IvyMike

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by IvyMike 13y ago
In some ways, the minimum wage is an anti-union measure. Because in the alternate universe where there is no minimum wage, the people who work at McDonalds do not get paid $5 an hour. They belong to a union.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Estimates of "# of searches Google serves" are always fascinating to me. I don't see statisticbrain.com publishing a source for their estimate, although maybe I'm just missing something. AFAIK, Google doesn't rea
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by IvyMike 13y ago
A huge number of bills are done on the "Written by industry, submitted by sympathetic politician" model. It's pretty much ALEC's whole deal, and they're really good at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by IvyMike 13y ago
As smackfu says, it is not always possible to do a layoff or firing in person, especially in this case. I still think they should have been done in one-on-one phone calls at a minimum. But people have a spectrum of reactions to being fired
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by IvyMike 13y ago
The fact that it was over the phone is a legitimate insult. The fact that it was 100 seconds long is a mercy.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
How long did HTTP 0.9 last? How about 1.0? I guess you think that early http was one of those non-stable not-suitable-for-internet-wide release protocols.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google http://www.giiglebook.com/ This is a real thing.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I once typed "That thing where a boat is replaced one part at a time" and Google came back with the right answer. If that's not AI I have no idea what is. (And if you don't think that Hillis envisioned his AI doing thing
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Isn't that a description of Google?
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by IvyMike 13y ago
There are a million "it is down for me" but is it actually up for anyone? A few text messages to friends around the US show they are all affected. Edit: back for me in California, too.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Shared pain. If I live in SF, I have to make a choice: take somewhat undesirable public transportation, drive my car in hellish traffic, or limit where I live (or where I work) to walking distance. So when there's someone who has a dif
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I thought this was going to be about the redditor who uncovered Tommy Wiseau's country of birth, but that's just a 10-year-old mystery. http://www.reddit.com/r/theroom/comments/1vklp3/i_think_i_
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Asked on twitter what he meant by 'swell', @pmarca replied "I mean personality change - ego, hubris. Stop listening. Start feeling entitled." https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/425378431283384320
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> why are people constantly complaining about not being able to afford living in San Francisco? Think of someone like a cook who has lived in SF for years. They came to the city, honed and practiced their skills, and in their own small
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by IvyMike 13y ago
There is an argument that "shared pain" is the foundation of community within a city. And by avoiding the pain of commuting, the shuttle riders raise the ire of everyone who does have that pain.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Her facebook page says she attended college in Australia. But she has lived in the US ever since, so... a well-sanded Australian accent?
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by IvyMike 13y ago
SPOILERS This is addressed in the movie. The dialog goes roughly like this: "Are you talking to other people right now?" "Yes" "How many?" "Eight thousand" "Are you in love with any of them?&quo
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Matrix reboot starring Mario as Neo, and instead of escaping the Matrix, he just changes it to play pong.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I'd just like it if the "expire links page" said "Expired link, sorry. Here is a link to a fresh top page"
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> Is there anything new here? I believe this is a response to the "The free wifi on the bus hijacked my DNS" story that was on the front page earlier today. Edit: this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Just for reference: In the US, the hotel wants a credit card on file for "incidentals". When you check out, you can tell the hotel how you're going to pay for each bit, and put the porn/minibar/massage on your own
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> That said, the hotel isn't allowed to charge minibar/massage/champagne at 3am by room service on the company card This is the part that nobody understands. This isn't how things would work in the US (and many other
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Thumbs up on everything here. > Google Chrome 32.0.1700.72 (Official Build 243157) m > OS Windows
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by IvyMike 13y ago
The standard answer has been The Peter Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle TLDR: People who are good at their job get promoted. But once they are mediocre at their job, they stop getting promoted.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I guess it feels like there were other manual labor jobs to move to back in that day and age. But if nearly every manual labor and semi-skilled labor job is going to be automated, I don't know what those people will do. The people who
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> Microsoft really does have some great engineering talent Not to dispute this--they certainly do. But sadly for Microsoft, Blaise Agüera y Arcas (one of the creators of the original Photosynth) just left MS for Google in December. http
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by IvyMike 13y ago
But those cases have mostly been open unauthenticated wifi, no? If I'm understanding this, this provides the courts a traceable way to go after an authenticated person (or at least, a facebook account) rather than just an IP address.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Shutting down a competitor's machine shop, for one.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It is not clear to me that the difference between Downtown SF and Downtown LA is bigger than, say, Downtown SF and Hunter's Point. I mean, take someone from SF and have them live in Stockton for a month, and Fresno for a month, and LA
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> cultural gap between San Francisco and Los Angeles I'm curious as to what you think this gap is.

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