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Comment #11672209
Strong case could be made for 1946.
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Comment #11672204
Curiously, the breakdown of degrees by demographic doesn't include employment. The article seems to make the case that people should seek institutional education. Broadly, that mak…
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Comment #11580186
Maybe you are right, but what are we blaming silicon valley for? Being wrong on a venture investment? I don't really understand any of this. A well funded company was unsuccessful …
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Comment #11562908
ah, gotcha, I guess my point above was that titles are abitrary as fuck. For example: Patrick Collison dropped out of MIT to be the founder and lead developer of 2 technology compa…
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Comment #11562760
> The course content of the Chemical Engineering courses at Stanford are almost certainly identical to the Chemical Engineering courses at San Jose State. Even if we accept that St…
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Comment #11562716
This article is both great at explaining an effective way of operating a business/client relationship & unrelated to it's title.
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Comment #11562702
Definitely true. I would suspect slightly less people would see it this way, but feasibly $12.00 a year would be solid, you could have access for a full-year and not think about it…
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Comment #11562680
I understand where you're coming from but is there a qualification for "scientist". Is Mark Zuckerberg or Patrick Collison considered computer scientists? Is Richard Branson consid…
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Comment #11562657
I think the descriptor is fairly accurate these are Dark, but not really outright dishonest. They do a lot to funnel you in, which I think is understandable but it was tougher to g…
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Comment #10365814
then you would have correctly assessed the satire.
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Comment #10365631
Finally. It's refreshing to see US try to drive a stake between the corporate interests and a big monolithic government. This is a country that is spying on economic allies all ove…
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Comment #10365468
> What are these people (politicians) even doing the whole day? Adding rules, regulation and loopholes that will only be read by a low level data-entry clerk and their new Artifici…
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Comment #10365456
While Rand isn't the most likeable of charachters and her argument is often persented as anti-povery, on a high level contributing to society through your work is an amazing privel…
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Comment #10364773
Twitter is undervalued, Jack Doresey can't run two stagnating companies in parrallel. Cut jobs, merge the companies (because Square's IPO isn't going to be successful and combine c…
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Comment #10356462
Super cool thanks. Still can't figure out why I can't connect to HN, but no tracking beacons which is nice.
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Comment #10356396
Hey dang, Thanks for getting back to me quickly yesterday and restoring my old hn name. I still seem to be unable to connect from my entire network, and I have gotten a few arbitra…
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Comment #10355976
100% agree. That is why it has been successful. The magnitude would certainly be less if the cost was more because demand is elastic, but head to head with cabs they would dominate…
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Comment #10355916
I like ridesharing, great market offering for consumers and drivers. Using a rental agency like this is good because those cars are underutilized and that can help people without c…
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Comment #10355411
The article just below it indicates users can opt-out but mobile tracking is such a big business I sm sure that if it actually is possible, it is not easy. Anyone have good privacy…
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Ask HN: Why can I not reach HN from my home network?
I've been experiencing errors connecting to HN, and can only reach it via mobile. At first I thought I was banned due to a satirical string of comments or possibly posting an html …
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Comment #10347470
Link is 404. Initially I was turned off by this, but maybe it makes sense. They need to save advertising for their business and ads cost users a lot of money on mobile bandwith so …
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Comment #10347298
Why is this downvoted? I am not a stickler for 100% compliance here, but look at the MDN[0] attribute list. They are all logical and semantic things and they are converted into obj…
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Comment #10347210
Which page did you click first?