RickHull

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by RickHull 16y ago
> By definition, if start-up x has an advantage over y, y is disadvantaged relative to x Yes, it is a tautology. Why state it? To what end? My guess is that GP is a reaction to the implication that you are begrudging YC companies thei
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by RickHull 16y ago
One sticky issue: you may not know what the interest rate actually is for the chunk you paid. e.g. 1. Charge $100 at the grocery store, 12% APR 2. Pay off $10 3. $200 Cash advance from ATM, 20% APR 4. Pay off $10 Guess
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Real "CA" systems don't do that--they're "available" because the non-partitioned nodes are still responding. This sounds like a fencepost type of error to me. When you have a partition, you are splitting a single set into two subse
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by RickHull 16y ago
ctrl-f grammer Really?
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Naming after a random household object: FridgeDB? Actually, I am pretty sure the name CouchDB was inspired by REST :)
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by RickHull 16y ago
Kevlar (KV) Rithm (Log) OhBaby (TarSnap ;) Cubby (Hole) Pigeon (Hole)
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Try working with the Windows API in C#. Lack of default parameters means that for every API call I have to explicitly set about 30 options (29 of which I'm usually not using). Both APIs and UIs can be poorly designed. I think the p
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by RickHull 16y ago
I got that implication from your response to cperciva, who was saying, in effect, that Google was acting neither unethically nor illegally. Pointing out the "unfairness" of their reported tax rate does not directly refute cperciva's comment
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by RickHull 16y ago
What is the extent of a corporation's fiduciary duty to its shareholders then? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Relationships Under Corporation-Stockholders, Dodge v Ford is not cited.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> The fact is that they pay 2% tax while most US based persons pay at least 10x that rate. And this is Google's fault? If you don't like the outcomes that result from players playing by the rules, perhaps you should direct your ire tow
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by RickHull 16y ago
Are you saying that a corporation does not have a fiduciary duty to its shareholders? That paper just expresses a limitation of conclusions that can be drawn from a single case, Dodge v Ford .
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by RickHull 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemline_index
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by RickHull 16y ago
Most of these "privileges" are the privileges of the majority. Majorities and minorities are a fact of life, whether you distinguish gender, education, skillsets, race, age, religion, fitness, lifestyle, etc. i.e. there is not much specifi
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by RickHull 16y ago
Don't forget PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
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by RickHull 16y ago
Look, the bar is set pretty low. Just work on something (for fun!), and give a show-and-tell. That's the prospective minimum.
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by RickHull 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Royal See Special Reserve, XR, and Cask No. 16. Of these I have only tasted the #16, which was quite nice and, needless to say, extremely smooth.
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by RickHull 16y ago
It seems to me that economies, like information, want to be free. Or that like the internet, they route around damage.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Worse things have happened. You could easily cap the "considered" karma at like 500. Or some value that is a function of the total karma in the system. EDIT: or cap the "considered" karma at the median for all users.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Feature a random article selected from a probability distribution based on user karma. e.g. Alice - 100 Bob - 200 Charlie - 300 Dave - 0 Dave's new article will never get front page exposure. Charlie has a 50%
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by RickHull 16y ago
Seriously, and just about every firmware upgrade guide tells you to back up your existing ROM . http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Howto:_Nandroid_...
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by RickHull 16y ago
> However, it is currently not economically successful. It could be monetized, maybe. Au contraire. It may be a "cost center", but I have no doubt that it has been enormously beneficial for YCombinator's bottom line, as a marketing e
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by RickHull 16y ago
> For a lot of people, their name’s strongest connotation is Jewish persecution. Funny, I think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora
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by RickHull 16y ago
> The set of possibilities for two genders of two children is GG, GB, and BB. Yes, but there are two equally probable paths to arrive at (set-theoretic) GB . Each of these paths is equally probably to the remaining paths, BB and
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by RickHull 16y ago
> However, the answer is not, in fact, 1/3. Why is this? This seems like a canard to me. Here is my defense of 1/3 as a correct answer: http://gist.github.com/578386 > Is Bayes’ theorem wrong? > No, the answer comes from
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by RickHull 16y ago
Quite similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_on_horseback
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by RickHull 16y ago
http://friendlyatheist.com/2010/04/14/behind-the-scenes-ffrf...
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by RickHull 16y ago
I am not sure this answers the original question, but it seems like you can just look for the n highest peaks that don't have neighbors. http://gist.github.com/574052