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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
It's likely your co-workers are just covering their butts. At most companies it is more useful to your long-term employment prospects to outwardly support your company's mission than to be neutral or a critic. Whether that behavio
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
The goal of law firms is to maximize billable hours and make it difficult for non-lawyers to conduct legal work. Working efficiently is not the goal at all.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Isn't the massive devaluation of the lira over that time period the main factor?
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Soaking lentils (and other legumes like chickpeas) cuts cooking time by about half.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
A big reason for the doom and gloom narrative that you constantly hear in the US is government-media propaganda efforts to manufacture citizens' consent for constant war in order to fuel the military-industrial complex. This has been h
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
This kind of thinking led to Juicero.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
How long did it take you get to that point?
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZir1L7fSY
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
I read this article when it was first published and was very moved. I was able to donate to him here, if you are interested: https://www.gofundme.com/bzeek/
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
Consider this: if you were trying to park your money somewhere safe, like a bank, and they said that in order to make a deposit you had to pay a 15% non-refundable fee, wouldn't you look elsewhere, especially if it was a $2M deposit?
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
Have you considered working remotely? There are a lot more remote positions available these days than you may think.
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
I often wonder why an open-source advertising system (like a self-hosted AdWords) hasn't caught on. When it comes to ads on my site, I'd love to cut out the middle man and be able to manage my own clients, content, tracking and pa
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
May I ask: if one is not "famous" (i.e. popular), why should one expect their site to be profitable from ads alone? If my limited edition, 250-prints-per-month 'zine isn't making money, is that the advertising industry&#
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
After 15 years of doing so, I can no longer tell people that the quality of Apple's products are worth the cost. I waited three years to upgrade from my late-2013 MBP and I see no improvements of value in the new version. The new MBPs
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
Thank you for responding. The parent comment has to be one of the worst HN comments I have ever read. It is important that people who exaggerate and lie are held accountable for their words.
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
No, it's the other way around — the private industry's self-driving car technology is based on research funded and carried out by the military-industrial complex. See: Uber's takeover of the CMU robotics lab (NREC).
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
I used to believe that, but yeah, that hasn't happened and is not likely to, because the real world does not operate anywhere close to an efficient market. Instead, those with the means of production have hoarded the benefits. Despite
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
I don't have first-hand experience, but I would guess it would be the same reason most people do: (1) when you roll your own CMS, you have to build all of the features your editors and designers request yourself, the scope of which peo
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
Daily — for charging and tethering on the go.
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
I have lost hope in the future. Guantanamo is still open, the NSA is as powerful as ever, a partisan puppet has been installed at the CIA, and Trump has all of these tools at his disposable. The UK just codified all of their past illegal su
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
You may be interested in: https://www.codementor.io/ I have personally never used it and am unaffiliated with it, but a friend suggested it and has found it useful. He explained it to me as a dedicated, personal Stack Overf
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
Are there female and / or gay people in your life whose rights matter to you?
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
I realize they have enough applicants not to care, but constantly reading this kind of thing about Google makes me never want to apply to work there. It sounds like they took the worst parts of a startup, graduate research lab, corporation
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
> "Survivorship bias" I hear you say. I understand your sentiment, and have felt the same way. I made the same bets on Apple, Tesla and Amazon at around the same time and beat the market. I think the issue is — can you replicat
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
> The Olympics are truly not about money for the athletes. And indeed, they cannot be. > The rest of the athletes are there because they love the competition. And there's nothing wrong with that! It's truly a win-win that hu
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
Not to be rude, but are you kidding? HN has provided you with a workaround, WSJ has provided you with free content, and that is not enough? How about signing up for the WSJ?
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
> ... it's not about gobbling together the right tools and do some plumbing to make it work. No, it's using tools to craft a work of art. Anyone not recognizing this is an inferior software developer by definition ... So — if y
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
> we've hit the end of ad-supported startups. How about ad-supported, one-or-two-person operations with good traffic? Is advertising still a viable revenue model for something like that?
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
That's not the nicest way to ask for additional information, but see: https://panopticlick.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting > The site you are visiting may choose to analyze your browser using JavaScript, Flash
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by vintageseltzer 10y ago
That was the feeling I got from the startup community about ten years ago — lots more bootstrapped, single-person, not-so-sexy startups. These days, since startups are much more fashionable, it feels like it's the majority of startups

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