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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Illegals? You mean undocumented residents? Personally I don’t think the president has any strong points other than being a racist, misogenoist, pathological liar, and narcissist.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
How is a reddit thread considered the source of truth? I know we have daily posts about Amazon getting too large, but this is getting kind of ridiculous. The forced attrition is no surprise. I’m in Seattle and considering the thousands and
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Is there a legitimate security concern or is it that Huawei is a potential threat to companies here in the US who sell similar or same products for far more? Call me pessimistic, but anytime a government tells me something is a national sec
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I don't know if they’re a terrible publisher, and honestly I’ve never written a book. I downloaded a picture book for my son that was Amazon published. I remember this because it was free on prime day and it was one of the huge banners
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
How is it cheaper? If Amazon has to decide to promote item A instead of the next Kindle reader or some other product, there’s certainly an opportunity cost. To blanketly state it absolutely costs less is too naive and merely an assumption.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Everything you described sounds like blatant corruption or at minimum, extreme selfishness. Im not a fan of conservative politics (grew up in conservative areas), but what you describe sounds like the batshit crazy end of the other side of
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Are you feeling okay?
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Which companies with a large footprint don’t spend big on lobbying efforts? I’m sorry but why is this news? Is it particularly nefarious or even noteworthy at all? No offense to op, but this is clickbait garbage.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I was recently in SF for the first time to attend QCon. Beautiful city with a lot of character and culture IMO. I made the mistake of taking an Uber from my hotel, about 1 mile away from the convention center. Traffic is horrendously bad an
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Is this news or is it merely the daily “lets have the hive mind attack ${fill_in_tech_company_here}”? We get these posts just about every day about why some tech company is horrible. It’s not why I personally come to hacker news to get indo
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
These are good reasons, but how many projects really have such a need to scale, for example? If you have let’s say a massive developer organization, some level of abstraction so you don’t have to manage provisioning servers/hosts and i
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
How many apps require web storage? Are there sufficient requirements to implement web workers or service workers? Go back to the core design and simplify it. Keep what you need and everything else is noise. My point was people pick the new
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
There’s generally an anti Amazon post here often, especially so when Amazons stock starts trending upwards. I don’t have problems when I shop on Amazon, and their instant video collection let us cut cable. We do have a boomerang subscriptio
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I find front end development extremely boring. Just my personal opinion. So you make another web page using a new framework. So what? How is it better or more valuable than what you could have built 5 years ago? Did you discover a framework
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
My personal opinion based on what I know. Grouping these companies together as big tech and these brushing broad strokes isn’t helpful. It just seems like we’re picking the next bogeyman, sort of like how all the oil companies were grouped
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Those Chinese investors didn’t do anything illegal did they? Sounds like your beef should be with your own city or towns council or state government for allowing this to happen. The Chinese investors saw an opportunity and took advantage. W
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
May not be allowed to use cloud today but that will likely change in the near future. FWIW, I can imagine your post in my head as an argument in favor of horses over automobiles. What you’ve seen in 10 years was reality during that time. Th
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I always wondered how these places stay open. I judge them as fronts for cleaning up dirty money.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Suffering financially has a pretty wide band. If you make $100k but only save $100 or save nothing, I’d say your suffering financially. If you work minimum wage and have a spouse or even just kids to support, 20% of $20 isn’t chump change.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I signed up to the WSJ recently. Paid for it for one month and then decided I didn’t like their reporting, especially some things which I felt are dishonest or opinion pieces which were highly offensive and discriminatory points of views. A
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
The author’s thesis, to my understanding, is that because big tech isn’t trading at a huge premium that it was before, it is now dead. This is a huge stretch and clickbait garbage if I can be honest. I mostly buy index funds but do have pos
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
No side projects. The little time I have outside of work and family, I read or browse hacker news before falling asleep. I did take vacation recently and play The Witcher 3, which ruined gaming for me. I have about $200k spread thoughout so
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
All these things are cool but that’s about it. Sure you can call this innovation, but Apple raised the bar high enough where Apple Pay or Apple Maps isn’t something that would make me go out and drop $1000 on a device. HomePod isn’t a great
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I’ve held on to half my RSUs and immediately sold the second half over the past 8 years. In my situation, I already have a diversified portfolio. Keeping those RSUs falls within my risk threshold. That’s incredibly ignorant that without kno
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
He completely lost me here. >Of course, if the problem is just inequality, then that’s one case where I would say there’s all sorts of inequality, so why is that actually something that is so bad the government needs to do something abou
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I disagree. Jobs gave us iTunes, iPod, iPhone. These were revolutionary devices IMO. Sure MP3 players existed before, but the customer experience made me feel, “wow I need this!” I haven’t felt that way in a while. There’s nothing really ne
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Very well stated. I have an older iPad, which I think is a fantastic device, that I use for general browsing, managing my portfolio, and personal email. There’s no reason for me to upgrade other than maybe as a status symbol. Honestly, none
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I’m not sure what your sarcasm contributes to the discussion. I think op has a fair point. If we remove our political views, we can still see that our government and politics are extremely divided. Furthermore, wealth is accumulating into t
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
Why anyone would spend $40K plus on a vehicle baffles me, but that being said, if the article is accurate, good on Tesla for being such a rival to the other established brands against all odds.
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by throwaway98121 8y ago
I think it’s problematic. The fact it’s only censored inside Saudi Arabia means it doesn’t impact me directly. That being said, as the saudis continue investing in the west, in social media, in other Silicon Valley start ups, I don’t want t

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