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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
holy shit
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Sure, if you want to be pedantic, the Civil War was about States' rights...but really only one right; legal access to slaves. The "States' rights" argument is trotted out by the Lost Cause folks ( https://en.wi
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Voting for Johnson isn't a wasted vote, if the Libertarian Party can start showing double-digits, they will start getting invited to debates etc. Until they are invited to televised debates, they will indeed remain a joke.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Keep selling stuff to keep investors happy...when nothing of value is left, declare victory and leave
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Those Chromebooks in many cases get coupled with Google's classroom software. One doesn't imply the other, but lots of schools seem to be jumping on the integrated platform.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
The post to which I was responding made the absurd claim that technically-minded/introverted individuals who score high on tests can approximate themselves to being geniuses. I really don't think it was much of a reach to ridicule
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Right...many people seem to confuse genius with being really smart.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Intelligence, even super-intelligence, is rarely a key determinant of success, despite what you will read here.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Okay, the people who serve lunch to the movie crew also gets their names in credits. She has a job...cool, but its not any more meaningful than anything else because her industry makes you look at a scrolling list of everyone related to the
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> Also, you might do well to assume that a large majority of the people here that you are trying to put down also tested in top percentages in school tests. The audience of YC and HN is self-selected nerds. Which is exactly why so much o
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> My sister spent hours with a coloring book as a kid, and now has a growing IMDB page Anyone in SAG can have an IMDB page. I know this because I have a child who has one after doing some trivial commercial and short film work...it reall
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
I just knew these comments would fill up with humblebrags from HNers who wish to casually and inoffensively proclaim their genius.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You shouldn't worry about software being late. Work at a good clip with the time you have. This is just the norm for this industry and the only managers who presume otherwise are themselves novices.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Well look at it this way....if all of those things were to be provided to you, they could probably find someone to do your job for 30% less. There are some upsides to software being a total shitshow.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Of course, and prop 13 also creates soft forms of blight. Old people stay in their homes long after they should have sensibly downsized...but ANYWHERE they move in California (even into a one-bedroom condo in nowhere-ville) will increase th
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
True, but the Prius is the greatest ANTI-Peacock vehicle ever! To police, it is invisible. I have never been given a second glance by a police officer even when I am clearly speeding. Cops just seem to tune them out as granny cars.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Well hopefully my comment didn't imply that living in Palo Alto meant you were destined to go to Stanford...but there IS a real connection...many residents went to Stanford, and for better or for worse, many have already made the outra
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
This needs to be reinforced. Go look at Fortune's list of the world's most valuable companies. Those that are American are all located with a one-hour drive. I live near a ton of Apple executives. They have moved here from all ove
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Cupertino does have great schools. That is more a factor of the cultural heritage of the city - it has a rich history of attracting Asians, who have instilled the schools with their drive and focus on education. The only negative people wil
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Palo Alto public schools -do- rank very highly. There are also preschool programs run by the Stanford education college that are well-regarded. Local private schools rank among the best in the nation (as well as being absurdly expensive), a
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Their kids go to Harker and Castilleja, which can actually claim to be some of the best schools in the nation. And of course there is a decent college nearby, just sayin :) (and to your point about moving to Cambridge to go to Harvard...sor
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
With all due respect, you were there for what, three hours?
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Well beyond just the jobs, the networking, etc...the Bay Area does have some intangible non-tech-related amenities that are hard to find elsewhere Look at an aerial map of the Bay Area and take a gander at the hundreds of thousands of acr
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
People don't go to university to learn, they go to university to get degrees...or to be more blunt...to buy degrees.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Wrong. You trust yourself too much. A vibrant, well-documented and tested framework will likely be better than your own one-off code If you really believe what you say, why are you using Go (or Java, or Rust or whatever) at all? Someone e
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Go doesn't allow circular dependencies so rest easy.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Why is this even a concern? We have tools to walk that graph for us, they're called compilers and linkers. A small codebase can be buggy too. If you have success with a toolkit and it has good testing and community support, don't
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Your comment basically confirms, on a more subtle level, what the GP post is saying. You have no factual basis for claiming these people are asserting false facts or voting based on false facts. Brexit is a vote on what the future should lo
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
I want to help this guy but I have to ask....how did the parents just "forget" to get his citizenship complete????
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
He is extremely abrasive, but he doesn't seem to carry grudges. Telling someone that presentations were "stupid" doesn't seem out of line.

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