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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
>>> Politics in a democracy of 180MM people is really, really messy. >> It seems messier than politics in a democracy of 300MM people or 70MM... > Snark serves no one well. FWIW I didn't see it as snark. You seemed to
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
That's what burns me. We already pay ISPs to deliver the data that we request. They should take our money and improve their infrastructure. Instead, they want to get paid again, by e.g. Netflix, and the result would still be basicall
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Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files(audiocheck.net)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
For criminal matters, the short answer is, never. See Don't Talk to the Police . [1]. You want a defense attorney to handle this. For civil matters, although IANAL I think similar reasons apply, so similar answer: Don't Talk to
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
FWIW using the Add-Ons tab's search for "tree style tabs" gives 9 results, none of which include this add-on. But when I click "269 more results", then Tree Style Tab is the first result on that addons.mozilla.org p
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Yeah this was recently in the news in Massachusetts. It appears he persuaded a Mass. Senator to ask for investigations, in order to hurt the stock price and support Ackerman's short gamble: > In Washington, Mr. Ackman’s efforts bore
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Yes I got the impression his attitude about evidence-based medicine is similar to that saying about accounting -- that "accounting is the art of looking in the rear view mirror and dragging your ass into the future". i.e. Accounti
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
When I hear "the perfect is the enemy of the good" it's usually in response to the sentiment, "I can't ship this yet; it's not 'perfect'". In the context of this article: You have a patient who n
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Imagine you want to settle a dispute with someone, and agree that you won't pursue it further in court. Generally, that's a very wise thing to do, when possible. Preparing for and doing a trial is extremely expensive and disru
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I don't bother to debate it anymore. I just write "internet". Just like I write "web", "blog", "electricity", and "debate". (I do however capitalize "I". Because narcissism.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Yes, but GP wasn't advocating some sort of Disneyesque intellectual property regime. On the contrary, GP is pointing out that a lot of big, rich companies and their investors have been freeloading off the volunteer work of these 2 guys
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
There's an old saying, "perfect is the enemy of good". Here OP plays the role of Perfect. You are Good. (Opinions vary about the wisdom of this old saying. See: perfect vs. good.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Talking about ink isn't funnier than talking about digging under a foundation ("undermine"). I think we all know what both of you mean, with your non-literal, colorful expressions. :) GP makes a good point. Google is a de fac
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Or one can always make a mother*ucking web site [^1], which works perfectly in every browser. Zero issues with font size, layout and scrolling. Just-works. [1]: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Although he makes some good points -- it can be tricky to hire people with more experience than you, especially in the areas where you're weakest -- the title is pretty awful. "When to hire 'old people'?" <-- i
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
When you think about it, Comcast NBC Universal is doing the same stuff with Aereo. Broadcasters get a government monopoly on a finite resource. Broadcasters don't provide a good signal to all customers. Some customers want to use Aereo
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Although it's nowhere close to 75%, probably more like 33%, I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. Let's say the total settlement is for, say, $3 billion. The lawyers get $1 billion. That is a _lot_ of money for the w
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I got the sense that the employee was being paid for the 3 months, and spending time mostly to look for a new job -- not to do actual work for the company. As a result, the CEO probably thought it was reasonable to ask him to help out with
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> What surprises me is that I can't find any pages in English. So good luck navigating if you don't understand danish. The American expat community hasn't grown large enough to form an effective separatist group and demand
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
On the other hand, the article implies that the broadcasters are not very good at... broadcasting. A big challenge for Aereo was finding a location that gets all the signals: > "It's striking to me," Lipowski said, describ
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Exactly, it's about walking the walk -- non-self-consciously and without artifice. It's a product of negative verbal space: The actual values/culture are communicated by what isn't said, because they're presumed to
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I understand your reaction but: > Your pay is not tied to how many hours you work as we are overwelmingly talking about sallried profesionals on HN. Maybe not hours. But definitely some unit. There is always a pay rate, whether the denom
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I often found it discouraging to contemplate how much time and energy is spent thinking and arguing about PTO (paid time off) policies. It turns everyone into a FlyerTalk forum member. Worrying about how to game the system, or prevent it fr
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Yes, and it's especially frustrating when you are a newer user and trying to "learn the rules" and contribute constructively. Although I understand HN is cautious about welcoming new users in general, it probably ought to w
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
It's a problem with unnecessarily monolithic SaaS, where everyone reinvents e.g. the storage piece of it. You should be able to tell XYZ service to work with your photos as stored on Amazon S3. Or stored on, what's that other comp
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I keep trying to read the 2014 item, but the page keeps refreshing to the 2011 item full-frame. This on Firefox. Seems to be OK on Chrome. Is this a "requires Chrome" site, like Google+ Photos? I think such sites should show littl
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Looks like library.linode.com has the same format, and is still the same fantastic resource. I'm embarrassed to say that once upon a time I used library.linode.com to help walk me through my first Linux server setup... running on Digit
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
We had software engineers help 1 hour a day on support, myself included. It started out of necessity (tiny startup), but survived many years. Gave people great perspective. Google has (had?) "20% time". This was more like "12
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand this language: > I will promptly disclose In writing to the Company all discoveries, developments, designs, ideas ...yada yada... made, conceived, reduced to practice, or learned by me (either alone or joi
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
People have strong feelings about this on all sides (and I think there are more than two sides). However hopefully everyone on that whole spectrum will agree -- and never forget -- how OkCupid and Sam Yagan decided to step into it and act l

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