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by unexpected 6y ago
$10,000 a semester is cheap. The current price at the university I attended is $73k a year.
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by unexpected 6y ago
I disagree a bit. The big name schools can get away with charging their current prices, but small schools would radically re-think. No more football stadiums, fancy dorms, etc. People still need to get educated. The rest of the world has un
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by unexpected 6y ago
I wish I could find a news source for this, but english newspapers suck in their coverage. I was actually in Kuwait as this happened, so I know it's 100% true. I spent that day being driven around at 130 mph in some guys's new por
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by unexpected 6y ago
exactly what exhilaration says below! I work in the oil and gas business. U.S. independent oil companies are survivors. If I have to pick between the U.S. shale producer or Saudi kingdrom, I'll pick the U.S. shale producer every time.
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by unexpected 6y ago
Saudi makes up shit when they say their extraction costs are $3/barrel. A lot of clever accounting in that one. Actual extraction costs are roughly $10-$15/barrel.
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by unexpected 6y ago
Every Arab ruler has tried to do this for decades, but this is a HARD problem: 1) Their climate sucks 2) They have very little arable land and lack water 3) Production of electricity is expensive 4) A lot of interior cities - not a lot of p
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by unexpected 6y ago
Dubai is definitely a tourist destination, and it's not just for hyper-wealthy people. They get a huge amount of middle class tourism from South Asia and China. There's a wide variety of hotels, from 2* to 7* and you can stay in a
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by unexpected 6y ago
Qatar makes 95% of their revenue on LNG. These are long-term contracts at fixed prices. Kuwait and Qatar also have the fewest amount of actual citizens that it would need to "pay off". Ex: During the Arab Spring, Kuwait handed out
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by unexpected 7y ago
Man, I'm trying to just copy the model and keep getting the error "The file might be unavailable to heavy traffic". Never seen that before.
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by unexpected 7y ago
I disagree here. Denmark is acting proactively and shutting down schools for 2 weeks. This is a "rip the band aid off early" type of move. By shutting down everything for 2 weeks, they effectively self-quarantine during the entire
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by unexpected 7y ago
Car insurance is not that opaque. They are fairly standard policies, with only a few optional items. An independent insurance broker can quickly navigate through these for you. You're right, though, that what insures promise to do and
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by unexpected 7y ago
if you've been with State Farm for over a decade, I would reckon you're getting hosed. State Farm agents only get quote from State Farm - they're not an independent brokerage. When I was shopping around (mid-30's, family
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by unexpected 7y ago
Does anyone else remember the mp3 player wars? Sonique, NAD, Winamp...it was like the early Android/iOS split of the mid-90's. I remember so much from that era!
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by unexpected 7y ago
...and this is where Puerto Rico's status comes into picture. PR's tax rate at the highest level is 33%. If you want to go higher, wealthy Puerto Ricans just decamp to Florida (no state income taxes!) and fly in as needed. The cor
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by unexpected 7y ago
the wealth is not there - that's the point I'm making. Hurricane Maria cost $140 billion. Puerto Rico's GDP is $100 billion. They need to repay $75 billion in bonds, and they have $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
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by unexpected 7y ago
Puerto Rico is desperately poor. GDP per capita is a poor measure of income inequality. 45% of Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line. Italy's economy is literally 20x the size of Puerto Rico. If Puerto Rico was a state, it would be
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by unexpected 7y ago
In Texas, you cannot even go around a stopped school bus. Very expensive ticket ($400!)
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by unexpected 7y ago
he's saying "other retailers pushing down to their partners". Other retailers (Target/Wal Mart/etc) won't work with companies that use AWS.
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by unexpected 7y ago
We can date ourselves by what email clients we have used!
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by unexpected 7y ago
I have read the book, and I don't think it's a case study of Python - it's a case study on releasing an MVP. Chandler tried to do every.single.thing right out of the gate, and got bogged down. What would have happened if it j
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by unexpected 7y ago
you can also identify where oil has come from based on a sample of it. Oils have unique signatures for different regions.
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by unexpected 7y ago
Thunderbird, Chandler....feels like ages ago.
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by unexpected 7y ago
This is not true - in your Congo example, the driver claimed asylum, won his case, and then was able to apply for his green card. You cannot go from illegal immigrant to green card directly. Many people don't win their asylum cases and
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by unexpected 7y ago
Let's use your reasons, but look at it from the opposite side: 1) The largest contributor to the poor air quality in India is the practice of burning to clear fields, cook stoves that use wood, and the burning of cow dung [ https:&#x2F
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by unexpected 7y ago
1) They're old, but they're not that big - book value is "only" 370 million pounds. 2) They're not Jewish. A lot of the diatribes directed at the Rothschilds are anti-semitic in origin.
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by unexpected 7y ago
another fun fact: a lot of the early HackerNews posts were the daily drama of Twitter's RoR struggles.
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by unexpected 7y ago
man the headline made me nervous - thought this was going to be another "we're shutting down" post!
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by unexpected 7y ago
These guys sold their company to Google!
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by unexpected 7y ago
Kohl's is king of overpricing items to then offer massive sales through "Kohl's points", coupons, etc. Their retail prices are B.S. I don't know anyone that pays retail at Kohl's - people shop there to brag abo
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by unexpected 8y ago
I mean, I agree with you philosophically, but he's not stealing their photos - he's re-sharing other people's photos and giving credit back to their pages. This is common Instagram practice - it's essentially a "re-

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