allyt

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by allyt 17y ago
Looks like learning the workings of LLVM is moving only up and up on my todo list.
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by allyt 17y ago
that's why there is equity compensation And as little equity as possible, for identical reasons. An employee is responsible for making sure the terms agreed on are ones they're happy with, not an employer. An employer has a legal obliga
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by allyt 17y ago
The founder (or any employer) has a responsibility to shareholders to pay employees as little as possible. An employee has responsibility to themselves (and their family) to ask for as much pay as possible. Negotiation is about finding a mi
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The growing power of the placebos(npr.org)
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by allyt 17y ago
But it wouldn't be the most bureaucratic thing done by a multinational corporation.
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by allyt 17y ago
It isn't so simple. There are a variety of institutions receiving money under a variety of contracts from "the government" (which, itself, encompasses a large variety of institutions). Not all impose the same restrictions.
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by allyt 17y ago
Public universities are government agencies, and as such, must obey the constitution IANAL, but I don't think this is true. For example, I imagine the second amendment is quite restricted on most campuses.
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by allyt 17y ago
If any other country did what China does, there would have been massive sanctions if not war Wow, calling for war with China, really? Did you support the war in Iraq for the same reasons? Do you also support war with Saudi Arabia, Russia,
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by allyt 17y ago
the change has to come from us Why? Do you have any other historical examples of consumers from one country pressuring another country to reform its government through boycott? And why China? China has a significantly more organized and h
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by allyt 17y ago
Ah, we're talking about Jurisprudence! According to wikipedia, the dominant theory there is "legal positivism', where "laws are validly made in accordance with socially accepted rules". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence#Lega
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by allyt 18y ago
OMG! YouTube for games! That was my idea, and you all stole it! But seriously, this is an idea that's 100% execution, with tons of little things to get right.
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by allyt 18y ago
OMG! I totally had this idea, too!
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by allyt 18y ago
I don't think his idea is to remove points completely - they would still determine where the comment gets placed on a page, they just wouldn't be displayed as prominently. This would really change the UX of the site, actually - I find mysel
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by allyt 18y ago
Anything that doesn't segregate the users? Has nobody read The Sneetches? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories I liked neilk's idea a lot better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466155 And jacquesm's idea bes
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by allyt 18y ago
I think that means they will ship for PS and XBox, also, since those controllers are pretty much equivalent to USB.
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by allyt 18y ago
I think what this is missing is that for people who know how to use BitTorrent, all the top albums were available for free. Hence, officially releasing it was a sign of good will which only increased their sales.
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by allyt 18y ago
I think this can be generalized to say that start-ups have a different cost-benefit analysis - one where losses are capped at the (relatively small) value of the company. On the other hand, large companies have to be risk-averse because t
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by allyt 18y ago
He DOES NOT CARE how much money he makes. He DOES NOT care about material wealth. Highly unlikely.