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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think you're being a little harsh. At least she realizes this is how the world is and accepts it. In my book that's far better than those who scream the world should be changed because it isn't working out perfectly for them (See pw0nca
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by SamAtt 17y ago
This is badly titled. It should be "More Droids Sold In First 74 Days Than The First Generation iPhone Sold In It's First 74 Days" The quoted article actually puts a lot of effort into pointing out how much things have changed since the fi
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm starting to think people post stuff like this just to get to the top of sites like HN. In this list I only see 2 items (Interview by E-mail and meet a potential employee's mate) that aren't common sense. The rest boils down to Work Har
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think the lesson he's shooting at is the basic "don't be afraid to chase your dream because when I did everything turned out roses". I'm not opposed to that message but it seems self evident. Everyone has a dream, everyone knows some pe
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The argument you're basically making is "Our system doesn't work but your system works less so use our system". The problem with that argument is it doesn't change the fact that your system doesn't work. As for a solution my personal prefe
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don't think he ever called for a "license-free" world he simply pointed out that skilled people who don't have them shouldn't be prohibited from working in a field if someone wants to hire them. I don't endorse a world without licenses ei
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by SamAtt 17y ago
If you're going to take the point that doctors are dishonest than pretty much anything goes so I don't see your point as being valid. But assuming doctors are professionals with a degree of integrity the only reason they'd over treat is if
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Pardon me for quoting from something I wrote above but I didn't want to retype. The bottom line is Data Sets can lie (though I agree single-payer is certainly not the disaster some make it out to be). The quote... If you look at the break
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'll have the same care for at least 18 months after losing my job and even after that I'd have a variety of government programs that would provide for me. But the main point is that no one in the U.S. thinks our system isn't screwed up.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
This is again the problem with anecdotal evidence. Everything I've seen points to costs and care being relatively similar between insured U.S. people and Canadians. At least those in good health who have occasional mishaps. The question i
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by SamAtt 17y ago
That's not really true. The reality is these systems are bankrupting themselves in almost every country that has them. Including Canada: http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/98041... In fact I'd put the people in the U
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not disputing your number per se in the I think the U.S. system is too expensive and I suspect the system in Canada is cheaper than the ugly hybrid the U.S. has. But having said that, as someone whose looked at the numbers, the facts y
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by SamAtt 17y ago
There are two parts of this piece: the Anecdotal and the Macro. Anecdotal evidence seems irrelevant to me. My experience with the U.S. system is completely different from his. I've never wanted to go to a Doctor that was "out of network",
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Your point really isn't valid. The questions in this debate are quality of care and and cost. People against systems like the one in Canada claim they will cost too much and be of a poorer quality than what the U.S. has now. So ease of u
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by SamAtt 17y ago
From experience I can tell you this won't work. Finding good workers is the hardest thing a company does and any plan based on "we can easily go out and find skilled people" is doomed to failure from the start. When I first started at my c
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Given Lothar Collatz was German and he died in September of 1990 I'd assume something about his death (a remembrance of some kind) triggered it. Most of the searches are from Germany along with neighboring Switzerland and Denmark. Also not
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don't think ChatRoulette needs anyone's help in regards to demonizing it. It's pretty much as it was portrayed. If anything the Daily Show made it look better (The one time I tried it I saw double the cock and not a single mainstream ne
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by SamAtt 17y ago
You know, I agreed with you (and even upvoted you) but as I think about it I think you might be wrong. I think the meta point to the article is that our entire idea of what the written word should be is about to change now that the last ve
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think the best point this article makes is that you hurt your cause whenever you assume the other side of an argument is "just stupid". Part of the problem atheists have in debates is they tend to think the other side's beliefs are so ri
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not sure that's true. A Deist is someone who believes there's a God. That's different from someone who is agnostic but who would say there's a God if forced to give an opinion. Example: A deist is probably going to read religious text
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think usability testing is important(Shout out to Steve Krug: http://bit.ly/dloM7j ) but you can't be a slave to it. These days one of the criteria I use when picking services is "how dedicated does the company seem". After having my st
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not against the effort but in the real world the game will always be rigged because of "voting rings" that contain actual people. I work with 4 other people who are on HN and we added it up a few weeks back and found we represent over 7
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by SamAtt 17y ago
There's an unfortunate reality here which is that the Government can't really prevent terrorist attacks. Israel is much smaller and they've tried much harder and they can't prevent them so the U.S. stands very little chance. So another att
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IPad Rival JooJoo Will Ship March 25(blogs.forbes.com)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
If it makes you feel any better the subsequent Nuclear Winter from the roughly 25,000 warheads in existence would be more than enough to finish off the rest of us. Even if it didn't the 2.5 billion metric tons of soot thrown into the atmos
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I remember talking to a friend of mine back when the prius was the only hybrid out there. He said he cared about the environment and wanted to drive a hybrid but he couldn't bring himself to buy one because he didn't want people thinking h
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Android vs. Apple: The flyover states(brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by SamAtt 17y ago|2 comments
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The problem with the Global Warming debate is the fact that there's so much ignorance on BOTH sides. For example, One Iceberg in itself doesn't prove anything because the temperature in one isolated area can vary regardless of the overall g
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I haven't read the article but I think I can see where he's coming from. The developer market is pretty much saturated as far as marketing is concerned. If you're a developer you know who Joel is. So continuing to blog won't yield as man
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The point of the article is whether a compromise of 5 ideas each could create a passable bill. Because changes smaller than either side wants would still make a huge difference. The plan you outline above would be and in fact has been reje

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