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by liftbigweights 8y ago
And the news industry, hollywood and politics... Isn't the US awash in saudi money everywhere? Would anyone be shocked if next to israel, saudi arabia owned the second largest stable of lobbyists and politicians in DC. I wouldn't.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
What's even more worrying is that years after the bailout, investment and economic stabilization, detroit's population is still declining ( although at a slower rate ). If people are leaving when times are good, what will happen d
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Takes poison to notice poison I guess. Isn't this the nytimes and friends complaining that they don't get to monopolize poison like they used to? A company that hires someone like sarah jeong has no business complaining about pois
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> The shape of the human penis is 'designed' to scoop out the sperm that competing males may have recently left That's myth ( or we don't know for absolute certainty ). If that was true, it would scoop your own semen
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> How can you be against cruelty to animals and still regularly consume meat? What does one have to do with the other? Most livestock live rather comfortable lives compared to their wild counterparts. Less disease, less parasites and of
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Excellent point. The study of genetics and its influence seems to be trapped between two extremes due to racial horrors of the 20th century. 100 years ago, social darwinists claimed genetics (race/blood) was everything. It was destiny.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
I don't see how anyone could be for race based discrimination. If we are going to make up for systematic oppression of the past, why not do so far earlier in a person's life instead of waiting til college? I think it's fairer
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Masayoshi Son ( founder of SoftBank ) is legendary for betting big and winning big and also betting big and losing big. During the dotcom boom, he became the richest man in the world for a few days by betting big and then during the crash,
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
nytimes is as far from independent and unbiased as you can get.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Was never a fan of allen or microsoft as I felt that Microsoft's monopoly has held back computing by a generation, but it's still sad to see cancer finally get this guy after a lifetime of struggle. He left microsoft because of ca
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Two anti-crypto stories on the same day? "Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219256 I'm not a fan of cryptos, but it&#x
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Then stop using instagram. What's with nytimes, theatlantic and the rest of the media and their endless spam and whining about social media? If you don't like it, stop using it? Leave HN alone. HN has a massive nytimes, theatlanti
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Is there any reason not to link to the MIT news itself? https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwar... Why link to the nytimes when you can link to the actual source?
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> To distinguish between those and our moon, you can use the proper name 'Moon' (capitalised) or Luna if you are so inclined. No you don't. Not in english at least. The moon or sun is understood in context and with the art
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> The whole idea of a company is that if I have $100 to invest, I can either lend it to someone else and get interest, or I can build something and get a profit for my effort. No. The idea of the company is to pay out the $100 to shareho
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
The entire market seems to care about data rather than privacy. From your smartphones to your cars to your watches to everything else, it seems like the economy is about getting as much information about you to advertisers/corporations
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. My goodness that documentary had me so infuriated. If people haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. > The only bank to be prosecuted criminally for shenanigans in the subprime era. That's the
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
You are correct. Salaries are actually liabilities for companies. Profits are used to pay dividends to shareholders, not to pay the salaries.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> This is so wild, I'm thinking back to 2005-2007 when people were doing everything possible to get on Facebook Not everyone. Everyone I knew shunned facebook, laughed at myspace, looked down on youtube, you get the idea. For us, it
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> There is a great deal of magical thinking surrounding the idea that if you pay companies they wont exploit your data and sell you to advertisers. AKA, the Apple Myth. Just because you overpay for apple products, people think they are i
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Yes, the median would be a better data point. Even better would be a qualification of "successful". Are they equating successful startups that are worth a million to trillion dollar companies like apple and amazon? > I always s
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This isn't news. It's gossip and clickbait masquerading as news. I wish there was a way to filter any headline with a "?". "The pyramids were built by aliens... or were they?"
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Yeah. I'm surprised that I'm downvoted. If you are clearing six figures ( most software devs should in this environment ), you could max out your 401k/ira/etc ( $40K ) to lower your tax basis and then save half the remai
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Even at the low end that involves having 150k spare a year, plus a house and retirement fund? You are forgetting interest, capital gains and appreciation. Considering he has no children, $3-5 million is easily doable. Also, I was inclu
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Why not retire and contribute to open source? You can set your own schedule and speak to whomever you want or no one at all. It amazes me that people in their 40s are working as software developers. Did everyone gamble their money away? 20
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
No it isn't. It's an oversupply of labor vis a vis jobs. In the late 90s, high school students and gardeners could get jobs in tech. When there are too few jobs for the population, credentialitis happens. This is why government jo
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Does anyone seriously believe that Shannon's contributions to the foundations of computing stand so far above others'? Not far above but he's right there with Church and Turing. Church and Turing laid the foundations to
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> I'm puzzled by comments that describe this as a well written article. Welcome to HN. It seems like half the articles posted here immediately have comments praising the article or the writer. Wouldn't shock me if the writers t
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> When you say "The CEO or COO are inconsequential." That was in reference to a particular CEO ro COO. It doesn't matter if Steve Jobs or Tim Cook is running Apple as long as they are competent and the organization is soli
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Hasn't this been the case for nearly 100 years now. Stalin was notorious for editing out "comrades" from photos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So... Even FDR's photos wer

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