durbin

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Comment · 7 years ago
You may downvote me all you wish, I stick by my comment. haha. These are really bad takes.
Comment · 7 years ago
Reading these comments has actually made everyone in the room less intelligent.
Comment · 7 years ago
Wikibuy was already acquired by Capital One.
Comment · 7 years ago
AutoCAD is a 3D program. Electrical and Mechanical Engineers that work in the AEC industry use AutoCAD. "Bridge Builders" aka structural engineers use AutoCAD.
Comment · 7 years ago
A lot more professions use AutoCAD than just Architects. Mechanical Engineers, Structural Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Aerospace Engineers, etc.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Also, my friend's mom, Ms. Akans, cosigned my loan for my first computer when I went to college.
Comment · 9 years ago
My mom was a court transcriptionist so that she could work from home and take care of my brother and I. Even though we hovered around the poverty line I had 24/7 computer access from the age of seven.
Comment · 11 years ago
Source code link?
Comment · 11 years ago
Abbott Nutrition and other meal replacement drinks DO NOT provide you with a nutritionally complete meal, Soylent does. It is as simple as that.
Comment · 11 years ago
Whenever I hear anyone talk about Soylent as a utilitarian product made for boring people it always makes me think of the Volkswagen Beetle. Everyone initially thought they were utilitarian cars and only boring people should buy them, until they realized that artists and trendsetters were buying them because a vast majority of people don't use their cars as their main source of artistic expression. There are a lot of people that don't use what they eat as their main artistic expression.
Comment · 11 years ago
I always get that I look younger by like 10 years but this algorithm nailed it exactly. Bummer.
Comment · 11 years ago
Scoreboards will take a bit longer to react than the announcers and goal horn.
Comment · 12 years ago
"One of the most frequent questions I get from journalists during interviews is “how do you have time to do everything you do? You run Fon, you are an active angel investor in so many companies, you teach at Columbia University, speak at conferences, run your foundation, and on top of that you have your family, your wife, 6 children, you cycle, sail, and so on. How do you do it?”

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