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by thedevil 10y ago
I'm from Utah. I moved to Seattle, then San Francisco. When I had a kid, I moved back to Utah. One thing I noticed is that Utah is almost all middle class. Some have more money, some have less, but most of them are middle class. It&#x2
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"We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC’s rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so." He didn't say "we won't". He said "we aren&#
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> It's hard to describe how a good salesman can have you saying yes to things you aren't comfortable with. I recommend a book that describes some of these tricks pretty well. It helps protect me from such manipulation (some of
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by thedevil 10y ago
I had more of a financial background before becoming a software engineer. I was shocked when I found out "equity" given to early engineers is so puny. Why would someone work long hours for low pay with higher risk for 0.1% of hig
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by thedevil 10y ago
I've got a tie between two books: 1) Design of Everyday Things by Dan Norman This book ruined my life. I highly recommend it. Every engineer, manager and designer should read this. Maybe every human. I think of this book every time
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by thedevil 10y ago
"The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger” Take, for example, a telemarketer selling junk. May
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by thedevil 10y ago
It's hard to argue with the business sense of pushing out features quickly at the cost of code quality. But I've learned that that there are two kinds of development teams: (A) the teams that are "moving fast and breaking thi
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by thedevil 10y ago
Call me an old fart but I much prefer email. Email gives me a reminder to keep me organized. And the two teams I worked on that use slack killed productivity by chatting all day and sending animated gifs. Plus, people expect email to be asy
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by thedevil 10y ago
I see propaganda as very indicative of future conflicts, especially in countries like Russia, where the news stories are more heavily influenced by the government. I think propaganda is necessary to support a war effort (and avoid insurrect
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by thedevil 10y ago
I'm not sure why Sweden would be concerned. I read Russian news/propaganda occasionally. Over the last few years, Russian news/propaganda prepared Russian minds for interfering in Ukraine. And the propaganda includes argume
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It's not that it wasn't significant at that time. It's just that in the long-term, it looks small compared to making the value of the labor of the entire population 100x more valuable.
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While I think it's important to remember these atrocities, I think that for economic understanding it's important to note that these were not the major drivers of growth. Remember that atrocities like that happened in many places
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I have the same concern. I've heard arguments, but none that adequately address the issue. While I'm a fan of the idea of adopting basic income eventually, I don't see how we can fund it now without serious negative conseque
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by thedevil 10y ago
I agree that the system is broken. Alimony is usually an atrocity. But I advise against mentioning gender. Turning it into a gender-issue is going to make people dislike and downvote you and kill any hope for reform. It's also unfair
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by thedevil 10y ago
The funny thing is, I preferred ambitious women, especially when contemplating marriage. It seems easier to get along with someone who has a career and therefore similar goals and troubles and life-rhythm. And a wife with a career is less l
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by thedevil 10y ago
After yours and other comments, I suspect my information is just really out of date. Here's some stories I had heard back when I was in college: no cash back or other rewards on the card for students, $2/month on an unused $500 c
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by thedevil 10y ago
> I always thought their business model was giving people with starter credit (like college students) credit cards and car loans. This is what I've seen of them. They offer college students (who don't know better) really bad
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by thedevil 10y ago
Amazon's business model is based on great service to customers at a low price. Capital One's business (edit: their credit card business) is based on screwing consumers for as much money as they can legally (another edit: my impre
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by thedevil 10y ago
A weird trend became apparent to me, just now, as I started to read this article. The blog posts posted on HN are generally higher quality than the "news"/"media" posts: less sensational, more informed. I don&#x27
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by thedevil 10y ago
How freedom of speech has changed in ten years: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freedom_of_speech... From: "'Freedom of speech' is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship.
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> Will he be whiteboarded? I like the way you word it - it makes it sound like a form of torture.
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I was on the edge of donating or not donating and your comment was just the tiny push that got me to give a little money. Peer pressure works, apparently, at least sometimes.
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> The tech gains are mostly in areas which don't benefit consumers beyond fancier phones and bigger TV screens. Mobile payments, video calls, mp3s, social networks, wikipedia, google, driving directions with live traffic updates, Co
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The argument that people today live worse than people in the 80s is insane. Yes, it seems so in the real GDP numbers, but it defies the rising standards of living that surround us, showing up everywhere but the numbers. Would anyone here wa
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Wikipedia: "a shortage occurs when for some reason the price does not rise to reach equilibrium" In your example, the price is at equilibrium, even though one buyer cannot buy at market price. Thus there is no shortage. If we def
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So theoretically, without pricing controls, there's no such thing as a shortage because prices will rise until demand == supply. So the arguments that there's no shortage of STEM workers (only a shortage of below-market-price STE
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Yes. If it weren't possible to influence people's political positions, I think we wouldn't have campaigns or other political movements or organizations.
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Well, we definitely should not pander to them. I actually think most people (Trump supporters, you, me, everyone) vote mostly based on identity (liberal/conservative, religion, race, open-minded, well-mannered, etc). I think Trump sup
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How well do you think the aggressive tactics work in long-term relationships? How well do you think they work when you're in the weaker position (e.g. when your side controls neither congress nor the white house)? And more specifically
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> I didn't vote for Trump, but I do identify with some of the beliefs of those who did, and I can tell you that the rhetoric I'm hearing from many of the most vocal left is pushing the middle away. I'm in the exact same b

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