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by arfliw 12y ago
While that certainly is an intimidating set of links you have there, only two of those have any discussion -- one over two years ago, the other nearly four years ago.
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by arfliw 12y ago
The user in a 3rd World country and speaks (reads) very limited English. With 3rd World internet and an $80 computer.
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by arfliw 12y ago
I can only say why I shared it here: I thought it would be of interest to hackers. That's what these doctors are doing...hacking the end of life.
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by arfliw 12y ago
Do you have data disproving the anecdotes?
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How doctors choose to die (2012)(theguardian.com)
161 points by arfliw 12y ago|81 comments
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by arfliw 12y ago
>why Pigeon needed to develop their own system instead of piggybacking on GV Who said they aren't piggybacking on GV (or somebody else)? They were vague about the tech behind their VOIP. Which is what I would expect from somebody do
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by arfliw 12y ago
Site looks really good. Have you gotten much traction?
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by arfliw 12y ago
Think of the demographic here. They are not techies.
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by arfliw 12y ago
That's what people said about Dropbox. You'd have to know their grand vision to decide whether they can become real businesses. And even then, you'd have to buy into it. I'm confident YC is not investing in any company w
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by arfliw 12y ago
sama said they don't do that but they actually did do exactly that with Quora. I guess they made an exception.
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by arfliw 12y ago
This answer by Adam D'Angelo on Quora blows my mind: "What was hot in Silicon Valley in March 2013?" http://www.quora.com/What-was-hot-in-Silicon-Valley-in-March... Every one of those blew up. So I ask you th
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by arfliw 12y ago
Selection bias. Only the best and brightest get to run companies. Much easier for men to run companies. Which obviously says something bad about our society - but it does not mean that women run companies better than men.
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by arfliw 12y ago
They need on-demand email addresses too, then. Because I don't remember my yahoo email address, either. That's how long it's been since I've signed in. Maybe every other month for one reason or another I'm prompted
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by arfliw 12y ago
Your age has negative value, not your experience. If that new grad were the same age as you, that wouldn't apply.
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by arfliw 12y ago
hacking and money are not mutually exclusive. just like music doesn't automatically suck once it's mainstream. Case in point: The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who
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by arfliw 12y ago
If they had to choose between you and somebody with no programming experience, who do you think they would hire? If they hired you both, do you think you'd get the same salary? Answers are obv: (1) you (2) no - so your skills are not v
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by arfliw 12y ago
Dude is a politician. Those were really boring answers.
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by arfliw 12y ago
I don't think I've changed a single thing since Snowden first started leaking stuff. That's not intentional and I'm not advocating that, I just haven't. I don't want the government reading my shit but at the en
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by arfliw 12y ago
Craigslist is pretty effective at stopping those types of evasion. They ban VOIP phone numbers, for instance.
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by arfliw 12y ago
It's not that there is a lot of junk on YouTube. There is a lot of junk on my 900 channels of TV, too. But I have a handful of go-to channels, DVR and a huge schedule showing me what's happening across all of those channels. Probl
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by arfliw 12y ago
I wouldn't just based on the title and a summary. Having read it I would have, but how could you know it was such high quality prior to reading it?
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by arfliw 12y ago
Read it. It's an awesome piece.
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by arfliw 12y ago
pre-launch late-stage capital #ShitVCsSaidIn1999
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by arfliw 12y ago
I'm confused. Is this the same Mailbox that I've been using on my iPhone for like two years? Why is this news?
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by arfliw 12y ago
What a fluff job. There was one interesting sentence in the whole article: >Its revenue and EBITDA have consistently climbed in each year since going public, and there is plenty of cash on hand without a single cent of debt. What about t
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by arfliw 12y ago
Canada with 1.6 million is pretty surprising. That's roughly the same per capita as the US. China with only 1.6 million is downright shocking. You read about new billionaires in that country all the time. I guess the wealth is only flo
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by arfliw 12y ago
That's what nominee directors are for ;) Law firms and others specialize in doing this.
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by arfliw 12y ago
HK and Singapore are both good options. Both also really good for offshore banking.
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by arfliw 12y ago
>Another plague is that people will go through your comment history and attempt to use that to discredit you. I don't know that accountability is a bad thing. If you're so ashamed of what you're saying that you don't
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by arfliw 12y ago
I suspect you simply haven't found the right subreddits yet.

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