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by mamurphy 8y ago
>If you’re a white male, you could easily have been hired simply because of your skin color and gender and not your abilities. This may have been the case decade(s) ago, but I think the climate is very different now. With the prevalence
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Google's primary service is selling search ads that consumers view, primarily via search. Consumers have almost no lock in, and consistently choose Google search over Bing, etc. Google is not at all like Oracle in this case.
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by mamurphy 8y ago
What kind of beginners? If someone wants to make websites for a living, of course they need to get the skills. If they just want one website, those tools are often enough.
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by mamurphy 8y ago
I looked up that film and found a Wikipedia article on it. I hardly find credible a "documentary" wherein multiple scientists interviewed complained to regulators that they were misrepresented[0]. Of course, many other scientists
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Making the payback at marginal rates (0% for below $40k and 20% for everything above that) would largely fix this issue. If you are making around $40k per year, you have nothing to lose; if the program doesn't improve your state in lif
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Summary Judgment is persuasive precedent. A higher court affirming Summary Judgment is controlling precedent for that circuit and highly persuasive precedent for other circuits. The ruling here is limited and narrow as to the particular pat
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by mamurphy 8y ago
I've never had a Medium account and don't want one. I stopped reading Medium articles because of the annoying popup begging me to "make this relationship more serious" or whatever and get an account.
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by mamurphy 8y ago
>Two years seems absolutely absurd on many levels. Especially "at least" 2 years. As in, 2 years was the minimum and maybe 5 would be better?
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Life and government isn't this simple. Subsidizing metro draws in high-income earners and thus builds the economy and increases tax revenues. The stratospheric price of housing near Metro stations increases real estate tax revenues as
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by mamurphy 8y ago
The individual game is (very probably) a fad, but if/when it wanes in popularity, do those users resubscribe to Netflix or continue watching/playing games for their entertainment?
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by mamurphy 8y ago
>Fortnite's popularity is only an incremental step up from the games whose models they imitate. For the context of those viewing on Twitch, yes. But Netflix loses a viewer if they decide to play Fortnite rather than continue subscri
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Is there a readme on the website, github, or elsewhere? Do you have a plan to monetize AppGet?
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by mamurphy 8y ago
I had miss this phone, but I realize that I wouldn't want it today. One of the big reasons is I don't memorize phone numbers anymore - as cool as the RAZR was, I don't have need for a flip phone of any kind. The numbers I dia
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by mamurphy 8y ago
(Random numbers to illustrate a point:) If the symphony was an auction system, tickets might sell for $110 each. It fills up with a $100 each first-come system, most people who want tickets can get them, tickets are sold at only a $10 disco
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by mamurphy 8y ago
My understanding is that Demo Day projects are near the end of the 3-month Y Combinator experience. They could have been at a similar level of progress to you 3 months ago and gotten stuff done, with YC encouragement, over the past 90 days.
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by mamurphy 8y ago
If this starts showing up in the wild as a new attack vector, it would be great if companies/governments decided to abandon faxes and embrace email attachments as a response. If both are subject to vulnerabilities are there any upsides
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Maybe rearrange the letters in gogo and add le to the end also?
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Reddit had a few good discussions of this if you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/940jdc/fid... ; https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comme
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by mamurphy 8y ago
>that I know of That's the key to your comment. You cannot ever know for certain if your conduct offends someone. Some people get offended if you look at them the "wrong" way. I don't think you should be fined for acc
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Presumably somewhere between those two polar opposite examples.
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Reddit comments if you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/940jdc/fid...
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Fidelity Becomes First Company to Offer a No-Fee Index Fund(cnbc.com)
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by mamurphy 8y ago
There are some great documentaries that show how unpleasant it can be as a woman to walk through a city. It's awful. How do we go about remedying this situation without making criminals out of anyone who has a spur-of-the-moment intera
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by mamurphy 8y ago
>behavior that is... offensive Banning intimidating behavior has a strong argument for it. Banning overtly sexual comments at least has a clear line to it. But banning "offensive" behavior? I prefer the right to free speech ove
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Non-WSJ Alternative (seems to be an affiliated summary): https://www.marketwatch.com/story/young-people-are-shunning-...
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by mamurphy 8y ago
That looks a lot like Digital Ocean's offering - anyone tried both who can compare Lightsail vs DO? edit: Blog post that says they are about equal, Lightsail has AWS integration but DO is a but more full-featured as of the writing ( ht
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by mamurphy 8y ago
You don't have to testify against yourselves, but, if given immunity, you have to testify against someone else (barring exceptional circumstances). This can put crime victims in the legal position of being forced to testify against the
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Yeah, it's unclear to me why he didn't ask for/demand coverage for the emergency finger-attaching procedure. In the article, he skipped the details on that in terms of supposedly having to inform them beforehand for an emerge
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by mamurphy 8y ago
>Sellers could take advantage of the bias of joint evaluation by emphasizing information that consumers might think is important but actually isn’t–our computer screen has 1.073 billion color combinations while our competitors only has 1
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Redditor claims this happened to them in 2018: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8qmayg/update_...

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