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I wrote and posted on HN about my experience taking a home warranty company to arbitration a few months ago. My experience was the same as this lawyers and IANAL. The company settled immediately for almost all that I asked for and paid th
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Chris Matthews touches on this and other examples in Hardball. Carter is a great man, but just wasn't a very suave politician. Another example Matthews cites was getting rid of the presidential yacht. Sure it made for a few good pub
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Allen Institute for Brain Science and AI2 were never going to lose funding. Waaaayyyy too many people employed and involved with them with a fancy South Lake Union building they built. I'd love to see financials from them because the
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From someone two degrees of separation away from the situation, this really was a core issue. A lot of bickering involved from family members and outside interests on what's funded and how much. (yes, all second hand random internet r
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We've seen this before in smaller waves, or institutionally woven, in big tech. Standard operating procedure has been to hoard a bunch of cheap new grads, grind them out with your culture or small RIFs, and keep the most productive. I
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Uh, this is pretty much the case with other extra-curriculars, too. My school had a very strong and diverse performing arts program and kids often stayed late enough for parents to pick them up after work.
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Thank you for a comment that has nothing to do with the article and contributes nothing to the discussion. Go back to Reddit if you're going to do that.
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Agree on the size not being the issue. I transitioned from a data engineering manager to a data product manager at a new company. You know how much data a typical customer generates? Less than 1TB a year. I told my VP that the engineerin
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It absolutely was fraud, but people refused to believe it. He ran with it under this living wage spin and became some folk hero. But now he's a folk hero rapist.
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Surprised they didn't mention Dan Price. He should be the poster boy in all this. Some people smelled his $70k/yr bullshit a mile away, most people refused to believe it because it was a great story. Wonder where his supporters
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Re-read my first sentence. They are absolutely free to.
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The Chinese and Russians are free to shoot down an SR-71 or U2 over their airspace. Problem is that's much easier said than done. Shooting down a balloon over US airspace, or better yet, grabbing it, should be a no-brainer. It's
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Definitely true point about the Hasselblad. They make their money through legacy and brand these days. There are plenty of medium format competitors that outperform them at a far lower price.
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I have a small crush on Susan Orlean. She is a masterful storyteller who takes you by the hand and leads you in and out through side paths that end up being important to the story. Extra bonus when occasionally she writes about someone I h
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I fucking hate the "It's because of security" excuse companies default to so god damn much. Really burns my hide. 99% of the time it isn't. It's just an excuse to cover lazy or poor product management and enginee
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What was the plane doing near Diego Garcia in the first place?
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Similar story in Fall of '92. I was a freshman in college and this dude, Nikolai, down the hall in the dorm was one of two guys from Vladivostok on a program. Most of us in the hall bonded very quickly including Nikolai. One day, a
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Or mayyybeeee since credit cards come with a whole mountain of regulations that can only be offered by financial institutions, just like every other retailer that has a branded card (Walmart, Amazon, Target), they decided to partner with a
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My argument to people that ask was always that there were things I do (specifically for fast action) that a phone will never be able to do due to physics. This article is just more ammo for me - you can't trust phone manufacturers not
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> But, y'know, regardless of the environment, what does it say about your abilities that your employer didn't consider you essential? In the case of a startup, there's often not much you can do to be seen as valued if you&
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Get an SD card specifically labeled "high endurance." They're a tad bit more expensive, but do work. Corruption has always been an issue with using standard SD cards as a boot system. It's just something these cards we
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I toured three in open houses while house hunting and considered putting in offers. While they can be interesting and pretty cool, you are spot on. They really are quite space inefficient. They feel nowhere near as big as their square foot
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A live chat that isn't a live chat but instead is just a fancy interface to a FAQ or search is the worse. I always immediately bail and get a very negative impression of that company. Any company that spends money/time on such a
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Diaspora came out with a lot of bravado and hype. The founders openly targeted Facebook and its data exploitation in their messaging. It was over engineered for its time, misfired on its benefits (you can install your own instance! Still
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There was a posting just this week on a job site for a "Sr. Software Engineer, Backend Drupal" at Tesla. Putting together pieces like a leaked .gitignore file, job postings, etc. is social engineering in action.
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> Driving is rather intuitive once you gain familiarity due to being able to feel the road and the movement of the car through your hands, feet, and seat This is the key to the question. When I first got in a driver’s seat, I immediately
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For me, it was more general of how I finally learned to study. I struggled with attention and just general testing issues any time I transitioned school levels, 7th and 9th grades specifically, having a sub 3.0 GPA. 10th grade didn't
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I remember this fiasco. And then shortly after that, rumors started popping up that Apple was working on porting OSX to x86.
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Then they type "clubbing" or "cars" or "<insert city>" or whatever and see a shit ton of other instances they get to choose from. This is a *BAD THING* and it's not surprising people here on HN don&#
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> five 9s Lololol. Good lord. Tell me you don't work in product without saying you don't work in product. She gives zero fucks about Five 9's. Maybe her tech team gives like 1/8 of a fuck, but no more beyond that.

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