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by throwaway9980 9y ago
IBM vastly over promises with their marketing. It is so frustrating to have to answer questions from the CEO about why we don't solve all our problems with magic beans from IBM's Watson. I understand that this is what they want. T
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Google and Facebook are structured this way. Multiple classes of stock, some with voting rights and most without. The founders own the majority of shares in the voting class and the public owns the majority of shares in the non-voting class
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Kroger is the primary grocery store in my neighborhood and I shop there at least once a week. Despite that, I can never quite grok the store layout. It feels like it's been designed to make it impossible to find the last three items on
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
My wife is one of those people. Loves to cook, does it at a very high level, and hates the grocery store. I was super skeptical about food delivery, but I've become a believer. We get more meals at home, with less stress and time waste
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
I have had multiple affluent friends who are absolutely non-tech non-geek ask me what are the hot coins. They're shoveling tens of thousands of dollars into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple based entirely on the fact that there's a r
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Just last night I saw a message scrawled on a bathroom wall that said, "for a good time, call Mirimir." Don't know if that's good or bad from your perspective, but I chuckled at the old school hyperlocal anonymity of it.
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
The term for absolute ownership of land is called Allodial title. It exists practically nowhere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Obvious troll is obvious. Hackernews readers don't use IE 10.
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Agreed. And that's why I said "assuming supply stays the same" when talking about the housing market. I don't think I was clear with what I meant by 2x and 1.5x. I'm assuming those dollars represent productive labor
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Great point and I agree with most of your sentiment, but I'm not sure you got all of my point. What I'm saying, and a big component of what I'm thinking about is housing costs, is that we're chasing the same things with
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
Kind of surprised the integration isn't going in the other direction. Embed the editor experience into Github and not the other way around.
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by throwaway9980 9y ago
It often feels like two income households are counter productive. Sure, we make more money, but it feels like 2x the dollars chasing 1.5x the pie out in the world. And then you have to pay for childcare. As for the household work, I was jus