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by pitt1980 12y ago
"today that line would say "a place for people to spend money and trudge through queues to experience self-contained stories with no room for imagination or learning." " people see what they want to see I always find Dis
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by pitt1980 13y ago
That's really soft pedaling the headline here, four of the biggest Silicon Valley companies were colluding to suppress wages, this should be one of the top stories on the board
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by pitt1980 13y ago
fair enough, best of luck with your startup, that's an impressive undertaking at any age as far as I'm concerned
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by pitt1980 13y ago
I don't want to make this personal everyone is diffent, there are people all over all sorts of these spectrums also I too have experienced annoyance at marketing targeted at a population I'm not a member of that said, if you simpl
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by pitt1980 13y ago
I see this reply all the time I feel like there is undue offense being taken here I'm not sure that older entrepreneurs are fertile ground for accelerators not because older enterpreneurs are worse than young enterprenuers (the opposit
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by pitt1980 13y ago
serious question - what is the value of stringent entrance requirements so far has it applies to your personal network? is it so that you don't have to spend resources maintaining a network with those that don't meet them? for wha
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by pitt1980 13y ago
you know what, if you're going to downvote something (especially something on point), make a reply and state your point of contention that's how real discussions are supposed to happen
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by pitt1980 13y ago
there many many professional and hobbyist clubs where you can meet like mind individuals that won't require you to spend the 10+ years in debt similarly there are many many social organizations you can meet young people to date, there
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by pitt1980 13y ago
counselor is probably responding to his feedback points if he told kids not to go to college he'd probably hear from angry parents and school administrator I imagine he's never heard from an angry ex student who he told to go to c
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by pitt1980 13y ago
problem is you're being charged for those relationships, in most cases at a relatively exorbant rate its not obvious what the replacement value of those relationships are but you can probably meet and matain relationships with people w
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by pitt1980 13y ago
I find it interesting that open offices are too distracting what would be the reaction if the internet was cut off because that was too distracting?
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by pitt1980 13y ago
that squares with my experience as well the question though is who needs does it make sense for the business to cater to? also, from my experience, sometimes getting good answers to those early questions makes young workers exponential more
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by pitt1980 13y ago
yeah, taking into consideration this objection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7414927 seems like that might be the neatest solution
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by pitt1980 13y ago
also a fair point, I appreciate your serious consideration a link from the home page might drive considerable eyeballs
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by pitt1980 13y ago
Think of the eyeballs Google could add to the project by making it the doodle though
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by pitt1980 13y ago
Finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is a problem google could solve by crowdsourcing the search on the google doodle They could use an algorithm to generate different satellite images through the possible search images as the google doodle
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by pitt1980 13y ago
That's a fair point I haven't worked out what the right counter to it is in my head, google could solve this case though
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Ask HN: Help use Google Doodle to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
10 points by pitt1980 13y ago|9 comments
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by pitt1980 13y ago
people have a long history of taking offense when you don't address them as they prefer to be addressed from Mohammed Ali and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, not wanting to be referred to by their given names to all sorts of doctors and professor
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by pitt1980 13y ago
you know what? this is actually something that we should contact our elected officials on what has to happen here? someone at the State Department has to sign off on it? that sounds like the sort of thing the right congressman or senator m
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Basketball, Football, and Hockey Are All the Same Game(slate.com)
5 points by pitt1980 13y ago|1 comments
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by pitt1980 13y ago
I think your connitation might be getting lost in translation not sure if "don't waste your time" is an american idiom or not it comes off as "don't bother" which I don't think is what you're trying t
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by pitt1980 13y ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... there is an account of an NSA employee thinking through the morality of his work
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by pitt1980 13y ago
agreed the other thing, I think alot of these things gloss over what really constitutes 'winning', with the divorce rate being what it is, simply having a wedding ceremony is a crappy accounting of victory
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by pitt1980 13y ago
there is no guarentee that whatever replacement level work any paticular driver will do will be better than their current situation so how are they better off?
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by pitt1980 13y ago
you want to explain why its better for train drivers to be out of a job? creative destruction might be better for the system as a whole, that's different than saying there aren't winners and losers, only winners the further we go
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by pitt1980 13y ago
full length unedited pitches might make for interesting DVD extra material
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by pitt1980 13y ago
that seems to jive well with the article about not talking to your kid in directives: "In low-income households, parents commonly speak to their children in simple commands, and participant Aneisha Newell said the week on directives wa
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MITx introduces "XSeries" course sequence certificates on edX(edx.org)
2 points by pitt1980 13y ago|0 comments
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Romney campaign got its IT from Best Buy, Staples, and friends (2012)(arstechnica.com)
11 points by pitt1980 13y ago|3 comments

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