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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I think what actually happens now in SV is more realistic - employees switch jobs every 12-18 months.
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Power in Numbers: Scenes from Dreamhack(nytimes.com)
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Or perhaps the point where you become "old, senile and unable to do anything useful" will also happen later?
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
You probably should have mentioned taxes. In the US, if most of your income is employment income, the tax system is still very progressive. Not so much for investment income.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I felt like it was more of an attempt at justifying sociopathy, or at least exploring the impulse towards it. The movie essentially argues that greatness comes from external pressure, from being pushed beyond your limits.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I believe that NASA expected lots of craters on Pluto due to its close proximity to the Kuiper Belt, which is full of asteroids and other small objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I have a couple of wide-angle pictures I took inside this past February. I think they capture the magic of the nave better than the picture in the article: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ojbyrne/16528392319 https:
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Getting rid of the silly Cuba embargo.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
He says it's "bootstrapped."
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
If your second last sentence is true, then you can't have monetary union. Break up the Euro.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
As the comments mention, government spending in Greece went from 110 billion euros in 2007 to 88 billion euros in 2014. Unfortunately GDP went from 230 billion euros to 180 billion euros in the the same time period.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
If that's the case why do you think bicycles won't have the same sensors and controllers?
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An Advance May Double the Capabilities of Fiber Optics(nytimes.com)
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Pretty sure that's illegal.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
And right now they're saying 95 % chance of El Niño and 85 % chance of it lasting through the winter, which means plenty of rain.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
The revelation that we could just pay the alfalfa farmers to not farm should probable get more publicity/support.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
This is a really shitty part of the world to live in.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Mountain View, and probably many other cities in California, have already made that declaration, and other restrictions.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Does "Hodinkee" strike anyone else as a stupid name?
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I know from personal experience that that is not correct. There is no such restriction.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I remember these being common in Canada at least as late as the mid-1980s. Usually branded with a credit card logo.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I have a stupid question that I felt the author should have addressed. What's AAA?
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
"Some of the aircraft can also be equipped with technology that can identify thousands of people below through the cellphones they carry, even if they are not making a call or in public. Officials said that practice, which mimics cell
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
I've often had that feeling at the dentist. "Tedious to terrifying" just seems to be another way of saying "busy."
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
It's fairly common knowledge in Silicon Valley that Netflix salaries are insane.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
Counter-argument: Since the 2 point conversion is a more viable alternative than previously, 2 things will happen: 1. teams will practice 2-point conversions more. 2. teams will develop more plays for 2-point conversions. These will probabl
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
They probably made some sense when a group went through some catastrophic event (plague, world war) so the demographics of some cohort was strikingly different from some previous cohort. Otherwise I say, yes please.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
They also cut the price on the iMac Retina by $200.
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
My understanding is that a significant part of the motivation for the interstate system was military, which doesn't seem to get any consideration in this article. Wikipedia says: "The Interstate Highway System gained a champion in
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by ojbyrne 11y ago
They have recently announced a newer version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIOD67PKCY

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