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   by plandis 9y ago

   That's fascinating. I'm curious as to why women have less debt even without as much financial assistance from parents. I'm thinking I could be because: * Women go to cheaper universities * Women get more scholarship mon
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   by plandis 9y ago

   This is the perfect thread to realize just how biased HN is against Amazon. They are literally providing shelter to homeless people and so many posts are complaining about it... Perhaps we just see a nice thing for what it is?
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   by plandis 9y ago

   I'm sorry but I have to ask: are you Chinese? This isn't a counter argument. You're argument is literally people in the geographical region of Tibet did something to another group over a thousand years ago and that justifies
4. 694.▲
   by plandis 9y ago

   functor, sum type, recursively defined. This teaching opportunity is already lost. Who are you teaching to? Someone new to programming is going to be lost by the first example.
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   by plandis 10y ago

   And in any European country that utilizes fingerprinting, etc... Did you have a point in specifically calling out the US?
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   by plandis 10y ago

   If you're not a US citizen. CBP cannot legally deny entry to the US for US citizens.
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   by plandis 10y ago

   I've been told something similar when going to Canada (I work for Amazon and we have offices in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, B.C.) Basically, I'm required to not work on anything not related to whatever the purpose of my visit is. F
8. 698.▲
   by plandis 10y ago

   I think you misunderstand the definition of a totalitarian country.
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   by plandis 10y ago

   Yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on your 8 hour wait to get through customs.
10. 700.▲
    by plandis 10y ago

    TSA are not the people who would ask you for your cellphone and laptop.
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    by plandis 10y ago

    > Is it impossible because the current system is codified in the constitution, or does it 'only' require an amendment. 1.) The constitution can be changed 2.) The thing the changes the constitution is an amendment. You're
12. 702.▲
    by plandis 10y ago

    A relatively large amount of states (by electoral votes) don't support it and have held that position (and tried to change it) prior to the election.
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    by plandis 10y ago

    Actually no. Literally all the cities listed are in states that have agreed to a compact [1] that would award all electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote. The thinking being that such a system would be easier than getting rid of th
14. 704.▲
    by plandis 10y ago

    > Any semi-decent country Feel free to replace with "No true Scotsman".
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    by plandis 10y ago

    Blaming people who didn't participate is an interesting standard. Youre assuming at everyone eligible to vote can vote.
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    by plandis 10y ago

    So you're going to not support a country with a product you like because of a president that the majority of Americans didn't want?
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    by plandis 10y ago

    I think what the person you're responding to meant to say was: "I'm disappointed the US isn't exactly like where I'm from. By US I mean the very few places I've been."
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    by plandis 10y ago

    I too wonder why IBM would not invest in rewriting their millions of lines of code in some other language
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    by plandis 10y ago

    Is it hatred toward religion or hatred towards some actions religious people take?
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    by plandis 10y ago

    This seems bad to me. Without a border-adjustment tax (or some easy, intuitive way to figure out what to tax) this just lowers the bar with the same number of loopholes as before. Companies will still use tax loopholes but now the governmen
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    by plandis 10y ago

    Seems like marketing to get people comfortable w/ Lambda and who are not going to switch to at least partially use Google Cloud?
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    by plandis 10y ago

    Yeah agreed. This react dev seems incredibly petty and even worse makes it seem like they just won't take community feedback. I've never used React (but have considered it) and this post just really turns me off from even botherin
23. 713.▲
    by plandis 10y ago

    This is a failure in obsessing over your customers. Rather than refuting a noobs comments, perhaps that is a great time to learn what exactly is painful for new people and fixing it?
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    by plandis 10y ago

    I really think you're oversimplifying the situation from the Chinese perspective.
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    by plandis 10y ago

    If you can find an ISP that supports IPv6 quite a few of them (maybe all?) support prefix delegation. A /64 isn't uncommon from ISPs in Seattle.
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    by plandis 10y ago

    http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20... Basically pick-2 allows you to make a mixture of a totally random and optimal choice in cases where you have imperfect information that is much more
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    by plandis 10y ago

    Thought people might find the pick-2 idea here [1] interesting enough to read about in other situations (such as load balancing) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147226
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    The power of two random choices(brooker.co.za)

    2 points by plandis 10y ago|1 comments
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    by plandis 10y ago

    On my team at work we require all todos to link to a tracking issue (think like JIRA, etc...) That way it's 1.) Clear what the context on the todo is 2.) It's clearly in our backlog and can be prioritized accordingly. We have some
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    by plandis 10y ago

    I'm a software engineer at Amazon and enjoy my job.