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by aedron 10y ago
I don't often get caught copying myself. But when I do, it's by jedberg.
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by aedron 10y ago
The easiest way to waste these guys time is to just tell them "OK, just hang on one second, be right with you", then put the phone down and leave them there waiting.
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by aedron 10y ago
Since no one else has said it yet: It is obviously a massive fucking bubble. Helicopter money slushing around all over the place looking for something to buy. When the fed turns the tap, these companies without any way to make a profit will
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by aedron 10y ago
"We'll sell at a loss but we'll make it up in volume."
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by aedron 10y ago
Not to mention that Uber pretty much bait-and-switched a lot of drivers, starting with artificially high payouts and then aggressively pushing the price down, fishing money out of the drivers' pockets and making their investments unpro
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by aedron 10y ago
Uber is buying revenue. It is straight out of the 90's dot-com bubble company handbook. Everything they do screams 'pump and dump'. Problem is that a lot more external parties are in on the scam than most people realize - med
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by aedron 10y ago
In Pakistan, IKEA furniture is an imported luxury good. There are fancy high-end boutiques selling IKEA furniture in the most upscale consumer markets. In the mean time you can go to the crummiest street workshop and buy gorgeous handmade f
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by aedron 10y ago
I am happy to not have to store books in physical form. They are heavy, take up loads and loads of space, and do not keep well. And that's not even getting into how impractical they are to actually read (or search) compared with e-book
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by aedron 10y ago
Does this remind anyone else of The Interview?
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by aedron 10y ago
You can't say that a Tesla car represents technology innovation to the same degree the iPhone did. Nothing in a Tesla is technologically groundbreaking, it is more of a product innovation (a high-powered electric car) with good executi
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by aedron 10y ago
Since HR is far from a typical tech company's core competencies, they often don't focus on it and don't realize the damage these employees can do, both by turning off potential hires, and by pissing off employees. You could a
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by aedron 10y ago
Very cool video. I wonder what the fighter jets could actually achieve by pulling up alongside like that? I don't suppose they could do any kind of visual inspection or signaling at that distance - even though one did seem to inch clos
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by aedron 10y ago
What does that even mean at Uber? They burn more money than everyone else?
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by aedron 10y ago
The article reads more apologetic than anything. "True, the deep state is sabotaging Trump, in principle a bad thing, but here are a lot of good reasons why they would do that." In fact it is the typical hypocrisy: We like our dem
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by aedron 10y ago
I don't have a link handy, but it has been documented that Zuckerberg outspends all other CEOs on personal safety by a huge margin (something like x10). Consider that Steve Jobs famously chided his friend Larry Ellison for having 24&#x
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by aedron 10y ago
Cool. With tunnels we could have a fresh start and build the network with electric, automatic vehicles supported as first class (or the only) citizens.
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by aedron 10y ago
Same. Don't much like the guy but he does admittedly good stuff, kinda like Steve Jobs. Actually a lot like Jobs: Think big (he even has Steve beat there), hire great people then push them to the brink to achieve the impossible.
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by aedron 10y ago
Also don't forget about possible spiritual benefits to fasting. It is no coincidence that practically all spiritual traditions incorporate fasting.
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by aedron 10y ago
At least in the case of ramadan fasting, the difference is that you eat (and drink) nothing at all from waking up until night. This way the digestion system never gets started, the stomach kind of just shrivels up and you never actually fee
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by aedron 10y ago
Trying (and failing miserably) to sell to small/medium businesses is almost a rite of passage for new entrepreneurs.
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by aedron 10y ago
Then as an Arab you would be truly pissed about how much of the basic sciences were lifted from the Arabic world, without any kind of attribution in modern times.
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by aedron 10y ago
I am reconsidering due to the invasive and discriminatory border control I fear I might be subjected to on entry. This started before Trump, but seems to be getting worse with the current administration.
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by aedron 10y ago
The travel info airport websites now says that if you are traveling to the U.S., please make sure all your electronic devices are charged with a full battery.
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by aedron 10y ago
People in India and the rest of the third world all want to go to Europe or the U.S. It is the rest of us you have to worry about. As an engineer in Europe who has often toyed with the idea of going to America, that idea is all but dead, mo
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by aedron 10y ago
My hippie parents used to talk a lot of crazy paranoid shit when we were growing up. All of it has since been proven true.
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by aedron 10y ago
> we are not at a point where our leaders simply "disappear" domestic political opponents and journalists Nice how you snuck "domestic" in there, as if that makes it so much better.
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by aedron 10y ago
More people should do this. And be thorough, agree to consistently tag the same people with the same wrong tags.
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by aedron 10y ago
+1. HN is a sanctuary and I really hope it stays that way, despite people syaing I am 'sticking my head in the sand' by requesting politics be kept off the site.
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by aedron 10y ago
I am decidedly unimpressed by what the Israeli IT sector has been able to achieve, despite the strong branding effort as a 'Startup Nation'. There can be no question that Israel is firehosed with money, both from states and privat
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by aedron 10y ago
Skype was developed by an outsourced team in Estonia.

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