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bobwernstein··on Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights
It's because we pay extremely high road taxes and purchase taxes on cars. That's why.
bobwernstein··on D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)
I agree with you. For that kind of disrespect I would not only need to get paid for hotel and travel, but my time too. And waisting my time costs like 100x more per hour than my normal rate. Seeing as they cheapened out here by only paying hotel and travel, what does that say about how they treat their employees comp wise? Doesn't look good. For that alone I would avoid them like the plague.
bobwernstein··on D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)
they paid for your flight and hotel?
bobwernstein··on D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (2018)
If you need ads to attract applicants in the first place then you're the opposite of elite. Your lobby should be stocked 24/7 with hungry applicants without you even having a brand presence. That's elite.
bobwernstein··on Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location
is it live? Like can a get a pic of a place made at day light in the last 24 hours?
bobwernstein··on Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
Would you still recommend dancing to a short 5.3'' male? Are tall strong males preferred in dancing? I don't know how equal those classes are but on tv you see those couples dancing and there is definitly a ''role'' to play for the male (like picking up the woman etc.).
bobwernstein··on Ideas That Changed My Life
yup I see it now. Thanks for the explanation.
bobwernstein··on Ideas That Changed My Life
you're right. thanks for the informative explanation.
bobwernstein··on Ideas That Changed My Life
>as the price of the staple rises, so demand for it goes up.

in $ terms, sure, but only because the price went up. In absolute units? No.

bobwernstein··on $60953 self-sufficient loft-style tiny home on wheels can be towed anywhere
60K? Are they retarded or something? One can get the same thing for 10K from china. Add 2k for shipping. 12k you're done. Check on Alibaba plenty of suppliers and custom builders.
bobwernstein··on Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years
because you have to pay at the door. so nobody is paying
bobwernstein··on Regulators may punish Deutsche Bank for its Jeffrey Epstein ties
it did nothing about the smoke and mirrors op is talking about. It revealed nothing on that front.
bobwernstein··on Is a trillion dollars’ worth of programming lying on the ground?
why do you think it is that those that are in dire need of oppertunities blow them with the lack of work ethics while those in first world countries are willing to work long hours to get even richer? Is it really greed and/or keeping up with the joneses? At the expense of free time?
bobwernstein··on Why We Don't Shoot Earth's Garbage into the Sun (2019)
why don't we build a chimney up to space and release all that co2 into space?
bobwernstein··on A Small Fintech Stock Surged 2,400% After Announcing It’s a Crypto Company
Do you have an example?
bobwernstein··on SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO
Capitalism. Just worry about yourself. No ico is forcing anyone to invest. Just like Kickstarter doesn't. Or Casino's. Or the stock market. Or equity crowndfunding.
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