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by jonas21 4y ago
One of my favorite examples from that era: https://pjreddie.com/static/Redmon%20Resume.pdf And in case you were wondering what this little pony did next... https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TDk_
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by jonas21 4y ago
Yes, that's the point of postponing the taxes. The retiree can live out their remaining life in the home, and the taxes are due when their heirs inherit it.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Companies may have more sway than an individual employee, but that sway is still close to zero. Why? Because everyone knows that once enough key employees live nearby, they can't just pick up and move the company somewhere else. Google
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by jonas21 4y ago
> (11) (a) Organizations and Conferences > (1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. > (2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at gre
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by jonas21 4y ago
The ones that are up 50% over the last 3 years?
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by jonas21 4y ago
Do you consider all marketing to be a waste of time? Because that's what the flamethrowers are. And they're fantastic.
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by jonas21 4y ago
He says he's trying to do better, but I'll believe it when I see it. Even his recent posts are full of mean sarcasm that probably rubs a lot of people the wrong way. This is from 2 weeks ago: > Congratulations to Rust for its
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by jonas21 4y ago
The lion drinking water is hilarious.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Seems like the headline should be "A Double-Parked Garbage Truck in SF Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency." But I'm guessing that would get approximately 0 clicks.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Which part do you think is absurd? It looks like they used the 10,000 number from the NBER paper as the numerator and the crypto.com estimate of 114M people with Bitcoin as the denominator to come up with the 0.01% figure [1]. Do you find i
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by jonas21 4y ago
They removed the crosswalks because they were converting the intersection to a roundabout. You can see in the third photo that there's a circle painted in the middle of the intersection. This had apparently been planned long before the
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by jonas21 4y ago
Aren't layoffs one of the hallmarks of Netflix's culture [1], made famous by Reid Hastings' slide deck [2]? > We model ourselves on being a professional sports team, not a family. A family is about unconditional love. A d
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by jonas21 4y ago
Isn't this basically how every lease is already written? Nobody's writing a new contract for each tenant - you just fill in the blanks.
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by jonas21 4y ago
This is from a month ago. Here is a link to the previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018436
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by jonas21 4y ago
When evaluating whether the shares "did well," you can compare to the rest of the market. Since mid-2013, the S&P 500 is up ~150%, Nasdaq is up ~300%, and TSLA is up 3290%.
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by jonas21 4y ago
And you could certainly make the same argument about airliners, which have a death rate <10% that of trains (and <1% that of cars). But if you try to make that argument on HN, a bunch of people will yell at you about how Boeing and th
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by jonas21 4y ago
Yeah, 90% of it was boring, but the Immersive View in Google Maps looks pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qfp8TAg9tg
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Immersive view coming soon to Maps(blog.google)
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by jonas21 4y ago
If you find your work to be meaningful, then working more hours at a job where you can spend most of your time actually getting work done can be a great way to satisfy the upper end of Maslow's hierarchy. Many things worth doing can&#x
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by jonas21 4y ago
It all seems pretty consistent to me. The EU commission wants more power for itself and less autonomy for companies, particularly tech giants, having failed to create any of its own.
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The point of a secured loan is that if you don't pay, the creditor can sell whatever is securing it and recover some or all of what is owed to them. Taking away someone's diploma because they defaulted on their loan would just be
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How's the browser supposed to know which cookies are necessary for the site to function? If it blocks all cookies, then things like sign in break.
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by jonas21 4y ago
Is "expansion greed" just another way of saying "inclusiveness"?
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9 of them have engineering degrees (mostly aerospace, aeronautical, and mechanical engineering)
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This is generally called a "stress interview" and, as I understand it, they used to be more common decades ago. These days, I think it would be considered wrong to deceive candidates or to purposefully increase their level of stre
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by jonas21 4y ago
The problem is that the author states that none of these existing formats are "decent" and falls back on shallow dismissals like "Don’t even get me started on Excel’s proprietary, ghastly binary format."
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by jonas21 5y ago
No, they're just saying that no person who was following the instructions would produce a sequence of all heads or all tails as a "random" sequence, so they're throwing out those two specific sequences.
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When something is new and mysterious, knowing what it is not is just as interesting as knowing what it is.
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They're counting every city, town, and village in the census data, regardless of how small. For example, the most expensive city in the country has a population of 88: > Indian Creek, Florida, an exclusive 300-acre island in Biscay
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by jonas21 5y ago
You have no control over what the buyer would do with it. They might decide to slurp up all of the user financial data flowing through the server, for example. Or they might leak the data due to incompetence. Even in the best of circumstanc

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