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by paul_f 13y ago
I hate this so much too. StackOverflow needs a "no jquery" filter.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Of course not. This is the problem with modern politics in a nutshell.
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by paul_f 13y ago
It really annoys me when people present data on charts and the lower range is not zero. This article shows a speed comparison for Verizon and Comcast. The Verizon chart ranges from 1.8Mbps to 2.3Mbps. The Comcast chart goes from 1.4Mbps to
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by paul_f 13y ago
This is certainly terrible news. I cannot imagine being in that situation. My thoughts with him and his family. Just to answer the question above, the US provides SSDI insurance as part of the social security program to cover people with di
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by paul_f 13y ago
Except they don't. Populations in developing countries have now stabilized and in some cases, Japan, are well below replacement level.
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by paul_f 13y ago
I couldn't care less about anyone's sexual preference. But I find it wholly unfair that someone could change from a man to a woman and then compete against other women. That is something altogether different and should not be acce
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by paul_f 13y ago
What's wrong with what this commenter said? So we downvote opinions we don't like? What happened to the free exchange of ideas? HN comments section apparently is becoming a echo chamber and quickly losing all relevance.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Ideas are just starting points from which one eventually pivots to a compelling business model backed by evidence collected from talking to potential customers. If one does not talk to customers or pivot, and simply cranks away on their ori
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by paul_f 13y ago
For those caught up in what I think is a cause-de-jour, income inequality, I'll pose these two questions: 1. Is anyone worse off because Mark Zuckerberg is very rich? 2. If policies to reduce income inequality made the poor worse off,
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by paul_f 13y ago
I think we have our answer. From the study: Finally, the strongest predictors of upward mobility are measures of family structure such as the fraction of single parents in the area. As with race, parents' marital status does not matter
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by paul_f 13y ago
I love how you told everyone what a wonderful and caring person you are. And then slammed engineers. Well played. Next time I'd advise telling your story and avoid the temptation to smear an entire profession.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Let me fix that for you: protesters are misguided.
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by paul_f 13y ago
I hear things got so bad they eventually had to hire Oompa Loompas. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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by paul_f 13y ago
This "inequality" stuff is really getting annoying. The poor in Chile are far better off than other countries in the region, but because the rich are also richer somehow inequality is all that matters to some. In fact, the wikiped
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by paul_f 13y ago
Who else read the title of this post and expected something vastly different?
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by paul_f 13y ago
If I were always perfect on the first draft I'd agree with you. But keyboards are far better suited for editing than voice is.
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by paul_f 13y ago
To naked short sell, someone has to be willing to buy from you a stock you neither own nor have borrowed. I think if they want to do that, they should be allowed to. Despite what a dumb idea that is.
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by paul_f 13y ago
I am an email first person. What I find funny is people who want something from me, and don't email me, and then get mad when I don't respond quickly using their preferred method.
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by paul_f 13y ago
what's the tl;dr please?
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by paul_f 13y ago
Not quite the same thing, but a 6-lane freeway (GA400) goes under the Atlanta Financial Center. http://www.southeastroads.com/georgia200/ga-400_toll_nb_exit...
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by paul_f 13y ago
When you don't want to do something, any excuse will do. You chose not to apply. No one else forced you to walk away from the opportunity.
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by paul_f 13y ago
I agree. If a company is not actually delivering value to your customer segment, then they're not a competitor. Just another wannabe and irrelevant IMO.
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by paul_f 13y ago
I am proud that the technology industry, of which I am a part, has created Bill Gates, a living saint.
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by paul_f 13y ago
What warming? There hasn't been any for 10 years.
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by paul_f 13y ago
The problem with working at home is not that you never leave home. The problem is that you never leave the office. Work will consume you, and take over your life. Take it from someone who knows.
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by paul_f 13y ago
"homeless people deserve our sympathy and help" San Francisco is the most sympathetic and helpful city on the planet for homeless people. Yet also seems to have more of them than any city I have ever been too. I wonder why? Actual
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by paul_f 13y ago
Boxed looks interesting, but why do I have to use an iPad with it? They don't offer the option to access their service with a browser. I don't think I like that.
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by paul_f 13y ago
Nice story, but it has nothing to do with the topic. Amazon Pantry is for dog food, not electronics. I don't think the same amount of extensive curation is needed for most of those products.
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by paul_f 13y ago
So many confuse mean with median. It's why lotteries work. The mean return might be positive. But the median is always $0.
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by paul_f 13y ago
That's easy, no.

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