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by rdouble 13y ago
You can't legislate social cohesion. Singapore does. I don't know enough about Singapore to know how well that is working out, though.
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by rdouble 13y ago
My uncle does supply chain for a major american cosmetics manufacturer, and it's pretty lean. There's few stockpiles, AFAIK.
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by rdouble 13y ago
They couldn't do that because it would break with the valley's tradition of engineer salary price-fixing.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Yahoo basically IS a long history of crap acquisitions.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Then they came for the basement dwelling nerd, validating his entire existence.
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by rdouble 13y ago
you make 130k, you have a whole team working under you, and you are 21 years old, and you have trouble getting laid. That is the description of the entire SF tech industry.
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by rdouble 13y ago
You probably don't need to worry too much about the risks. It's almost certain nobody will eat it for longer than about a week.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Supplement companies get sued all the time.
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by rdouble 13y ago
A CS program would not necessarily teach that. Some schools which use Java as an intro language might have one lecture on exceptions. Otherwise it might be covered in a "Software Engineering" elective.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I think you are right that we are at the high point of the current tech boom. The emergence of dozens of pay-to-play "coding boot camps" is a good signal of this. Milk it for a while, save money, and then go back to school.
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by rdouble 13y ago
This is a great app. What you need to do is market it to skateboarders.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Except the Atlantic Wire article states that both the FBI and the JTTF denied visiting the house. FBI spokesperson Peter Donald confirmed The Guardian's report that the FBI was not involved in the visit itself. Asked if the FBI was in
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by rdouble 13y ago
I agree that a Brompton is a better choice. It folds up to about the same size as this uni-wheel thing. However, they are pretty expensive. Mine was pretty close to $1800. I think the cheapest one (1 speed, no lighting system) is $1000.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Singapore is a major point of failure in banking, oil and cargo.
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by rdouble 13y ago
I don't know if that's necessarily true. The downtown of the small city where I grew up was destroyed by a simultaneous flood and fire and most of the downtown businesses simply disappeared forever. Many small businesses are in ec
46.
by rdouble 13y ago
I've seen other figures that suggest that about 80K people lost their jobs immediately. I guess I'm not convinced that the rest of the job losses were due to economic pessimism and fear in the financial markets. I was assuming it
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by rdouble 13y ago
Well to be honest, I don't know what to say to you, either.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In New York City, there were approximately 430,000 jobs were lost and $2.8 billion in lost wages over the three months following the 9/11 attacks That's just the number on wikipedia. 430,000 people lost their jobs in the 3 month
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by rdouble 13y ago
Sure, but I'm saying a single event caused this. You're talking about the sum total of all auto accidents over 12 years. Even 12 years of auto accidents don't add up to one major terrorism event. I'm not saying I agree w
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by rdouble 13y ago
The figures I gave were the direct damages, from wikipedia.
51.
by rdouble 13y ago
The numbers I gave were the cost of damage alone, not the response.
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by rdouble 13y ago
If you're going to do a quantitative analysis of the effects of terrorism you'd need to analyze effects other than deaths. 9/11 caused the loss of 430,000 jobs, $40B in insurance payouts, damage to lower Manhattan that still
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by rdouble 13y ago
If you never intend to pay your taxes the government can garnish your wages. The individual state governments are far more vigilant about this than the federal government, however. California will dip into your Wells Fargo account almost im
54.
by rdouble 13y ago
You don't need a passport to leave the USA.
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by rdouble 13y ago
What happens when you don't pay your taxes is that a couple years later you get mail that says please pay your taxes.
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by rdouble 13y ago
If anything it's the opposite. NYC has way more freelancers because that is typically how it's been done in agency work.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's too bad you got downvoted. Your first question was pretty good.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Right now, everyone's hiring pretty young white people as drivers The Uber drivers I've had were old Russian men, and a middle aged Chinese guy.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Getting a postdoc at Stanford has the same probability as playing in the NBA. Only you get paid $60K instead of $60M.
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by rdouble 13y ago
$125M means they have 1/4 the SF Taxi market revenue.

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