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by princeb 10y ago
yes. experience and deep familiarity with the industry a person is regulating is extremely important. finance or not.
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by princeb 10y ago
the letter to the columnist is ambiguous and did not say if the consumer knew the email was from google or from the airline or from the agent. I can only imagine the consumer could not tell the difference and simply assumed that the advice
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by princeb 10y ago
> excellent cab services > their drivers suck haha. a lot of people use uber here. I think they've got a better hold on the market than grab. if only the uber drivers will stop driving by gps because their mapping software is alw
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by princeb 10y ago
move over javascript, matlab will soon rule silicon valley! edit: this is just a tongue in cheek comment that physicists will rule silicon valley with about the same chance of success matlab will be used for enterprise dev.
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by princeb 10y ago
i think the auto is a red herring. i think what it is is that these cities have a level of lifestyle that happened to be commiserate with the revenue that they can generate, because the more expensive infrastructure- fibre, 4g, or undergrou
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by princeb 10y ago
i wonder how much the road noise is affecting me especially since I quite like the overnight hum of the roads. a highway provides a much more even white noise experience while city road noise is more grainy. the closest experience to the ci
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by princeb 10y ago
since a company is made up of people, and the performance of a company is closely tied to the ability of the management, and when you buy over the company you might be concerned about your affinity as an owner to the group of people that ma
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by princeb 10y ago
i feel like you could read the summary section and the results section in about 15 minutes.
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by princeb 10y ago
what would be the point of making preparations, if not to do it?
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by princeb 10y ago
> an appreciating asset cities are quite resilient. i feel that apartments are more likely to get more expensive since the desirability of dense cities like nyc, london, tokyo, hongkong never seem to wane. but the suburbs and the rural a
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by princeb 10y ago
> Y'all are blind as bats i don't remember tarkin from the first film, i didn't know he was CGI'd, and I didn't notice anything while i was watching the show. i thought he was just another campy actor acting in t
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by princeb 10y ago
> It’s the usual way of destroying jobs. unfortunately, if a company is trading below BV it means it's expected to destroy jobs on its own. better to put it out of its misery quickly than to allow it to run itself to the ground.
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by princeb 10y ago
makes me wonder how many business opportunities we are missing out. we could possibly be making billions selling illiterates a usb-pluggable physical button that opens a browser window to gmail.
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by princeb 10y ago
it is my perception that McDonald's has been struggling because it can't decide what kind of menu it wants. It's not healthy enough to be healthy, and it's not unhealthy enough to be delicious. The patties are dry and fl
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by princeb 10y ago
Yiwu? The location in the article is Dafen. The OP must have confused this city for another one mentioned in an earlier HN post. nevertheless, fascinating article. I saw these guys on reddit a while back and the way they described the city
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by princeb 10y ago
wonder if one way is to get your CMS to insert a big bolded line "this blog post was made possible by So-And-So Company" into the beginning of each post content? just add a db hook or stored procedure or something. If you're
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by princeb 10y ago
i think would be very cool if there was an app that would do the reverse and enable the have-nots to have what the haves have, even for a short period of time: - private heli trip to a private island villa, - 300' yachts, aventadors, 4
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by princeb 10y ago
> combat bigotry and nationalism than to experience life the same way as humans from the other side of the planet it's hard to do as a tourist because the whole point of travelling is to momentarily disconnect from the existential d
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by princeb 10y ago
interesting. the whole case is a heat sink directly applied to the cpu. although, 100W cooling does nothing for the r9 390 which is something like 275W TDP. i have a veritable wind tunnel below my table, blowing really hot air up my shorts.
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by princeb 10y ago
> ruthlessly capitalist racists actually, these people are not racists. the racists are the ones not hiring outside their race, even if it's cheaper. the ruthlessly capitalist is an equal opportunity discriminator.
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by princeb 10y ago
the surface (pro 3 and onwards) has an ever-so-slight delay compared to the cintiq and as i follow gabe it looks like it's something he has made his peace with. some artists just absolutely cannot get used to it and so moving off to su
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by princeb 10y ago
by the time you get to the higher-paid and higher-status job applicants, you hope that the low-level requirements of job performance - detail-orientedness and accuracy - should have already been met.
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by princeb 10y ago
MSDN C9 my bias showing here.
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by princeb 10y ago
ditto programming. lots of value differential between a "coder" and an "engineer".
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by princeb 10y ago
probably not going to change your mind, but i got a lumia 950XL which does both of that.
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by princeb 10y ago
i am no longer intrigued by the privacy discussion but the actual possibility that we are just consciousnesses controlled by the google hivemind. this is like absolutely full on plugged into the matrix world. and we're living right in
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by princeb 10y ago
you don't even have to go that small. in Singapore the typical hdb flat for a family is 2-3 br which is between 900 to 1100 sqft (but goes up to 4 brs at 1600 sqft). and on a habitable land basis it is one of the densest cities in the
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by princeb 10y ago
those money stuff articles are actually compilations of several pithy thoughts on different issues.
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by princeb 10y ago
> "To help plan the training sessions, one of Kabbaj’s colleagues e-mailed to ask about the level of the Libyans’ knowledge of derivatives. He responded: 'Baaaaaaaasic.'" bizarre. you don't really expect to have
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by princeb 10y ago
> best of breed product company focused on a great user experience somehow i put them in the same category as LG, Samsung and Sony, albeit 100x better at what they do.

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