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by milliondollar 5y ago
Don't think op is in US. Nobody would say "phone engineer" in the states.
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by milliondollar 5y ago
I'm genuinely surprised at the excess deaths number? Can you square your "no excess deaths" vs this data from CDC? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Actually remember a presentation from one of the logbook startups from a few years ago. The key feature that skyrocketted adoption was the ability to fudge (...er, "correct") the logbook manually. When it was automated, they had i
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Nazi prison guards of our algorithm world war.
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Agree. In US, 500 kids have died. That's in over a year, and in a time period which didn't include vaccine. Every year 800 kids die from drowning. About 200 kids die from the flue. Driving kills 4000. Suffocation 1500. The risk t
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by milliondollar 5y ago
F'n A. Reading the comments on this thread makes me love humanity. So much ingenuity, raw engineering horsepower, creativity. Goddamn, you are great people and you should be proud of yourselves. Reading this makes me believe we will su
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by milliondollar 5y ago
I would welcome you to move to VT, which has had fully state based funding since 1996 or so. The outcome has been decidedly mixed. One clear thing that has happened is every student is getting a lot of money spent on them! (~$19k). Spendin
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Agree. I've voted in 4 states (NC, NY, VT, NH) and it has all been like above. And I've also served as election volunteer, checking absentee ballots against the voting rolls.
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Double yes. I am praying Palm phone upgrades. Exactly what I want but needs more battery life.
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by milliondollar 5y ago
I can COMPLETELY believe it was a lazy analyst at an insurance company. Boss: where's the data that Bob wanted? er... Here! (Source: been inside many insurance companies.) Hanlon's (and Ocham's) Razor all the way here. Lazin
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Depends on definition of "senior". If you are still an individual contributor and need to demonstrate technical expertise, fine. But if you are a manager, you need to demonstrate the ability to lead, create impact, and deliver re
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Sorry, whats the difference here? -avg streamer makes $x. Total = $x * # streamers -streamers make an average of $y. Total = $y * # streamers Average is always sum/n?
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by milliondollar 5y ago
I am starting to believe "purpose" as related to work is mostly a giant con. Sometimes we run it on ourselves. But we are all dust in the end. Does the project or business that we are working on really matter?
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by milliondollar 5y ago
I owned a dam. Worst deal of my life, as it was regulated by the town, state, and feds. Touching anything on it required permits from multiple agencies at each of the above. Be careful doing ANYTHING with water, as that is regulated by feds
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by milliondollar 5y ago
I'm in a similar boat. Not outrageously rich, but rich enough that I won't spend it all before I die. Work in a highly lucrative industry, which bores the hell out of me. I took a couple years off. Built a house, moved in, then.
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Ask HN: High ROI capital investment in new business?
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Each fact in the document may be true, but the document is so overbroad as to be useless. Who is it intended for? I mean, it is almosth philosophical in starting from how senses actually work from science. Each lesson included could &#x2F
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Absolutely stunning example of work by some folks in DoD who clearly have "bullshit jobs." This includes diagrams and descriptions of how eyeballs work, quotes from Hemingway, and case studies of WWII operations. Can anyone imagin
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by milliondollar 5y ago
Their solution in the TFA is to focus on straight-through billing through standardization of payment mechanisms, arguing that each physician is paying $100K / year. Of course, this also puts the lie to the insurance companies, who are
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by milliondollar 5y ago
It's time for the "Ron Brown* Vacation" story from dotcom boom 1.0. I was a tech project lead at a semi-famous internet portal startup, so worked across departments picking up staff for my projects. The DB guy assigned was R
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by milliondollar 6y ago
I'm sorry, but unless you are in the US the estate is over $10m, you owe no federal taxes. https://smartasset.com/taxes/all-about-the-estate-tax#:~:tex... . I don't know what your local / state is shafti
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by milliondollar 6y ago
EXACTLY my question. How much would it have cost to make some bets against the various types of vaccines that could come out. Make a "generic" manufacturing facility that could then help scale up. So what if we "wasted"
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by milliondollar 6y ago
..and you've just described what management consultants do at scale.
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by milliondollar 6y ago
Interesting that a big chunk of her money on each vehicle is from a few videos and 1 medium article (I think $18k from 1 medium article, the rest earned around $300). Definitely a power law. This is still a "hits" business even fo
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by milliondollar 6y ago
This is a very literal approach. I assume that when you watch network TV you assume everything is coming at you with the same purpose and intent (news, talking head show, some documentary like 60 minutes.) Just because you want everything y
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by milliondollar 6y ago
Amen. Learning how to read the news is a skill just like everything else. The direct links of the internet make it harder, but one still needs to try and understand the context of the publication and how the article is presented. A-heads ar
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by milliondollar 6y ago
Can confirm. Also learned that in 1988 in my typing class. Also learned lower case l instead of a 1. It was for typing speed so you didn't have to reach for the top row.
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by milliondollar 7y ago
Yes, in the Army there is even a term for this: spendex. (spend exercise). A lot of fun blowing through all your extra ammo at the end of the year!!!
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by milliondollar 7y ago
The author was also a minor player in new journalism circles. He wrote "boys on the bus", an account of working with Hunter S Thompson to cover the 1972 presidential campaign.
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by milliondollar 7y ago
I totally agree. It's an absolute privilege. But the argument around TFA is: "Is this parent making the right choice." She's not an hourly worker. She's at the peak of her profession. She has many choices which

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