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by mrep 6y ago
If I recall correctly, AWS will pay you an extra 10,000 a year if you have top secret clearance.
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by mrep 6y ago
My 2013 had to get the case, touchpad, fans, and keyboard replaced do to a swelling battery. Also needed a second charger as apple cords break so easily. Outside of that, it still works great. Kind of funny though that we are amazed that
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by mrep 6y ago
Speaking from a wealthy Chicago suburb here, wine rooms are decently common assuming they are talking about a room dedicated to storing wine (usually underneath your basement staircase). My parents also have separate walk in closets.
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by mrep 6y ago
> Because he was a 24 year old putz who’s grand life philosophy was basically the same as every 24 year old suburban white dude: the world sucks, I should run away to a simpler time. As a white dude who grew up in suburbia and was recent
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by mrep 6y ago
> >2000B in bank/corporate bailouts. Got a link for that?
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by mrep 6y ago
Apples market share in the US is 58% [0] which only leaves you with 42% of the market if you are a developer and don't want to follow apples rules. That's not a good choice. [0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-
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by mrep 6y ago
> Amazon runs virtually everything on AWS. Does sable, the internal nosql database used for practically everything in retail run on AWS nowadays? Cause it didn't back in 2018 which and partially why they couldn't scale up on p
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by mrep 6y ago
Agreed. I think it will be especially interesting to watch things in the EU as the link tax seems to me to be partially aimed at stopping the rephrasing and linking back to a paywalled article by another free website, and the copyright di
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by mrep 6y ago
How so? The median individual income in New York City is $50,825 [0]. [0]: https://smartasset.com/retirement/average-salary-in-nyc#:~:t... .
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by mrep 6y ago
You can upgrade your google account to google one which has support and an extra 85 GB of storage for $2 a month [0]. [0]: https://one.google.com/u/1/home
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by mrep 6y ago
On android, you can publish yourself which Fortnite did [0]. iOS you cannot though and in fact they are getting sued for their "abusive monopoly in iOS app/in-app distribution services" [1]. [0]: https://www.bbc.c
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by mrep 6y ago
Apparently a joke briefing, but the air force put some slides together about naruto running around the time of the area 51 raid [0]. [0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/cfbgj1/actual_air_fo...
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by mrep 6y ago
What part of the FEDs balance sheet [0] are you concerned about getting bailed out because it is pretty much entirely composed of the US government's own debt through US treasury securities and citizens homes through mortgage backed se
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by mrep 6y ago
The only companies the government is propping up are the airlines and small businesses by mainly paying for their payroll to keep people employed through the CARES act [0]. In what way is the government protecting large companies? [0]: ht
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Tesla (TSLA) becomes worlds most valuable automaker, hits $1k per share(electrek.co)
5 points by mrep 6y ago|5 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
From Section IV of the Justice Departments article: The Supreme Court has noted the crucial role that defining the relevant market plays in section 2 monopolization and attempt cases. The market-definition requirement brings discipline and
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Competition and Monopoly: Single-Firm Conduct Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act(justice.gov)
1 points by mrep 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrep 6y ago
A monopoly is the sole supplier of a product or service and the fact that bing exists makes search not a monopoly. In the concept of antitrust, the United States Department of Justice does not use that term directly and instead talks about
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by mrep 6y ago
Those unions aren't specific to one company/team though and are mainly to set pay floors because they work in a glamorous industry that people are desperate to get into and so they are used to raise the people outside of the compe
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by mrep 6y ago
Not intel, but I definitely have seen training videos about not saying "dominate the market" or "crush the competition".
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by mrep 6y ago
For what it is worth, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter are all part of the data transfer project which is designed to do that [0]. It is still in development though and I cannot comment on how much each company is investing i
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by mrep 6y ago
From the article: One objection is that police are already doing a difficult and dangerous job for relatively low pay, and it would be unfair to saddle them with the additional cost of insuring themselves. No problem. We can take that pot o
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by mrep 6y ago
And if you are female, you also get to deal with perverts trying to grope you [0]. [0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/f92kp7/pub...
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by mrep 6y ago
The federal government is giving unemployed people 600 per week (31,200 a year, 15 an hour on a 40 hour work week) on top of state benefits regardless of their income so anyone making less than that is making more on the federal government
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by mrep 6y ago
The federal government is giving unemployed people 600 per week (31,200 a year) on top of state benefits regardless of their income so anyone making less than that is making more on the federal government alone. That is why total income ha
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by mrep 6y ago
How so? That article is arguing for what they think the US should do and it basically matches what the US did in fact do. The CARES act was by far a bailout to citizens directly through the stimulus checks and the extra $600 a week in une
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by mrep 6y ago
Source, because this exact article is about the total nominal amount, not per capita so average has nothing to do with it. In fact many of the people in those low wage jobs which were vaporized are now making more money with unemployment d
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by mrep 6y ago
> Sooner or later, costs would begin to rise in that area, because the infrastructure, healthcare, etc. must be improved (due to population growth) I don't see why that is as the extra infrastructure will come with more tax revenue.
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by mrep 6y ago
I've also seen a ton of people complain about it on this website alone [0, 1]. [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1590782149&dateRange=custom&... [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=159078214
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by mrep 6y ago
> Very few professional developers code in vim or notepad Notepad++ and vim are the 3rd and 5th most popular development environment according to stack overflows 2019 report [0] and I and many others I know use Vim at least. > IDE kno

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