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by declan 12y ago
e) Other reasons. Someone else replying to your question mentioned Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh the median sale price for a house is $129,000, according to Trulia. In Palo Alto the median sale price is 17x higher, about $2.2 million, with sign
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by declan 12y ago
>What precisely is it about having a child and having a mortgage that qualifies someone as "grown-up"? It's shorthand for assuming adult responsibilities. It's difficult to survive on your emotionally fulfilling but m
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by declan 13y ago
That's a good point. Amazon and Google are direct competitors in tablets (Nexus vs. Kindle), phones, app stores, cloud computing (I'm using both for Recent.io), local delivery, living room TV, product search, etc. You could make a
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by declan 13y ago
Except federalism.
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by declan 13y ago
> You're conflating lobbying and campaign finance Most people take too narrow a view of lobbying. Writing a check for a $64K/plate dinner with Obama means you've reached the pinnacle of lobbying: a casual after-dinner-with
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by declan 13y ago
>Even buying dinner for a member of Congress is a felony. But hosting an Obama fundraiser in Silicon Valley where each couple who wants to attend writes checks for $64,800 to the Democratic Party, why, that's just the cost of doing
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by declan 13y ago
Your bio says you live in Texas and are the founder of the art website www.wysp.ws. Let's say a congresscritter introduces a bill in the U.S. Congress requiring art websites to verify the age of their users so Junior can't access
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by declan 13y ago
> really bad parts here too, like describing SOPA Yep. I think any article that describes SOPA as merely "placin[ing] restrictions on the sale of pirated music and movies" is begging to be criticized, especially here on HN. It
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by declan 13y ago
Good line! But in reality -- speaking as a former journalist and a founder of a new SF bay area startup that's in the same business -- news organizations have done this kind of thing forever. One journalistic function is ingesting a tr
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UMich on Heartbleed: "5.7% of all hosts that support HTTPS remain vulnerable"(zmap.io)
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by declan 13y ago
>Proof : A lot of genuine lawsuits... Not quite. The "genuine lawsuits you mention are proof only that (a) bottom-feeding lawyers file meritless lawsuits in hopes of a fat $$$ settlement, or (b) that sometimes even well-intentioned
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by declan 13y ago
>Facebook can & will use all this data against your wishes Facebook is limited to what its privacy policy and TOU allow. If Facebook goes beyond that, the FTC, state attorneys general, and a bevy of bottom-feeding class action lawyer
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by declan 13y ago
>You can replace the letters "HFT" in your comment with "any market maker" and come to exactly the same conclusion. You may even be able to replace the letters HTF with "any for-profit profession" and come t
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by declan 13y ago
First, it's not an all-in-one integrated unit, which I was talking about in my upthread discussion. Second, it's "simple" for you, but my use case is not yours: it involves very young children and very old adults who don
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by declan 13y ago
I just read this, which Brendan Eich wrote last week, and proved insufficient to keep the job: https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/ I am deeply honored and humbled by the CEO role. I’m al
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by declan 13y ago
I think this is correct. The WSJ today had a piece offering much the same analysis: that because Facebook's stock is (arguably) overvalued relative to revenue and expected growth, investors are encouraging the company to do these sorts
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by declan 13y ago
Exactly. And I recall that some of that was held back in case Viacom won the copyright lawsuit.
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by declan 13y ago
Ah, but I want to be able to view Amazon Prime without resorting to an Airplay workaround. For my living room use case Airplay isn't an option; I'm looking for an integrated unit.
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by declan 13y ago
> other channels, live news, or broadcast TV and we'll buy it in a heartbeat. Agreed! Does anyone know of any device that offers live streaming news from CNN, Fox, etc.? The Roku store doesn't list CNN; it does list Fox News bu
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by declan 13y ago
This is a reasonable answer to Apple TV. If you have videos on or subscriptions to iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon Prime (as I do), there's no box I'm aware of that will let you watch all three. So you end up using your Apple TV and t
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Most people don’t lock their Android phones – but should(elie.net)
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Homeland Security reveals what DHS mailing lists someone subscribes to(twitter.com)
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by declan 13y ago
Ah, yes. In the U.S. we had Operation Northwoods, where not one of those psychopathic "leaders" who concocted it was disposed of, either expediently or forcefully: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northw
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by declan 13y ago
Huh? Kent's statement on behalf of Google was anything but narrow. It was general: "We have never done this." If I'm comparing the veracity of Kent's blanket denial vs. Mike A's hypothetical well-maybe-they-did
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by declan 13y ago
>So you pick two people, one moderate and one extreme, and pretend they're representative? Ah, but I'm picking two leading advocates for their respective positions.
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by declan 13y ago
Not in the same way. I know the chairman of the Calguns Foundation (hoffmang on Twitter), who's also for HN purposes the chairman and CEO of a ~200-employee Silicon Valley recurring billing/subscription management startup. My unde
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by declan 13y ago
I hope this is tongue in cheek. Disagreeing with the majority your peers (as I've done frequently here) could still lead you the minority who agrees with you to upvote you. Unlike politics, it's not a winner-takes-all system. But
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by declan 13y ago
>It is fascinating that were you to advocate gun control in the late 19th century, it seems nearly everyone would have laughed you out of the room. You're right in general, though as <cadlin> points out modern forms of "g
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by declan 13y ago
I didn't make the above comment, but a sworn declaration would be good ammunition on the part of the plaintiff. Also given the difficulty of prevailing, it could help force an early settlement.
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by declan 13y ago
Yep. My point is that criminal libel no longer exists in the United States, so you can't be "guilty of libel." You can held liable for libel, but that's an awkward phrasing, so "liable for defamation" is broade

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