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Re:The Joys of Victimhood (1989)
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @07:30PM (#16200965)
Do you get paid by Israel to make posts? Because I've heard that people do get paid to make favorable posts.
Re:A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @12:23PM (#16198904)
Young bright people diverted to work on eeking out higher margins for the capital class instead of...anything else.
Re:A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @12:15PM (#16198856)
Are prime brokers allowed to copy your trading strategy? Or do you sign a contract saying they wont?
Re:Aaron, 5 years later
on Saturday January 13, 2018 @08:37PM (#16142369)
I'm sure on HN there are both alumni of MIT hit up for donations as well as high school students considering applying, who could bring this into consideration.
Re:Why dolphins are deep thinkers (2003)
on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:57PM (#16129221)
At what point in embryonic development are these magnetite crystals formed, and how? Amazing
Re:Show HN: Monthly subscription airline with SFO-LAX flights starting...
on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @08:42PM (#16120854)
Did you read this point of the comment?
"I don't want to put my life in the hands of someone who is worried about where their kids' next meal will come from."
Re:Extreme event attribution is an expanding subfield of climate science
on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:41PM (#16054816)
Your reference to and unreserved use of the term "ClimateGate" makes me question your agenda here. Wasn't "ClimateGate" determined to be a smear campaign? I'm asking rhetorically as I can see the discussion devolving.
Re:Serial Swatter Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes
on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:25PM (#16054619)
Why don't we employ the NSA to provide value here, by tracing back the few swatters that are responsible for the majority of these events? We know they have the capability.
Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:19PM (#16054558)
Gosh I wonder why politicians don't do anything in the interest of the public?
Re:In Malaysia, Nutritionists Take Money from Food Giants
on Saturday December 23, 2017 @09:30AM (#15994270)
Great example of how we must be ever watchful. Consumer protections are a must.
Re:Consumers are frustrated by endless streaming services
on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:52PM (#15962866)
The promise of new technology was to provide simplicity and better prices for the consumer, not for content providers to try to run around maintaining legacy profit margins.
Re:The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:32PM (#15962611)
This will ensure every web page application can be closed source then right?
Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipa...
on Monday December 18, 2017 @09:57AM (#15952021)
People run into the same wall dealing with support for any company.
Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipa...
on Monday December 18, 2017 @09:55AM (#15952004)
I think the Koch brothers are more active and problematic than the other side's boogeyman, George Soros.
Re:More than half of all private wealth has been inherited in most of ...
on Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:07PM (#15949102)
I'm not so simple-minded to think that when I pay taxes I can relate to a billionaire having to pay taxes
Re:Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent ...
on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:09PM (#15943308)
I like how the "height" of conservative thought is to spin terrible things to somehow depict benefit for the individual.
Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:30PM (#15934340)
If only the gains from that boom could go to more than just a few...
Re:Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded...
on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:02PM (#15919629)
Remember Aaron Swartz
Re:The Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free
on Monday December 11, 2017 @09:56PM (#15902680)
So much capital movement in VC circles, don't be surprised that the gossip about it sells too.
Re:Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages
on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:17AM (#15891740)
Off topic to this post but can you confirm any details on your company's intentions following the dismantling of net neutrality?
Re:A Cruise Ship Called “The World” Is a Luxury Home at Sea for the Su...
on Saturday December 09, 2017 @11:06PM (#15889837)
Well we shouldn't give up on reining in profiteers and tax-evaders. It's the good fight. Oh and re: middle class retirement plans, the more the gains the more the tax.
Re:Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
on Saturday December 02, 2017 @05:20PM (#15834508)
And they got that work experience originally due to internships... which they only got due to elite networking or pedigree
Re:Living in cars, working for Amazon
on Saturday December 02, 2017 @05:09PM (#15834447)
Why is this top response just a deflection?
Re:Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands
on Saturday December 02, 2017 @04:59PM (#15834372)
You don't get to choose what your taxes goes to.
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Fore...
on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:19AM (#15823928)
I guess Americans are different - I make effort to try to understand immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asian countries as form of bridging the cultural divide and attempting more harmony with others regardless their origin. I guess Danes are too lazy or boorish for this.
Re:Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Turkers
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:20PM (#15813447)
And I can only imagine shareholders and capital encouraging this deception instead of admonishing it. We must build mechanisms to correct this behavior.
Re:Woman offers WaPo false tale about Roy Moore in effort to discredit...
on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:02PM (#15791955)
All conservatives should speak out against Project Veritas and have it shut down.
Re:What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong with innovation
on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:13AM (#15787884)
Hmm. What about an escape mechanism for its people at least? Or scarce mineral resources that could be brought back?
Re:Call for the Resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Varadaraj Pai
on Saturday November 25, 2017 @10:37AM (#15776336)
This constitutional republic isn't working either.
Re:VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case
on Saturday November 25, 2017 @09:31AM (#15776093)
I could easily see the interviewer twist this to ask the next question "But does that mean you won't be loyal to us??"