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by sonofblah 8y ago
Do people in general understand how incredibly rotten, rigged, and broken everything is? Imagine buying your dream house (a figurative one only coincidentally related to the article), turning the doorknob and it comes off in your hand. You
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Tell the neighbors.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
My onanism? I'd pay out just for the vocabulary...
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Cross-generation, too--it will take a long time to know. (Usage isn't new, but it will increase.)
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by sonofblah 8y ago
"However, the 2017 survey showed a decline in households reporting concerns and avoiding certain online activities compared with the 2015 survey, which first asked these questions. The proportion of online households reporting privacy
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Don't drive, you'll die on the road.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Smart plan, and works on many levels--both product and service industries included (in terms of creating demand), but of course cultural and diplomatic ones as well, with network effects.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
I think sheer practice can help here--when I haven't interviewed for a while, I'm rusty at telling "my story," but once back in the process, it begins to flow again. (rusty flow?)
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Interesting. More stories!
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by sonofblah 8y ago
It's an unpopular notion in these times, but it might even be said that this arises from a deep-seated awareness that one is separated from one's true source or even (gasp) "God."
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Healthcare is an abomination. If the will existed, the situation could be radically different, but it never seems to change. "Obamacare" was just another (effective) tax increase in disguise, like adding the fees for a new thing,
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Is this criterion keeping you from using the framework right now?
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by sonofblah 8y ago
I'm stuck inheriting other people's messes (when I far prefer making my own).
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by sonofblah 8y ago
No.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
>If you think getting minimum wage for doing retail work in an 80deg store is a particularly bad deal then you're probably living in a little bit of a bubble. Is this a joke?
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by sonofblah 8y ago
1) It's encrypted, but most of everything has a vulnerability somewhere 2) This is a great question, of the kind more people should regularly be asking 3) Don't stop!
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Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by sonofblah 8y ago|0 comments
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Wish there were a viable alternative to the duopoly--for now, Apple remains the lesser evil.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
It makes you laugh, it makes you think, and then the thing...with the function? Frinky's not loading so good right now, HN.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Too much "we" and "our" in these things. The author may speak only for himself (or herself). The people who "choose" to spend time alone, do so because they have that choice available to them--it's a kind
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by sonofblah 8y ago
What's the significance of Poland in the output? A tracking thing? I noticed problems with Reddit earlier, too.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
JokeBot 2000 writez all.
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Three of California’s Biggest Fires Ever Are Burning Right Now(nytimes.com)
1 points by sonofblah 8y ago|0 comments
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by sonofblah 8y ago
This article (and HN discussion, if you can find the post) may have some food for thought: https://medium.com/@jsonpify/you-dont-need-standup-9a7478251...
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by sonofblah 8y ago
Wish Apple would give us a physical cover. Work MacBook has monitoring software on it that seems to have a number of different capabilities, the usual driver disablement commands also don't work (even sudo'd), and the input slider
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by sonofblah 8y ago
(Booted from the front page already?)
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by sonofblah 8y ago
This article is irresponsibly written, because the two-year term is buried in its middle. The headline reads "will pay consultant $176,800," which will be parsed as "per year" by, what, 99.9% of readers? The first senten
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by sonofblah 8y ago
I don't believe the notions of 'marketing' or 'smart business move' played heavily into the design and development of Go.
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by sonofblah 8y ago
"At 88 Japan scores as one of the most Long Term Orientation oriented societies. Japanese see their life as a very short moment in a long history of mankind."
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by sonofblah 8y ago
None on Amazon appear to have overall high ratings. There's probably opportunity in the space for someone who can create an effective, reasonably-priced model.

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