serge2k

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by serge2k 10y ago
> new college grads willing to work for peanuts are very attractive. Peanuts being a ways north of 100k a year at the bigger companies. > advanced degree really is worth a lot more money, and not just in the long run. Are we talking P
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by serge2k 10y ago
> I fit in so well, in fact, that almost all of my new connections on LinkedIn are these same 18-30 y/o. Yeah, almost all of my connections are people I worked with too. ;) I wonder if it makes any difference being > ~40 years ol
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by serge2k 10y ago
and people born in the 70s aren't millenials. Really, the oldest are mid 30s, and I think even that is a stretch.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> And the south isn't bigoted in the ways many people assume Is it "assuming" when you base your opinion on things said by federal courts?
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by serge2k 10y ago
Those are pseudo-hotels and hurt people who actually want a place to live.
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by serge2k 10y ago
They wanted to do it, Comedy Central refused. IIRC they chose not to really fight because the whole "we might literally get bombed or shot at for this" was a pretty solid argument at the time.
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by serge2k 10y ago
You mean barely 80 years old right?
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by serge2k 10y ago
For proof see a great many HN threads about Tesla. Or /r/technology, which I removed from my subscriptions because it was becoming all tesla all the time.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> The i8 is pretty though... It is, and it's not a car you buy for practicality.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> That car is ugly, awkward and poorly conceived It's a cheap family sedan. It's the car you buy because you need a second car so the other parent can get around all day. This car is targeted at people who buy Volt's, Coro
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by serge2k 10y ago
Without reading the article, I'm gonna go with "100+ years of experience designing and building cars".
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by serge2k 10y ago
Blocking ads so you can show your own is pretty evil though.
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by serge2k 10y ago
They didn't give a kid to the US, he got taken from Afghanistan by the US after his shitty parents sent him away from Canada. I do agree he was a victim of a horrible family and that Canada should have protected him from the worse thin
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by serge2k 10y ago
No. You will be drafted to work at Tim Hortons because so many of our fellow Canadians are obsessed with that shitty donut shop.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Sounds reasonable.
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by serge2k 10y ago
This person isn't a Canadian citizen, he's a permanent resident and a citizen of Iran. Makes a big difference.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> You may be surprised to hear that a US or Canadian user is worth $13.54 each quarter to Facebook, 4 dollars a month.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> it helps keep the economy churning Do we need so much of it? Can we just cut out about 99.99% of advertising? Can I see 1-2 ads per day instead of being bombarded constantly?
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by serge2k 10y ago
North americans are worth over 4 dollars a month according to that.
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by serge2k 10y ago
You bought a phone with an OS developed by (and using services provided by) an Ad company. What did you expect.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> (Oracle, Microsoft, ...) who force Java and JS on everybody. Why call out Microsoft? They aren't forcing Java or JS. They came up with C# and Typescript instead. I can't speak to Typescript, but C# is way more fun to write th
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by serge2k 10y ago
I probably saw die hard and other movies like that in middle school. I remember seeing saving private ryan around that time too. The only movie that ever really bothered me for violence was the passion of the christ.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> but very possibly could decide to have sex. This is the idiotic prudishness that people are talking about. Teenagers aren't going to have sex because a movie has boobs in it. They are going to have sex because they want to have se
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by serge2k 10y ago
> You can show Braveheart or a video of a street mugging to a bunch of 8-10 year old kids at school but you can't show them a movie where (god forbid) a pair of tits appears on screen. Braveheart is rated R. We did get to see scenes
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by serge2k 10y ago
A beheading in a movie isn't a real beheading. I would venture a guess that most people would be upset if an ISIS beheading video was shown to their children.
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by serge2k 10y ago
I don't give a shit. You're a piece of human garbage if you discriminate based on skin colour, and you shouldn't be allowed to do it while having your own little hotel in your house. Getting a roommate is different. You can s
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Hacker News for news with uncensored commentary Except not really. Rules and moderation are censorship. Why would you not recommend whatsapp or another encrypted system?
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by serge2k 10y ago
Failure rate is unknown. Consequences of failure are nasty, up to and including death.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> super-evil gang > giving money to his family or whatever I don't think you understand super evil. Really though, the piles of bodies would probably get you caught at that point. Insulating yourself like that is how leaders prot
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by serge2k 10y ago
That's fine. I am assuming all these employees were paid good market salaries as well right?

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