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by whorleater 8y ago
"Hotting up" is a British idiom meaning the same as "heating up". The economist is British. Not everyone speaks American English.
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by whorleater 8y ago
This kind of "economists are always wrong because they didn't foresee a major problem" is like saying "engineers are always wrong because they don't foresee issues caused by DNS"
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by whorleater 8y ago
why is it that any china related topic always springs up weird throwaways dedicated to criticizing China in some form? I get that you want to criticize China, and that's fine, but can you at least have the courage to do it on your main
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by whorleater 8y ago
https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious... >Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.
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by whorleater 8y ago
Basic HTML view for Gmail is still very usable
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by whorleater 8y ago
or be like Netflix and only hire proven people and pay them a lot
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by whorleater 8y ago
Are HN commenters going to continue complaining about a paywall that's documented to be easily bypassed? Are HN commenters going to continue complaining about a payall that's pretty cheap to pay for?
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by whorleater 8y ago
Man, I thought this was going to be an article on better code reviews and how to get better feedback from people you work with regarding your performance. Instead the article is some strange "self-help"/"hustle-hard&quot
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by whorleater 8y ago
"Most" people definitely do not use photoshop, the most popular photo editing tool is probably the one that comes with your phone's photos application.
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by whorleater 8y ago
I was originally going to say "man that's wild", then I realized all the documents I've signed electronically lately have been through DocuSign and maybe 10B is actually undervalued.
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by whorleater 8y ago
Best thing I've ever done as far as college is concerned is 1. Did well in high school to qualify for merit scholarships 2. Chose a top 10 college for my field 3. Get a job starting at >100k per year Graduated with debt paid off in
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by whorleater 8y ago
>I had a neighbor who boasted of how she woke up at 4:45a to work out. Of course, she fell asleep in front of the TV at 8p... Being sanctimonious is annoying, but that sounds like she's getting the right amount of sleep
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by whorleater 8y ago
You have to get a warrant for phone taps
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by whorleater 8y ago
> You don't need to collect the "right" kind of friends. This kind of thinking strips the humanity out of the process. It's an understandable conclusion but highly misleading. I hate myself writing this, but I'm
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by whorleater 8y ago
>Through her, I know quite a lot about fertility issues. I empathize with your sister, but I think it's wrong to generalize a single data point over the population. On a broad level, birth rates in the US from 25-29 are at 104.3, wh
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by whorleater 8y ago
>Waiting too long to have kids can involve problems for both mother and child. (Among other things) An older mom can require fertility treatments to get pregnant at all and there is higher risk of certain birth defects in the child. This
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by whorleater 8y ago
I don't disagree with this article's premise, but I do disagree with it's overall diagnosis. AI's near perpetual boom/bust cycle stems from a lack of clear expectations on what AI is . AI runs the gamut from "
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by whorleater 8y ago
>Stock is not pay It's not, but it'd also be foolish to ignore that RSU's can be fairly easily exercised and translate into real money. It's probably more accurate to say that the stock isn't worth the face value
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by whorleater 8y ago
> I would go all-in in a bubble if I had the confidence someone would tap on my shoulder to let me know when it's going to crash. literally you and everyone on earth would do this
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by whorleater 8y ago
apparently 40-50% of social sciences surveys were conducted through mturk by 2016: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000056
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by whorleater 8y ago
The product I'm building is a solid product and has a good market fit, but I'd be lying if I said I cared about it. We use pretty modern tools (Kube/spinnaker/opencensus, GCP/AWS/Azure/Alibaba, GRPC, redis
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by whorleater 8y ago
The Engadget link is a weird blog repost of https://www.gq.com/story/spy-or-uber-driver , which is actually a well written and fascinating story.
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by whorleater 8y ago
Sure, but the auction itself is largely hidden away from you, instead of competing with other riders on price. In this case availability + east of use trumps "weird auctioning for rides"
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by whorleater 8y ago
>you should care about the integrity I mean, there's the option to not use my site. Can I take a stand against HTTPS because I believe PKI to be a dumpster fire?
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by whorleater 8y ago
>I was just trying to get a sign of life from the developer / developers This seems a little weird, no? Reeder's a one time purchase, not a subscription service or anything, so it seems kinda strange to be so worried about &quo
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by whorleater 8y ago
No, I would've tried harder in school and tried for med school instead
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by whorleater 8y ago
This comment is not only hilariously unfounded, but also straight up wrong. Where is the Helmand province equivalent in Xinjiang?
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by whorleater 8y ago
>There's only 38 countries on here It's from the OCED, which is literally a club of rich (mostly) first world countries.
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by whorleater 8y ago
The goals of branches and PR is that programmers are inherently untrustworthy. Large portions of code can easily contain hidden bugs and complexity, and we've all written our fair share of code that would only ever make sense to the
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by whorleater 8y ago
>our history on channels is just getting lost my company actually pays for slack but had to enable limited history, since developers kept on writing stuff that should be in wiki's or documentation in slack and relying on the search.

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