm pretty sure you own a cell phone and a laptop. And most of your things are made by people working comparable hours for much less money and a lower of standard of living. Yet you somehow find that "acceptable" even though

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