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by smeyer 11y ago
I know this was the case historically, but I think it stopped being the case for my carrier (ATT) a couple of years ago. I believe our plan is cheaper by not taking the phone subsidy, and sufficiently cheaper to justify paying for the phone
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I'm not the sort of person to update phones every year (I've had my current phone for almost two years and the one before that for six years), but it's often cheaper to pay the flat price when upgrading every two years than t
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by smeyer 11y ago
Absolutely! But many of Harvard's peer institutions have sticker prices just as high without the same level of financial aid. I'd say a fairer metric to use for comparison is what fraction of people have sufficiently large financi
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by smeyer 11y ago
Harvard tries to recruit these students, but obviously isn't doing a good enough job of it. As a Harvard alum, this is somewhere that I'd particularly like to see them improve in terms of undergraduate education. When a majority o
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by smeyer 11y ago
>Harvard does this to maintain its rankings not because they're operating a charity I disagree. I'm not saying that the tax exemptions are the best or justified or anything, but Harvard has consistently been one of a few leader
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by smeyer 11y ago
Yes, Harvard disproportionately has many wealthy people compared to the population at large, but it also provides free educations to large numbers of people. Last I checked, the cutoff was around 60k (meaning, if your family makes less than
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by smeyer 11y ago
There's still lots of expensive software. In many fields, the leading products are thousands of dollars a seat. There's just also now a lot of software that's a few dollars or less per user.
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by smeyer 11y ago
This isn't specific to computer or software engineering, of course. There are still Roman aqueducts in use that were engineered thousands of years ago.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I've been relying on just this site for finding jobs for a few months now Any particular reason you're not using anything other than this site?
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by smeyer 11y ago
People don't die of "nothing". When it's said that someone dies of old age, there's still some actual medical cause (although no one is demanding an autopsy to find it when an 85 year old dies peacefully in their sl
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by smeyer 11y ago
Galeos, you might be hellbanned? Your previous comments look fine, but your CUDA comment is dead. It could have just been downvoted or flagged to oblivion, but that would be surprising for what seems like a pleasant and useful recommendatio
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by smeyer 11y ago
>This comment will be at number 24 on this post I believe the HN ranking algorithm rewards recent comments, to the point where often the newest comments are at the top.
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Yeah, I agree, they obviously might end up adding a couple of extra companies depending on who applies. Especially for a first pass at something, though, it makes sense to aim smaller and grow from there. Ultimately, it's hard to know
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by smeyer 11y ago
>At your price point, performance/luxury cars seem to be your only market Is this really true? It sounded from the article like they're only about $50 more than a typical battery, unless I missed something. I could see some peo
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by smeyer 11y ago
>taking something out of order I'd say the important thing to do is to really see what is and isn't necessary. At my college, it was very common to skip prerequisites and so on. My favorite class as a sophomore was a graduate a
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by smeyer 11y ago
The assumption is that Y Combinator thinks that they're providing value through resources like mentorship, and that if they spread those resources too thin, they'll reduce the odds of producing a billion dollar company (or some si
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I'm old enough to remember the VCR then you were allow to make personal copies. There was analog copy protection on VHS as well.
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by smeyer 11y ago
I haven't seen this problem before. In my city, panhandlers tend not to be immediately next to each other (because it's worse for panhandling) and if you walk by one and give a dollar, you can still walk by the next and not give a
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by smeyer 11y ago
Filtering from 3% down to 20 individuals doesn't have to mean they really think they're getting the best 20 out of that 3%. It just means that they're not interested in growing the size of the program past that. If adding mor
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by smeyer 11y ago
Using a two finger scroll on my touchpad works fine. I'd try that or a scroll wheel on a mouse or similar.
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by smeyer 11y ago
>no professional mathematician would make such false claims Well, that's obviously incorrect, because the previous commenter did in fact make those claims and is in fact a professional mathematician. It's not like you can make
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by smeyer 11y ago
>the process of using a computer ... to do something is a physical process and therefore patentable. You have to be careful not to run afoul of Alice[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Int%2
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by smeyer 11y ago
I've used a broker without feeling like it was worth the money. My roommate and I came across our current apartment on craigslist, checked it out, decided we liked it (even with the broker's fee on top of the rent), and then signe
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by smeyer 11y ago
I live in Boston, and while I have some familiarity with rental markets in a couple of other spots in the US, I can only really speak about Boston. Here, it's much more common for the tenant to pay the broker fee than the landlord when
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by smeyer 11y ago
>I'd imagine most of US civil air defense is just sending up fighter jets. The US has developed a lot of missiles, including those used to shoot down other missiles. Do you have a reason to believe that their IADS is so dependent on
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by smeyer 11y ago
For anyone else who wasn't thinking very quickly today, these commenters are using "niche" as a euphemism for "erotic".
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by smeyer 11y ago
I'm in a few google groups that only get used for discussion style emails, where nobody actually uses the web interface. I'm also on a bunch of email lists using mailman and run through the computing society of my alma mater (as w
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by smeyer 11y ago
>and start blaming the shitty ass landlords Blaming the landlord doesn't really solve the problem. If every landlord decided to charge 50% under market rent, it would just mean that apartments would be very over-subscribed and you&#
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by smeyer 11y ago
You're right, that's the sort of thing that seems to deserve neither a patent nor any other sort of monopoly. But my question is about the many billions of dollars spent on other sorts of pharmaceutical development. Or is your arg
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by smeyer 11y ago
What about pharmaceuticals? These are a major arena of patents, where the R&D is measured in the billions of dollars per drug with massive profit margins on successful drugs and tiny profit margins on generics once the patents have expi

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