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by maratd 11y ago
Is the math right? 7000 (new jobs) * $7 (salary per day) * 365 (days per year) = $17,885,000 So that's 18 million dollars. You spent 60 million dollars to create jobs that pull in 18 million dollars per year? That's optimistically
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by maratd 11y ago
> I've found it to be a killer feature and am really surprised Amazon Web Services does not offer the same thing. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... I use it every day. Ea
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> Well, rational people can and should dismiss the views of others because they don't share them... if they've taken the time to investigate the validity of those views. You can only make that kind of a conclusion assuming two
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> Rational people tend to be progressive and "left leaning" Rational people tend to be rational. And rational people don't dismiss the views of others because they don't share them.
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> the college is willing to subsidize your education expenses every year The college isn't subsidizing anything. It's called price discrimination. That's what the article is partially about. If you look at the demand curve
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> Or psychiatric treatment. You want to drug them until they're a vegetable? Ok, I guess that's an option, but I would still put that under "worse than death" category.
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by maratd 11y ago
> There is simply no logical reason to be in favor of the death penalty, at least in the US, but there are plenty of reasons to oppose it. It is cruel and absolutely horrific to keep a human being in isolation. It is against our nature i
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by maratd 11y ago
> $10BN companies have laws passed that go against their interests all the time And you don't see them complaining too much about those regulatory hurdles. Because those same hurdles also create a barrier to entry. It's much ea
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by maratd 11y ago
Thanks! I probably am stretching myself too thin and need to build in unexpected downtime into my deadlines. Clients are always happy when things get done "early", I just need to remember to keep adding a buffer.
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by maratd 11y ago
> I have a system, where I read the most negative reviews of the book. If the reviews are eloquent and make a solid point, I don't buy the book. This works surprisingly well for any product on Amazon.
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by maratd 11y ago
> What am I missing - Price? Features? Implementation pain (or lack thereof)? Good price structure and business model. As you said, the software is so-so. But remember, Bitbucket is free for private repos. As many as you want. You can ev
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by maratd 11y ago
> I only know of Windows drivers for Sony and Lenovo. My Samsung has a BIOS setting to limit charging to 80%.
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by maratd 11y ago
When the GOP candidates are talking about "making America strong again" they are primarily talking about foreign policy, not domestic. American foreign policy under Obama has been haphazard at best, frequently angering allies and
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It depends on their age. When they're babies, you won't have time for sleep. It tapers off as they get older and go to daycare/school/etc.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism > About 1.5% of children in the United States (one in 68) are diagnosed with ASD as of 2014 That's not rare. Doctors have difficulty with ASD because it's triggered by
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by maratd 11y ago
> Imagine if all children were scanned at 6mo, 1yo and every other year until 18... that would be much more valuable data to humanity than some other uses of big data storage out there. Imagine that instead, upon birth, all children had
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by maratd 11y ago
Please read what I wrote again. I specifically mentioned a large data set.
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No, they're not. That said, there is no valid engineering reason why any web app should require more than 512MB of memory to run with minimal user load . User load is what bumps up the RAM requirements. If the active user count is i
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by maratd 11y ago
I have a dozen web apps installed on my personal 512MB droplet and they all work flawlessly.
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How have your property rights been compromised through inaction at the federal level of government?
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> "Deadlock is good" works in a system where the disagreeing sides are reasonable and willing to debate and compromise to produce a solution with broader support. This is not correct. Sometimes inaction is much better than acti
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by maratd 11y ago
We all make decisions we regret. That doesn't mean all decisions lead to regret. Nor does it mean that we should take away the ability to make decisions. Fundamentally, we already have school choice. If you have enough money, you can c
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by maratd 11y ago
> Because a teacher's job is customer service and the customer is always right? ;) Yes? Good customer service is making sure the customer walks away happy in the long-term. Sometimes you do that by giving homework and tests. They mi
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by maratd 11y ago
> Are you aware of how extremely predatory many of these for-profit colleges have been? Their students aren't getting something they want. I don't know what this statement means. If you're suggesting that people attend the
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by maratd 11y ago
I find it funny how you completely ignored the most important aspect of the equation. The student. The students are choosing to attend those charter schools. People choose things that are better for themselves. Not always, but often enoug
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by maratd 11y ago
> we don't need University of Phoenix brought to elementary schools. I realize that from your perspective, the world if full of imbeciles ... but just for a second, consider that {insert for-profit college name} is providing a servi
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> We need a change in priorities and not freak out about taxes for education. People don't freak out over paying taxes for education. Even if they don't have kids in the system. They freak out over throwing money at a broken sy
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by maratd 11y ago
The answer isn't to make everything wireless. It's to go to Home Depot, buy a dollar's worth of cable ties, bend over, and clean it up. Funny enough, this is a stark lesson for why Quirky failed. They made exactly the sort of
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by maratd 11y ago
Yes, your phone can do everything that this mirror can and more. Well, except work as a mirror. The entire point of this is that this is a household object that you need anyway , but that it leaks information that might be useful to you. S

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