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by nkassis 9y ago
"One exception is The Cuckoo's Egg, which I reread every ~5 years." I do too, others I like to reread "hackers" by Steven Levy and Showstopper by G. Pascal Zachary. I don't know why but I always find these book
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by nkassis 9y ago
McConnell and Ryan refuse to consider bills unless 50% of their party supports it. This essentially prevents any bipartisan deal on issues such as immigration.
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by nkassis 9y ago
Could be a company in Texas named Harris Media was involved in the Kenyan election at the behest of CA according to the Channel 4 investigation. They also are a prime choice for republican campaigns in the US. Their list of clients seems pr
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by nkassis 9y ago
"Turns out, software takes a lot of time and money to build. Who knew? I guess IBM didn't. Or maybe they didn't care?" Well they do make a lot of money while building said software, large expensive projects are the kinds
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by nkassis 9y ago
To add to this,I keep the weight low until I feel really confident I can maintain proper form moving up in weight even when fatigued. For example if I can do 10 sets of 10 reps of swing at a weight without compromising form, I would look to
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by nkassis 9y ago
Same, I've also been doing kettelbell sumo squats/goblet squats to help flexibility and kettlebell deadlifts for hamstrings. Huge improvement to my lower back pain I was experiencing in the past.
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by nkassis 9y ago
Training Hip hinging (in my case with kettelbell swings and deadlifts) has helped me a lot with lower back pain. I definitively am more aware of my back when picking up things.
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by nkassis 9y ago
I'm confused by your comment, From my reading you seem to say the article suggest squatting but from my reading the article is not advocating for squatting at all. It's advocating for hip hinge where your back remains straight and
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by nkassis 9y ago
Boston has a lot more than biotech. You have a fairly large amount of internet companies (beyond the top 4 names, you have companies like for example Akamai), and robotics is a big field. (Kiva now part of Amazon, Boston Dynamics). Other en
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by nkassis 9y ago
Apparently Amazon moving to seaport with a fairly large footprint. https://www.boston.com/news/business/2018/01/10/amazon-is-se...
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The Trump administration has just made the H-1B visa process even harder(qz.com)
4 points by nkassis 9y ago|2 comments
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Trump did appointed some of loudest voices against those departments to lead them so he's pretty much responsible.
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Every point in the list of data cleaning tips removes contextual information that may actually help models learn. I'd be careful with applying this advice blindly.
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by nkassis 9y ago
Your examples aren't terribly good at proving your point. How is McGill reputation related to ranking systems? In fact even if Babson is a small school, the number of startups to student ratio isn't devoid of value as a ranking sy
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Trump to impose 30 percent tariff on solar cell imports(cnbc.com)
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by nkassis 9y ago
It's not quite removing the walls, think of it more as a ton of tiny castles dotting the landscape with equally good walls instead of one giant wall around the kingdom and some unprotected wooden huts inside. By doing this they want to
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by nkassis 9y ago
I highly doubt they could ruin boston, the city is big enough to absorb this.
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by nkassis 9y ago
There a difference between saying digital currencies will take over vs bitcoin being the currency that takes over or others with similar flaw. As the first line of OP's post points out he's not saying every single digital currency
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by nkassis 9y ago
Your choice of companies to compare is pretty odd. Amazon now has over 500k employees ( http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/26/technology/business/amazon-e... ) Sorry but I highly doubt the democratic party
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by nkassis 9y ago
But you do get to use roads to deliver stuff to your customers.
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Actually the competitors would have trouble competing with Google and Netflix in this scenario due to the fact that they would be harder for them to beat out what Google and Netflix would pay. This also ignores the fact that consumers have
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by nkassis 9y ago
"while giving a kickstart to job growth" that's less than supported by evidence right now also at current level of unemployment it doesn't seem like taxes have been the limiting factor.
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by nkassis 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing, it would have been a nice idea.
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This is a simplistic and false as the narrative you are attacking.
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by nkassis 9y ago
I didn't know they ever stopped storing data on tape. Tape to my knowledge has been pretty much in continuous use at big corps since their invention. Sure there was things like AWS glacier becoming possible alternatives but tapes are p
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by nkassis 9y ago
So.. could this problem solve itself over time? I always felt ageism was due to the fact that the field was young and was growing so fast that it kept the age of the workers lower on average but that will change. That chart of companies sho
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by nkassis 9y ago
I always wonder when the topic of accessibility comes up why many here on HN jump to it's cheaper to adapt the person than the environment (it also feels like a bandaid solution a bit). As you've just shown with your example I don
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by nkassis 9y ago
That ignores that those ramps are used by more than just people in wheelchairs. Folks with children in strollers, elderly with walkers, people with suitcases, ... My wife broke her ankle this summer and we spent 2 months with her rolling ar
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This is the difference people who argue "everyone was doing it" miss. He was aggressive in going after people who broke the silence. He ruined people's life in the process, ending their career and slandering them in the media
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I'd include Boston in there too. They already have a large presence in the area.

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