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Re:How to Cover the One Percent on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:45AM (#10973574)
There's a kernel of truth here, but you have to be careful about comparing _numbers_ of white/black people killed/jailed. You need to look at the per-capita (percentage) killed or jailed. There are way more "white" people so of course there are more of them killed/jailed/whatever! But when you look at the percentage then you see the injustice. "The country is about 63 percent white and 12 percent black... death rate due to legal intervention was more than three times higher for blacks than for whites in the period from 1988 to 1997."

Source: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/21/...

Re:Ask HN: At what point did you just start working on a prototype? on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:35AM (#4516686)
Don't do it - unless you can find customers first. Read: http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...
Re:Calendar Apps Suck, but they don't have to on Friday September 07, 2012 @02:43PM (#4490556)
due to high traffic, the site went down briefly. it's back up
Re:Future Searching on Thursday September 16, 2010 @11:42PM (#1700038)
In my mind it would be a combination of recruiter, product manager, and maybe architect
Re:Future Searching on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @01:14PM (#1694978)
This reminds me of "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge: A "coordinator" is someone who combines the efforts of multiple people and this is where the "biggest and most famous money" will be (has been?) found. See page 50-51, http://books.google.com/books?id=WT-OXLZE2m8C&q=combine#...