cmdkeen

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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Why would they run the risk if they have enough warm leads from trusted contacts? The VC money to startup lead ratio is obviously one sided to present sufficient profit motive to invest in cold introductions. If the VC market becomes suffic
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
They lent the money, they didn't "give it" to the banks. The difference is that the Fed got the money back, whereas buying $2tn of debt would result in the Fed having to create $2tn. http://www.forbes.com/site
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
New Town :) Living on the Royal Mile is a mad idea, just today someone who used to do it was telling me about the constant bagpipes!
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Parts of the UK outside London are actually pretty cheap to live in. I live in Edinburgh, slap in the middle of the city, which is also a World Heritage Site. I have a 5 minute walk to work and flat (apartments...) go for £500/800 for
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
"lots of bureaucracy" being code for authoritarian dictatorship... I suppose if you want to learn about how you don't actually live in a police state in the West you could move there.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
There's also the issue of the historical economic legacy of the Licence Raj - state planning often leads to built in corruption as circumventing state bureaucracy becomes the only way to get something done. It gets overlooked semi-offi
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
In the UK it would be forgery - a forged instrument is "any document", and for it to be forgery they have to use it to "induce someone to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to h
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
You'd no doubt be committing all sorts of criminal offences in both the US and whatever (Western) country you send them from. It makes for a much better reason for getting the authorities involved in a hacked account than just the init
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It isn't like the world didn't have any interest in German policy 3 years ago. Not when Angela Merkel was deciding whether to continue with bailing out Greece, create massive changes in EU fiscal policy or otherwise use Germany&#x
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
I use a single viewmodel with multiple objects and the "with" binding to deliver that pretty effectively. You still get the ko.applyBinding(view) call but can have common HTML. We went to that after hell with pages littered with a
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
The FBI did this for decades - Hoover's level of corruption is truly scary. He had dirt on every incoming US President and most representatives for years, and would offer to help his chosen candidate during the election cycle. But it e
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Just because anyone could doesn't mean that is how criminals operate - your average firearm toting gangster in the UK is not technologically smart. There was a major case a few years back when an armourer got busted for reactivating fi
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Pepper sprays aren't - they're illegal under Section 5 of the Firearms Act (no - they aren't treated as being firearms). Pocket knife legislation is a bit off after a court decision regarding the length of blades. Under 3 i
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Except cops are out catching real criminals as well, there are lots of cops. If the entire police department are out catching speeding drivers and dealing with no other crime then "they should be catching more serious criminals" i
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
If debt jumped 30 something percent before the crash then it dropping by a percentage point a year still means people are massively overburdened by debt compared to where they used to be. Growth to be sustainable can't be debt fuelled,
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Well they've not got $1.2bn, they've got $150 million. There is nothing to say that they will be able to float or get bought at a similar valuation. I can't see any of the investing arguments for MongoDB that even Facebook ha
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Some mid range UK developer posts pay that across the UK, but there are plenty out there that quickly pay more. London should be paying at least £6k more than that just for cost of living. London is where developers go to earn the "kic
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Because information warfare is an entirely different, and existing, branch of the military. Think hearts and minds operations. They need a new term.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Except Christianity broadly doesn't believe in the Bible being the literal word of God and thus all of those rules applying now - and no country accepts it as their view of Christianity. Biblical infallibility is a modern, revivalist
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
I think the final paragraph points out the obvious point - social mobility has never really fully existed. Previously large swathes of the workforce were never expected or enabled to progress - women and ethnic minorities. When they are inc
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
For those with the wherewithal to run their own server both in terms of hardware and software along with secure backup policies. The likelihood of be compromised through missing a security patch or poor configuration is almost certainly mas
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Intriguingly in the full list he's lumped "brighton" with "briton/england" - Brighton is actually a place, albeit not a city.
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
There's a difference between technology and implementation though. If Dianne had chosen a solution that fundamentally can't scale easily then that is a poor decision, whereas a technology that can scale written in a way that can b
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It's about how you use bleeding edge technology though, especially after playtime is over and you've established it does what you want. All too often the engineering of things like abstracting the bleeding edge tech, or documentin
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
This is a problem because writing working, maintainable code that solves the given problem rather than an imagined problem should be the trait of a competent developer. I had the pleasure of going on a course run by a German developer recen
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Detroit was also sunk by massive pension costs and held hostage by union requirements. Software has much more creative destruction - the startups of today paying ridiculous figures can go bust tomorrow and wages collapse. That happened afte
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
This is more to do with people who don't have traditional indicators for credit scores, rather than throwing away everything else. The Economist covered it a while back in developing nations - if your credit score suffers because of a
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
It's not pervasive if each cop has a camera recording - the cameras are in the same places as cops. Plus if they record only in the case of interactions with members of the public then it's even less "pervasive".
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Early stage startup investors expect most investments to fail. Those investing in mature companies expect their investments to do well over many years. I'm sure MBAs have plenty of stories of incredibly inefficient companies that have
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by cmdkeen 13y ago
Or just don't show the box during period where there is no valid coupon code for any of the selected items? Half the complaint, and associated failed transactions, is around there not even being a currently running coupon campaign anyw

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