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by pba 6y ago
I would say neither 'government' nor a 'union' are the answers in this case. In the mostly free-market based economy that we live in today (thinking of the USA and most European countries) the proper solution is to &#x27
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by pba 6y ago
Here's a compilation of some of the instances he's done so: https://streamable.com/sr9o2s
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by pba 7y ago
The market falling as a whole does not mean that every single individual investment one could have a position in during that time loses value.
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by pba 7y ago
I predicted Facebook's success years ago. I think what everybody misses, even within the tech industry is that Facebook (and now Instagram) have one very important 'killer app' for the modern world that nobody realizes. That
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by pba 7y ago
Maybe this was the whole point of the author's post.. but I'm fairly certain the reason the author's use case is not easily workable is because the OEMs mentioned are deliberately discouraging the ability to play anything tha
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by pba 8y ago
To be more clear, when I click on Hacker News items I have come to expect them to be of a somewhat more thoughtful nature; a la "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Its my personal opinion that this item is
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by pba 8y ago
This article (post?) is the 2019 version of chain mail. Weak insights, no academic substantiation. I had to stop reading at the 'words for emotions' part.. 'sonder' and the rest are not dictionary words; they were made u
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by pba 8y ago
I wouldn't think so, its "Howey" with a 'w' rather than "honey".
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by pba 9y ago
It does seem like Apple under Cook is in 'maintenance mode'- by which I mean the company is only making incremental improvements in their existing product lines without designing brand new 'wow' consumer items that take
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by pba 9y ago
The article uses some of the worst graphs I've ever seen. Wouldn't pie charts have been clearer?
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by pba 10y ago
Agreed, this code was probably written by a contractor rather than one of their mathematicians I'd imagine