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by chaqke 12y ago
easily pressed to spend more than $17/day on food if you go out, but many tech jobs provide at least a meal (so you can work more)
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by chaqke 12y ago
Addendum to the why: - If you lean towards one side, the other side is incentivized to dismiss you. - If you're in a case with lawyers, both sides actually want jurors that they can influence, rather than jurors that will come to the
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by chaqke 12y ago
Many startups don't become long-term businesses. However, the startup that (wins a big contract with a big promise && delivers on its promise) certainly has a larger chance to become a long-term business than the ones that shor
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by chaqke 12y ago
This was a pretty cool example of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwys0dm_EA (context: after some occupy wall street protests were met with police violence, an armed Arizona militia watched over a local occupy moveme
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by chaqke 12y ago
most campuses do not have narrow, unavoidable choke points as gathering places to distribute pamphlets/flyers. in fact, the popular locations are often intentionally chosen to be large plazas. you have the choice to walk around them a
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by chaqke 12y ago
"essentially he's talking about Netflix for Books, yes? [...] But I just don't see it happening." already happened: http://www.scribd.com multiple publishers - not all, but neither does any music service prov
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by chaqke 12y ago
"All you need to do is make the expected value of an attack against the system worth less than just doing some actual research." you'll always have some people willing to take a gamble on the risk to get the reward, especiall
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by chaqke 12y ago
unless creating for the sense of ownership or pure joy, it's certainly valid to compare the time spent against the opportunity cost of a full-time job or contracting. it was a thread about _profit_, after all.
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by chaqke 12y ago
i wonder what the charity's overhead is, compared to the theoretical "loss" rate to addiction/booze/whatever we want to decree an ineffective use of someone else's money.
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Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court(eff.org)
280 points by chaqke 12y ago|59 comments
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by chaqke 13y ago
given the copious amount of US laws regarding giveaways, it's probably illegal too. did it for fun because of a coupon code, but I feel sorry for anyone who paid the full price of admission. if they were going to rig it anyway, why se
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by chaqke 13y ago
From the article: "Basically, a publisher gets paid only if a reader chooses one of its particular books — and it only gets paid in full if the book is read in full." Sounds like it's free to browse, but the publisher gets pa
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by chaqke 13y ago
It seems that scribd's business model now more prominently features selling access to publisher content - seems like a fine decision to me.
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by chaqke 14y ago
yea, isn't this blatant "ghosting", punishable by delisting?
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by chaqke 14y ago
Not intending to be harsh, but your grandmother could use the equity established in her property, and move to somewhere where the costs of living are within her means. In cases where the property has appreciated so much that the increase in
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by chaqke 14y ago
It seems that some people are shocked that potentially copyrighted material is available.. ..and others are shocked that the same content is not conveniently copyable. Go figure.
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Apple swapping out Google maps for iPhone(arstechnica.com)
3 points by chaqke 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaqke 15y ago
Preferential placement, cross-product tie-in....yeouch. That's powerful.
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by chaqke 17y ago
Rule of thumb: Fat = 9calories/gram Carb = 4calories/gram The difference might be that you feel full quicker with fat - but in that case carbs don't make you fat, eating more makes you fat. I just remember those numbers from a class, but he
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by chaqke 17y ago
Pretty much all hosting solutions in the United States will fall under the "safe harbor" clause of the DMCA. This law makes any noncompliant service a "publisher", liable for all content on the site - unless you follow the DMCA. Upon recei
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by chaqke 17y ago
i'd recommend you try rittenhouse's 23-year-old and black maple hill's 21-year-old
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by chaqke 17y ago
i'm surprised that marriage was a factor - i'd suspect incomplete data on that dimension.
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by chaqke 17y ago
could be handled by directing people to a posting about hacker news, where they could comment to their hearts content (or, hopefully, read historical conclusions to their comment's topic, if one already exists)
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by chaqke 17y ago
I wonder if facebook was paid by adobe when facebook videos began requiring Flash 10. That's the only reason I upgraded flash.
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by chaqke 17y ago
Find a side-interest that you can do in class, after completing class work. It'll incentivize you to complete your class work sooner, and prepares you for being able to handle multiple things at the same time...especially if you have inter
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by chaqke 18y ago
check out the map on the right side of http://www.buzzillions.com/ real-time view of customer reviews at a couple hundred retailers.