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by jimrhods23 8y ago
"It's a bit like extreme student letter passing" I think this is the problem. The distractions are so rampant, they would have to have recess detentions for a large percentage of class. The more logical solution is just to m
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"Voter ID cards are delivered in person too" In the US, there are groups of people that want to get rid of voter ID laws, so you don't actually need an ID to vote. If it truly isn't about voter fraud, why not keep the l
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"They are devices that enable creativity, collaboration, and problem solving — essential skills in an ever changing and uncertain world." This sounds great, but the reality is that 99% of kids are using their phones to play Fortni
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"Did anyone ever make much of a living on selling recordings?" Yes. I know plenty of independent artists before and after the Napster days and they could no longer make a living. People just expected it for free, because Napster
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DataGrip is my #1 DB tool for my team for reasons like this.
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"But it can be done if you're willing to trade some financial security for freedom" Financial security IS freedom. If you have enough money, you can do pretty much whatever you want with your life. "it's options tr
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Rule..meet exception.
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You are contracting and essentially a business. Your next career move is to find more clients. As a remote contractor, you really won't feel like you are part of a team. I've been contracting for the last 10 years and I don&#x27
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It's much cheaper to go somewhere like Asia..and the weather is really nice too. 7 years ago, I was burnt out from my job and wanted a change, so I quit and picked up everything and moved to Asia with my girlfriend (now wife). Luckily,
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You need to do this while you are young. Once you have a family and a mortgage, it becomes much more difficult to hit the beach all day. I contracted for a year 7 years ago from Asia and I was able to travel the world during this time. It
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DELETE * FROM <table> Yeah, I forgot the WHERE. This was 15 years ago at my first job and I haven't done it since. I was lucky that we had backups.
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It's the same reason why journalists and whole host of other content creators are no longer making a living: There is so much out there for free, most people don't perceive it as having value anymore. This is why music piracy of t
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This is a good method for testing their facial recognition algorithms before deploying them everywhere.
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Amazon directly competes with 3rd-party sellers. I used to sell various products on Amazon about 10 years ago and as soon as I started seeing a decent amount of sales, A listing would appear by Amazon (not a 3rd-party seller) and undercut
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I've been working remotely for the past 10 years. Originally, it was because I hated working from an office. Now, it's because it makes it really easy to work on my own business (no wasting time with commutes). It is socially iso
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Just as bad for you is believing that hard work and intelligence will get you nowhere. The reality is somewhere in between.
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Chinese/political Trolls have been on Reddit forever. I noticed it in full force when Obama was running for president. But, it only seems to matter now because Trump. I still wonder if Hillary would have won the presidency, if all of
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I was fine until I read the part where you seem to think that you failed because you were black and female. You failed because hardware startups are ridiculously difficult for anyone and even more difficult to get finding, regardless of you
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You don't need to take a gigantic loan from the government and pay the repair companies for their work.
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We need to get rid of health insurance companies. They are the reason all of our costs are massively inflated. The same thing is happening in education: universities know that a large percentage of students are getting financial aid, so th
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This is impossible to answer because there are so many variable factors involved.
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Governments love the fact that cash is going away. No more anonymous transactions (besides Bitcoin, but it's not that easy for the general public to use or understand) and an easy way to track potential taxable revenue.
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I'm unsure why we should be looking at China for innovation. I can't really name anything innovative that came out of China in the last decade. Many products/technology coming out of China are based on reverse-engineering or
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"The wrong way involves doing none of those things, because you are talking to them via a shitty Skype connection on wheels." What if the doctor couldn't get back to the hospital in time and this was the only way to tell them
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It could definitely work if you could get more money selling the data to companies than the money you are paying out to your users. It's been proven time and time again that most people don't really care about their privacy...so f
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Along these lines, the first customer should pay the millions of dollars it takes to market and produce the software and then they can do what they want with it.
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It's illegal. relevant case information here: https://www.bungie.net/en-US/Forums/Post/208397364?sort=0&pa...
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I completely agree with this. I've been working remotely for the last decade in various forms (first as a salaried employee and now as a consultant) and my thought has always been that you really need the same drive and self-discipline
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"The reason we have hotel regulations is to help mitigate the externalities that hotel operations put on the nearby community" Hotels have hundreds of people coming in and out of the building on a daily basis. At most of these ap
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"For one guy to make millions there are many city inhabitants that have to face ever increasing rents. And this harms the city because it increases unrest and puts off people from moving in." The article also states that these apa

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