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By using Indian workers you are helping to provide a living wage for people who really need it, not just for “beer money”.

Cleanup is standard work for any dataset. With enough money and a pile of Indians working for cheap hourly rates you can clean through A LOT of data. 10,000? Try a million!

Is paying money all it takes to speak at a conference? And does it really bring in 10x-100x ROI? I’m skeptical about that part and details were nebulous.

I feel like people don’t just downvote you once and move on, I feel that they go into your whole history and just downvote you as much as they can to wound your reputation, then th…

HN has been getting a lot of coordinated down votes lately.

Someone should make a twitter clone in this NES style. Might be more peaceful and fun to read. Good exercise for a CS student just starting out.

It’s unfortunate that the more diverse an organization becomes the more drama it seems to invite.

No one said GDPR was well thought out.

I was mostly referring to here in California, but it would also apply to: Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washingt…

If you remove the ability for people to spend money on worthless things, they will only have money to spend on useful things, and thus drive up inflation.

If you don’t consent to being recorded, they are required to serve you in an unrecorded line. And if they cannot, then you have been denied service. And if you’re denied service, y…

Are selfless acts the only possible good acts?

Opinions of Microsoft have been changing in the past few years and I think they will continue to change in a positive way in the next few years. The stock is a good buy.

Way too many developers are shocked to learn that Postgres has an existing Pub/Sub system using LISTEN and NOTIFY. Kind of makes some people rethink their stack.

How many users do you go after per month?

Because I’ve done it a few times and nothing happened.

In practice this never happens. I wouldn’t worry about this unless it has happened to you at least once.

How can you feel safe knowing your country’s only response for an attack is a nuclear bomb?

I wonder if VR gambling machines might provide a better gambling experience for gamblers while also preventing places from filling up with junky and bulky machines, and probably al…

How are the shutdown’s effects on the economy being measured? Where did they come up with 0.1% loss every 2 weeks?

No he’s not? I didn’t find that post particularly sarcastic, caffeine is just a chemical. If all you care about is getting a quick fix all the extra taste and ceremony has no added…

There’s always ways to get around being banned.

I find that the only scenario that Airbnb still comes in handy for is when you want to book a large place for a group of 8 people or more to stay together.

WeWork’s customers are also maintaining their own curated narrative. Many of them don’t actually care about ideology, they just want a hip co-working space where they can drink bee…