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by rr888 4y ago
> I wouldn't claim that NYC is a "dirty city". NYC is a filthy city. I think most people that live here and love it would agree.
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by rr888 4y ago
> why would they pay more for someone from San Francisco? Because they probably want someone from the area working in the company. If they pay a flat rate globally, they only have to pay average or lower and get great people in LCOL area
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by rr888 4y ago
Someone posted Vlad the other day, its a good video of how Russian propaganda does exactly this and how other groups have picked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j6Vg7yLx54 . Its really good watch, talking about how p
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by rr888 4y ago
I'm mixed on this because it seems people trusted the media too much in the old days, seems naive. But now clearly there are lots of people/governments that are trying to reduce peoples believe in all institutions, including media
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by rr888 4y ago
A problem is everyone now goes to the big teams, theme parks, national parts etc, the second tier is unloved. Our local baseball team closed down because no one turned up, where everyone follows MLB. Similarly Yellowstone is overcrowded but
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by rr888 4y ago
There is definitely a problem with people living longer and bulge of baby boomers. There are alternatives to fund this such as raising taxes or debt, but yes likely people will have to work longer if they keep living longer.
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by rr888 4y ago
> The biggest problem is the rich have created a system in which people's future (retirement) is basically linked to "the market" growing over their lifetime. Not really, half retired Americans live off Social Security alo
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by rr888 4y ago
80 hour work weeks and an average 18 month before employees quit or get fired.
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by rr888 4y ago
I notice nearly everyone posts links to their blog. If you write a blog and want people to look at it, do you really have to do this as much as possible?
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by rr888 4y ago
Anyone have a video of a solar panel being pulled into pieces? I'm not sure if its straight forward or everything is bonded together.
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by rr888 4y ago
Fewer people than 100 years ago, compare that to Bay Area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna#Demographics
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by rr888 4y ago
I'm not sure why you think Tokyo works, it wasn't long ago that it was multiple times the price of NYC. It might be affordable now but only because of a economic slump and Japan's falling population.
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California went big on rooftop solar. It created an environmental danger(latimes.com)
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by rr888 4y ago
While I prefer boring politicians, Trump made for some spectacular news headlines. I guess we're getting back to normal.
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by rr888 4y ago
I shouldn't have said dead end, its been a great camera but the truth is I bought the Panasonic 18-35 zoom which has gone a bit soft I must have damaged it. I have a few nice primes but figure its a good time to change platforms. My us
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by rr888 4y ago
ugh its a potential death spiral. I bought an Olympus and expected to keep the 4/3rds lenses for decades. Now its mostly a dead end, I have to choose another and start from scratch now. I’d actually like to go Nikon but don’t want to g
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by rr888 4y ago
Yeah this was one of the whistleblower topics. Columbia has highest number of transfers http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...
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by rr888 4y ago
Which is a dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057277 (5 hours ago: 60 points, 131 comments)
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by rr888 4y ago
Ivy league is kinda obsolete now, esp with places like Stanford, Duke, John Hopkins better known than Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell.
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by rr888 4y ago
This isn't about the Euro. Yen is at a 20 year low as well, and pretty much all other currencies are soft too. Its dollar strength, interest rates in USD are much higher and going up (for now).
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by rr888 4y ago
> London taxis also have a good rep Yes black cabs are great, but the cost is so high most people take mini-cabs which aren't.
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by rr888 4y ago
There is no exchange, no central price. If you see a price on TV or somewhere its what a given bank or instution quotes, or maybe a blend of quotes. This is probably true of everything now, if you buy Apple stock you probably aren't tr
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by rr888 4y ago
A foreign exchange is an exchange, ie there are two sides. Each starts with one thing and ends up with another. In your example American Bank A starts with $100 and ends up with £84, British Bank (or an intermediary) has to have someone who
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by rr888 4y ago
There is no central exchange for FX so no "official spot price". I'm not clear what time is used to set the FX rate when you swipe a credit card. If you use a credit card it'll depend on the bank, and different banks wil
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by rr888 4y ago
Like the link says it was at parity 20 years ago as well (85c even), so this isn't really a seismic shift.
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by rr888 4y ago
In other news, we've found that athletes often have parents that are athletes, and musicians often come from muscial families.
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by rr888 4y ago
My father was a professor, so saw a lot of University people and politics. I just dont understand how anyone can talk about Academia as "elite". They are mostly a bunch of poorly paid, navel gazing bureaucrats who do a little inte
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by rr888 4y ago
> Adam Sandler stars in dopey comedies With the hottest actresses, you can definitely notice he does casting.
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by rr888 4y ago
Nice. I tried to think which of Everest or Chimborazo has the thinnest air. I'm guessing the atmosphere bulges at the equator too so it'd be Everest?
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by rr888 4y ago
Are there stats on PC vs mobile for HN? I expect its much higher than most other social media and this format is great on a proper screen.

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