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by joshAg 14y ago
psychiatrists can prescribe drugs like any other doctor because they have an md.
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I wonder if the plan on making one for obd1 vehicles or if they plan on sticking to just obd2? A lot of gearheads who would love this are still driving obd1 cars.
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by joshAg 14y ago
It's a case of the OS being way more secure than it once was. The new kernel that came out with vista helped quite a bit, as well as the constant stream of updates. Because the OS is more secure, other parts of the system (ie browsers, flas
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by joshAg 14y ago
discriminating against ethnic groups is usually also grouped into 'racism', and judaism is both a religion and an ethnic group. "It is important to note that my family was not religious at all. My father was not brought up in a religious tr
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by joshAg 14y ago
this video interview with harlan ellison seems relevant here (warning, language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&... perhaps profit sharingbased on unique views might be a solution to the problem.
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by joshAg 14y ago
Actually, if you've visited more than 3 sites on the Internet, you've probably used something he designed.
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by joshAg 14y ago
you need ~500 karma to downvote comments.
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Forget top ten, look at the drop between 6 and 7!
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i'm surprised berkeley topped stanford. Also, I wonder what oxford did to jump ahead of both cal and stanford.
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by joshAg 14y ago
private high school in the bay area is about $15k/kid/year. cupertino has one of the better school districts. sunnyvale is right next door to cupertino and is not renowned for their school district like cupertino is. the median price for a
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by joshAg 14y ago
based on housing prices in the bay area, it might be better to use a private school instead of moving to a good school district.
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Here's a horribly generalized, bound to insult many people, but still relatively accurate stereotype: there are 4 good neighborhoods in oakland, 3 of which are affordable. The oakland hills are very nice and very expensive. The three afford
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by joshAg 14y ago
Never, but never, read the comments on a mainstream news site. This is for your own protection.
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And yet they don't have a *nix client...
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"Here's the most important data point: Musk says Broder unplugged the charger after charging to a range of 32 miles and then drove off for the final segment of his trip which spanned 61 miles. The car made it 51 miles. If Broder can't conte
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by joshAg 14y ago
the syntax is much more regular and more verbose, but that can be a good thing. The regularity means that it's easier to remember what's supposed to come next/how to do something, and the verbosity means that there's less obfuscated phrases
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You can get pretty close. I graduated in 2011 after 4 years at Cal and only had ~$26k in debt.
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heh, i kind of know what you mean. I interned there in 2010, and then joined full time in jan 2012, and i was amazed how packed the sf office had become. now i work down in the new sv office, which has become nearly full within just a few m
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by joshAg 14y ago
i work for riverbed. before their opnet acquisition in december they had about 1600 employees. now they have more, but i don't know if the new size is supposed to be public or not. my team building exercise was last week and it was 3.5 hour
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I won't disagree that they say both are equally important, but I hear libertarians talking about economic issues much more than I hear them talk about social issues. And on top of that, they seem to caucus with the republicans much more so
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If I had to guess, it's because they seem to value their economic goals/principles over their social goals/principles, and the economic goals are not always the best of ideas.
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I saw a suggestion elsewhere on hn that moving to a single, cumulative exam after 4 years can be very effective because it's almost impossible to pass by just cramming the week before and it allows students and professors to focus on learni
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for starters, they could extensively document how the person with more power had absolutely no impact on the other's relationship with the company.
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by joshAg 14y ago
huh. I never noticed that having android was so rare amongst techies in the valley.
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are android devices really that unpopular there? even amongst the people coding the android app?
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what makes you think nasa has an unlimited budget? they constantly have less money than they would like.
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Product wasn't the perfect word to use. I just meant something intended for outside use, as opposed to tools not designed to ever be released, like many internal tools are. I'd even say that the tools you mentioned are more of an external p
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by joshAg 14y ago
Well, I think it also depends on what your company does, too. There's at least a few companies where the internal tools probably aren't nearly as cool as the external product. For Google or Facebook, I imagine you're right in that the ops t
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It'd probably looks quite a bit like pure communism.
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"Winning games must be free during the time that we are driving your guaranteed installs." Does that mean you take 20% (28.5% post-apple) of the sale after the guaranteed installs and you take the first $1000 after the guaranteed installs?

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