jonwachob91

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by jonwachob91 5y ago
In Florida we call it the "Baker Act" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Act
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We have invaded Canada, twice! And we've lost, twice! (American Revolutionary War and War of 1812) Third time is the charm?
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It blows my mind that she was found guilty for defrauding investors, but not guilty for defrauding patients about their test results. Investors know that every dollar they put into a company could disappear, it's why startups get capit
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
an hour or so ago there was another comment on this article by user 'HenryKissinger' advocating for assassinating hackers and declaring war on nation states that protect hackers. The comment has since been deleted, but it feels li
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
Why would we discuss a seal that anyone on fivrr could have come up with for $5? If I came up with this seal, would you still be interested in talking about it? You'd probably be wondering how it ended up on the front page of HN... The
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
^^^ This, so much this. Especially with how common we've seen violent outbursts on airplanes since post-pandemic flights have resumed. It's almost a daily occurrence. If those individuals had weapons during flight, the outcomes wo
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
It was founded as a platform for streaming pirated anime until it got big enough to acquire major VC investments and start buying streaming rights.
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
A gym is not a recurring payment, it's a facility access contract defined for a period of time. You agreed upon price for the year, broken down into monthly payments. You are obligated to pay that full amount b/c you agreed to it
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pastebin link is dead now.
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
A lot of those streamers are pretty open about how twitch revenue is a small portion of their earnings. Ninja was famously paid $1MM for an 8 hour ad of playing Apex at launch. I've had private conversation with large streaming friends
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
>>>Studwell notes that when Taiwan was moderately prosperous and dominated by industry half of the workforce could not even read. What really benefited East-Asia was a grey-collar culture, a national, egalitarian educational system
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by jonwachob91 5y ago
OP didn't ask for an "alternative sources in certain newspapers", OP asked for a source from the AG's office.
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No republican in history has ever uttered those words. Republicans argue that government run programs are filled with waste, excess, and decreased output b/c they don't have a profit motive. That was the case with Soviet manufact
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Those are intel based Macs. This being an article about the M1 going into mass production, it's probably fair to say the parent comment was referring to those specs in an M1 Mac, not an intel Mac.
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>>>The dynamics of the market are driven by monopoly pricing and mortgage and rent are paid more like a tax than a payment for a yoghurt that you can choose not to buy or buy an alternative. You can't choose not to be housed.
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
Plenty of major streamers would tell you them switch to YouTube did more good for their careers than twitch. ValkyRae, CourageJD, DrDisrespect, Anish Giri are some just off the top of my head.
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
>>This is run by FedTech, which has a range of programs, and I'm not sure how their fee arrangement works. From the link (no digging required): "There is no cost to participate, and for any team that launches their own ventu
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
1) go into knowing that the terminology is the hardest part to learn. The arithmetic is fairly easy, but the word salads can get daunting. 2) khan academy, coursera, MIT open courseware, whatever books your library has. Piece together multi
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
>> Then again, maybe this is just a slap on the wrist. This is equivalent to robbing a store, getting caught, and then the only punishment being "you aren't allowed in the store again, and you have to return the stuff that y
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
Why should prestige matter? Too many Corporate Ladder Climbers have used YC as a resume point to get that next promotion at a corporation b/c they view it as more prestigious than things like a graduate degree. That's not a posit
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
YUP! I live in Orlando FL, a city with no county boarders on the ocean. Orlando is 1 of 2 "inland" cities in the state (the other being Gainesville), but I drive 35m east and I'm at a beach on The Atlantic Ocean, or I can dri
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
I'm not southern either, I'm from Central Florida [0] and we use Y'all often. I believe in your ability to use Y'all too! Embrace Y'all :) [0] There's a joke in Florida that the further north you go, the more s
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
The article addresses the issues of multiple agencies with multiple definitions of broadband, specifically mentioning that the Dept of Agriculture has a definition of 10/1.
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Too be fair though... Everything at Del Taco tastes really bad. :)
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A big factor is that not every teacher is capable of teaching gifted students. The gifted public school I went to recruited college professors to teach our middle school classes. I met a lot of HS teachers that couldn't keep up with th
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
Remember when Robinhood tried opening checking accounts the first time and made a bunch of claims about SIPC insured and what not, and then the SIPC was all like "We told Robinhood we don't insure checking accounts", and then
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
Exchanges have very clearly defined rules for when they will halt trading. With clearly defined rules, you always know why a stock was halted, and when it will resume. Robinhood has no set rules, and it was impossible to predict when or if
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by jonwachob91 6y ago
I transferred from Robinhood to E TRADE a year ago. E TRADE has been good to me. still $0 commission trades, faster trade execution than Robinhood, pre-market and post-market trading, Pink Sheets for small but fun gambling. and most import
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Wait... What about AAL? I've been holding AAL for 6 months now :/
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Happens every time we get a new president. Nothing unusual about it. Everything from Trumps whitehouse.gov site is now located at https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

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