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losteverything commented on Free speech cannot be sacrificed to strike fake news   thehill.com/opinion/cyber... · Posted by u/Jerry2
losteverything · 7 years ago
I wish people could live my life before cable and the internet.

We are so so much better off now than the 3 networks is all you get days.

Somebody in N.Y. decided what important to me, not me.

When i wanted a sports score or tomorrows weather I had to listen to 30 minutes of news.

As I get older I want to consume Far Less news.... And I can now pick and chose. A much better place than the 1960s or 70s

losteverything commented on $560M Powerball Winner Can Keep Her Name Private, Judge Rules   nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us... · Posted by u/breitling
losteverything · 7 years ago
I bet this person's letter carrier and/or the post office where she resides will know or have a very high and good guess at who she is
losteverything commented on Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says   npr.org/sections/thetwo-w... · Posted by u/javabank
toblender · 8 years ago
Vs. 0 dollars if these services did not exist.
losteverything · 8 years ago
Exactly. Friend wanted spending $ to europe. Became uber driver. Within one week had extra spending $.
losteverything commented on Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again   bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/adventured
losteverything · 8 years ago
Nobody wants to let Google win again.

I do. Google greatly enhanced my life, esp. Driving and directions.

I was an adult BI and speak from experience

losteverything commented on After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of the Fittest   wsj.com/articles/after-de... · Posted by u/cs702
Pigo · 8 years ago
I've been in serious debate with myself over whether to encourage my son to go to college when it is time. I guess it depends on what field I see him become interested in. I could provide enough resources for him to learn enough to get an entry level job, if he chooses tech. But I guess I still have that romantic notion of him getting a well-rounded education in many subjects that I couldn't help him with, making friends, and meeting interesting professors. At least I could help him find a good college. I was the first person in my family to even graduate high-school, so I was flying blind.

Besides the notion that so many jobs expected it when I was starting out, I'm not really sure what good it did for me. Put it this way, I couldn't even tell you where my diploma is. But once a month I still go online and pay for it.

losteverything · 8 years ago
Tell him to go.

College and dorm living is where, in our family, we meet and fall in love with our spouse. The marriages that worked passed this on for 4 generations. This is an unspoken teaching to all that grow up in all of our roofs.

For me, my kids, my siblings and our parents and (probably both gp) the best thing that happened in college was meeting our spouses.

losteverything commented on Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)   nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fa... · Posted by u/ValentineC
losteverything · 8 years ago
I'm the guy people want to ne friends with. Im very friendly. I don't want friends. Most end the same way: we connect, share & remember things, then i turn cold and act less interested. Then we become good acquaintances. This pattern existed way back in high schoolHi

Having friends is not on my list of success Or even a positive achievement. Being friendly is at the top of the list.

I say to people i meet and to others now, make sure the potential friend really wants the job.

losteverything commented on Ask HN: What has HN given you?    · Posted by u/jxub
losteverything · 8 years ago
The joy of reading (comments)

Duckduckgo

A feeling of elite-ness as not one other person i know (jobs, family or patrons) have ever heard of HN. It's my exclusive ivy-league braggard self worth identity

losteverything commented on Can Uber Ever Deliver? Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5B in 2017   nakedcapitalism.com/2018/... · Posted by u/Cbasedlifeform
losteverything · 8 years ago
Help me

For every 100,

Driver gets x Uber cut is y X+y = z

Z ÷??? = 100

Where does the 100 go?

losteverything commented on Utility poles   blog.plover.com/tech/util... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
losteverything · 8 years ago
The best example in my stats class on why sampling was used: working for the phone company he had to determine if poles were rotting. Practically speaking he could not use a random sample: he sent a pole climber to an area and while there, climb a few or several in the area. It would not be practical to climb one here, another 3 miles away, etc..
losteverything commented on 2018 Annual Letter from Bill and Melinda Gates   gatesnotes.com/2018-Annua... · Posted by u/shaki-dora
Kluny · 8 years ago
> But no way to give the coworker $200 to fix her car; $35 for gas; $100 till next oay; or one year of Uber so they dont spend 1.5 hrs pay to from work.

Why don't you do it?

losteverything · 8 years ago
Because of my insight i get to know a group of people barely making it. i do help when i can.

I see absolutely no financial help for the one time and many time needs of this group. Yet there are plenty of people with a lot of money.

If i asked them a question it would be have they considered helping people with tiny gifts. Did u read the article? They made up and answered 10 questions. I made one

u/losteverything

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