joonix

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by joonix 13y ago
I'm not sure why people ask what people's profitable projects are. Do you expect to just copy the idea? If so, why would they tell you? If not, what's the point of knowing what it is?
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by joonix 13y ago
Hah. It's funny what's happened to our generation. The young men are all apparently in the Bay Area, and the young women are all in New York. The ratio here in NYC is unbelievably skewed!
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by joonix 13y ago
Right, we should calculate average hours per week by total hours worked per year divided by number of weeks one was paid. So if you work 50 hour weeks but get 6 weeks paid leave, that should be taken into account.
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by joonix 13y ago
There seems to be a general Scandinavian/Nordic idealism pervasive across the internet amongst young westerners. Countless reddit threads extol the glories of living in one of these countries. Young people facing the stressors of capit
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by joonix 13y ago
"Oh, cool. Can my wife come? She doesn't much enjoy eating dinner at home." At which point you are shunned anyways for being one of those strange "old people" who somehow had time to bond with another human being in
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by joonix 13y ago
Humanities academics accused of being right-wingers... I've now seen it all.
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by joonix 13y ago
I think what needs to be more common is very powerful exhaust fans in units/homes. I constantly find myself looking for a way to suck out all the hot air out of my apartment at the end of the day in one fell swoop.
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by joonix 13y ago
Mediterranean climate is the best in the world (it is also found in southern California). Unfortunately most of the rest of the world is drenched in humidity, which is the bane of my existence.
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by joonix 13y ago
Seriously? What part of sleeping in a hot, humid field with thousands of other people is desirable? Since when is sleeping a group effort? Start with the noise and end with the spread of disease, the bugs, the rats, the bed bugs, etc etc...
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by joonix 13y ago
There is nothing really lending SF towards big-mega-dense city status. Manhattan has bedrock and flat terrain, which is great for building underground subways and tall buildings and letting people walk around. SF has hilly terrain and earth
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by joonix 13y ago
Mosquitos are terrible in Texas (the humid part) and would bite me all the time (grew up there). Now I'm in NYC the last few months, and I don't think I've been bitten even once. Or, I am being bitten, but I don't notice
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by joonix 13y ago
I don't see how these projects serve humanity.
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by joonix 13y ago
Right. It's a business. I don't get any of the ad revenue. Why am I being asked to donate money for what's essentially a private equity buyout?
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by joonix 13y ago
So I'm supposed to give money so two managers can buy out the shareholder of a company, with no expectation of returns. I'm sorry, is Hackaday a charity? Am I getting a return on my investment here? Am I getting any of that $14k
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by joonix 13y ago
Or we could setup a free wordpress site and spread the word that the new Hackaday is at newsite.com, and not completely waste $540,000. What a disgrace.
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by joonix 13y ago
So the problem people have with this is the lower cost to the store? They'd be happy with the tracking if the store had to spend more resources to do it? I doubt it.
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by joonix 13y ago
Not sure why you point as far as NZ when Texas basically eliminated it by capping pain and suffering awards at $250,000. Medical malpractice insurance (which is the tort system manifested as a cost to doctors) is not the most expensive part
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by joonix 13y ago
Americans are chronically inflamed. It's an epidemic. The lifestyle and diet are horrible. I was at a Broadway play tonight attended mostly by tourists from "non-NY America." I noticed how many people in the audience had chro
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by joonix 13y ago
Thinking back to apartment hunting in NYC a few months ago makes me want to vomit. I am never going to do it again, I'd rather leave. I had a lucky break that did not involve using any of these services nor a broker.
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by joonix 13y ago
I don't think it's the same. What you're describing is the unemployment scheme -- "the dole" -- and it's not so clear cut. There are asset tests: if you have a certain amount of savings in the bank, you can&#x2
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by joonix 13y ago
That still does nothing about the distracted driver. They aren't going to see the flag if they're looking down at their phone laughing and writing a text.
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by joonix 13y ago
Welcome to most of America. Really no sense of municipality, for the government is expected to strive to spend $0 lest they be accused of hoarding tax dollars.
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by joonix 13y ago
When will we stop tolerating the flagrant waste of life that occurs every day as a result of our addiction and worship of the automobile?
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by joonix 13y ago
Perhaps Los Angeles can be reclaimed, then. Turn many of the parking lots into high density housing and parks. I've always thought it such a shameful waste that such rare climate and pleasant topography and geography were wasted with t
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by joonix 13y ago
If that's the case why did the heavily subsidized US solar firms that received DoE grants fail?
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by joonix 13y ago
That's literally the first sentence of the OP article.
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by joonix 13y ago
I'm almost certain he sold the footage to CNN. They probably waited a day to see if it was the only footage of the crash then msde an offer.
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by joonix 13y ago
Bureaucracy. Some entrepreneurial employee of the airport can't just head out and install cameras, no matter how cheap they are. You or I could get a gopro and a tiny PC and have high quality footage recorded all day and then deleted a
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by joonix 13y ago
Powell was the Secretary of State so I don't see how the Department itself could "send" him. He served at the pleasure of the President, who asked him to do it.
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by joonix 13y ago
Sorry, I forgot to mention that those students weren't coming from poverty or lack of opportunity. They were middle to upper-middle class professionals in their home country with good corporate jobs. Not saddled with debt like their Am

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