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B0btheBuilder
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Comment #42980033
I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making. I also read the page in the PDF you lin…
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Comment #19426729
There's a great episode of the "Hidden Brain" podcast about scarcity: https://www.npr.org/2017/03/20/520587241/the-scarcity-trap-w... One claim made was that poverty and loneliness…
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Comment #19397268
I'm struggling to see a distinctive difference between a middleman and a platform...
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Comment #19375218
Actors, comedians, and politicians all have memorized scripts, lines, routines, and soundbites. I'm very curious as to what hathawsh's eventual answer to baxtr's question will be, …
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Comment #19004983
I don't know about the salaries, but let's keep in mind that Alibaba and Tencent are two of the biggest companies in the world.
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Comment #18937898
I am also younger (mid 20s) and I've had my FB deactivated for several years now; I also don't have Instagram or Snapchat. I admittedly do use Meetup.com and its app. Initially, I …
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Comment #18755710
Considering that NYC, Chicago, and LA are the three biggest cities in the country, I would say, yes, quite a few of them grew up in these regions. If anything, boomers would be the…
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Comment #18729708
>iCloud data doesn't contain phone call contents or iMessage data contents. Literally the first paragraph of both of bduerst's links suggest otherwise. Also, I don't know if you've…
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Comment #18644251
>it’s not the checkbook that pays salaries Doesn't the checkbook of a business literally pay salaries? I'm unclear as to what you're arguing here.
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Comment #18586631
>The truth is that it's better for children if parents in a low-conflict marriage to stay together. My siblings and I are all young adults in our twenties, but we've wanted our par…
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Comment #18577800
Nope. Which is why I refuse to use services like theirs.
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Comment #18563760
>It is just not my impresion that men who hop relationships look all that better. The comitted ones are not ugly ones. There are plenty of good-looking men in committed relationshi…
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Comment #18529008
>remember that British kid who sold a recommendation engine to Yahoo? Nick D'Aloisio? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio ) I was confused when you mentioned him, then I…
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Comment #18528848
Zuckerberg's mom's a psychiatrist and his dad's a dentist. His dad taught him BASIC programming as a kid and then hired a software engineer as his tutor. Gates' dad's a prominent l…
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Comment #18528114
Even competent people with good training aren't perfect. Competent people make mistakes. You mention bridges, buildings, and ships, all projects built by massive teams of people an…
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Comment #18289044
I think it has to do with the idea that technical skills are more transferable than product management and that there are more job openings for technical roles than management role…
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Comment #18122575
The parent comment wrote one sentence. How did you miss the "working for a low wage" part?
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Comment #17658564
>vocab is very highly correlated with IQ, which is stable thought life and cannot be boosted. Yet, from Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient ): >Raw scor…
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Comment #17190739
I have three siblings and one parent still using Yahoo. The other parent uses Outlook. They just don't wanna deal with the hassle of moving to Gmail.
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Comment #17190696
On top of that, said toxic people usually start harassing other users.
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Comment #17181679
Google - 85,050 employees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google ) Facebook - 25,105 employees ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook ) Amazon has 566,000 employees ( https://en.…
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Comment #17179875
>They are simply not important enough (by hiring volume) to carry the weight they currently do. Unforunately, they are. A large proportion of the tech industry is startups / small …
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Comment #17112966
On top of the convenience, I don't have to risk putting my credit card information into random websites. My parents dislike online shopping because they're fearful of getting credi…
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Comment #17055659
>Doesn't immigration law in America apply equally to immigrants from everywhere? Isn't part of the whole immigration debate in America the fact that Latinos find it easy to illegal…
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Comment #16993667
>The second is a fictional prize created to let Americans have prizes too. Huh? Doesn't the U.S. have more Nobel laureates than any other country?