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by Alex63 16y ago
I will be interested to see how this story fares in voting over the next couple of days. I'm not really sure how it relates to "hacker news", unless one interprets hacking to include masquerading as a businessman. I trust The Atlantic en
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by Alex63 16y ago
That's the key point. It's hard enough dealing with one regulatory environment, and one set of threatened incumbents.
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by Alex63 16y ago
I'd be interested to hear of examples of successful companies (other than Posterous) where a founder is CEO and continues to develop. I would think that would be a very challenging balancing act.
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by Alex63 16y ago
Jerry Weinberg, in The Secrets of Consulting , recommends charging about 4 times the hourly rate that you want to make. Thus, if you think you could live on $40/hour (about $80,000 a year), you need to charge about $160 an hour. This give
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by Alex63 16y ago
Is it just me, or does the phrase a Western style democracy (used in the article) seem just a little ironic given the context?
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by Alex63 16y ago
Incredible! It reminded me of watching the Apollo launches when I was a kid. The web video feed was fantastic - amazing to be able to watch the Earth falling away in real-time. Would be interesting to know if the roll that was occurring
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by Alex63 16y ago
Agreed. I think this is why I incline toward online racing games, and multi-player tactical like Modern Warfare 2. You can play a "round" in 10 to 15 minutes, and fit the number of rounds to the time you have available. I found Elder Scr
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by Alex63 16y ago
I'm quite ready to say that promoting abstention from vaccination because it causes autism is wrong. There is no scientific evidence for such a claim. And, if you read The Ethics of Belief , you will find that my view is completely at odd
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by Alex63 16y ago
I'm certainly not arguing against free speech (I think if you read my earlier posts you will see that I did not suggest that), which is why I suggested that an economic disincentive was probably the only effective way to stop this kind of b
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by Alex63 16y ago
Understood. My real point was that until there is an economic disincentive, celebrities will continue to encourage other people to do stupid things. For doctors/lawyers, that disincentive is a malpractice suit. You are perfectly correct tha
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by Alex63 16y ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if celebrities could be sued for malpractice, as doctors can be? Oprah just seems to be a particularly noteworthy example of celebrities who encourage stupidity whether in medicine and science, or politics and ec
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by Alex63 16y ago
Seems like this is a popular promotion, based on their website performance. I wonder if it will make anyone reconsider the recent controversy over Amazon's pricing for Kindle editions. Seems like lots of people are willing to buy e-books f
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by Alex63 16y ago
I agree with the importance of good writing, but I'm curious about the headline. As I read it, the author gives two examples of how poor writing is costly: in terms of time spent correcting papers, and a reference to an estimate from the "
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by Alex63 16y ago
Osiris didn't say the images were illegal - Osiris asked whether the foundation had a right/obligation to remove the images "if, in fact," they were illegal. Seems like no one can say, at this point, whether the images were or were not il
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by Alex63 16y ago
Interesting story (and I admire the ingenuity), but isn't this an example of the Fallacy of Composition? It only works because no one else is doing it.
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by Alex63 16y ago
Can't help pointing out that shortly after Sean Connery's character derides Capone's men for "bringing a knife to a gunfight", they shoot him down in an alleyway into which he has chased them. Not that I expect anything similar in this par
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by Alex63 16y ago
That may be true in some countries, but not all. When I was based in Canada, working on projects in the States, and paid in Canadian dollars, if I spent more than a certain amount of time in the US (I think it was 180 days), I was liable f
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by Alex63 16y ago
Aren't there tax implications for "working" in another country?
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by Alex63 16y ago
At first glance this seems like a simple case of local government giving citizens what they want - something that should be applauded. Having worked in the old regulated telco environment, I have some questions that aren't answered by the
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by Alex63 16y ago
Not sure why people are down-voting this. This seems like a reasonable effort at argument by analogy. In point of fact, it is not uncommon in many parts of the world to pay for protection. Unfortunately, this creates an incentive for those
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by Alex63 16y ago
I'm curious. Is a "small, single-house plot" a 30'x50' lot? A quarter acre? An acre? 160 acres? Should someone with a house on 160 acres in northern Alberta be subject to the same restrictions as a condo-owner in Manhattan?
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by Alex63 16y ago
I like the idea that Boomers haven't been reproducing enough (although with 3 children I feel like I've done my part). As a tail-end Boomer, I don't see current 20-somethings as "lazy and incompetent", but I know that my peers and I discuss
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by Alex63 16y ago
Sorry, I may be missing your point, but how do you blame the Boomers (of which I'm at the tail end) for this situation? Shouldn't you be blaming the "Greatest Generation" (parents of the Boomers) for setting up a system that depended on ma
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by Alex63 16y ago
I think your perspective is biased towards considering post-WWII society as the norm. My perception is that the end of WWII marked a sudden change in most of the things you have called out (housing cost relative to income, job security, hea
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by Alex63 16y ago
Without implying any particular support for Mr. Winer's views, I don't think it's fair to say he made "3 factual errors". The point of his post was to compare the iPad (as delivered) and a netbook (as delivered). To that end, he points out
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by Alex63 16y ago
I liked the "About" page... This webpage collect all news about great and power efficient HTPC Media Center Barebone computer called ZOTAC MAG HD. It is a must have for any HTPC maniac Can they treat that?
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by Alex63 16y ago
I think you raise an interesting point. At a time when companies are so ready to shed unneeded workers, it should come as no surprise that employees are less loyal. However, I don't think that's the point of the article. The author is say
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by Alex63 16y ago
Isn't it ethically questionable for the manufacturers to know about the issue (as they admit in the article), but to charge extra for software to address it? At the very least, shouldn't encryption or the mentioned erase utility be sold wi
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by Alex63 16y ago
When you say "The fact that he's also anti-government is new", I have to assume you mean the fact that he's opposed to the current administration, as Chomsky's opposition to the US government in general is long standing. In my eyes, the art
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by Alex63 16y ago
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. What is the point of this "article", or posting it on HN?

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