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by abat 13y ago
No, Martha Stewart went to jail for obstruction of justice because she lied to the investigators about someone giving her a stock tip. She likely would have been fine if she had just told the truth (or had just refused to talk).
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by abat 13y ago
I think people were speculating this on HN with this article: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
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by abat 13y ago
For a lot of stuff, the idea of pre-negotiating price between patient and provider sounds great. I'm not sure how emergency care can work well though without some third party to help set fair pricing. You get taken to a hospital out of
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by abat 13y ago
No, just comments about wasting 1K on alcohol in a single night.
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by abat 13y ago
My sense is Marco is looking at the money in terms of: "how much yearly income can my money generate, and what kind of lifestyle would that be?" (kind of like thinking about a retirement account). In that sense $10M in savings is not enough
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by abat 13y ago
Good for them, but I wish I hadn't wasted time clicking on their self-promotion.
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by abat 14y ago
But the point is they're becoming less of a commodity. They're moving up the value food chain to both manufacture and sell their servers under their own brand. Presumably their margins are better now then before.
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by abat 14y ago
The funny thing is he would have been much richer if he got fired much sooner. That would have given him an excuse to sell his stake before it tanked. Being the CEO meant he couldn't dump his stock.
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by abat 14y ago
At the end of the day, Rails is just as complex as any other stack if you try to understand it completely. The difference is that Rails makes it easy to get started without understanding everything. In my experience over the last 6 months,
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by abat 14y ago
Personally, my preference for aspect ratio varies by screen size and how I'll likely divide it up. On a small laptop screen like a Chromebook, I agree with the author that a wide aspect ratio can be annoying because a maximized window often
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by abat 14y ago
From the article, it sounds like this gaming the system is more common for niche areas like advice and less so with the main fiction list. Besides niches being easier to manipulate, the economics are different. An advice author is often try
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by abat 14y ago
This doesn't really mean anything if the temp is much warmer now.
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by abat 14y ago
The cost of New Relic on Heroku looks really high because each dyno is billed like a full server, which makes it many times more expensive than if you were to manage your own large EC2 servers and just have multiple rails workers. New Relic
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by abat 14y ago
One thing to note about the buildings in the article, is that they're all in fancy areas for shopping and tourists but not really places that long time residents want to live. I would be more interested in knowing the stats for luxury housi
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by abat 14y ago
The thing about product reviews in mainstream publications like the NYTimes, is that their goal isn't just to tell you how good the product is. Most of the readers aren't actually on the market for a Tesla, they just want to be entertained
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by abat 14y ago
Is this list accurate? I don't see Bloomberg (the person). According to Wikipedia, he's worth 25B, so I would expect to see him.
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by abat 14y ago
Jobs' "thermonuclear war" comment left open the possibility that Apple and Google might be acting in a more hot headed fashion than the average company.
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by abat 14y ago
It seems like cheating/fraud to me. Dropbox provides a service that usually costs money. They're also offering to provide service for recruiting new users instead of charging money. If you fake users, you're getting the service without fulf