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by vba616 4y ago
Interesting in that some men in the highest echelons of power today are that old, but that's 69 which is past normal retirement age and in the next few years they will be disappearing. Sometimes I think about the time a Holocaust survi
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"Aragorn, son of Arathorn"
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>spend some time on Russia propaganda channels It's difficult for me to imagine someone who is willing to do that, able to find them without help, and actually needs to be convinced of anything there. >Moreover, according to vari
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This is a well-known (to those who know it well) book, but I think there is such a wine in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion_Wine Also, the site http://www.armywormwine.com/ seems to be
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by vba616 4y ago
Iran is a big place. Google says it's nearly as large as Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California put together. Death Valley is not the same thing as the US yanno.
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>Until battery technology makes several quantum leaps in efficiency, nuclear energy is the only possible answer to climate change as well the needs of humanity. If you have unlimited electricity, why bother reinventing all the infrastruc
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There are plenty of reasons for small-C conservatives to increasingly dislike him (they may be largely Democrats though). He created the appearance that the Texas AG is someone he can sic on people. He's created the appearance that he
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But what about intent? Do you believe he believed he was offering material support? Or are you just saying you don't care and it doesn't matter, because he's an "influencer"?
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> Unless you are literally having someone else do the assignment for you entirely I've seen stories on HN about one person showing up for an interview and another for the first day of work. But it doesn't matter so much if it&#
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>You said distinctly that if I said it wasn't an impact, that I just wouldn't admit that it was. That is calling me a liar. This is not distinct or clear to me; I certainly can't say you are lying when I can't parse t
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>the corporation always works for it's own benefit without considering other merits I agree with you that regulation is required, but I don't agree with you in that I think a completely amoral corporation unconstrained by human
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You're bristling like I'm personally attacking you. I'm not calling you a liar, if you say that you don't explicitly consider previous salary. But you consider things that are correlated with previous salary. Everybody
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I have read that orthodox anti-trust theory in the US in more or less "modern" times holds that anti-competitive behavior by corporations is a problem only if it has a negative effect on consumers. You could debate whether this is
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It seems to me that any job paying $140K is a lot harder to get than something near minimum wage, so it's not all that obvious to me that your choice of comparison implies anything about unions. Has anyone in this discussion actually
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Let's set aside whether it's explicitly screened for or discussed. If, hypothetically, you knew what they were making, either as a dollar figure or implicitly because of their previous/current job description, what would be t
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Think about it. You expect to hire people making less right now, because most people won't take a pay cut if they aren't forced to. But if you are paying $200K, then presumably you will not hire anyone who is now making $100K, $50
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Everybody on HN always gets huffy and prima-donna-ish about the idea of a take home assignment. So I'll try to provide a different perspective. For some people, like me, at least in theory, I would love it, because it's much easie
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by vba616 4y ago
>I can even imagine how someone would rationalize it But you make it sound like a big deal. Like it would be a shocking scandal or lead to lawsuits. Who do you think polices advice columns? Ann Landers was a pen name for multiple people.
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I had a job stocking shelves at Target once. I quit after a couple of days, because it was too stressful and nobody explained anything to me. I had been hospitalized some weeks before and was adjusting to my new psych meds, but I wasn'
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This is apparently from 2016, and it sounds so, so fake. I could convince myself it could have happened through most of the story, but the last paragraph is just over the top. "Even though she doesn’t work here any longer, I want to re
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_value_transfer_system "The sender gives money to an...agent and his/her counterpart in the receiver region/country acts as deliverer of this money. The sender calls
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Why do you think there is only one shoe ("the Enron") to drop? Despite very little knowledge about crypto or conventional finance, what I've read about USDT suggests it has to collapse sooner or later. I get this sense that
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I don't see it usually mentioned when people cite the South Sea Company, but their principal actual business was the slave trade. There is something about a useless or immoral business that often excites greed beyond what anything bene
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I have no idea if it's true, but it seems like people are writing about contagion within crypto, as if it is more substantial than last time, and worrying a little bit about it affecting the rest of the economy. This game of lending cr
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Matt Levine had an aside in one of his recent columns about how ironically, "safe" investments are frequently the most un -safe, because the tiniest crack in the faith people have in them leads to panic. For instance, the stablec
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Their territorial objectives have apparently been redefined to encompass the areas that they already de facto possessed since 2014. Isn't that true? The only obvious thing accomplished lately is all the death and destruction. It can&#x
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It's only two sentences, so I assumed neither of them were fluff...I interpreted "the legacy media" being mentioned adjacent to your personifying the US as someone carrying out foreign policy as implying they are closely rela
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You really think that HIPAA prohibits distributing any data at all, providing it has a fig leaf of being deidentified? I mean, aside from Facebook, how do you think people do medical research? Data sets are available to the public. Decades
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I have turned off I think hundreds of ad targeting switches in Facebook, Google, Windows, and LinkedIn, and despite the incessant passive-aggressive warnings about how ads will be "less relevant", I don't find them to be wors
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If the US is not a "credible security partner" then what the media thinks about a Ukrainian surrender is utterly irrelevant. Even if is is a credible security partner, the same is true. It's...I don't know what to call

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