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by alex_c 15y ago
Depending on the personal information, you may be liable if someone breaks into your house and steals it. Patient records that should never have been taken home come to mind. Secret / confidential information left in a car. Etc. That doe
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by alex_c 15y ago
No, I haven't - because I still see nothing of substance in the article, and past experience gives me little faith that the discussion is going anywhere interesting. I don't see what I - or anyone - can contribute beyond "Sexism is bad, do
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by alex_c 15y ago
Discussion, or circle jerk? I'm not arguing against the problem or trying to find solutions, but I saw nothing new or interesting in the linked post. "Same tired discussion" is right, every discussion on the topic here on HN plays out the
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by alex_c 15y ago
I'll freely admit I don't know that much about insurance fraud. But I suspect the majority of people attempting fraud wouldn't be loyal Airbnb customers, but rather people of questionable ethics who hear that if you go to such-and-such web
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by alex_c 15y ago
The problem is, as other commenters have pointed out, the activity facilitated by Airbnb is illegal in an increasing number of states. I'm sure that complicates insurance.
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by alex_c 15y ago
An accomplice renter - or destruction or property - isn't necessary. The owner can just claim theft, at which point it's their word against the renter - "They stole my HDTV!" "There was no HDTV to start with!" At that point Airbnb is put
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by alex_c 15y ago
This opens Airbnb up to the risk of significant insurance fraud. Insurance companies have the infrastructure to deal with it, but Airbnb doesn't - and presumably doesn't want to build it.
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by alex_c 15y ago
Are there any specific points in there that you feel are detrimental to productive team work?
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by alex_c 15y ago
From the rest of his comment, it seemed reasonable to assume he meant "big" relative to most people's sense of fair play. I'm having trouble picturing an argument for how a 25% cheating rate would be "small".
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by alex_c 15y ago
This is what data caps have been about all along, at least in Canada - I sincerely hope no one is surprised. I'm just a bit surprised to see Shaw leading the charge, and not Rogers or Bell. This is what happens when all the major ISPs in a
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by alex_c 15y ago
Psychologically, I prefer scrolling right to scrolling left. Don't ask me why - maybe it's the "going forwards" versus "going backwards" mental model. Or maybe starting from the home screen, I don't like having to make a decision to go le
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by alex_c 15y ago
I haven't touched Clojure yet, although discussions on HN have made me interested, and getting a solid grasp on functional languages seems like the next logical step in my evolution as developer. If you had to point a newcomer to a single 1
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by alex_c 15y ago
That came to mind as soon as I read the headline. For those who haven't read it: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by alex_c 15y ago
If they do, I'll be pissed at them, not at the technology they use to share my secrets.
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by alex_c 15y ago
That assumes the people giving the feedback are making an honest effort at a serious, constructive discussion. There are people who are inherently negative and will complain about absolutely anything, justified or not, if there is no modera
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by alex_c 15y ago
That is basically what Apple did with the iPhone. There were lots of apps for the other mobile platforms at the time, but the iPhone was simply in a different class. The problem is that today, you have to come up with something that much
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by alex_c 15y ago
While I strongly dislike telecoms, what you're describing is pretty much the opposite of a highly regulated Internet. I suspect telecoms would actually oppose most forms of regulation a government may be interested in, not out of any desire
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by alex_c 15y ago
Nonetheless, banks still lock their branches at night. That's about as basic as security gets.
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by alex_c 15y ago
For some reason, I got a strong "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" vibe from that. Thanks for sharing.
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by alex_c 15y ago
If you're making that distinction, then "theft" is probably not the right word to use.
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by alex_c 15y ago
Congrats to AirBnB! The way I understand it, the biggest threat to Airbnb's model are local governments starting to clamp down on this kind of (usually unlicensed?) subletting. I'm curious how the high valuation factors this risk. Of cours
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by alex_c 15y ago
It's always a balancing act. Chances are any specific level of detail will belabor the point for some readers/watchers, while simultaneously leaving others in the dark.
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by alex_c 15y ago
The closest I've found so far is here: http://www.tapptics.com/ It mostly has resources similar to the Teehan+Lax template ( http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/ ) - useful to build your own themes, but not usable as out-of-the-box themes.
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Cell phones signals really are killing the bees, study shows (news.yahoo.com)
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by alex_c 15y ago
Your own example suggests you're in the (vast) minority.
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by alex_c 16y ago
That will be 10 or 20 years from now, Steam's convenience is today. If it really becomes an issue, some form of piracy will always be available to recover those games. 20 years ago games came on floppies and ran on DOS. If I want to play
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by alex_c 16y ago
The op comment was presumably a joke on the theme of theft vs. copyright infringement.
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by alex_c 16y ago
I don't disagree. I just haven't seen any evidence from Nokia, based on their own UIs, that they can make the WP7 UI more desirable, rather than less or the same.
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by alex_c 16y ago
If they don't, past experience suggests they'll end up with smartphones that no one in North America will want to buy.
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by alex_c 16y ago
It's pretty hard to quantify quality of comments, and I've seen at least one other comment in this thread saying the quality of comments has gone up (personally, I'm undecided). I wonder how much one's perception of the change in comment qu

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