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by justboxing 8y ago
I remember Bump from their early days 2009 / 2010, they were demo-ing at either SFBeta or SFNewTech (don't remember which, I used to work with the organizers of both events back then). It was pitched as a Business Card / Cont
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Just saw the pics of the damage on the twitter thread linked-to in the article. See below. https://twitter.com/shukla_tarun/status/1050595274869993474 Looks quite severe. I'm impressed the plane flew for 3 ho
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by justboxing 8y ago
Congrats on shipping! I was looking for something like this... Is it possible to get feedback on the built-code? Do you have any feature down the line that will let people submit "solved" challenges and get feedback on their code
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by justboxing 8y ago
> Rents go up when people can afford higher rents Or is it that rents go up when people can't afford to buy homes due to higher interest rates and down-payment requirements, which ends up putting a lot more people in the renters mar
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by justboxing 8y ago
The Dow Jones is set to open 3035 pts or so lower[1] than today's close, so I would say the market will end down tomorrow, and next few days are going to be "choppy" to say the least... > As of late morning, the Dow Jones
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by justboxing 8y ago
"Trade fast, die young." Source: [2016] https://twitter.com/robinhoodapp/status/756262680537759744
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by justboxing 8y ago
Thank you for this. I found the most precise and concise definition of mindfulness on this page. > MINDFULNESS > It is always now. This might sound trite, but it is the truth. It’s not quite true as a matter of neurology, because our
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by justboxing 8y ago
> Shows how big the market is... I think the huge valuation has more to do with how absurd startup valuations really are[1], and less to do with showing how big the market for a niche product is. [1] Behind the gloss of absurdly high sta
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by justboxing 8y ago
The story totally checks out. I moved from Boston to San Francisco in 2006, did a cross country drive. Back then we only had flip phone, so I would use my laptop and The Microsoft Streets software with a GPS. Every day, around 3 PM, I would
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..or the great grandparent works in finance / accounting and has seen some troubling numbers that are not public.
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> They traditionally operate on low net incomes so they can kill other products Or as Walter White says in Breaking Bad. "Corner the Market, then increase the Price. Basic Economics."
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by justboxing 8y ago
Can someone explain whether "Diluted EPS" / Diluted Earnings Per Share is significant in valuing a stock, and also how that number is calculated and used in investing? Amazon's #s in this regard are over 2X Apple's
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Almost always, yes. If you are referring to intermittent fasting, then the 8 hour eating window starts at your 1st meal of the day. So if you wake up and eat breakfast, then 8 hours from that is when you stop, and then sleep. If, on the oth
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by justboxing 8y ago
Having a hard time reading and understanding these type of academic study papers. Sincere request: Can someone who understands do a TL;DR please? ( Usually when I make this request I get downvoted, but happy to take the risk for this one as
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by justboxing 8y ago
> For people between 25 and 54, in America, there are almost exactly as many men as women, to within less than one percent Even if true, this means nothing w.r.t. men struggling to find women. Like with most other things in life, a few g
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by justboxing 8y ago
> Hunt for the work. Easier said than done. This part seems to be the hardest, from reading comments of other freelancers and contractors in several forums, not just HN. Any concrete tips, "hacks" that work, that you can share
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by justboxing 8y ago
> getting a softskills excel/MS word gov job for equal pay This is a great idea ( I sincerely mean it), and I too have been toying with this. Gov programming jobs are also very cushy. The knock on them ( / "cons" ) un
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by justboxing 8y ago
> No response so far from the official channel of Chinese government. So? Do they ever respond to anything? At the core of a communist regime is secrecy. They seldom respond to any request for information or allegations, and when they do
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by justboxing 8y ago
I've been shat on by pigeons about half a dozen times in 3 different countries. It's a consequence of living in cities as Pigeons are mostly urban dwellers, the same way you probably stepped on dog shit cos the owner didn't
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Previous Discussion => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17832654
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Previous Discussion => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17832654
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by justboxing 8y ago
Is this some kind of joke? There's literally just 1 job listed, and even that looks like a "Lorem ipsum dolor" type placeholder content. https://www.jobenabler.org/job?id=2 POSITION : Are you our King of Dev?
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by justboxing 8y ago
> Can't they sue Microsoft and get reinstated? Please stop with this. The last time temp workers sued (and won) [1] the rippling effect it has had on 100s and 1000s of contractors since then, is that companies (in Silicon Valley and
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Wow. How in hell did they (Saudi Arabia) manage to become the Head of the UN Human Rights Panel ? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anger-after-saudi-a... Reeks of corruption at the highest level.
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I've been there. Many times. To a point where I started introducing myself to new team members as "The Code Janitor". > I started "repairing" the project Don't. Unless your immediate supervisor requests you
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> My Bitcoin friend from 2010 wound up a millionaire, but he lost his love along the way, and as far as I know he still hasn't found anyone. Was that rich life worth it? Was his loss of his 'love' related to his 'inv
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> the Ritz-Carlton crackdown What's this? Are you referring to the use of these hotels as luxury prisons during the purge?
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> A lender called Rose Mortgage had originated the loan, then sold it to Option One Bank, which sold it to Lehman Brothers, which sold it to Lehman’s fully owned subsidiary Structured Asset Securities Corporation, which pooled the loan
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Not OP but I too got the acceptance, then rejection, then "Everyone accepted" email. That "everyone" count according to the email is over 15,000. The original acceptance # according to email was just 25 applicants (out o
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> Is advertising cannabis legal in anywhere in the US? I see cannabis dispensery ads pretty much everywhere here in San Francisco, on Buses, bus stands, billboards, even on the taxi cab top cone thingys....

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