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by bhousel 16y ago
8. Cybercrime
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Offtopic, but I hate this trend of articles titled 'How to..." where the article don't actually tell you how to do anything. It seems like there have been a lot of these articles lately. Is it an SEO thing? Another noiseword title I've
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by bhousel 16y ago
TARP money wasn't "given away", it was loaned. The banks have paid back all that money and the US treasury made a profit. The auto industry has also paid back their portion, but the government still holds some stock in the companies, so pe
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No. The world doesn't end when overvalued companies go through corrections or failures. It may seem that way for some people and for some time, but whole economies do not just stop working. And really, we're talking about Twitter and Face
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The valuations will fix themselves in time. That's how company valuations work.
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I self-host my mail too, because I've been doing it for years and I really like having absolute control over what ends up in my Inbox. True, it is probably easier for someone to break into my Linode than a Google server. However I think it
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The Gollum Effect(ribbonfarm.com)
6 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
You are correct, in this case the person does make a little bit of money from photography, some from friends and some from stock photography sites. He did speak with a tax expert and is apparently in the clear as far as the IRS is concerne
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by bhousel 16y ago
What's the leak? They are a holding company and a member of FINRA. I'm genuinely interested in how you think the SEC might shut them down. Besides, SecondMarket is growing fast in Europe and Asia too.. They trade stocks all over the world
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You can even register a business for things that you might consider a hobby as long as you can earn a little bit of money doing it. For example, I know someone who is an amateur photographer who occasionally takes photos for his friends at
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by bhousel 16y ago
No I hadn't seen it, thanks for the link!
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It would be nice to be able to create a blacklist of sites that I want to never show up in my search results. If any search engine implements this, I'd switch.
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Save yourself some money and embarrassment and just do the same thing on Mechanical Turk..
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I respectfully disagree. Exits have always had the potential to go that way..
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how so?
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The Spoon Theory(butyoudontlooksick.com)
2 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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Start off with Heroku. It's free to get started with just 1 dyno, and you don't need to worry about VPS administration or installing Passenger/Nginx/Capistrano. Another benefit, since you will be handling user uploads, is that you can use
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by bhousel 16y ago
Bye-bye 99Designs too, apparently..
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How to Run Better Presentations & Improve Results(bothsidesofthetable.com)
2 points by bhousel 16y ago|1 comments
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For what it's worth, here are the top engineering (graduate) schools ranked by US News & World Report in 2010: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu... It seems clear to me that just because an area has a top en
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by bhousel 16y ago
I looked through the code quickly, and it seems to rely on ActiveRecord for the History model. However it probably wouldn't be too difficult to make an ORM-independent version of this, if that's the only place ActiveRecord is used. An admi
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by bhousel 16y ago
Looks like you're right.. these benchmarks show SHA1 about 5x faster than DES: http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html
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I guess that's true. But what I meant to say was that in order to arrange for the results to net a zero difference from what the government would collect normally, you're not really randomly assigning tax rates or running a lottery, you're
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This has been done already on HN.. s/freechromelaptop/wakemate/g
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That would be nice, but then you're not doing an experiment.
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You're asking how people would feel if they were forced into high-tax and low-tax test groups.. But suppose people are given a choice opt-in to a tax lottery system, such that instead of paying a fixed rate the taxpayer would have a random
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Write a webcrawler that doesn't get stuck crawling in circles. You need to maintain history somehow.
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This is an amazing bit of backwards reasoning. The rich, who don't need the rest of us, will pay us to leave? In what kind of sense, even if the author is correct on all other counts, would this work? Why pay a thousand people to leave whe
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by bhousel 16y ago
HN has plenty of that already..
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Oatmeal Work-arounds(runningahospital.blogspot.com)
1 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments

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