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by princeb 9y ago
> people should be treated as individuals thankfully, google hires individuals as individuals, and google employees are exceptional and meet the requirements of the job they are hired for, in spite of the average of their community, and
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by princeb 9y ago
the economics of bundling is fairly straightforward. you pay $80 a month for let's say 100 channels. most people think they are paying $0.80 per channel. the cable providers know you don't want around 90 of those channels, but the
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by princeb 9y ago
well, if the women google are hiring are not underqualified, then there is no issue and there's nothing wrong with google's diversity programs.
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by princeb 9y ago
putting 250mi range on a european car just feels like premature optimization. my thinking is that bmw is going to sell electric cars with a diff spec in the US, same way bmw doesn't sell 1.5L 3 series there. that said, given China&#x27
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> me short selling ... are among technological "improvements" that's why, to protect the pensions and savings of its citizens from a catastrophic collapse in equity markets a couple of years ago, the chinese government dec
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by princeb 9y ago
just need to make another 25 million or so teslas in that timeframe to get to half the volume of VW.
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by princeb 9y ago
the family feature is absolutely killer. equivalent office 2007 for 5 family members is like $750? That's 10 years of 365, with no feature update (if you like that sort of thing) and no onedrive.
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by princeb 9y ago
this is a fairly interesting question for you to ask. i put it to you to think about how you can write a scrabble solver, if you're given the official word list. I don't think it's that much of a step up from a sudoku solver!
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snipping tool. that allows you to screenshot, draw, highlight, email, copy to clipboard, and you can snip a snip to crop.
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One moment he says he asks a candidate to program something he could never have foreseen, another moment he says the candidate should have been planning for it. What. There is one rule I try to go back to, especially when work starts to pil
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by princeb 9y ago
I guess we could, if the nobel foundation didn't keep giving out the economics prizes at the same award ceremony and put the economics prizes on the same website as all the other prizes.
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Batchington Crunnerton sounds like you found an actor
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http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html "So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn't That Special?"
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/justice-naps-man...
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by princeb 9y ago
even if you can't modify or cancel a bid people will still compete on speed and submit their one (and only) order as close to the auction time as possible. i have no idea what he's trying to come up with. there's no need to b
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by princeb 9y ago
is this a rhetorical question meant to show that blockchain is not the appropriate tool for financial clearing?
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that makes no sense. both borrowers and savers have to live, they both get hit by the cost of living. savers don't get to avoid eating and paying for healthcare just because they don't borrow.
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inflation benefits borrowers. should all families who borrowed for a house be forced to pay those who chose to save?
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by princeb 9y ago
facebook and wikipedia cannot protest net neutrality; they are working to get (a version of) their websites zero-rated.
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by princeb 9y ago
re the underlying jab at post-modernism, post-modernism has gone beyond using aestheticism as a way of evoking emotions and simply gone ahead to evoke emotions directly (starting with expressionist art evolving out of impressionist art). th
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by princeb 9y ago
I injured my lower back on squats. it just takes one moment of being tired, losing concentration, forgetting the form, failing to maintain stiffness and strength in the core, forcing a rep out of a bad position, not getting enough rest and
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by princeb 9y ago
the writing actually runs pretty straight. the sentence structures employed are simple and the choice of words are idiomatic in contemporary English. i wouldn't consider it long or convoluted. if you want to see what convoluted America
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do you trust them in your macbooks and ipads and iphones?
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capital goes where labour goes, and labour goes where capital goes. it's easy to forget that capital is not simply money but everything else that is not labour - buildings, facilities, machines, computers, etc. this is not a central pl
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Do the changes need to trickle down to the dying towns? They are forgotten because they no longer have much value to people outside the towns. The town itself exists as a conduit through which people channel their energies together to bring
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by princeb 9y ago
> creation of new financial instruments creation of old financial instruments is also fine by me: working capital loans, bridging loans, factoring, repos, commercial paper, bills of lading, letters of credit, etc.... you know, the stuff
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the nutella jar is rather iconic. it's like the contour bottle or the happy meal box. there are probably efficiency reasons to change it, but i don't know if they will.
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i wonder if it's something like people saying "I support net neutrality", but then will be attracted to a plan that promises "free spotify" or "free netflix". that's probably irrelevant anyway. most p
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> more people trading the same strategy, the less effective it becomes you should pick a more scalable strategy, the kind of strategy that becomes more profitable the more you talk your own book.
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by princeb 9y ago
yeah, if you've never ever had to couchsurf, you will never figure out the appeal of airbnb. I've used airbnb once - to rent a serviced apartment for several months. i'd never use airbnb to rent a room.

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