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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Hacker news peeps seem to not like FB, giving an impression of a dieing service. But, look at the revenue: "Facebook reported revenue growth of nearly 32 percent in the U.S. and Canada compared to last year, bringing in $8.43 billion
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Hospitals are extremely predatory. They're the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the US, and that's not even including the extreme financial drain they cause through all those insane insurance premiums. The banks, facebook, apple,
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Set reasonable low Price ceilings on procedures/ per night stays, pills, etc, adjusted on location and make the hospital liable for any costs above those. I don't see why a night in the hospital should cost 8000$ per night or why
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
With meaningful innovation slowing down, I expect older laptops will become increasingly viable.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Finally, we see legislators doing something good for a change: "“These practices are outrageous,” says Chiu(Assembly member David Chiu) , who represents part of San Francisco in the Assembly. “No one who is going through the trauma of
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Let's not forget, Tesla is a car manufacturer with less than 10 years in existance. they're still new at this. I bet their cars are improving every year. Indeed, the article said tesla already fixed several of those problems. c
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
At least it draws attention to the matter which helps in the long run. You need awareness of the issue, for it to make it into the public debate. Right now, most voting people don't understand the evils of patent trolling.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
they shouldn't be comparing theranos to facebook or twitter. Theranos is another level of wrong-doing that far outpaces the minor inconveniences of FB and twitter.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
I don't have much sympathy for someone who earns 1.2 million a year. No matter how bad it is, all you have to do is get your spending down to an absolute minimum and save up for 2 years, then you'll have over 1 million in the ban
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Besides H1Bs, and fresh graduates (who don't have any choice), I don't understand how Amazon can still higher Software engineers. I understand that Amazon teams are diverse, but as a candidate with any other possible option, ho
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
I've always thought that it was almost impossible to be fired if you were tenured. But, after reading this article, I got the impression that a tenured position is a precarious one at best, that requires slavish devotion to politics t
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
But, we're in established markets now. People have been using FB and many other sites for many years now and those behaviors are very much ingrained in people. There are only so many hours in a day someone can be online, so to some d
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
unless you're a big wierdo who has problems that few others have. If it's too niche, it won't be able to spread by word of mouth, and it'll be hard to find others with the same problem.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
the mistake is to think that others have failed because they were not good enough. If 10 people tried before and failed, you can be darn sure that there's a good reason for those failures, and it's not lack of ability. When it c
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
The biggest problem isn't even lack of time or talent. the biggest problem is lack of opportunity. we're not in 2007 anymore. Just look at ProductHunt, where 100s or 1000s of top-notch applications and software are released eve
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
The percentage of women that likes video-games/programming is lower than the percentage of men. That's just a fact. You can try to correct that with lots of outreach and exposure but it's only going to work for some people
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
honda is having some issues with some of their newer models (too many changes leading to more faults). But, after 10 years, I bet hondas still rank really high.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
At a company I worked at they hired an young female intern in her late high school years, who made it obvious she didn't really want to be there. Our project manager made sure to tell us to "make programming seem as interesting a
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Toyotas are extremely reliably, especially in the long term. In the long term, toyotas beat anything out there even hondas.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
But, you gotta understand that's for the first 3 years only and the consumer reports is only for the first 10 years. Once you get beyond 10 years, any mechanic will tell you the European cars are absolute garbage. Especially BMW, Audi
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
The US has 2 big problems: 1. “as a result of existing union agreements covering the eastern seaboard area of the United States, underground construction employs approximately four times the number of personnel as in similar jobs in Asia, A
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
Oh, this really makes me wish I was there, that first day when they turned on the machine that says "don't power me down" and put that sign on there, at the beginning of the web, when the first browsers were being developed.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
You can get Leafs here in CA, now for under $8K, but the problem is their reduced range witch can be as low as 50 miles, making it a bit risky for commuting, since getting stuck means at least 110$ to get towed.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
I ran the numbers for here in CA. Even just comparing Gasoline pump cost vs Electric charging costs, the electrics are roughly equivalent to a car that gets 45mpg. Maintentance is of course cheaper for electrics because they don't ne
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
So, one day, a 2 year trip to mars will cost less than finding a place to rent in SF. Hey, if Space based residentials become a thing, at least they won't be subject to NIMBYs
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
He thinks all these things are attributable to his own performance, and that all he has to do is get hired by another FAANG and things will be just the same. Later, he may well be hirable but this type of advancement doesn't happen wi
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
with Amazon's reputation, i imagine it's pretty difficult for them to hire and retain talent.
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by thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
That's great if you can earn a lot of money and save up for early retirement. But, that's not what's happening here. It looks like by his own admission of "running out", that he really hasn't been saving aggr