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by pirate787 5y ago
This item is on the front page on the US holiday of Memorial Day, when we remember those who died so others could be free. That count, of course, includes 36,516 Americans who died fighting in the Korean Conflict.
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by pirate787 5y ago
There are 3 or 4 non-tech or semi-tech people around every dev in most operations. It is easy to make the case that the devs are worth at least 5x and great ones worth 10x
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by pirate787 5y ago
China, which intervened in the Korean War at the moment of North Korea's complete military collapse, has not been held to account for the horrific North Korean regime it saved and still protects. China doesn't want a unified Kore
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by pirate787 5y ago
As a native English-speaker in the US, the name seems problematic. "Kiter" is not a word and feels closer to a profanity rather than a reference to a kite. Further a "kite" doesn't have an aspirational metaphor in
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by pirate787 6y ago
That 40%/$400 thing is fake news. https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4...
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by pirate787 6y ago
Higher rates are the solution, not the danger. The danger is the economic waste from artificially lowering rates, causing bubbles and massive misallocation of resources.
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by pirate787 6y ago
I am familiar with this trap. Self-taught programmers from the first wave of the web are now middle-aged and are competing for jobs with younger programmers who have STEM degrees. This situation is especially complicated by a period of ti
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by pirate787 6y ago
It is about the "tragedy of the commons", not any specific feature of industrial fishing. Indeed, where industrial fishing has assigned property rights, like with fish farming, there are no issues with systemic collapse.
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by pirate787 6y ago
I didn't take VC and my company was chronically underfunded and died a long, slow, painful death to VC backed competitors. I'd take VC if I did it over again-- the focus and faster cycle would have made a difference, even if I fa
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by pirate787 6y ago
They are political monopolies, not geographic. Congress created a telephony and cable video regulatory regime based on monopolies to subsidize the buildout of those technologies. Congress has only halfheartedly moved away from this system
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by pirate787 6y ago
Cognito is a nightmare and many things are broken. I lost 3 weeks in Feb. on a project trying to get it to work and just integrated Auth0 in 2 days.
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by pirate787 6y ago
Yeah entering middle age with white hair adds ten years of age.
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by pirate787 6y ago
Actually HFCS are entirely a product of the US Sugar program, which among other things restricts importation of sugar to drive up the price of domestic sugar. In the 1980s this made HFCS from milling corn into a cheaper liquid substitute fo