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by wdr1 10y ago
I think he means there aren't many (any?) condos without an HOA.
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by wdr1 10y ago
So Startups need to pay more? Either in cash or equity? I don't see the problem.
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by wdr1 10y ago
> If a burglar can do that, he can definitely make better money elsewhere. His burgling career can officially be retired. Well, until someone makes a simple app that any burglar can use, a la a script kiddie.
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by wdr1 10y ago
> It should be compulsory for everyone to be a member of a union as the HR staff at Uber have recently shown. I find that thought terrifying. I don't mind people choosing to unionize, but forcing it is another matter entirely.
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by wdr1 10y ago
I've been really frustrated with my MacbookPro of late & was considering switching to Windows. Pretty sure I'm going to stay with OS X for now.
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by wdr1 10y ago
> But considering that Wikileaks is essentially a Russian intelligence services front at this point Trump is crazy & I'm willing to believe the Russians helped him, but this is an equally baseless accusation. Wikileaks has a his
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by wdr1 10y ago
> Because it takes time to write a fix, test it, test it some more to make sure it doesn't break any of you 1 billion users, then ship it, then wait some more because people ain't updating that often. Why does IE have a problem
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by wdr1 10y ago
> Sure, that would be great, but as a result of leaving, I have been blacklisted by HR from ever returning. I personally know several people who have left & come back up. If you left on bad terms, then of course any company wouldn&#x
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by wdr1 10y ago
Oh? https://www.rt.com/usa/rt-government-broadcasting-radio/ The seem to be very open about their funding from the Russian government. In fact, comparing it exactly to the BBC.
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by wdr1 10y ago
It's not necessarily the venue, but also the promoter & sometimes the artist. If you promise a top A-list performer a 105% of the cover ticket price, you've got to find that 5% somewhere. (Not to mention other costs.) One of
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by wdr1 10y ago
How do we use that data to understand pensions?
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by wdr1 10y ago
> I can't believe people legitimately think Facebook is spying on them through microphones. Why? From a marketing/advertising point-of-view, it would be incredibly valuable data. With fairly old technology it would be easy to t
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by wdr1 10y ago
"“Snowden infringed the privacy of at least [redacted] NSA personnel by searching their network drives without their permission" Wait... the NSA is complaining their privacy was infringed upon because documents were searched wit
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by wdr1 10y ago
FWIW, they still have them in stock at the Amazon Bookstore (in Seattle). My sister in North Carolina was trying desperately to find one for a gift, so I popped in there. They're also on sale, a discount of about ~$40. They seemed t
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Republican National Committee Security Foiled Russian Hackers(wsj.com)
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by wdr1 10y ago
The problem is you're viewing advertisers as a monolith.
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by wdr1 10y ago
You don't even need a badge. Maybe it's how I dress, look, or the conversation we're having, but several times I've been on Abbot Kinney and the barista (or whatever) working the register has asked "Oh, just put thi
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by wdr1 10y ago
TL;DR: Even in environments where the community makes a very aggressive attempt to tackle homelessness, the problem persists. I live in Santa Monica, CA. I've been her for 10-15 years and it's always had a bad homelessness probl
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by wdr1 10y ago
I'm not sure you read the article. In it explains he went overboard, a lot of it wasn't needed for the interviews & narrows down his recommendation to ~3 books.
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by wdr1 10y ago
Given FISA Courts & NSA wiretapping, I'm not sure the government would necessarily need their cooperation.
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by wdr1 10y ago
> In the rest of the western world, there is no debate about what's happening I'm not sure what weight that should carry. From my understand a vast majority of Western European countries are opposed to GMOs, another area where
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by wdr1 10y ago
If you collect user PII & get hacked, you should be obligated to pay for the damages. Specifically, covering the user for identify theft monitoring for 10-15 years.
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by wdr1 10y ago
It's amazing how Microsoft locks down every one of their products, from Edge to Cortana to Xbox, and then complains night & day when other companies do it. I believe when they were astroturfing against Google, they also added a sea
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by wdr1 10y ago
Out of curiosity, where?
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by wdr1 10y ago
> This rhetoric is ridiculous Here's what I honestly don't understand about HN: Climate change has near unanimous support from climatologists. Most (rightly, imho) point that as a reason why it should be accepted by the genera
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by wdr1 10y ago
> The CEO edited a comment and admitted he edited it, and it was stupid, and he shouldn't have done it. The only reason I've heard that this even remotely defensible is because it was against Trump supporters. I'm sorry, b
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by wdr1 10y ago
> I lost, but I got 31% of the vote and I only spent $3000. My opponent got 69% of the vote and spent $100,000. I could be wrong, but I highly suspect that the curve connecting those two points isn't linear, and going from 30->
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by wdr1 10y ago
Agreed. The headline is misleading & I'm sure OP read the article.
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by wdr1 10y ago
Is there a kindle friendly version?
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by wdr1 10y ago
I'm dubious. I've been burned twice by MS pushing a product on the Mac platform & then yanking support. In both cases the answer was effectively "Well, switch to Windows." I genuinely hope Microsoft is really chang

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