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Thanks for the completely uninformed prognostication on my future income! I will definitely not keep it in mind.

I don't understand people who say this. Have you ever tried to hire? I'm 28yrs old and I make ~$400K/yr. That doesn't happen when there's some major abundance of talent sitting aro…

> Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget, which is not excellent for this purpose, as you point out. T…

This reminds me of the phrase "if you only have a hammer, every problem is a nail". > Poor people buy less stuff, and presumably rich people get rich by not buying more stuff comme…

China, the country != Chinese (Asian?), the race

Or more importantly in this case: sell high, buy low

He's going to agree to one after leaving? As a part of severance?

Only Apple could get shat on for using appropriate but obscure terminology.

That seems like an odd cost increase. How do you figure it would lead to a tripling of op costs?

This is true if you only consider the first order effect of copyright. However, the second order effects would lead to, for example, significant decrease in investment of the creat…

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

That could very well be an affect of long term acclimation.

There's a big difference between seeing high concentrations of carbon dioxide as indicative of poor ventilation and seeing high concentrations of carbon dioxide itself as detriment…

Very valuable to know. Thank you.

Way OT, but, I'm interested in why you and the parent comment are writing Netflix with a capital "F" as NetFlix. I've not seen this in any of their branding or collateral before. I…

You're making a very large number of assumptions. In particular #1, #3 and #4. None of these are clear.

It's all in my head? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629960 (now deleted) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629995 I think…

It seems most posters didn't really read the article as the tariffs appear to be in compliance with a WTO ruling on something illegal the EU is doing wrt subsidies to Airbus. Unsur…

Tried to create an Outline but it seems WSJ blocks them. Very interesting article wrt economics of buffets in NYC. Apologies for paywalled link.

> I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company. In order to make a purchase of X i…

Yeah the listicle type results have really started to increase in search relevance for me. ESPECIALLY when I search on mobile. I think mobile Google Search is a truly awful experie…

What!? I've lived in the Mission for 5yrs and know plenty of others who also have. Never once been mugged our had my house broken into! The car thing, though, everyone in SF who st…

No. Uber gets location data FROM Foursquare. EDIT: That is, the API call doesn't include info about the individual. Foursquare wouldn't know who the individual is for whom the requ…