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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Almost all front-end development jobs are looking for React or Vue skills.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
No one who programs computers is going to change an organization from the inside. Company culture comes from the top.
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Entrepreneurship in Scandinavia is higher than in the US.
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> Or I can just let them look in my empty trunk. And they proceed to literally tear apart your car with a knife, or if you're really unlucky, they plant evidence there.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Anything you say after "I want a lawyer" isn't admissable in court. A smart cop would end their questioning there.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Plenty of people sell themselves into slavery to pay off debt. People choosing to do this has been an institution for millennia.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
dang, please try to read charitably into the comments you choose to moderate. The concept of Protestant work ethic in the US is centuries old and is effectively divorced from any religious associations it might have had in the 1600's.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
I agree with the vast majority of what you said. I have always valued your contributions here on HN and elsewhere on your blogs. Thank you for choosing to speak up.
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> At the same time, the housing market where I live is absolutely exploding That's because the US housing market is open to the richest people around the world who are looking for a place to store value. US property rights protect v
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There's a certain irony in the OP accusing journalists of starting with a premise and working backwards, when the OP did it themself.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Furniture, flooring and carpeting contribute towards indoor air pollution. For example, glues used in laminate flooring can release formaldehyde into the air for decades at room temperature or warmer.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
This thread is full of developers considering or actively abandoning macOS as platform. That means less options for end users like me.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
A developer who doesn't want to pay $100/year and spend countless hours going through Apple's arbitrary approval and notarization process, you mean.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Ah, so you need to pay $100/year to provide your users with security patches and bugfixes for an open source app.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
> That seems to me like the system is working exactly as intended. Not for me, the end user. Less developers releasing applications for my Mac means less options for me.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
I know an electrician who injured his back at 45 and needed to switch careers while raising two kids. Manual labor is fine until it isn't.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
I don't know many people who get saddled with $25k of brand new car debt when they turn 18. Typically, you buy a brand new car if you can afford one, and that precludes most teens. We're telling every kid in high school not born i
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
> Most probably won't be run well and die off. This is already the case with privately owned companies.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
The nasty letter and threat of a lawsuit are the threats. You have to remember that for many Americans, a lawsuit means bankruptcy and that in most states non-compete agreements are lawful.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
It's a choice, often an emotional one. One message our society sends is that power, expression and escape can be achieved through buying things. I came to a point in my life pretty early where I realized that I don't need much.
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Doesn't have to make it to court for them to strongarm you into a settlement. The threat of a lawsuit is enough for many to agree on a settlement just so it doesn't go to court, even if you'd likely win as a defendant. Lawyer
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
This is the truth. It's also why Twitter, Google et al censored radical Islamic content and worked with the government to identify extremists.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Glassdoor, Yelp etc are all games by reputation management companies and HR departments. It's also in the best interest of Glassdoor and Yelp to allow businesses to remove unsatisfactory reviews, which Yelp already does.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Could be fair use, could be a trademark violation. I don't know because I'm not a lawyer. Talk to one.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
> This is rather harrowing, don't you agree? Yep. Once the process becomes streamlined, these data-sharing companies will have their own Room 641A like we saw with AT&T and streamlined dragnet surveillance of telecommunication
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Are you telling me you have a hard time discerning between a trust fund and an educational grant or stipend?
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
> For instance, this article says the odds of dying in a car crash are approximately 10.7 per 100k. That is 10,000 in a million. There are ~30k automobile deaths in the US per year. Your figure is off by several orders of magnitude.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
Companies are vehicles for accumulated wealth and power for the ownership class. Labor, on the other hand, has very few vehicles to accumulate their wealth and power. In fact one such vehicle, the union, is often legally neutered such that
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
I wouldn't be easily fooled. Companies try as hard as they can to turn engineering talent into a commodity, and they're relatively successful. The High-Tech Employee Antitrust suit is an example of this. If you need to work for a
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
I follow hundreds of normal people who do not have public outbursts, nor do they make baseless accusations of pedophilia against people they don't like. Unfortunately, such things aren't out of character for Musk, they're par

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