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by rs999gti 9y ago
> 2. No one believes that anyone can actually code. >When did an entire industry of people get pre-judged as lying? Don’t we exist in a country where the default assumption is innocence not guilt? The coding tests and whiteboard sessi
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> A prime example is the American public's irrational fear of terrorism, which translates to pouring unfathomable amounts of tax dollars into the unending "war on terror". Meanwhile heart disease/cancer silently kills
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by rs999gti 9y ago
$700M is a pretty big scheme, what's the likelihood Elizabeth Holmes gets jail time?
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens So cam girl sites are under threat?
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by rs999gti 9y ago
But abolishing tipping would allow restaurants to pay a fair wage: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-eliminate-tipping-...
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> did the slums exist before the highways and freeways that divide them from the wealthy whites? You mean Oakland and Vallejo? Yeah that stuff has been there before the start of SV. See MC Hammer and Too Short for references to past gang
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by rs999gti 9y ago
Yes: https://www.aeroweed.info/
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by rs999gti 9y ago
I was looking for this part of the thread. I'm on Windows 10 on an i7-6600U laptop with 16GB RAM and a SSD. FF57 spiked my cpu to 100% most of the time and Netflix was really laggy. I went back to Chrome because it only uses 10-20% CPU
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> 2004 3 series that's at ~240k miles. You are not BMW's target market. https://www.consumerreports.org/bmw/bmw-reduces-free-mainten...
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> OK, but I wonder how many people keep their car for this long? BMW's? Not long, BMW has had a maintenance program called Ultimate Service. It includes all maintenance, including routine stuff like oil changes. https://w
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> I didn't understand the net neutrality dig. Price gouging is price gouging, the practice is far older than the Internet. Got to keep that net neutrality is bad narrative going.
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> I’m buying a $42K car (the 428 I’ve had my eye on), and BMW is going to nickel-and-dime me on it? A $40K car loan at 60 months is $600/month. You could have got a Honda or Toyota for half that amount with the same features but wi
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> Sincere question: what's the energy usage for e.g. USD or EUR? Using VISA transactions for fiat currency, BTC uses 5K times more energy per transaction than VISA. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article&#x2
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> Developed countries tend to have a lower fertility rate due to lifestyle choices associated with economic affluence where mortality rates are low, birth control is easily accessible and children often can become an economic drain cause
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> There is a difference between journalism and blogging. Unfortunately, it's a gap that gets wider each day. Really? Because the users on HN, Reddit, and the internet as a whole bemoaned the shut down of Gawker by Thiel, when he wen
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by rs999gti 9y ago
Map out all the requirements and tasks. Put an estimation to each. Sum up the hours. Multiply the estimate by 2.5. Even then 2.5 isn't enough of a hours multiplier. A lot of these enterprise systems have traps and tricks other develope
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by rs999gti 9y ago
>If they did, everyone would try to work in that industry because the barrier to entry is comparatively very low. To get in, yes there is no barrier to entry, just find a trade school or union to accept you for training. However, the pro
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> This is when a criminal defrauds a bank or other company by getting credit using your identifying information and then defaults. ID Theft isn't just this. Illegal aliens use ID purchased on the black market to get jobs and pass ID
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by rs999gti 9y ago
Was Clinton blocked from social media? She could have polluted Twitter and the news with sound bites that forced analysis and coverage of her, which is what Trump did. He played the media and Twitter and got free advertising. She had as muc
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> Most money offered gets to be president. But even that doesn't work. In 2016 for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton's campaign had $790M USD versus Donald Trump's $408M USD. She had double the money 'to buy the pres
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by rs999gti 9y ago
It goes back further than that, all the way back to 1940's and the meeting between FDR and the King of Saud: https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://... > They eventually came to a
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> I'm all for Amazon filling prescriptions, healthcare is hugely inefficient and any bargaining power Amazon can wrestle away from pharmaceutical companies probably won't negatively impact the consumer. I doubt RX prices will d
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by rs999gti 9y ago
State laws for initial and subsequent RX for opioids and other schedule 2 drugs are very strict - https://www.njafp.org/content/new-prescribing-law-treatment-... I doubt Amazon will want to deal with the laws surroundi
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by rs999gti 9y ago
Don't know why you're downvoted. But you're right, the First Amendment protects all speech even vile and hateful speech. If people don't like that type of speech, then just pay it no mind. It doesn't really affect y
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by rs999gti 9y ago
> What wide selection of services can the poor in the US access? Medicaid, Food Stamps, SNAP, Disability, Unemployment Benefits, Free Healthcare at any Emergency Room hospital that accepts Medicare, Food Staples (Cheese, Peanut Butter, e
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by rs999gti 9y ago
Summary of article: me, me, me, climate change.
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by rs999gti 10y ago
> Also, ban H1B outsourcing. No need to ban it. Just adjust the salary to REAL IT salaries. From the article: > The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted
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by rs999gti 10y ago
Maybe it's time to re-examine using nuclear reactors on cargo ships? https://www.flexport.com/blog/nuclear-powered-cargo-ships/
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by rs999gti 10y ago
> podiatrists Podiatrists are doctors, they just have their own medical schools AKA podiatry school - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podiatric_medical_school Podiatrists are sometimes ridiculed for not being real doc
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by rs999gti 10y ago
Also, migrants don't have mortgages, which lock down their mobility.

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