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by adgar 14y ago
Which is why DNT makes zero sense to be on by default.
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by adgar 14y ago
My current landlord in Chelsea walked me through the exact same process. Took 10 minutes.
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by adgar 14y ago
> I don't find it that hard to believe that someone would blindly sign a lease after only quickly skimming over the important bits and then never look at it again. I don't find that hard to believe either. What I find revolting is someo
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by adgar 14y ago
You mean kind of like a super? Has anyone here ever rented?!
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by adgar 14y ago
> I see no problem with tenants doing whatever they want with the property that they are leasing - as long as no damage is done & neighbors are not troubled. That's why landlords define "damage [being] done" and "neighbors [being] t
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by adgar 14y ago
> This restraining order was the first I had heard from my landlord that he didn't want us airbnb'ing. Read leases before you sign them in the future.
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by adgar 14y ago
> His listing was great value Illegal transactions are often great value.
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by adgar 14y ago
Ah, the "Republican" argument: If regulation is so great, why hasn't it been perfect? Clearly the solution is less regulation.
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by adgar 14y ago
Ann Coulter is famous for saying that fascism is optimal locally. Something tells me you aren't happy you agree with Ann Coulter about the benefits of fascism.
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by adgar 14y ago
To those so socially stagnant to not realize that Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote this for a broader audience, and who feel an intense need to "correct" him regarding details about Stonehenge: grow up.
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by adgar 14y ago
Most companies' IPOs don't include going to great lengths to successfully offload far more of their shares at a significantly higher price than the shares could sustain. There's a big difference between leaving money on the table and riding
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by adgar 14y ago
Here's how real people think about a hyped, flop of an IPO: People don't like the feeling of being sold something for more than it's worth. We call that being "ripped off," and most folks don't take too kindly to it. I believe you described
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by adgar 14y ago
> When searching online I find it vaguely insulting that my presumed default state is one of not already knowing what I'm looking for If you find the Google experience "insulting," you are far too emotionally attached to how you interac
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by adgar 14y ago
I've never seen someone describe a middleman so enthusiastically. Not that there isn't enormous added value in presentation or that duckduckgo has a poor offering at all - but your search result quality will always be limited to that of you
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by adgar 14y ago
It does. See drgath's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019500
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by adgar 14y ago
Why is that all you need to know? Is the intent behind an action - and that action's outcome - irrelevant to your ethics system?
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by adgar 14y ago
As a Google employee unaware of any of our lobbying in this matter, I would suggest you ask yourself these questions: 1. Why would Google lobby to produce a unanimous vote, which is not necessary to pass such a law? 2. If Google did so, wha
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by adgar 14y ago
> Why get approval in US,Europe,China but not somewhere else? Google is getting approval everywhere with relevant laws that affect them. Otherwise, well, that'd be illegal. > Can someone explain why Google must have sought Chinese
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by adgar 14y ago
> It's worth noting that G+ was intended to solve the fine-grained partitioning of people, and yet, no-one I know uses it regularly. So... you're arguing that people choose social networks based on more than the presence of a particular
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by adgar 14y ago
> Then, umm, don't add them as friends. This completely ignores the reality of how people use Facebook, as if one could partition every personal relationship in your life into two homogeneous groups "friends" and "not friends." Yes, I k
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by adgar 14y ago
Your parent poster didn't imply agreement with the line of reasoning he explained. He was just illustrating why the question is important to begin with.
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by adgar 14y ago
It never has been and currently isn't. The person you are responding to is trolling this entire thread.
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by adgar 14y ago
The lights. A NYC cab's lights look like this: |O|Number|O| Where "O" is "Off Duty" in smaller letters. If just the Number is lit, they're available, on the clock. If Just the Os are lit, they have a fare. If both are lit, they're available
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by adgar 14y ago
> The law also gives the guy a monopoly on selling taxi services, so it's hard to have much sympathy. Sort of - the law gives the guy a monopoly on picking up street passengers. But again, these laws are broken often - livery drivers wi
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by adgar 14y ago
> There is no need to replace your whole distro because you don't like the default window manager. It's... a Google thing. I haven't gotten around to planning around Unity yet, but I'm not surprised by this. It's classic Google culture
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by adgar 14y ago
> Perhaps we will now see increasing differentiation between those who code and those who use? I personally hope for the opposite.
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by adgar 14y ago
I didn't go to Westchester, you misread. I live in Chelsea. Consider that a cab ride from grand central to westchester would cost far more than 9 dollars. Dude. Chelsea is in Manhattan. It's uptown of the west village. It was a 5-10 minute
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by adgar 14y ago
You haven't met New York cab drivers. A lot of them treat passengers like less than cargo. Here's the one time I didn't even tip at all. I'd just had an enjoyable but naturally stressful night seeing an ex who came into the city from westch
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by adgar 14y ago
You can also enter your tip manually - which I do often - so the 20%/25%/30% buttons themselves necessarily don't account for all of the change in tipping patterns.
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by adgar 14y ago
I haven't watched the linked video yet, but my only complaint as a Google engineer about our employees as presenters is that engineers are often ineffective moderators.

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