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by dbingham 13y ago
> 2. paying others to not just discredit Hayes' work, but to make him look "as foolish as possible" > 3. putting together a team of over 100 people, including 25 professors, to act as "spokespeople on Hayes" &
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Escape from Parameter Hell(ellislab.com)
1 points by dbingham 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbingham 13y ago
The American mental health system is what's going on here. And it gets worse. Just the other day I was listening to an NPR article about how jails deal with mentally ill inmates. Alot of them seem to end up there for committing minor
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Google, Apple, and Others Apparently Colluded to Depress Tech Worker Salaries(businessinsider.com)
2 points by dbingham 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbingham 14y ago
If I give you a blackhole e-mail address, it's because I suspect you are going to spam me. Blocking the blackhole addresses only alienates me as a customer, confirms my suspicion that you intend to spam me and adds one more barrier to my t
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by dbingham 14y ago
And so the day has come in which Newegg has become just another internet retailer.
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by dbingham 14y ago
I'm in similar shoes. Been working on an app for about 2 years and submitted it a couple of times after major updates in order to get feedback on the changes. After the original submission it started to just fall off the front page with o
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by dbingham 14y ago
I disagree. Show HN would be just another marketing tool if you were looking for people to use your app. But usually when you do a Show HN you're looking for feedback and criticism. You're bringing it before it's really ready for wide re
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by dbingham 14y ago
Ah, but we're not placing a tariff on any particular country nor banning goods from a particular country. Rather we're targeting multi-national corporations. And part of that targeting includes an increased wages requirement. A minimum w
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by dbingham 14y ago
Good point, you'd have to link it with some sort of law with respect to ownership stakes and control.
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by dbingham 14y ago
Charging a fine? No. Disallowing the entry of their goods into the US market entirely unless they obey US labor laws? Yes. It'd cause all manner of hell on implementation, because it would completely turn the world economy on its head.
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by dbingham 14y ago
Most of the machines used on a farm have to do with harvesting, planting or spraying chemicals. They require plants to be planted in monocultures in straight clean rows in order to work. If you move away from chemicals and row based monoc
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by dbingham 14y ago
On the whole 21 hour work week thing, I think one way to deal with the compensation issue would be to enforce maximum gaps. By which I mean, write a law that says the top compensated individual in any company can only be compensated so man
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by dbingham 14y ago
It rarely actually works like that anymore. Companies have gotten very good at controlling their supply to ensure they can maintain high enough margins that their executives can take home ridiculous paychecks.
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by dbingham 14y ago
Actually, the farming trend is being reversed. We've realized that the compromises we have to make in order to produce enough to feed us with only 2% of the population results in food that is actually killing us and generating super pests.
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Surviving Progress(youtube.com)
1 points by dbingham 15y ago|0 comments
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A Decentralized, Peer to Peer Search Engine, hard to stop, censor or corrupt(yacy.net)
4 points by dbingham 15y ago|1 comments
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by dbingham 15y ago
Sorry, I meant price where I said value and now can't edit it. But look at it this way, for anything digital the supply is infinite. We currently have legal methods of restricting the supply and some attempts at software or digital methods
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by dbingham 15y ago
I wasn't just talking about software. I was talking about movies, books, music, images, anything that can be digitized. As soon as it's digital, there's a nearly infinite supply. Unless you can find a way to limit that supply the price (
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by dbingham 15y ago
Fair. Thank you for the correction. But I think this is, personally, one of my problems with free market economics. It conflates value and price too much. If you make a piece of software, or music, or a book and cannot control it's bein
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by dbingham 15y ago
Anything digital is inherently valueless. There is no cost to copy it. In a perfectly free market, it would be completely valueless. It is only given value by our legal system of copyright laws. I say this as a software developer and o
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by dbingham 15y ago
No, they don't. They are fully aware of what they are doing, the history behind it, and the possible consequences of their actions. They are doing it because it is the right thing to do. In a time such as this, where the only voice you a
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by dbingham 15y ago
You're right. Meanwhile, a story about Arrested Development being shown only on Netflix appears to be unquestionably on topic.
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by dbingham 15y ago
Clearing your cookies will fix this. But you'll need to do it every time. Can you say "Broken site" ?
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by dbingham 15y ago
I didn't make this. I have no idea who did. But I'm really, really curious to see how the White House will respond to this one if it gets more than 25,000 signatures.
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Petition to Take These Petitions Seriously(wwws.whitehouse.gov)
11 points by dbingham 15y ago|4 comments
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by dbingham 15y ago
Yeah, some of us just don't fit in the modern world though. I can't focus on any one thing for 40 hours in any week. I get bored and lose interest. I can put 14 hours of high speed hacking in one day. But the next day I'll be lucky to g
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by dbingham 15y ago
I don't think they went into it with an agenda of proving how hard it is. Morgan's got an agenda for sure, but he's generally pretty good about putting it aside it seems to me. In any case, what got them was the health costs. Which is pa
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by dbingham 15y ago
The scary thing is that those situations feel contrived to you. But to someone who is actually in that situation this is much closer to reality than you want to believe. Sure, it's been crunched in in time a bit. But the end result is ab
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by dbingham 15y ago
If you want to see another take on the whole problem, go to Netflix and watch the 30 Days episode called Minimum Wage. It's the same guy who did Supersize Me. He and his girlfriend try to work and live on minimum wage for a month. Doesn'

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