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by uiri 10y ago
The title isn't wrong. The original article uses 'PayPal co-founder' and HN guidelines suggest using the original title unless it is misleading (which, in this case, it is not). While Peter Thiel may have name recognition on
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by uiri 11y ago
Hunter earned both a National Defense Service Medal and a Global War on Terrorism Medal. I just want to point out that these medals just mean that he was a soldier at some point between September 11, 2001 and now. Service medals are given
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by uiri 11y ago
In California, real property is only reassessed at market value when it is sold or transferred. So property taxes won't increase on long-time residents who don't move. Rent control is, I believe, intended to provide the same effec
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Andy – Introduction to High Output Management(a16z.com)
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by uiri 11y ago
For those interested but did not want to do the research, the student in question is Chris Klaus who donated $15 million in 1999 in order to get Georgia Tech's new (at the time) computing building named after him[1]. He founded Interne
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by uiri 11y ago
I don't disagree that he mentions race quite a bit in the article but the first reference to him being black in the text is when he says that he was "named the Emerging Business Leader of the Year by the Greater Austin Black Chamb
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by uiri 11y ago
The data seems to show the opposite to me - despite scores being all over the place, the mean is very reliable. When a 2 or lower is considered a fail, those who consistently rate ~2.5 fail about half of their interviews while those who con
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by uiri 11y ago
There is a requirement that someone spend 52 hours in a pre-licensing course. There is a separate requirement that someone pass a broker exam. If it is possible for someone to do the latter without the former, what purpose does forcing them
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by uiri 11y ago
hosting your own git servers and getting people to actually use them is a huge pain in the ass. More simply put: people just like using GitHub. Given that this is the case, I fell like GitHub is entrenched enough that they could open sour
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by uiri 11y ago
All 8 of those Nobel Prizes were won by individuals who were finalists in 1968 or earlier. So for half of the years in that date range, not a single finalist has been awarded a Nobel Prize. Since 3 of those Nobel Prizes have been in the las
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by uiri 11y ago
Seems like the author of the post is the author of Blot're which might explain why he didn't go into what Blot're is.
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by uiri 11y ago
Microsoft's founders met at prep school - both were from well off families in the Pacific Northwest. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a little more family help available when starting their company than most. Not that they aren
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by uiri 11y ago
Why not change your laptop's MAC address to that of the chromecast, authenticate on the laptop and then plug in chromecast?
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by uiri 11y ago
>(I skipped over the Soylent part because I assumed it was just a paid advertisement) This is authored by the founder of Soylent. Slightly different than a paid advertisement but most likely similar content
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by uiri 11y ago
Of course the US stock went up and the Canadian stock went down - you could buy the shares in US dollars for $17 a pop, sell them in Canadian dollars for over $30 and then convert back to US dollars at a rate of about $1.20 per Canadian dol
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by uiri 12y ago
I first became interested in homeschooling several years ago after a friend with six kids began homeschooling in San Francisco out of necessity - the public school system wanted to send each of her kids to a different school. Instead of hi
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by uiri 12y ago
I think the author's lack of distinction between static vs dynamic and strong vs weak typing detracts from his point. Static vs dynamic typing boils down to whether typechecking is done at compile time or at run time (for various defin
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by uiri 12y ago
Part of this is that Co-Op terms are 16 weeks long. There are 52 weeks in a year, 16*3 eats up 48 weeks, if there are 2 or 3 weeks for Christmas it simply isn't possible to have more than a week or so between the winter and spring&#x2F
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by uiri 12y ago
It is most likely not the ratio part but the median pay of all other employees part. You need to keep an ordered list of the pay of every single other employee and keep it up to date as people join and leave the company. Then there is the i
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by uiri 12y ago
The confusion around whether or not Java has pointers comes from people comparing it with C or C++. In Java, you can't dereference a pointer to an Object and get some sort of Object value. Similarly, you can't perform an "add
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by uiri 12y ago
The article touches on this a little bit, I think. Eve's eggs were harvested, incubated (though it turns out only the first 30 were fertile) and became the foundation of the zoo's new population of walking sticks. I am not a rea
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by uiri 12y ago
Are you talking about sysadmins on Windows? I can't imagine a Linux sysadmin being afraid of bash, zsh or a ios shell. My impression is that knowledge of some combination of bash, perl and python scripting is a basic job requirement.
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by uiri 12y ago
I feel like this would be great from employment contracts and nondisclosure agreements where the asymmetry of the situation is rather large and, depending on the company, the contract may actually be long enough to warrant a professional an
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by uiri 12y ago
> It seems like there's got to be a better way of paying people who don't have a bank account so that they can access the money right away and don't have to pay fees. I think it is called "cash". Turning a piece
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by uiri 12y ago
I'm not sure that that's necssarily a bad thing. Even if it is a bad thing, I'm not sure what exactly, if anything, could be done about USA-only posts. HN has plenty of USA-only posts all the time, often even Silicon Valley-o
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by uiri 12y ago
I think most US residents on HN live in a state where blacklisting is illegal. Washington state and New York have labour laws against blacklisting while California has a law against employers preventing previous employees from finding work.
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by uiri 12y ago
I agree that the Container Store (meaning the company, the physical store, the people who work there) doesn't fit into the story very well. I think that for the author, the Container Store is a symbol of order and control in the author
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by uiri 12y ago
I'm not sure that that's really true. Investors don't vest because they put in capital which is immediately available. Similarly, those contributing capital (either in the form of supplies (e.g. a drafting table) or cash) sho
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by uiri 12y ago
The first lab of my second programming course in University involved making sure that every student knew how to compile and run Java programs on the command line. The reason the Prof gave for this exercise was, to paraphrase, that he was ti
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by uiri 12y ago
It will be an iron curtain around a large subset of the Anglophone internet. I don't think that countries outside of Five Eyes are very appreciative of the spying that the NSA and the GCHQ have been carrying out. Not that it would nece

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