jorgem

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by jorgem 13y ago
Maybe it's safe to say that quality of life has generally improved for the human race over the last 100k years.
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by jorgem 13y ago
Pretty cool stuff. How big is the team working on these Go projects?
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> And having learned that, you could now go to individual insurer's sites, or varios... marketplaces? Yes. That is the message that is not getting thru, I think.
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> An estimated 16 million policies in the individual market What percentage of people with individual plans (who need to get new plans) would actually qualify for subsidies? I don't, so I have more options: (1) I can buy another
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> ISPs don't profit from their consumers downloading more data They would, if it helped them compete. Oh yeah, this is all just a symptom of abuse of monopolies.
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by jorgem 13y ago
Is £6/month a lot in Romania? Does it buy less than the $70 I spend for 50mbs?
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by jorgem 13y ago
I assume Romanians are somewhat (equally) clueless about technology on average. What's the difference, then? What are they doing right?
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by jorgem 13y ago
For reference, Romania's area is a little smaller than Michigan (the 11th largest US state). And about the same population as the state of New York. So, it's not like it's a tiny country. We should be able to do that pricing
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by jorgem 13y ago
Now I know why I don't work for the government. Who would ever create or watch that crap?
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> Don't the lower-middle classes get most of the benefit from government dollars? I wonder how that could be determined. I'm curious to see graph of benefit-per-capita grouped by income brackets. EDIT: This link is "ki
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> laws put in place to preserve the rights of neighbors. Sure about that?
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by jorgem 13y ago
Yeah. But I'm still trying to figure out what to think of the Sky Marshall on the flight. I guess maybe he/she is like the cop who will be saving my ass when the shit hits the fan.
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by jorgem 13y ago
Me to! What a blast to the past. I might look through it again.
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by jorgem 13y ago
Isn't this kindof "publicly"?
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by jorgem 13y ago
I had a co-worker (about a decade ago) who took two weeks of vacation, and started his own "reverse trial" at a new job without quitting the old job. He liked the new job, came back from "vacation", and gave his notice.
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by jorgem 13y ago
Creepy: "at Uber, we've got every GPS point for every trip ever taken at Uber, going back to the Trip #1"
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What is the best/worst domain name you're saving for a side project.(amblyrhynchus.com)
2 points by jorgem 13y ago|3 comments
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by jorgem 13y ago
Does Amazon have a simple way to track when the $75 has paid for itself? Or did you just calculate it yourself?
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by jorgem 13y ago
"Source Released". Good scientist.
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by jorgem 13y ago
If only there were money to be made planting trees.
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15% of Americans don't use Internet(pcmag.com)
1 points by jorgem 13y ago|0 comments
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> but if you insert something, you will get caught Is there a tool for checking that?
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by jorgem 13y ago
>> In this case you typically are forced to keep a drivers log for this vehicle for the future. Really?? You're found not-guilty, but you are still punished?
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by jorgem 13y ago
I don't know of a good way to get rid of technical books -- that aren't good enough to sell on Amazon, but probably useful for someone. What do you do? Post your own pictures. Maybe we can find a home for some books.
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Ask HN: How do I get rid of old computer books?(twitter.com)
4 points by jorgem 13y ago|2 comments
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by jorgem 13y ago
It's a word. Just mispelled: precariat.
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by jorgem 13y ago
Looks like they just reverse the front.
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by jorgem 13y ago
How deep is the water table? Is that why the land was so cheap?
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by jorgem 13y ago
Even that has some warts: For example, Why not "MountS", since other folders are plural: FileS, ProgramS, UserS
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by jorgem 13y ago
And you didn't interview him?

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