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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Right. Because the steamboat ferries, railroads, interstate highway system, and the internet were created by the free market...
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I can't figure out why so many public university employees reply to this thinking their situation is relevant. Governments and 501(c)3's are very different beasts than for-profit companies.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I'm not sure how you can call it "self-centered" as neither the founder nor myself were CEO. The reason to use the CEO's salary was because he had the highest salary. If you want to use more realistic numbers, the engineers were paid $90-15
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Based on what you've written here, I'm very interested in what you are talking about. However, what I can't understand is why you would choose to go-it-alone, when other projects are looking to do the same thing. Namely, buddycloud.org and
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
The first startup I worked at, the founder wanted to make salaries not only transparent, but made known as a fraction of the CEO (e.g. 1/3*CEO_pay). The board, made mostly of VCs, did not like this idea at all and convinced the founder it w
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Your second sentence is a bit rude, and unnecessarily so. Lots of people think the status quo is perfect as it is quite an improvement over what they used 10 years ago. Even for an idiot like me, after utilizing the bittorrent protocol for
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Thanks for digging in on the data (and practicality), I'm curious what the cost-difference would be when considering what capacity fiber to put in the ground (where the real costs lay). I would guess 'sky is the limit' when considering what
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Perhaps. But if I could buy 5% of their stated capacity? (i.e. 50Mbps up and down) for $50, that would be a huge improvement. My theory is that Google realized they could not penetrate last-mile infrastructure in any significant way. Howeve
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
For anyone else not familiar, OOTB == out of the box. Thank you urban dictionary...
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I realize this is pretty much irrelevant, but I just wanted to point out that Blackwater has changed its name twice, and is now known as Academi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Are you trying to make some vague point through sarcastic remarks? If so, I find it completely unhelpful and unconstructve. I am pretty sure internet snark is long-since outgrown by most of HN. Feel free to add something of substance.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I think the plan is that if you have to manage costs as closely you describe (as you or I might), your revenue opportunities are too small to care about in comparison with the founders' expectations of a giant exit. Many of us are not even
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I really don't care about this issue at all, but if I have to read any more threads with you relentlessly defending Windows, you have to disclose your employer. Looking at your comment history, you are obsessed, and I don't think it's fair.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
There are no regular work hours, and nobody is obligated to show up. I know of a publicly traded company that has an almost identical model, but for freight. If you are interested, at a recent transportation conference, the CEO walked the a
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
In the freight transport world, the truckers that work for carriers directly make 1/2 to 1/3 what the independents get. In addition, the independents have the right to chose when they work, so if they want to take a week off, that's their p
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
While I sympathize with the drivers' right to protest for better treatment, I wouldn't characterize these drivers as employees. It sounds like they should be protesting the lack of granularity/ accuracy of the Uber rating system. Just so yo
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I'm not sure that's fair because zite obviously already had some degree of integration with Google Reader, and an elegantly enough built back-end to speed further integration (admittedly, I don't know the specifics). As a side note: I'm not
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Look, I am completely out of my element on this one, and apparently, the people attracted to this entry feel very strongly about it. I've only ever been to industry and academic conferences, and I would actually characterize these other thi
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
That's the first, and only, example I could think of. I do not know of any other.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I agree. You make a good point (even though I will never accept that cons==conferences). Next time I will just silently downvote, and move on. I apologize to all for expressing this pedantic feeling.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Interesting. And what would you estimate is the time loss of that 0.5 seconds multiplied by 5x per day translates to in a year? I suppose this is a bit of the curmudgeonly attitude I fear I am acquiring (i.e. get off my lawn), but I do take
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Sorry for the off-topic/ pedantic, but since when has VM stood for Veronica Mars, and cons stood for conferences? To me VM == virtual machine, and cons==convicts. I realize context changes that, but I like browsing from the https://news.yc
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I think your project is quite nice, but I'm an extremely private person, and don't wish to be found by random folks I went to high school with or be stalked by ex-es. So, some way to not be listed in any searchable directory would be a must
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Looking through the git repo, it appears NewsBlur does.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
There is OPML import ability on the same modal that offers GR import.
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Does NewsBlur support authenticated ATOM feeds? Also, does it support 'deep' Craigslist queries? I tried to add this feed, for example: http://denver.craigslist.org/search/cto?maxAsk=28000&min... without success, but it could be your
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
This is interesting: Freedom-buddy uses the world class TOR network so that boxes can find each other regardless of location or restrictive firewall and then allows the boxes to negotiate secure direct connections to each other for actuall
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
I'm curious what searches have you done to find such data. Companies like Netspend (just acquired this week by TSYS) and Greendot exist almost exclusively to serve this market. American Express has their own offering called Bluebird card to
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
Actually, it is neither rhetoric, nor a straw man; I never suggested that you, specifically, advocated for a monarchy. However, back in the 18th century, many people in Europe probably would have (Canada and Australia certainly opted for de
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by 18pfsmt 14y ago
It seems to me that every site is adopting this technology, so what, exactly, are you waiting for? The writing is on the wall. Personally, I would suggest using a cookie management tool like cookie monster [1], and other tools like Request

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