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by yalurker 17y ago
Isn't "Never carry your social security card in your wallet" standard advice? I was taught that since I was a child, before identity theft was even really a mainstream thing. As to credit cards, if your wallet is lost or stolen, you can qu
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by yalurker 17y ago
What is hard to understand about a school counselor? They are a point of contact for advice about which classes to take at what time, how to find internships & scholarships, what to put on a resume, etc. It seems like a straight forwar
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by yalurker 17y ago
Your post is self-contradictory and illogical. You say to forget about privacy, then acknowledge that some privacy is important, then suggest that privacy invasions don't matter as long as they happen to a lot of people. Most of us recogni
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by yalurker 17y ago
FTA: "Why wouldn't they be working to allow users to experience the entire Internet through a Facebook portal?" Is he suggesting that the future of Facebook is to become what AOL was in the 90s?
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by yalurker 17y ago
Family farms and small businesses are often severely hurt by estate taxes. Many of the people who oppose the estate tax are those who want to see a farm or business stay in the family, but tax laws make it incredibly hard to transfer it to
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by yalurker 17y ago
Very good information. I didn't do any verification from outside accounts, I just started immediately trying to stop/undo.
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Tell HN: Warning, Google ignores opt-out for Buzz if you set an away message
32 points by yalurker 17y ago|27 comments
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by yalurker 17y ago
That's $52k per year, which is comfortably middle to upper-middle class in much of America. If that was in the Bay or NYC then it's low, but if it was in Omaha or Des Moines it's a good salary for an entry level dev.
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by yalurker 17y ago
Simply terrible advice. How many scammy pointy-haired-boss types haven't tried to use "we'll take care of you in the future" or "but the job is so exciting, you should be happy to work for half what you're worth" to justify low wages. Top
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by yalurker 17y ago
Historically, by the time inexperienced retail investors are hearing/thinking/talking about an investment, all the profit to be made is gone. When everyone was flipping houses every 6 months, that signaled the end of the housing bubble. Wh
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by yalurker 17y ago
One thought I haven't seen mentioned is the emotional aspect of several of these movies. In my opinion, Lost in Translation was bad, but I made it through it, I heart huckabees & Sideways were so terrible I stopped watching in the midd
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by yalurker 17y ago
Ya know, I've never walked into a conference, office or classroom and started counting up the number of men versus women in the room. Do you also worry about race? Religion? Sexual orientation? Disabilities? It seems like you're projecting
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by yalurker 17y ago
Yes, how dare someone on the other side of the world do something that doesn't fit with contemporary American standards for what is professional! Clearly this is the fault of the technology industry, as a whole. Just like the energy indus
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by yalurker 17y ago
Step 1) Go back to Reddit where this type of question belongs. Step 2) Make an insightful comment somewhere to atone for this grievance.
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by yalurker 17y ago
This reminds me of a philosophy class I had in college, where we discussed action vs inaction, and the responsibilities of each choice. I'll skip the lengthy description of all the views, but the short version is that there do exist very co
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by yalurker 17y ago
The article seems trivial compared to what I see as the real security risk - unrelated sites that have an "I forgot my password" option which relies on e-mail to reset the password. If an attacker has your gmail, they can go to your bank, y
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by yalurker 17y ago
Clarifying point - although coliveira's comment was as something of a true outsider, the original comment in the linked article was from a published phD student in theory who felt snubbed based on his response to "What school do you go to?"
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by yalurker 17y ago
Wow, I had the luck of meeting Aaron a few years ago. I have actually referenced him as when I learned the limit of my own intelligence - I had a 4.0 gpa as a CS major and thought myself quite bright, until I was simply blown away by the o
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by yalurker 17y ago
False dichotomy. You don't have to say "we're not friends if you don't pay me back" but you can still want to be repaid. Who here hasn't loaned a friend a small sum of money? My friends and I are constantly in debts of 20 or 30 dollars t
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by yalurker 17y ago
Wait, so people were drooling over CitySourced but then weren't willing to pay 3 bucks for it? Something seems very wrong about that.
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by yalurker 17y ago
I would think certain cases might have far higher click throughs in fact. For instance, if I'm searching for $FOOD near $LOCATION on my mobile phone, I would be incredibly likely to click an appropriate ad.
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by yalurker 17y ago
I asked a similar question here recently and got a number of valuable links, see thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764982
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by yalurker 17y ago
There is absolutely nothing interesting about a developer being female. Nothing. Quite frankly, it confuses and disappoints me that anyone would think that gender matters enough to call attention to it. We're not in the 1950s, let's stop
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by yalurker 17y ago
The past is not a "sunk cost" given the IP issue. It sounds like the poster just continued research the prof was already doing in his lab. At an extreme, suppose OP just abandoned the prof and started the company solo. Certainly the prof
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by yalurker 17y ago
I already pay my rent online, as well as have an interface to request maintenance or ask questions to the management company. This is in the US. I can pay by direct bank withdrawal for free, or pay a fee to use a credit card. My apartment
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by yalurker 17y ago
I respectfully disagree. I'm a person who is "widely interested in the world" but I don't come to HN to be a source of all interesting things in the world. There are already a thousand other general news sites, or even tech news sites. I
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Ask HN: How or Where can I get data sets?
29 points by yalurker 17y ago|18 comments
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by yalurker 17y ago
"The things you own, end up owning you" is the actual quote. I agree that there is a lot of truth to the notion. The more you own, the less mobile you are.
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by yalurker 17y ago
There is a limit to how many people can be trained to do skilled labor though. We may like to imagine that everyone could, given the opportunity, do "skilled labor", but reality will be that automation will continue to slide the bar up as
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by yalurker 17y ago
Your hyperbole is inappropriate here. As an analogy, laws already make exceptions to discrimination if the nature of the job requires certain abilities. Go look for manual labor jobs and you will see statements like "applications must be

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