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ewb

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    Most sports have a salary cap to prevent being able to buy your way to success. They recognize that having more money than your opponent gives you an unfair advantage and destroys …

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    Comment #26999981

    I mean that's a false choice, plenty will be keeping work conversations professional elsewhere while also having 6 months salary. I don't know if a full third of a company leaving …

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    Comment #26336402

    Prepping for 3+ months is definitely not the baseline. I'd really need some convincing that you're getting any real incremental benefit past a week of interview prep. There's not t…

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    Comment #23314184

    "Stealing an idea" has been a phrase for far longer than that though. Stealing as a metaphor for intangible objects isn't a creation of the media companies.

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    Comment #21464852

    Turning $10 billion into $45 billion over 10 years isn't really that incredible. That's less growth than Comcast has had over the same period. Which most would not consider a dynam…

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    Comment #20821709

    So by extension, don't you have an ethical obligation to have as many children as possible regardless of the quality of life you can provide them? At least they'll have a life that…

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    Comment #3839224

    How in particular do they work well together? Backbone is something I've been meaning to try out.

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    Comment #3748699

    "But I guess you could dump old data to disk and load it back to Redis only when you need it." Redis has a mode which does this automatically I believe (and it's the default if I r…

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    Comment #3659166

    It's a way to convey tone through text. Sometimes the same comment can be taken in either a rude or a helping way, and prefacing it with "I don't mean to be rude" is a way of sayin…