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by T_S_ 16y ago
In a situation that calls for persuasion you can be sure that nothing is exactly as its name implies. If a cheap words will convince you of a high value situation, they will always be used instead of nuanced words. Words are like currency a
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The first sentence of my reply was in the hypothetical world posed by the previous message. As to the actual fight, I don't know who started the fight, or who had pure motives. The judgement of 'nice' is more to indicate that we are not tal
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Pure self-defense, sure, no legal guilt and no public shame. Privately, who knows? They were both 'nice guys' BTW.
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Relax. Men of any sort cannot resist the topic. And if they could, the story would simply disappear.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
My wife went to high school with a big, nice guy who got in a fight in his senior year. He connected to the other guy's jaw. The other guy fell, hit his head, and later died. A manslaughter charge was the least of his problems; the guilt wa
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I am using Haskell to simulate data for a machine learning system. The project has other components we are planning to implement in Haskell. You may fight hard with the compiler to get your program to compile, but after that "it just works"
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I think people use it as a karma kick save. Show mercy.
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Would be great to have more hard data on this "bubble". Most deal terms are only available second or third hand and require some effort at parsing. The investments people usually associated with bubbles (stocks, real estate, gold, bonds) ar
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Don't worry about it. Obviously generated some fresh interest today.
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Creating and benefitting from positive externalities. Good strategy to keep in mind.
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Accounting systems for startups?(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Before embarking on new venture, everybody should watch the "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", a great movie, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart. There you will see that the real problems begin once you have a whiff of success.
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I think he is just trying to break the perceived reverse connection between artistic value and economic value for his impressionable audience who presumably strive for artistic value first. The girls selected by the pretty sorority will lik
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Hang on a second. Let's look at the full quote and then think for a minute. > Meanwhile Uncle Sam pours hundreds of millions in grants and loan guarantees into half-baked "green" startups, an industrial policy tailor-made to attract cha
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You are correct that the CEO cannot favor investors due to SEC regulation and simple fairness. However, the issue raised is that companies use these regs as an excuse to draw the curtains and provide less information on the whole. This is
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by T_S_ 16y ago
A few years ago, I invested in a small private company. I could call the CEO and he could tell me all his problems and prospects. I couldn't trade the stock very easily but I knew how the company was doing. Then it went public. Suddenly the
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I don't know. But I think they force you to deal with other issues. For example, in Hawaiian, the grammar for possessive pronouns forces you to indicate whether an object has a permanent or temporary relationship to the subject. In Japan th
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I will never watch a DVD that I buy, only one that I rent. When there is no consequence to procrastination, it is inevitable. It must be true then that deadlines add value.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
It's a style enforced by the magazine. Probably seems better to them than the "royal we". Certainly better than the repetitive use of "I" favored by some. Kind of interesting how English forces us to deal with this issue all the time.
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BTW, Mayor Bloomberg instituted this service for all non-emergency calls to the City. right after he first became mayor. It was modeled it after the help desk for the Bloomberg Terminal. That service was pretty much the best help desk I hav
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by T_S_ 16y ago
The key step with math is to do the exercises. Videos can get you interested, and help explain what you read, but that's it. In the end, you need a textbook, judged according to the quality of its exercises and then a maybe a study partner
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I moved back to my native USA from Australia about a year ago, after living there for 6 years. I also spent two years in the UK in the 90s. Some contrasts were interesting. Majority rules in Australia and the UK. In the parlimentary system,
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A lot of people want options. Lots of options. Lots of free options. For example, you see this behavior when people fail to commit to attending an dinner, movie or other event, just in case something better comes up. Sometimes commitment (c
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Maybe the user wants to delete their account. Seem like a reasonable request.
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Regulation = Barriers-to-Entry. Businesses accept (and secretly cheer on regulators.) People get this connection, even though it is non-intuitive on the face of it. What is less studied are the regulators themselves. They rarely impose the
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by T_S_ 16y ago
To your point about PIMCO, I agree. They make a living offering people a way to own bonds. The call must be past obvious to them.
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Tough call with real interest rates at zero or negative. The Fed has created a bond market bubble to replace the last couple that popped. They mean well, not wanting Mom to default on her upside-down, floating rate mortgage. But they are no
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Actually all those things are great for the user. As for HN'ers it probably means they can do more things for people at lower cost, since business ideas realized as web apps are less tied to silo-like platforms.
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Some things I never expected: No matter how bad my day is going, I smile when my daughter walks in the room. 7th grade homework can be challenging at any time of life. I can't wait to find out how what grade I get on my son's science projec
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by T_S_ 16y ago
OK, I bit and looked at your comments. You did grab some upvotes when it was snarky-but-clever, or simultaneously raised a good question. Most other comments are not getting upvotes due to unfiltered venting. Maybe apply a filter. A lot o

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