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by codexon 16y ago
I don't believe there is an innate zero-sum bias. Why would humans be hunting in groups 200,000 years ago if we evolved to be zero-sum thinkers? I find too many people on HN use the zero-sum bias argument against everything because Paul Gra
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by codexon 16y ago
That's only true for public shares. $10,000 from Thiel is different from $10,000 from Joe Sixpack.
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by codexon 16y ago
The problem with that line of thinking is that those valuations would have only been possible with Zuckerberg and his cadre of Harvard branded friends at the helm of Facebook. If Ceglia exercised his right to those shares so early in the st
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by codexon 16y ago
I disagree with the doctrine of laches being applied to this case. It doesn't make any sense for Ceglia to risk time and money to sue for a company that has just recently become "cash flow positive" let alone break even. Investors in Facebo
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by codexon 16y ago
Very interesting that it was submitted so many times yet only now has it gotten this many votes.
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by codexon 16y ago
And the twist is if Ceglia truly did have this contract with Zuckerberg, it leaves the ConnectU guys in a particular interesting situation. No it doesn't. The issue was never "who thought of Facebook first". All of this was when Myspace w
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by codexon 16y ago
Why would someone sit on something like this for 7 years? This is obvious. Why would you sue over a company that might not even turn a profit or could go bankrupt the next day while the founders are poached by Google, leaving you with an
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by codexon 16y ago
If this contract is real, this is bad news for Zuckerberg. Considering that his lawyers are "unsure" he signed the contract, this is basically an admission that the contract looks valid at first glance, and that the lawyers are probably spe
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by codexon 16y ago
We need to reward producers more and punish consumers so that Americans will produce more and consume less and rebuild our nation to its previous glory. We need a balance. Rewarding producers and punishing consumers is just as naive as re
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by codexon 16y ago
Interesting how they are scouting stackoverflow profiles for potential hires. I suppose it takes more than 10k reputation (talking about my own profile of course). The part about being denied because he was Microsoft-centric and yet Jon Ske
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by codexon 16y ago
Why so much hate for him? Not so much hate for him as hate for how his website has de-evolved. Early on, it was much like Slashdot or HN. When he started introducing features that benefited power-users, your chances of getting your own st
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by codexon 16y ago
Last year I measured ~65% of visitors from Reddit had adblock. http://www.codexon.com/posts/the-percentage-of-people-using-...
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by codexon 16y ago
I'm more concerned about memory leaks. It is almost solved with the memory fox plugin, but I still need to restart Firefox 3.x every month instead of every week. I hope that Firefox 4.x will address this problem.
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by codexon 16y ago
You cannot "create jobs" by instituting tariffs. You can't create jobs through tariffs, but you can shift the balance towards the US. China keeps artificially inflating their currency when it would've naturally increased by now; maybe to
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by codexon 16y ago
To me, it's obvious what the future of mass production will look like, but it's not at all clear how to stave off a future where 10% of us are shouldering the entire productivity burden for the rest of the country. Extrapolating your logi
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by codexon 16y ago
Maybe they are optimistic because they know they are healthier.
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by codexon 16y ago
You can under-volt without reducing speed at any time. With a program like rmclock, you can switch to high frequencies on the fly like a turbo button.
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by codexon 16y ago
Have you tried under-volting and under-clocking your laptop to solve your heat problem?
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by codexon 16y ago
EDIT: Could someone please explain the downmods? Hacker News has a very strong functional language fanbase which you could see last year by the number of Erlang articles, which has then promptly moved onto NodeJS.
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by codexon 16y ago
Why don't you try it? Epoll for Haskell was heavily experimental and failed to compile when I wrote the article. Enabling epoll in Erlang changed the results by ~1%.
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by codexon 16y ago
I am the author of this article. Do you not think the commenters are the ones being incredibly hostile? Here they are on my blog convinced that I am wrong, and when I don't agree, they start calling me epithets like "naive", "stupid", or la
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by codexon 16y ago
African warlords letting a business on their turf get rich without their permission? I think not.
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by codexon 16y ago
There's one giant flaw in this argument. Lübeck was subsidized by the tax money from King Henry's other lands. How else do you support a private mint and an army to protect merchants from pirates and bandits? Is it any wonder why the mercha
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The Iranian Twitter Revolution That Never Was(foreignpolicy.com)
6 points by codexon 16y ago|1 comments
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by codexon 16y ago
If you had to ask, you really aren't qualified to make the blanket statement "for a lot of these fields the unemployment rate...is still fairly low". http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t14.htm
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by codexon 16y ago
Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that recently announced that it would be bringing 180 new jobs to the Buckhead, Ga. area, also recently posted an ad for a __marketing__ position on The People Place. A Craigslist ad for __assis
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by codexon 16y ago
Why would you believe that is their active number? Back when I was active on Facebook, there was no shortage of fake accounts that survived multiple attempts by Facebook to purge them.
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by codexon 16y ago
I have multiple Facebook accounts back from the day an edu address was required. I never bothered to delete them. Same with my main account. I am not sure why everyone takes Facebook's 500 million member number at face value when a quick lo
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by codexon 16y ago
It is an issue of trust...trust in college credentials. If you ask me, overpriced colleges and forcing degrees on the art, history, etc. majors of the world is a far greater swindle and far more damaging on the economy. Colleges have condit
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by codexon 16y ago
Let's not get hung up on definitions here. It doesn't really matter if $10/month is a job or just a hobby to you. The important question, is whether or not it is attainable with low effort as you seem to suggest. I've built a few websites w

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