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pba

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    Comment #25768160

    I would say neither 'government' nor a 'union' are the answers in this case. In the mostly free-market based economy that we live in today (thinking of the USA and most European co…

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    Comment #25026267

    Here's a compilation of some of the instances he's done so: https://streamable.com/sr9o2s

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    Comment #22739592

    The market falling as a whole does not mean that every single individual investment one could have a position in during that time loses value.

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    Comment #22349209

    I predicted Facebook's success years ago. I think what everybody misses, even within the tech industry is that Facebook (and now Instagram) have one very important 'killer app' for…

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    Comment #22038367

    Maybe this was the whole point of the author's post.. but I'm fairly certain the reason the author's use case is not easily workable is because the OEMs mentioned are deliberately …

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    Comment #18859390

    To be more clear, when I click on Hacker News items I have come to expect them to be of a somewhat more thoughtful nature; a la "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosit…

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    Comment #18856362

    This article (post?) is the 2019 version of chain mail. Weak insights, no academic substantiation. I had to stop reading at the 'words for emotions' part.. 'sonder' and the rest ar…

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    Comment #17085847

    I wouldn't think so, its "Howey" with a 'w' rather than "honey".

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    Comment #15570517

    It does seem like Apple under Cook is in 'maintenance mode'- by which I mean the company is only making incremental improvements in their existing product lines without designing b…

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    Comment #15570420

    The article uses some of the worst graphs I've ever seen. Wouldn't pie charts have been clearer?

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    Comment #11643832

    Agreed, this code was probably written by a contractor rather than one of their mathematicians I'd imagine