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by momokoko 7y ago
That is with solid growth. When growth stalls, holding off retirement does indeed reduce opportunities for younger workers.
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by momokoko 7y ago
The bribe is so that you are now a party to the crime and less likely to try and turn them in after the fact. The threats to your life and the lives of your family is actually what gets the job done.
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by momokoko 7y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the US about what military spending entails. The WTO and other agreements largely limits what the US government is allowed to contract only from US companies. One of the exceptions is national securit
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by momokoko 7y ago
Its more that they don't track "releases". In my experience, early companies (that are not hardware related) that track full releases are very top heavy with non technical leadership. This is because technical people generall
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by momokoko 7y ago
Interesting to see the number of items about payment and invoices. While great advice, I wonder if they had a specific instance where this burned them.
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by momokoko 7y ago
> Are they going up substantially more than inflation over the same time period? Yes, considerably more.
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by momokoko 7y ago
mail.com? There are plenty of free mail services that do not require a phone number. Yes, gmail and many others do, But a 30 second Google search will yield numerous options. Feel like we just are looking for things to fit a narrative as op
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by momokoko 7y ago
Can you then explain why many cities where the population is declining in the US are seeing housing prices go up? For example Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Cleveland?
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by momokoko 7y ago
Because there is no social safety net. If you don't have a job you have to live on the street. Companies have the jobs. When the alternative is seen as living on the street, Americans see these issues with fear for their immediate well
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All of the negatives of running your own business without any of the upside.
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by momokoko 7y ago
> The Algol, Smalltalk, Pascal, and early Scheme languages were prized for being small and beautiful. But they did not achieve widespread adoption. Widely used languages need to apply to a wide range of use cases. For example the fat
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by momokoko 7y ago
There was a period in the video game industry, right at the tail end of the arcade era, where video games were launched in the arcade in order to boost sales of the games in the console market. I imagine Amazon and Netflix will look to a si
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by momokoko 7y ago
The biggest difference is probably the desktop UI. After that Ubuntu has a bit more of a unified experience. Part of that is because Ubuntu tends to make a lot more decisions for you, whereas Debian gives you more options upfront. There is
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by momokoko 7y ago
I'm curious about Wine's usage and relevance at this point in the Linux desktop story. My assumption is that Linux users(myself included) that use Windows applications(not games), tend to just run a VM in seamless mode for Windows
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by momokoko 7y ago
From the data we have about ride sharing. The bulk of rides are done either by people who drive full time or people who drive as a second job. If it were not for those two groups of people, both of which utilize ride sharing as a "job&
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by momokoko 7y ago
It creates an economic(and tax revenue) downward spiral in an area if it becomes a significant percentage of vacation rentals. Real estate isn't really that controlled by market forces. Its a means to an end and pricing does not actual
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by momokoko 7y ago
Technical interviews are disguised IQ tests. IQ tests are actually not allowed in the US based on a Supreme Court decision[1] that said they were discriminatory. We know that cognitive ability has one of the strongest correlations with job
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by momokoko 7y ago
When I explain to people that there are companies that scrape and sell databases of non-public Facebook profiles and data they often audibly gasp or at the minimum get very uncomfortable. I can guarantee you that most higher level executive
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by momokoko 7y ago
PubG was not particularly popular with women. Fortnite is. The success of any social network lives or dies on that one item.
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To maintain relationships as an adult you need regularly scheduled recurring events. Whether its a cookout every other Sunday, a Friday happy hour, Thursday night online gaming, or anything really. But it must be a recurring event that does
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by momokoko 7y ago
Definitely not true. There was a clear and obvious difference when the large broadcasters starting buying up and consolidating all the local stations. You're childhood was likely after that had happened.
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Private equity markets killed radio. Radio stations were simply worth more to a large broadcasting company than a small local station because large broadcasters could leverage their massive advertising network. We're going to eventuall
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The entire open source software ecosystem?
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If you knew anything at all about their funding you would know thats not at all why they got funded. Print is crazy expensive and eventually the muse ran out.
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by momokoko 7y ago
Codebases all go to shit pretty fast. That is really what you learn as a senior developer. The fully sustainable codebase is a myth. All codebases will inevitably get progressive more difficult to work on no matter what you or anyone else d
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Merkle Tree.
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> You can have zero tolerance for bullying and harassment, without 100 surveillance You absolutely, positively, cannot have that. Bullying is an all day every day thing with children. Especially boys. The only way you prevent it all th
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by momokoko 7y ago
Considering that this was funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute[1], which was started as part of the Affordable Care Act, my guess is that this was indeed done to help reduce overall health care costs from unneeded proc
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by momokoko 7y ago
Unfortunately, it's pick one. Either: 1. Allow for potential bullying and sexual harassment and other things kids put each other through. 2. Monitor every single thing they do and police them at all times. We as a society need to make
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by momokoko 7y ago
I'm not sure it's about community. But I am sure we are beating a dead horse with all this Medium sucks posts. We all know why. Everyone does. If they chose to use it, it's because they still feel its better than the alternat

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