IanDrake

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by IanDrake 9y ago
That sounds terrible, but would it be less terrible if your loud and obnoxious neighbors were long term renters? My vacation rentals have rules, especially about noise. If you break the rules I can literally force you to leave right then,
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by IanDrake 9y ago
According to this article I'm a professional landlord because I have more than one property on airbnb? I think that's a huge leap and was done to inflate numbers to re-enforce their point, which would otherwise be poorly made by a
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Perhaps you should review enforcement of the CFAA under the Obama administration before you lay blame at the feet of our new overlord.
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by IanDrake 9y ago
I keep seeing ads for a "date a surfer" website. Clearly google knows I surf, but doesn't know I'm married...or maybe it does...
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by IanDrake 9y ago
This experiment in crypto currency has made me see the value in fiat money, which is probably the opposite of the desired effect. At the end of they day, these digital monetary schemes have become less of a currency and more of a commodity.
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Can anyone explain why the base period is 29 years but then they step forward by 10 years? Seems kind of arbitrary and when these types of things are arbitrary I wonder what alternative time frames with the same data might look like.
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by IanDrake 9y ago
If an app provides entertainment then it wastes time?
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But you can empty the trash and they can't build your apps. Also, when thinking about creating value, you need to think about scale. They change your trash and are limited by their physical ability and time. Let's say they saved y
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by IanDrake 9y ago
I can't agree with you sorry. No yard? Try a park in town. You can have hours of fun with a $20 soccer ball or basketball or wiffleball or cornhole or horse shoes. Need entertainment? Read a book from the library. The great thing is
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Right. But I was responding to the claim that robots will do everything. Once you make a more reasonable prediction that robots will replace some humans in some jobs then I think we can have an interesting conversation. As robots take on ma
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by IanDrake 9y ago
That's a dream world that's always a few decades away. Do you really know what it takes to make something? Like something as simple as a hammer? Iron ore must be located. Will we have autonomous robots scan the earth for ore depo
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by IanDrake 9y ago
If you're going to be featured in an article highlighting your financial difficulty, move the $450 Dyson fan, 65" DLP TV, and overhead projector out of the frame. It begins to erode their footing and make you question their prior
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by IanDrake 9y ago
I think I have the same thing. I really like mine, but without the PC mode the picture would be terrible. It's really an awesome hidden feature that turns this TV into a really good monitor for the money. Especially for coding and prod
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I'm sorry, but I can't help but think this isn't whistle blowing. It seems more like self aggrandizement. The administration has always publicly stated it wanted to reduce head count in these areas. It probably can't j
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Udemy has good classes in general. Not sure about scala. Wait until they're on sale for $10- $15 and then buy a few. I watch them in 1.5x - 2x speed and slow down only when needed.
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by IanDrake 9y ago
C&D letter in 3..2..1
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by IanDrake 9y ago
This is crazy. I think it also explains why my rental properties have so many minority renters as my wife's picture is our profile picture(she's Asian). I think people see her picture and know instantly that they would never have
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Classic example of starting with a solution and looking for a problem. Consider going to another set of potential customers with no product at all and just interview them. It's much easier to get their time if you're not selling t
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Yeah, pick any framework that you don't know how to use properly, drop it for another framework that you don't know how to use properly, write a post on medium about it, repeat.
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I would hesitate to call it a full systems test. Maybe the drive and vacuum systems but that's probably the easy part. The hard part is to make this work while embarking and disembarking pods from a non vacuum atmosphere and handling
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by IanDrake 9y ago
And the tax rate up!
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Should be unpopular with folks that can do math. Basic imcome would cost 10 trillion dollars a year. I doubt our roadways could be leased for that much. If they were, they'd be prohibitively expensive to use.
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by IanDrake 9y ago
I think you missed the point he was making. When an exec makes 22 million at a for-profit company which produces dividends that might make its way into your 401k people have a hissy fit. When a not-for-profit company pays their execs that m
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by IanDrake 9y ago
A classic example of how broken our system is when interest groups can control competition.
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If I were an employer hiring minimum wage workers in Seattle, I'd be looking to dump my employees worth $10/hr and hire some worth $15. Assuming my ability to raise prices is capped due to out of city competition, then my only cho
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by IanDrake 9y ago
I think it's fair to say there's an implicit assumption that a user, given the right knowledge and intent, could circumvent this protection at which point they're on their own.
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Wow, some of the rationalizing here is priceless. I hope the folks dismissing this apply their logic evenly. Here's some of what I've read so far: Economic - There's no discrimination because they only want the cheapest labo
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by IanDrake 9y ago
Seems to be one of those rules that gets applied unevenly. There are at least three unlfagged articles that fail this rule on the front page at present.
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Why is this flagged? Are HN readers sanitizing scientific papers they don't like?
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I'm having a hard time recalling when a policy of isolating a communist country has worked to democratize it. Can anyone think of one?

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