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utnick
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Comment #19678677
Maybe paying more is something that should be explored... I think for $500-$1,000 a month per person you would have widespread behavior change in most companies, and it wouldn't re…
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Comment #18322010
Wow this would be a very expensive purchase for IBM , redhat is currently worth about 20% of IBM's market cap
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Comment #16723611
Yup this also mean that Tesla's radar and camera systems had 5 seconds to realize it was driving straight into an unmoving concrete barrier and did nothing...
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Comment #16598451
by 'blockchain-based' they mean, a normal election happened with traditional voting, and then some of the vote counters uploaded the tally of the votes they counted to a private bl…
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Comment #16348025
The real gem of that WSJ article was that 10% of daily trades on E*Trade were either pot or cryptocurrency related
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Comment #16251758
Is that data that valuable though? Its not that unique, off the top of my head there are several companies that have similar datasets, Every movie theatre chain, every online movie…
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Comment #15929689
Here were mine Here were a few of mine, I’ve tried to get into ethereum a couple times - installing mist and getting it to sync is very difficult and time consuming - connecting to…
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Comment #15658493
I think the hate comes from some shady stuff the big brewers have historically done to push out smaller brewers, limiting tap and shelf space for craft, sponsoring laws that reduce…
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Comment #15555702
Check out backcountry Hunters & Anglers: https://www.backcountryhunters.org/ They fight to preserve and add to the existing lands.
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Comment #15523641
Sportsbooks in general don't mind winning players though, especially big ones. They make money off the vig and move odds to get equal money on each side of the bet so that they'll …
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Comment #15523613
There has to be more to this story. I would like to hear the bookmakers side of this. Perhaps the researchers were scripting or triggered some other kind of security tripwire. Winn…
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Comment #15369619
A possibly simpler solution would be to not have assigned places to vote that are based on your ID & DOB. Just vote at the polling place most convenient to you, and announce availa…
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Comment #15058658
When do you think programming began to have high prestige? I didn't think programming in the 80s or 90s was a particularly prestigous or high status job, salaries back then kind of…
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Comment #14964265
If you want to really see what the environment is like now, read the bitcointalk ico announcement threads. It's absolutely insane. Very little of that stuff makes its way to hn. Pe…
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Comment #14817426
My hunch is location, iron yard had a bunch of locations in 3rd and 4th tier markets where there just aren't that many programming jobs. Even in Austin which is probably one of the…
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Comment #14729687
> in order to increase housing prices for their own private investment benefit. I think its more that most people just don't like change and want their neighborhoods to remain the …
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Comment #14586311
Also how would it work if everyone is anonymous? Don't you need to know when people die?
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Comment #14083887
I use their papa johns codes frequently, they always seem to be good for 40% off - however lately I've noticed papa johns trying to cut out the middleman and run their own coupon a…
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Comment #13961161
If I received a resume from a collegiate track person I would probably google them out of curiousity to see how fast they were, and in this case I would realize it's a fake name an…
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Comment #13785188
Great idea, I think most people don't realize how great HSAs are. They are better than 401ks in almost every way besides the lower contribution limit. Even if you are very healthy,…
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Comment #13725746
I don't really see the point of not telling them, if the company has no idea about your previous salary, they aren't going to be tricked into offering you some huge number, they ar…
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Comment #13724244
the headline doesn't really match the content of the article...
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Comment #13696574
The worst part for me is how long the process takes, and how much time is invested for an interview process where the success rate is so low. My recent experience with AMZN was: - …