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Ask HN: Worst response you ever got from a customer or lead?
2 points by zxcvvcxz 9y ago|1 comments
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
I understand completely that exhausted students are going to perform worse than if they were better-rested. I absolutely do, as I was one - a more naturally late-night person who had to make it to those 9am classes and exams. But look at th
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> A deal where we reduce immigration but ask people to sponsor as some sort of civic duty. How about you can have all the immigration you want if you sponsor it? > I think it might reduce anti-immigrant sentiment if Americans were in
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Ask HN: How to short startups?
1 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How do you differentiate yourself as an older programmer?
5 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|6 comments
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
You're right, we've never had Real Marxism (TM) , we just have to try a little harder next time. > Capitalism (according to Marxist theory) can no longer sustain the living standards of the population due to its need to compen
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Not sure how this is being downvoted - the truth hurts. We just have it too damn good, and without any wide-scale struggles to know how good we have it. I would like to a read a serious response from a detractor.
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> I don't believe we ended up here due to some grand conspiracy, > but I do think that the top 1% have gotten so skilled at trapping wealth and therefore opportunity that it's really screwing over everyone else. I've go
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Fun fact about autism: given current trends, by 2032 one in two Americans will be diagnosed as autistic (80% of all boys). This observation was made by MIT Professor Stephanie Seneff: http://weeksmd.com/2015/12/181
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
So much is happening so fast in the name of bad publicity directed at Uber. Is anyone else cynically suspecting a coordinated hit? I don't doubt there's a toxic culture with real problems present. But the timing and sustained pres
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> Why won't the men compete for the jobs the women are getting? Because different people are suited to different jobs. Why didn't (and don't) women generally compete for manufacturing jobs? Because being a creative designe
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Ask HN: Your Best Morning Routine
14 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|5 comments
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Kindred AI is teaching robots new tasks using human virtual-reality “pilots.”(technologyreview.com)
2 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?
42 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|135 comments
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Can someone provide data showing how electric cars reduce emissions overall? Having something like this ready would help when discussing with people who are not sure of the benefits of EVs ("it still uses energy right?").
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Haha joke's on you, I don't have a Co-Founder! ...I'll go back to being miserable and lonely now.
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Seriously? We all know who Bill Gates is, but let's just examine this proposition as if someone else said it, maybe someone anonymous or who lacks prestige. We would tell them that sewing machine aren't taxed; farm equipment isn&#
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
It's a "millenial startup", you old timer ;)
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> Raising tech salaries and reducing the ridiculous exploitation of immigrant tech workers is good. > tech Are we able to replace "tech" with other types of workers? Or is nationalism only ok when it protects this particular
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Ask HN: Employee creates IP outside 9-5 unrelated to job. Does employer own it?
2 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|7 comments
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> I also shudder to think of how Eaton will fare on the job market should he actually be forced to seek regular employment. Will he be whiteboarded? 'Whiteboarding is a form of programming torture in which a candidate must code algo
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Ask HN: What qualities do you look for in potential co-founders?
42 points by zxcvvcxz 10y ago|17 comments
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Regardless, the only way to know if it was a statistically fair setup is to have: 1) the rankings of all playings in the tournament, and 2) the algorithm used to match players. If 2) matches players of similar ratings against eachother, and
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Question: isn't the drawing of opponents dependent on relative ratings? If so then it probably makes sense that more of one population would match with each other, assuming there are significant statistical differences in the populatio
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Yes please add some substance to your criticism. There is nothing wrong with criticism of ideas and I welcome it for my own. Perhaps I should have mentioned that I live and work in North America where GDP per capita is something like $54K U
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> I didn't know it was this possible to be so non self aware. Or leave and work for a competitor. I don't put a gun to anybody's head, unlike various socialist governments. Feel free to expand on this thought though. Note
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Please do share.
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
> Same goes to modern day dictatorships like North Korea. If not for international borders and internal controls, most North Koreans would probably prefer to leave their country. So, to continue the analogy, one could imagine a day in th
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Very interesting read. Assuming I descended from these people, I wonder if I could build up such a tolerance, because it sure doesn't seem that way on the rare occassions I do drink. Does anyone have links to a similar history of coffe
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
How do people in industry generally view these types of certificate programs? Is it markedly "worse" than doing e.g. a Master's on campus? Also - is this closer to a Master's level program or part of an undergraduate cur

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