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   by mrslave 9y ago

   I have gleaned - from such authoritative sources as TV - that tipping appears to be a large part of customer service culture in the USA. (Though I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it varies by region. Because the USA is just New Yor
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   I only watched Bab5 for the first time last year and it launched straight into my top 5. There are some old sci-fi shows that can be easily watched in spite of dated graphics (Bab5, ST:TOS, ST:TNG) and some you can't (BSG).
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   And there's no inflation. Nothing to see here folks. Please move along.
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   And relevant to a classic contradiction in the startup community: idea vs (execution and capital). What you (say or think) matters a lot less than what you do.
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   I would argue that HR is largely driven by legal obligation.
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   Someone uses Bing? And enough people to justify a new verb? binged is already taken and I don't think Microsoft wants to associate itself with such indulgence.
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   Not a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. 1. The great Thomas Sowell addressed this directly in the long long ago (1980s?). His challenger reported a discrepancy in remuneration for women over 40. He correctly identified an ad
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   In addressing the question of 97% consensus of blah (where blah varies)..., and not the paper specifically, this article provides a good summary of the quality of this figure: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/42523
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   by mrslave 9y ago

   HN Drudge Report ducks 5 or so YouTube channels Podcasts (not daily)
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    Direct link: https://blog.newtonhq.com/12-tools-that-will-improve-your-wo...
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    It's exactly like the Christopher Nolan film Memento starring Guy Pearce. ;-)
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    Funny, I've heard some of them too and they only made me want to apply there! I haven't given it too much thought but Jeff Bezos is probably one of the industry leaders I admire the most. ducks
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    This is why the estimates of total US government debt are in the ballpark of 50 trillion USD, instead of the official almost 20 trillion. They're on the hook for all the unfunded liabilities like federal pensions, and are expected to t
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    And the US government saying there's no inflation, and the recovery is real - just a little slow. ;-)
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    It appears the majority of people don't understand that the national debt, and other unfunded liabilities, are future taxes. The socialist workers party is very popular in my country too despite eating the future in order to play Santa
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    Colloquially referred to as the "efficient sleeper gene" or "super-sleeper gene", a quick search of these terms, or DEC2, reveals some lucky people among us get by - indeed thrive - on 4 or 5 hours of sleep per day. Famo
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    I come to HN because of the high level of intelligent conversation. This article, and ever more sadly so the comments herein, are a huge disappointment. Trump is the non-establishment candidate the left asks for from Republicans every presi
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    Then you'll just love Krugman's imagine we're at war with aliens economic stimulus!!!
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    +1 for Allen & Moronuki. Long. Well written. Won't repeat what's already been said.
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    Keys Firearms Armor, IIRC. Sometimes reported as Keys & Full Ammo, but this neglects all firearms granted to the user.
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    Tangentially: independent of the truth of this article, the volume of criticism of China's economy from Western media is hilarious in contrast to propaganda reported verbatim from the USA: the "slow recovery"; metrics that ar
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    by mrslave 10y ago

    In the interest of some context: Mandela was a communist and a terrorist. While a "political prisoner" he was offered freedom as soon as he would publicly renounce violent protest (i.e. terrorism) and he persistently refused to do
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    Second. I am a competent programmer who degrades himself in the drudgery of business rules and visual ETL (DataStage, Informatica, etc.) and I do it only for the money. So many of the problems are trivially solved with small programs, or ev
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    I will document my bias before reading the article in the hope that I am proven wrong. I estimate that most of these have occurred in apparatus of the state, including organizations that superficially are not but for all practical purposes
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    Another Peter-Schiff-was-right moment.
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    Thanks. I should have mentioned that I have seen that. I tried GitLab Kanban, thinking the product created by the same organization as GitLab would be the best. I was dissatisfied at installation time (uses Docker, in contrast to the RPMs p
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    All I want is a Kanban board. It seems I have to fork out $$$ for JIRA. :(
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    Mirror please?!?!
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    by mrslave 11y ago

    Free market solutions to community need, such as the charitable foundations you enumerate, have been crowded out by state monopolization. Hospitals are also too quickly forgotten: Catholic and Masonic. There was also a great article in The
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    by mrslave 12y ago

    I haven't contributed to SO in any way since they disabled anonymous questions. I do like that their moderators might close a question as open-ended/opinionated/whatever but not delete the genuine attempts to answer the quest