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by apatters 10y ago
I'm 35 and I thought this article was spot on, it sounds a bit nihilist the way he puts it, but the great upside of this view is that you can pretty much ignore culture whenever you feel like it. It is after all just the byproduct of a
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by apatters 11y ago
What! How can you not see the injustice in a US expatriate who has not set foot in the US for 20 years paying taxes to the IRS if they earn over $100K and their country of residence has a lower tax rate than America? That is exactly what ha
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by apatters 11y ago
I've had a lot of fun playing around with Arch, and it's taught me a lot about Linux, but it seems to me like the "rolling release, mostly unmodified sources from many third parties" update model is a no-go for anyone ot
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by apatters 11y ago
If there's something sad about that fact, it's that the industry has delivered so little value in the past 5 years that not many people feel compelled to upgrade!
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by apatters 11y ago
There is another article on the front page of HN currently pointing out a surplus of young people in developing nations. So there is little if any moral imperative to produce children in this day and age - if we needed more, we could just a
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by apatters 11y ago
This isn't accurate for Thailand. At a restaurant when you get your change it's customary to leave the coins if you're feeling generous and the restaurant has no service charge. I can't think of any other situation where
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by apatters 11y ago
But Bitcoin isn't just a FOSS project -- it aspires to be a currency, even a financial system of sorts. Currencies have a network effect; the more widespread their adoption, the greater their gravity, making a popular currency difficul
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by apatters 11y ago
It seems that these problems fundamentally boil down to there being a very small number of people (the five Bitcoin Core developers) who control the destiny of Bitcoin, and who don't represent users of the currency at large. For a curr
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by apatters 11y ago
I would much rather see an implementation of the Web where by default websites need to ask for your permission to load and execute scripts. This would prompt the creation of a widely accessible "reach web" which would never break
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by apatters 11y ago
How about a hackathon sponsored by an open source project? Where everyone spends the allotted time contributing some improvement to that project. Seems like fun, something I would participate in, and the sponsor potentially gets a lot of be
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by apatters 11y ago
As the article notes, software engineering is an interesting discipline in that an engineer's main responsibility is to produce a discrete body of work which can be peer reviewed. I don't want to dismiss culture entirely, but it&#
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by apatters 11y ago
If the claim that the Linux client is no longer able to join calls is true, I think the Skype team really needs to respond. Microsoft has been doing all sorts of cool things lately and it's odd that the Skype team hasn't been a pa
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by apatters 11y ago
Why do you have to solve a big problem to start a company? People start companies that do run of the mill things all the time and there's nothing wrong with that. To a certain type of person, starting and growing a company is inherentl
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by apatters 11y ago
This article was a morbid piece of shock journalism, the kind of thing you'd read for the same reasons that you can't stop looking at a gruesome car crash. So I'm actually pretty happy that I was able to remove the nag messag
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by apatters 11y ago
For every one of those decades I could name several rock bands who were commercially successful and whose music also represented a major, youth-oriented cultural movement which challenged the status quo. I am hard pressed to name a single b
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by apatters 11y ago
Most of us who read Hacker News already know this, but it is important to keep publishing and reinforcing the message for everyone else!
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by apatters 11y ago
Isn't this the problem of dating in general?
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by apatters 11y ago
Do you think that node consulting would be a better play, in terms of having fewer nickel-and-dime clients? We already have a bit of node experience on the team.
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by apatters 11y ago
Low 5 figures struck me as a figure where a lawyer would be too cost prohibitive, but a debt collection agency might work. We're in separate countries though -- not sure if there's a debt collection agency which can help with that
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by apatters 11y ago
When I read this I don't know whether to be inspired or to put a bullet through my head. I've been freelancing/running a micro-PHP/WordPress consultancy for a few years now and the experience has been very, very differen
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by apatters 11y ago
How about people be allowed to choose for themselves what they do? I know plenty of people who would prefer to do repetitive, unfulfilling tasks and get paid for them versus sitting around broke and waiting for utopia to arrive.
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by apatters 12y ago
The government has been applying more scrutiny to foreigners who repeatedly leave and re-enter on 30 day visa exemptions. Actual visas (tourist or otherwise) have not been affected by this (though some have had other, minor changes). Immigr
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by apatters 12y ago
> And one drink is probably much smaller than people realise: 125 ml wine at 8% ABV is one drink. What is your source for this? The NIH defines a standard drink of wine as 5 oz or about 150ml at 12%. I agree that many people pour more th
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by apatters 12y ago
I have a hard time reconciling these statements with the study referred to in this article: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/truth-wo... "In the largest prospective study ever conducted for