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by starkfist 16y ago
An extra 20 bucks an hour is $120K instead of $80K, which is kind of a big deal. The last line of the article is actually: "Even if the new study is right on the ball, it’s only an extra twenty bucks a week."
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by starkfist 16y ago
The only person I've ever heard use the word "niggle" to describe an african american baby was an african american adult. In fact the "n bomb" itself is now mostly used by black people, with guidos and rednecks following far behind.
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by starkfist 16y ago
No.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Any programmer worth hiring has time to put together 200-500 lines of example code.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't need a job, but if someone knows of a job where I can work from outside of Melbourne, Australia 3 months of the year, and the rest of the year in the USA, please post your hints here...
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by starkfist 16y ago
Jim Clark got them the investment from Sequoia. Google would have bought them, but the reason they bought them for a billion dollars instead of a hundred million is because of the intertwined social aspect of all the people at Google and S
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by starkfist 16y ago
The class privilege in hackerland is when Youtube gets bought for a billion dollars because one of the founders is getting married to the daughter of SV royalty, not that your parents could afford a $600 computer in 1985.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I smoked 1 pack a day for about 6 years. I used the Alan Carr book and just quit one day. For me, the most important part of the book was being informed that I didn't just have a bad habit, I was a drug addict. I don't like the idea of bein
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by starkfist 16y ago
In my experience, non-white vs. non-white racism is the most popular form of racism in the world today. It's long been uncouth for whites to hate blacks, but it's ok for blacks to hate mexicans, or chinese to hate koreans, or koreans to hat
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by starkfist 16y ago
After re-reading the article I wonder if it is really coherent to have a category called "elite schools" to which one can apply these blanket observations. I think you are right, an agriculturally inclined student probably would not feel li
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't believe America's "elite" really ever had any "respect" for poor whites, per se. My family has a Scandinavian background and I went to a college which emphasized this cultural history, so we had to take a history classes about thing
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by starkfist 16y ago
I'm not sure they do anymore, but elite colleges and elite prep schools used to have a hillbilly quota. In this sense they are biased against poor whites, and they know it, so they provide(d) an "affirmative action" program for some of them
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by starkfist 16y ago
I would guess that people just don't call the cops as much in bayview/Hunter's Point.
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by starkfist 16y ago
The issue I always run into with the self check out machines, is that they frequently don't work right, so they require an attendant, anyway.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I dunno. Crystal meth tweakers seem to do a lot of anti-social shit they probably wouldn't do if they weren't high on meth.
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by starkfist 16y ago
"I think the OP's sister has taken a really unusual route." Maybe that's true, but for positions like the one she's in, the educational background tends towards the humanities, not towards STEM degrees. Also, I always assumed that English P
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by starkfist 16y ago
Maybe you don't see them because the Android's battery is dead, so the phone is still in their pocket.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I would like to have a new button that bans the user for life if they start a meta discussion about downvoting. It would be cool if this button somehow incorporated the unix "banner" command and piped the phrase "you suck" to the user's ins
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by starkfist 16y ago
What are you going on about? If someone's choice is to sell soda to nerds on their lunch break or be unemployed, what are they gambling? Or do you mean the soda lady should have been more realistic and taken a job in the salt mines, because
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by starkfist 16y ago
What else is it, then?
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by starkfist 16y ago
A bit pedantic, but: the cartoonist didn't really write anything, he just illustrated text Neil Postman wrote in "Amusing Ourselves to Death."
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by starkfist 16y ago
Does it really take this long to get a "Master's in Humanities?" It only takes 3 years to get a law degree. FWIW, my sister has what effectively has a "master's in humanities." It took her 18 months and she makes 6 figs working at some sort
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by starkfist 16y ago
I've had a lot of success relating to the employer like a frat boy. It's way easier to get hired this way than actually knowing how to do something.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Wouldn't any novel set in contemporary times be portraying the hybrid dystopia that we all currently inhabit?
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by starkfist 16y ago
Leaving NYC for somewhere that isn't one of the world's biggest urban pressure cookers is actually pretty useful for re-adjusting your perspective. My blood pressure drops about 10 points every time I'm on vacation. Don't forget that this p
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by starkfist 16y ago
At US banks, there are generally no fees at the teller that you wouldn't also pay at the ATM.
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by starkfist 16y ago
You should focus on having the coolest invitations, rather than focusing on having a lower price.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Also in NYC, Friday and Saturday nights are when restaurants are clogged with tourists, so locals try to avoid going out on those nights.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I'm no paleo advocate, but your statistics are totally wrong. Denmark is the world leader in per-capita meat consumption, followed by New Zealand and Luxembourg. The USA is number 4. Canada is in the top 10, but the UK and Mexico are not. M
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by starkfist 16y ago
Because of the latest internet addiction article, and the one about what's on the top of your mind. Too many times I've found myself thinking about hacker news discussions when I'm away from my computer. And, I've been using Hacker News too

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