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by wan23 9y ago
There exists a free online version of Word: https://office.live.com/start/Word.aspx
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This is sort of a strawman. No one is saying that trust should be removed from society in general. Bitcoin proponents think it's desirable to have a way to store and transfer money without having to trust a single party. Anyone who has
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IIRC, at Google the levels below Senior Engineer require progress toward a higher level as a job requirement. So that even if you're performing well at that level, if you aren't showing progress it gets counted against you in perf
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> if you live in a rural area in one of those than the change to SALT matters much less to you Why? State income taxes apply to you no matter where in the state you live.
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In San Francisco you need to make $300,000 a year to afford the typical home(businessinsider.com)
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Probably not - you'd be surprised how low the the title of "Vice President" is in finance companies.
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> This isn’t what people mean when they imply liquidity. Needing consent and being able to unilaterally demand cash are different domains. The former is e.g. a holding in a fund or coins in a LN, the latter is a consumer checking account
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Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico(nytimes.com)
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There was a really interesting segment on last week's Vergecast ( https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/26/16935908/vergecast-podcas... ) about DJI and how business is different for them being a Chinese e
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The world's second-largest economy, with over a billion people and 20 percent of the total world population, has the type of capital controls that inspire people to find creative ways to move their money. That same country accounts for
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Their presence is potentially useful but their driving is not. Each person who takes an empty seat on a bus into the city instead of driving is just as useful to people inside the city without causing traffic.
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The energy consumption of the bitcoin network is not inherent to proof of work as a consensus mechanism. Bitcoin uses a difficulty setting to keep the rate of block creation relatively constant even as the hashing power dedicated to it incr
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If any group controlled >50% of the network and also was willing to use that power in a way that would diminish trust in that same network then they'd very quickly end up with 100% of something worthless.
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That would be true for the content of a comment about whether .NET is dead or not. But then for that type of comment, you might judge it differently if the author is a user of Microsoft dev tools vs if she primarily works with open source t
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Diversity, even based on outward appearance, has real-world advantages for companies. Or at least, lack of it can lead to making serious errors that can lead to underserving or even insulting customers. https://www.usatoday.com&#
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> As long as it does I will keep the card. So you see value in their product and you're a satisfied customer. Is it even possible for a bank to offer anything more?
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RSUs for public companies are effectively cash, as you can generally sell them immediately at the time when they vest. The value isn't fixed, but if the company is doing well that's a benefit to employees.
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I think you're missing the main point here. What we really need is a better way to pay for the web. If everyone blocks all ads without solving this problem first there won't be any content left to block ads on.
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The Apple Watch can make and receive calls, though you might not want to talk to your wrist for an extended conversation as it can be kind of uncomfortable.
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The way New Yorkers got conned out of having a con con is the most disappointing thing that happened in politics this year IMO. It's amazing how pretty much every organization and politician right and left got together to oppose a chan
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It's not anti-foreigner, it's anti-speculation. It's easy to see that home purchase prices are well beyond what any reasonable family would want to pay, and yet the prices keep rising. The problem isn't that it's fo
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I'm not sure requiring a license to practice software development is a good idea, but it does seem that we could use some rules around development and maintenance of important applications. Perhaps legally mandated security audits for
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It's not stupidity, it's a combination of factors. 1) Lack of knowledge of options. Let's say you wanted to get into the oil business. Without Googling anything, what job would you want? What skills and credentials would you
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Border Patrol also stops people in the 100 mile zone to inquire about their immigration status. You can be detained or searched in this way regardless of anything having to do with a border crossing.
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That's kind of the point, right? In this example it's a compromise that (based on these votes) nobody is really happy with but nobody is super unhappy with either.
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It's literally the definition of the word: of great significance or value; likely to have a profound effect on success, survival, or well-being
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Remember that much of what is sold on Amazon.com is not actually sold by Amazon. Amazon provides warehousing and fulfillment and an online storefront for third party sellers as well as for itself. The tools that it uses to run that online s
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That list of banned books in Michigan is really interesting. Just from the first few pages - A+ Certification Exam Guide - May facilitate or encourage criminal activity Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - Threat to the order and security of t
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Facebook Shut Down Employee Chat Room Over Harassing Messages(wsj.com)
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Much of Google's diversity work goes toward fixing the talent pipeline by working with students. In the memo Damore criticizes these attempts by saying something like these programs are misleading female students into thinking that pro

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