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by xexers 13y ago
Nope: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-id-fix-healthcaregov-mysel...
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by xexers 13y ago
Grocery delivery in the UK is amazing! I wish it was like this everywhere. All the major chains have professional websites, nice trucks, cheap service. Delivery prices range from about £3.00 to £6.00 depending on the time of day. Sadly,
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by xexers 16y ago
I don't think Steve Woz. has anywhere near a billion dollars.
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by xexers 16y ago
I work for Microsoft in Ireland. We get 25 vacation days (5 weeks) as soon as we are hired! Getting an extra week of unpaid leave is common enough with very little hassle. Instead of gambling your job, move to Europe.
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by xexers 16y ago
Ebay uses this tactic too. Ebay is very good to their buyers but can be ruthless with their sellers. If you google "ebay VERO" you will find thousands of sellers complaining.
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by xexers 16y ago
It's not that crazy. Some companies thrive with competition. Microsoft enjoys having apple as competition and vice-versa. Microsoft bailed apple out a little over a decade ago for that exact reason. Zuckerberg is very competitive. I'm s
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by xexers 16y ago
its impossible to cheat while standing on a treadmill, but those things you can just stop.
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by xexers 17y ago
Very relevant Louis CK standup bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk&feature=playe...
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by xexers 17y ago
Thanks, there are a lot of good suggestions here!
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by xexers 17y ago
Thanks!
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by xexers 17y ago
I am trying to learn German and I would love to chat with people from Germany in German. Is there a service like that? I wonder if he could modify the randomness to at least just a single country.
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by xexers 17y ago
this is textbook "freemium" model.
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by xexers 17y ago
Just so we stay on point here, I am only talking about NEW vaccines here. I support ones that have been established. Well, evidence to one particular story comes to mind: "Still, as observed by a participant in the immunization program, th
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by xexers 17y ago
While I do think it's important to get the tried, tested, and true vaccines, I am not sure about some of the newer ones. There have been many stories in the past of people getting worse off from brand new vaccines. For new vaccines I use
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by xexers 17y ago
Exactly. The 80/20 rule is about isolating what you are good at and doing MORE of that. For example, in real estate sales you can make money selling houses, listing houses, or both. If you find that 80 percent or your commision is coming
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by xexers 17y ago
I'm a bit confused. This author makes the future sound bleak, with impossible choices. He makes it sound like wind, solar, geothermal, and hydro will never be enough. But then, you read a quote like this from another source and the soluti
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by xexers 17y ago
A car costs about $10-12k per year on average (including gas, insurance, payments, repairs). If you live in a city with great public transportation, an annual pass will cost about $1200. Taking taxis and renting cars to fulfil those other
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by xexers 17y ago
I was sort of just speaking for humans as a whole. Personally I don't think it's ethical. I'm a vegetarian.
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by xexers 17y ago
If animals were discovered to be nearly as intelligent as humans, would it still be ethical to eat them? Farmers often talk about how stupid chickens are and they, therefore, have no problems eating them. But yet pigs are smarter than most
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by xexers 17y ago
That guy must have a killer network.
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by xexers 17y ago
I am Canadian. I find the culture towards imigrants is much better than what I see on the news in the USA. We welcome most imigrants. However, there are still lots of problems with the system in Canada - mostly that we only take in univer
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by xexers 17y ago
That's not what I meant. I meant, I am on the fence... here is an article (and comments) with the opposite viewpoint.
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by xexers 17y ago
I personally sit on the fence here. It's funny because just a few weeks ago, this article was on HN. Don't these 2 arguments contradict each other? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=660720
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by xexers 17y ago
I completely agree with this point and I wish he went into more detail about it: "Finally, a wealth of data shows that when young people are given meaningful responsibility and meaningful contact with adults, they quickly rise to the challe
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by xexers 17y ago
I think that's a great point. The world as it is now is tight for resources. We are tight for land, oil, energy, and water. Globally we are trying to use less of all 4 to move towards a sustainable future. Farming uses up quite a large par
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by xexers 17y ago
Nope... if we all give up meat, there will be so much land, we wont even know what to do with it all: From this aritcle: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/vegetarian-diet-coul... "An area the size of Russia and Canada combined could
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by xexers 17y ago
Its convenient that you picked tomatoes, try potatoes: colories per gram pototatoes = 0.7866 colories per gram ground beef = 2.59 therefore colories per acre: potatoes = 31,466 beef = 647.5 There we go, back to 2 orders of magnitude.
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by xexers 17y ago
From another article: "Soil fertility doesn't originate from animals; it comes from plants at the bottom of the food chain. When grass is filtered through a cow most of the nitrogen is lost in her urine. Instead, take the grass that would g
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by xexers 17y ago
Disclaimer: I grew up on a farm. I have personally slaughtered many animals including pigs, chickens, ducks, and fish. I am now a vegetarian. This article is 90% correct. I agree on most topics. A main thread here is sustainable farmin
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by xexers 17y ago
> then a top-tier school would make you a 10 instead of a 9. Big deal. Ummm, there is a huge difference between a 9 and a 10. The horse that wins the race by a nose wins 10 times more prize money than the second place horse. Was the 1

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