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xenihn
9y ago
Tila Tequila and Millionaires
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9y ago
What was the course?
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9y ago
It's a problem in MS programs too.
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9y ago
Or work remotely
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9y ago
>Americans should travel more and replicate the best parts. I hope you realize that the vast majority of the country isn't as privileged as we are when it comes to being able to afford to travel, or even to get time off in the first
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xenihn
9y ago
Journalists don't get paid enough to not act in their own best interests. You're getting mad at the wrong person here.
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xenihn
9y ago
This is not how reality works at all. You're fantasizing.
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9y ago
I don't understand why you're referring to the Chinese Communist Party as a single entity. There's multiple groups within it vying for power, each with their own agendas and visions for China's future.
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9y ago
I hope everyone in California who reads HN is prepared with emergency supplies. At the very least stock up on emergency drinking water so that you won't have to go out of your way to get it if things get particularly bad. You'll h
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I only know one person who this happened to (the ban). It took a somewhat ridiculous amount of abuse on their part. Like thousands of dollars worth of PC parts being used and returned.
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9y ago
Reddit initially rose to prominence because of bad decisions on Digg's part. Reddit is nothing without its users. Any decision that potentially drives users off its platform can't be made lightly.
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9y ago
My parents paid for everything for both my sister and I. I lived at home and commuted, she moved to the other side of the country and dormed/rented. I spent a 5th year in college because I didn't know what I wanted to do for a car
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9y ago
>Lying about a customer’s account is fraud. Does that mean that you think that it doesn't happen?
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9y ago
They do serve a purpose -- pumping and dumping dead coins that can't actually be withdrawn from the exchange. I didn't do my research and sunk about $100 into one. I'm technically up $20 on it (if converting to ETH/BTC,
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9y ago
Yobit, where dead coin bags are traded with DOGE due to them being worth less than the smallest fraction of BTC or ETH whenever they aren't being pumped.
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9y ago
>To blindly assume patterns such as "80/20" hold everywhere would be foolish I see 80/20 EVERYWHERE now. It's hard for me to think of things where it isn't applicable. Maybe I'm just going crazy.
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9y ago
>Discussion will be about some piece of controversial research, e.g. GMOs or vaccines. People who want to discuss the merits of the research are shouted down by what I can only describe as 'science fanbois' -- anything that is
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9y ago
I had one fly low near my top-floor unit recently and it was way louder than I ever expected it to be.
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9y ago
How much math did you self-teach and what did you use to learn it? Aside from mentorship.
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9y ago
Ok, but it's not absurd.
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9y ago
It's not so absurd when you are good friends with people who run astroturfing companies.
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9y ago
>They are all elected officials so therefore directly accountable. Seems like the system is working just fine here. Did you actually read the LA Times article? Be honest. This post really makes it sound like you did not.
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9y ago
I got my current job without interacting with HR at all. Phone screen with the CTO. Phone screen with the engineering manager. In-person interview with the CTO, then the engineering manager, then the team I would be joining. In a perfect wo
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9y ago
Yeah, my main takeaway from this is "Learn Mandarin, and ensure that your kids learn it too."
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9y ago
Which Chinese sites other than Alibaba?
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9y ago
This is honestly one of the better posts I've seen on HN. I never really thought about this, and I agree 100%
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9y ago
>In Seattle, for example, many (newly) wealthy Chinese people are buying houses purely for investment purposes. Same thing in Los Angeles (the entire county) and Irvine.
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9y ago
How do you prove that employers did or didn't use Equifax or an equivalent service?
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9y ago
As far as I know, you can somewhat easily run Windows on Mac hardware. The opposite isn't true.
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9y ago
Not Bay Area, but I'm also interested. Where/how do you start looking?
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