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by avn2109 12y ago
We can't very well ask them for a 0% failure rate, can we? Mistakes are going to happen, it's the nature of the world. For example, humans try really hard to build "failure proof" nuclear reactors, and those still have p
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by avn2109 12y ago
In my city, restaurants are typically very loud and staffed by someone who does not speak any of the languages that I do. There are ~ ten million people in my city with this problem, so Magic/Seamless/whatever is valuable because
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Plenty of single people love life here on salaries of $45-60k, and are even able to save money." Here's some anecdata: I lived like a king on my $30,000 grad student stipend for years in Manhattan. And maxed out m
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by avn2109 12y ago
If the seller is paying for "your" agent, is she really yours in the incentivized sense? eg. Zuckerberg's college buddy who fronted the money for early FB servers was sure that "his" attorneys had his back, right
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by avn2109 12y ago
hmmm, sounds like a job for J.E. Amrhein (speaking about structural engineering, but broadly applicable to many engineering disciplines): "Structural engineering is the art of molding materials we don't wholly understand, into sh
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by avn2109 12y ago
Getting someone to push back on ATT bill errors would be an amazing feature if Magic could make it work.
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by avn2109 12y ago
No clue why he's doing it the way he is, and I know nothing about how to buy a house, but it sure sounds like a pain.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Yeah, if you can wrap shleps like this in a painless interface, it would be incredible. I would pay _a lot of money_ for that. Especially for stuff like "Dispatch someone credible-sounding to stand in line and negotiate as my agent w
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...it's difficult to get to." I'm surprised that nobody else has brought this up: No less an authority on matters arid and wild than Edward Abbey has written extensively [0-1] on the inaccessibility and remoten
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by avn2109 12y ago
Today is not a good day to extoll Lenovo's benefits :\
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by avn2109 12y ago
Somebody told me that post-Snowden, the NSA started processing some high-value internal paperwork with fancy typewriters to prevent signals intelligence attacks. Apparently the typewriters have little signatures embedded in each letter that
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by avn2109 12y ago
I came here to comment on this too. This is astounding. I can't even. Moxie et al. are looking better and better with each week that goes by.
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by avn2109 12y ago
This Lenovo press release is evidence neither for nor against Apple's malfeasance. But I think we can all agree that if Apple does bundle malware, that malware's user experience will be thoughtful, smooth, and superbly curated.
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by avn2109 12y ago
No evidence of security concerns, you say, Lenovo!? Well then your entire C-suite will put their money where their mouth is by browsing with these "uncompromised" machines for the forseeable future, right? Banking, signing in to t
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...to demonstrate that you don't have to have suburbs to have a livable home." Hasn't that already done by literally everywhere that isn't the sprawl-blighted, car-centric parts of North America and Austra
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Having a parent call in to complain about feedback an employee receives..." Wait, seriously? What!!?
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "seem paranoid about giving negative feedback to Millenials..." I am a millennial, and I can't help but notice that as a cohort we really suck at accepting criticism and negative feedback. Not sure why this is, but i
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "then the whole thing sounds like a racket." Yup, that's it exactly.
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by avn2109 12y ago
I appreciate your point about the historical precedent of interdisciplinary respectfulness by great physicists. However, it's worth noting that this respectfulness was far from unanimous. For example, no less an eminence than John Whee
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by avn2109 12y ago
Basically it works like this: If your options become very valuable, the people on the other side of the table are no longer the friendly technical founders that you know and love. Instead, they're replaced by calm, professional capital
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by avn2109 12y ago
Breaking news! Humanities professor writes attractive narrative, cleverly papers over content's shortcomings. Unprecedented! Read all about it! :p
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by avn2109 12y ago
Doesn't Spotify do p2p for fairly-high-resolution audio already?
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by avn2109 12y ago
When you put it like that, it seems inconceivable that the alphabet agencies in various countries didn't do this years ago.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "At this point YC is almost more like a meta-corporation with its individual startups as departments." Yup, that's the idea. It was designed that way from square one. Deconstruction and postmodernism are the spirit o
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by avn2109 12y ago
* With Federally guaranteed profits
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by avn2109 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that he says, "And importantly, they started out doing something that any two programmers (with domain expertise in their market) could have done." and the key part of that is the "domain expertis
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by avn2109 12y ago
I would be interested in knowing this too, if anybody can shed some light. Falklands war? North Koreans trying to take a South Korean ship?
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by avn2109 12y ago
Fair point, but it seems relevant to acknowledge that the American campaign finance system as presently organized is exactly isomorphic to the "selling political power" you mention above.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...innate desire to feel important by living in a fancy place." But that desire for importance is a thing, too. How else do we explain all the transplants moving to drastically-overpriced Williamsburg/Bushwick witho
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by avn2109 12y ago
I really think we have to pitch it along the lines of the Alaska permanent fund (which is in fact a guaranteed minimum income, just smaller in magnitude than what most people think of) and is never opposed by anyone ever. For example, it mi

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