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by mac01021 8y ago
I try to put myself in the company's shoes: Employee: Please pay me more. Company: Why? Employee: If you don't then I will be able to find a more lucrative/satisfactory position elsewhere. At this
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by mac01021 8y ago
A few spots in this article make it sound like the normal practice is to quit your job before finding the next one. Is that something that a lot of job hoppers do?
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by mac01021 8y ago
This article has a lot of numbers in it. But it does a pretty poor job of describing what set of people, or even how many people are struggling with the issues it describes. - 20% of employees leave or lose there jobs every year, but it wo
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by mac01021 8y ago
How far must the two parties diverge before enough space opens up for one or more new groups to reside in the middle? That might be a nice outcome to have, and the possibility is almost enough to make me hope the vicious cycle continues.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Have not (yet) read this article. Nonetheless, I'm a 34-year-old American who has been lighting matches since probably the age of 5 or 6...
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by mac01021 8y ago
What branch of physics are you in?
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by mac01021 8y ago
This is the second article on HN in the last few weeks from NPR praising the virtues of traditional Central American child rearing.
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by mac01021 8y ago
No. They watch each episode as soon as it is published. Noone else sees the episode too much earlier than they do, so the probability that someone will reveal something about the plot before you watch it is minimal.
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by mac01021 8y ago
As someone who grew up around the home if the Pequot tribe, I'm amused by the choice made here by your input device's autocorrect feature.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Really? are any of those CCP members still active, or even alive?
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by mac01021 8y ago
But if they capture all x of my available hours, then I'll drop my Hulu subscription and they can increase their monthly fee.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Is it not zero sum? In other words, is there a way that Netflix and Amazon Video can cooperate with the result that each earns more income than would be possible if they were purely competitive? There are only 8 billion people in the world
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by mac01021 8y ago
Why don't you wait until its all been released to watch it, just like you would have to if they released it all at once after producing all of it?
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by mac01021 8y ago
More ecofriendly than spreading them around, but less ecofriendly than not having those residents at all. So it depends what the alternatives are. And also, they never claimed to be concerned with the global environment. Only with the char
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by mac01021 8y ago
Can one make a jet engine fueled by pure hydrogen?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Even then, there are trucks that park somewhere and containers of grocery product queueing up to be loaded into them...
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by mac01021 8y ago
So that's what dark matter is...
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by mac01021 8y ago
??? What transit is this? Commercial airline?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I'm no fonder of the war on drugs than anyone else. It promotes violent crime and places an enormous burden on the state. But how does it cause there to be more homeless addicts?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I'm not getting it: > Underlying all this is the simple fact that China can't allow real-estate prices to decline significantly. Politically, homeowners have come to expect their property values
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by mac01021 8y ago
I agree with everything you just said (and even on principle will only ever buy a used car) - except we're not talking about buying a new car. We're talking about using uber/lyft. If that uber driver is does uber-driving ful
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by mac01021 8y ago
What kind of product/service are you selling? Have you seen much indication that that has been money well spent?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Could FB sell now for ~100B and then still proceed to bury it for $x?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Even in that doubles the travel time and you have to switch buses twice before arriving at your destination? It's not irrational to want to reduce one's environmental impact without bearing that level of inconvenience, even if one
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by mac01021 8y ago
I'm interested in your motorcycle trip! - How did you choose this route/destination out of the thousands of possibilities? - Was there any specific goal beyond spending a bunch of time on a bike and seeing a big chunk of t
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by mac01021 8y ago
What is the order of magnitude of X?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Aside from dining out, what fun is there to be had for young adults anywhere? I mean, anywhere with a plentiful supply of other young adults gives you approximately equal opportunity to socialize, right?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I don't think the GP meant to ask about the ratio. The slash was probably just shorthand for "and".
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by mac01021 8y ago
Mandatory bribe quota?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Most dynamic language implementations don't let me inline a bunch of 128-bit or 256-bit values in an array, or allocate them on the stack. Code that deals with a lot of values which are small but larger than a machine word can be made

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