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by comrade1 12y ago
I'm a believer in the William Golding (Lord of the Flies) view of humanity - that the baseline character of humans is quite different than what you see in modern humanity and that what makes us who we are comes from social controls and
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by comrade1 12y ago
If the person is in more than one opt in keyword then it goes to either all campaigns or it goes to the last communicated campaign. Not ideal of course. Best to have geographically isolated short codes to minimize this. But it's bette
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by comrade1 12y ago
Providers typically do a shared short code in this case. They share customers across multiple unique keywords per shortcode and their API lets you be on your own. Siignal7 or something like that is one of these. They also monitor your compl
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by comrade1 12y ago
Is this using a long code or a short code? The examples seem to show a long code, which is basically a phone number. The FCC is in the process of cracking down on companies that use long codes for marketing and interacting with customers. I
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by comrade1 12y ago
From some of the comments here it sounds like you're using a long code (phone number) rather than a short code for your sms messages. The FCC has been cracking down on the use of long codes in marketing. Not sure about an app like your
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by comrade1 12y ago
A couple problems - when there's even a tiny wobble the goldilocks zone will alternate from extreme freezing to extreme heat. The other problem is that the atmosphere will eventually fully condense on the cold side of the planet.
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by comrade1 12y ago
We're not allowed to joke on HN. It's serious business here.
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by comrade1 12y ago
As an Apple investor I'm not sure what to think of this. On the one hand Apple has so much cash on hand that they can do just about anything that they want. On the other hand I can see developing a car being a huge time and money sink
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by comrade1 12y ago
I don't think any programmer needs to know more than what this information means practically to a programmer. I don't need the details - I have other things to worry about. SSD is great because when we compile we are opening poten
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by comrade1 12y ago
There are so many sad broken people in Silicon Valley. Maybe it's a matter of people not being socialized well as they grow up and a somewhat insular community that feeds off itself. I left about 10 years ago but still have strong ties
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by comrade1 12y ago
Maybe it's like that in the USA, but it isn't like that in most of the world. 'Engineer' means something.
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by comrade1 12y ago
Please don't call yourself an engineer unless you've got the ring.
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by comrade1 12y ago
You obviously don't watch the same anime that the rest of us watch.
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by comrade1 12y ago
Are you a robot?
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by comrade1 12y ago
On the one hand, this is great. Competition and I couldn't wish Google's infinite pockets on a more terrible group of people. On the other hand, Google has only been successful with search and advertising and are known for terribl
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by comrade1 12y ago
But that does happen, in way. The most well-known was Zynga - when they were getting ready to go public they did a claw-back on their outstanding options and shares. They screwed over a friend of mine that was one of the early employees. h
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by comrade1 12y ago
The Avocados that they can actually ship (Hass) are pretty terrible. If you haven't lived in an area where they grow avocados you probably haven't had a chance to enjoy the other dozens of varieties of avocado. Did you know that t
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by comrade1 12y ago
I think most people don't have the need to push their iPad particularly hard and so hardware as old as the iPad 2 is probably good enough. Myself, I upgraded from 'The New Ipad' (whatever number that one was) to the latest iP
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by comrade1 12y ago
Do you need to register a corporation? Or do you just need a legal entity other than yourself to pass your earnings through? Will you have employees? Partners? If you just need something simple with no employees partners then you probably o
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by comrade1 12y ago
Like myself, the enthusiasm that you felt may have had more to do with yourself not yet developing a healthy sense of skepticism for technology than the usefulness of the technology itself. I can definitely see some uses for it - architectu
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by comrade1 12y ago
I'm looking forward to the return of vrml. A memorable post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7301062 "I worked on a VRML retail store that had 3D products on 3D shelves and 3D customer service reps you
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by comrade1 12y ago
Sarcasm is lost on the internet.
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by comrade1 12y ago
Presumeably this will not apply to corporate VPN users...
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by comrade1 12y ago
"They're patriots" This is the same argument Obama tried to use with Abbvie while trying to block their takeover of shire for tax purposes. He used the phrase "economic patriotism". But in the end the government had
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by comrade1 12y ago
Thanks. That makes sense to me.
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by comrade1 12y ago
So you are trading on the exchange rate? What's happening in the background? I guess someone is writing these option contracts and backing them with real currency?
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by comrade1 12y ago
I don't think I understand how currency trading works. If you owned EUR the value of the EUR only changed relative to the CHF. If you owned CHF you gained 15% against all currencies. How do people lose money on this? Are people somehow
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by comrade1 12y ago
Garbage collection should not be private enterprise. It is a public service. If you've ever lived in Cambridge MA you can see just how bad it is when it's run by private companies competing with each other - garbage trucks of mult
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by comrade1 12y ago
I don't feel like reading yet another cicada article that in the end has no new information. Is there anything new in this article that wasn't in the last 1/2 dozen cicada articles?
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by comrade1 12y ago
He doesn't sound that smart...

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