Hyena

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by Hyena 15y ago
Yep. It is illegal for a US citizen to travel abroad to solicit sex with a child. But I'm not sure the concept is so outrageous; I think most countries illegalize certain behavior overseas, like smuggling, weapons or person trafficking, or
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by Hyena 15y ago
The problem is simply that without the curtain, it becomes possible to use this as part of an evasion strategy. When "Americans abroad" consisted almost entirely of the military and the millonares, the complexity of the system mattered much
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Evidence?
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by Hyena 15y ago
There's got to be a typology somewhere for this sort of thing. It's a theme in commentary.
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by Hyena 15y ago
So how does this fit in with the other articles on HN which insist that there are far more openings than people?
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by Hyena 15y ago
Of course they did. As more gains are realized in capital rather than wages, the rich will literally get richer. At the same time, it's becoming ever less clear that many of them serve a useful purpose. Justifying executive pay is losing gr
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by Hyena 15y ago
I was skeptical of this move at first, but I think the argument is fairly sound. I think a lot of commenters are focusimg on the technical aspect of the service and I agree, Hastings is being disingenuous when he says "they're two totally d
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by Hyena 15y ago
Tl;dr: the principal way to realize gains is by focusing on students who underachieve on current metrics without assuming that increased quantities of mass methods will work. Bravo. Education: welcome to how everything else on Earth has bee
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by Hyena 15y ago
These articles are driven forward under the assumption that Groupon and Facebook share the same space. They do not. The sooner Facebook focuses on optimizing its traditional social network capacity, the better. Everything else is irrelevant
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by Hyena 15y ago
I think the major problem here is that the studios are routinely forgetting that thye've never successfully managed full distribution. Never. There's always been another party which aggregated, whether it was movie theaters or stores. Possi
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by Hyena 15y ago
I wouldn't go that far. My uncle, for example, is a wildly successful surgeon; he spends a lot of time keeping updated because it's important to him. I think keeping abreast of change is incumbent on all professionals, it's just also an imp
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by Hyena 15y ago
I don't know that that's the major source of price reduction. My impression was that the price of readers was falling because the price of peripheral equipment--displays and network chips--was falling. The price of small computer has presum
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by Hyena 15y ago
Then you half agree in that you think the title should be "Ageism a serious concern in the tech sector".
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by Hyena 15y ago
One issue, as comments suggest, is that the people most willing and most able to switch to G+ are the same ones who don't do much on other social networks.
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by Hyena 15y ago
Title should be "Tech hiring is tough on people who don't keep updated".
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by Hyena 15y ago
I don't see why you'd do this, though. Readers will continue to fall in price and the expense of providing them to the poor is partially offset by using them for textbooks (both that we no longer need to supply them out of "library" budgets
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by Hyena 15y ago
I'll acknowledge that I was quick and snide. However, I do not think the future of libraries is to become banks of computers. That would make little sense considering that the alternative would be cheaper and provide better service.
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by Hyena 15y ago
They will borrow ebooks from the library on free readers. The cost of readers is likely to fall far enough, and their use be ubiquitous enough (think: schools), that providing readers will be a fairly low cost gap-filling operation. It migh
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by Hyena 15y ago
Because libraries are absolutely brimming with computers. In Los Angeles, the libraries tend to have a clutch of general computers, a significant fraction occupied by the homeless (that's what I'd, can't fault them).
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by Hyena 15y ago
This is very true. Even for uncomplicated meals, though, it seems to work out better and the grocery store's competitiveness collapses when (1) it's not Wal-Mart, (2) involves meat, (3) isn't for a family of 51.
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by Hyena 15y ago
My effective income is $17,280, pre-tax. Even pared back to that, I've accumulated about $3,000 in savings over a year. It helps not to buy stuff. Like, at all. I have only 14 major physical possessions, including where I live and "clothing
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by Hyena 15y ago
Not really. Most are the direct result of IBM's system of internal rewards for patenting. This results in thousands of questionalble patents. Being that it is easier to get than eliminate a patent, IBM is a company deeply engaged in destroy
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by Hyena 15y ago
Can we stop this meme? Other point out, quite correctly, that we're in sort of a PC golden age where anything runs everything. That's why sales are bad and probably why media outlets are on a doom kick: they have nothing else to say.
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by Hyena 15y ago
He kinda sounds like a douche, either holding everyone in contempt or pretending to. It's like listening to Holden Caulfield trying to be polite.
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by Hyena 15y ago
By lowering the price, you increase the number of people who find it within their expected value calculation. By increasing the number of customers, you increase the number of data points. Increasing number of data points, if the product is
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by Hyena 15y ago
Part of me sees Watson as a marketing gimmick. Statistically-driven medicine has been around, and effective, for decades but doctors don't trust it. Part of me thinks that Watson's future-cool AI patina makes it a "good tool" even when its
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by Hyena 15y ago
There are lots of illustrators. Most don't have money.
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The price seems incredibly high, sales would probably be better at a lower price point. I would think that you would benefit more from an "impulse purchase" price vis-a-vis a professional utility price.
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by Hyena 15y ago
That's weird, since I had an iPod from the beginning and I don't remember this issue. So far as I recall, iTunes spat out MP3s and getting access to all of it was a simple matter of using the search function of Windows, something yu had to
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Their first example falls flat, since software (like iTunes) can search for music and also simply read the database of other systems. Getting others to do your work for you is unethical; either they do the work because that's actually a fea

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