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petraeus··on Bitumen balls could be a pipeline-free way to transport Alberta oil
You're right, we also need to ban, cars, milk, beef, beer, clothes, plastics, .. oh crap we've now banned everything that underpins our modern technological age.
petraeus··on The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
Quite the claim without any statistics to back it up, perhaps wired writers are now blue collar workers?

What percentage of professional 'coders' earning > $81,000 per year are college grads vs university grads?

I'm willing to bet its not going to support this hypothesis.

petraeus··on Build command line apps using PHP 7
Been doing this for years using CI and now Laravel 5
petraeus··on Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation
Thats the intention of bullying to silence your voice ...
petraeus··on A collection of things software developers should know
If you "have a life" you would not be offended by such a comment as you would have a work/life balance and thusly "gotten the life", this is projection in the extreme
petraeus··on U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
"I'll pay you $100/hr but the whole budget is 5 hours"
petraeus··on Engineering Uber's Self-Driving Car Visualization Platform for the Web
Pretty obvious attempt by uber to demonstrate their self-driving abilities to a national audience skeptical of their progress after having been ousted stealing technology secrets from waymo.

In short its propaganda, I have no doubts waymo is light years ahead of the current efforts of uber. Uber is trying to change the public perception in their favor.

petraeus··on How Grammarly Grew to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years
even more terrible is not using it and coming across as an ass in your comment
petraeus··on Got an idea? We'll build it for $20k
If that landing page is any indication of what you'll get its not worth 1k let alone 20
petraeus··on Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?
How is this flamebait? Do you agree or disagree that being born white and male in our society gives distinct advantages?
petraeus··on My wonderful world of macOS
Missing Stock+ Pro and CloudTV, also white noise is a good app to drown out office noise
petraeus··on Tanker becomes first to cross Arctic without icebreaker
I want free trade with Europe! btw im Canada
petraeus··on Stop Using the Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy
The best model would be to have an app that slowly unlocks more functionality based off off TOTAL revenue, so the whales effectively unlock content for the non-spenders.
petraeus··on Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censor Users
Good for PayPal, they are a private business and can choose who they will allow on their platform.
petraeus··on Facebook Figured Out a Family Secret and Won't Tell Me How
Streetview information is public, your dna is not, google would get sued out into oblivion if they did this.
petraeus··on Let’s kill no-reply
If a customer really wants to contact you they'll find a way. Life always finds a way.
petraeus··on Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
Its hilarious to me to think of the type of people who buy "organic" while driving around in their v6s living in their million $ homes and dressing in designers clothing.

its a feel good type of marketing intended for the weak minded ignorant hypocrites.

You actually want to save the world? live a minimalist lifestyle, stop over-consuming and realize your wealth is actually destroying the planet.

petraeus··on Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?
imagine playing texas holdem where the dealer always deals you two aces, thats basically being a white american male
petraeus··on Are You Downplaying Luck’s Role in Your Life?
countless? how about for a chinese orphan born during the tiananmen square massacre? I could count those opportunities on one hand
petraeus··on Burnout and Twitter fatigue
don't use twitter, problem solved
petraeus··on Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
Heres a plan for you,

1. open a brokerage account with your bank, 2. buy vanguard index funds for the next 20 years, 3. retire.

petraeus··on Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
Its pretty obvious, just look at alberta, they had a surplus for decades when oil prices were high, spent it all away plus even more, and now the rooster has come home. Every industry falls to this basic lack of fiscal discipline. Over-spend and over-leverage when times are good, thus inflating the bubble(s) even further and socialize the losses through bail-outs when the check comes due.
petraeus··on What Is Trump Worth to Twitter? One Analyst Estimates $2B
Twitter is needed precisely because there is nothing like twitter.

Where else can you have completely clueless unfactual stream of consciousness garbage being sprouted 24/7?

As a libertarian I think this garbage is as much a requirement for a free and stable society as alt-right, neo-left and msm outlets. It provides views and opinions that you don't want to hear but that you probably should know about.

petraeus··on Did I kill Gawker?
Karma eventually does work
petraeus··on Gawker has been gone for a year. We’ve never needed it more than now
Gawker is dead, long live Gawker!
petraeus··on My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
TLDR; It doesn't make you invisible only there are some badly coded apps out there that typecast null to strings, wired article cliackbait
petraeus··on Tech Jobs without a Degree
"humanities major in college" - i think i found your problem
petraeus··on Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selection process
Smart enough to land himself in prison .. is an oxymoron?
petraeus··on Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
It would be the shortest war in history
petraeus··on Ask HN: Where does one find true entry level development jobs?
A lot of military programs are written in COBOL and actively maintained to this day. The salary of these positions is significantly higher. Its a niche job.
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