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by defen 8y ago
> Berkeley has pleasant single family homes in a great school district around the $1MM mark. You can absolutely do that on $200k/year. Let's say you make $200k/year and manage to put together a $300k down payment and get a
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by defen 8y ago
That was Samuel E. Clements, not Samuel L. Clemens, and Whitman wasn't involved; he was just an apprentice for Clements at the newspaper Clements edited. Clements did succeed at digging up the grave, but apparently the mold and busts w
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by defen 8y ago
Yes. He had read a significant amount of English literature by age 15, including the complete works of Shakespeare. http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
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by defen 8y ago
I had the same reaction. I've gotten better returns than A16Z over the same time period just through index funds and picking stocks of companies I like. Granted, I'm investing a tiny fraction of the amount they are, and I don&#x27
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by defen 8y ago
> A public ledger would make property title/ownership simple and knowable. Only if all the property records are already in the ledger, right? If I buy a house via blockchain, someone can still come along and say their great-aunt sho
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by defen 8y ago
That's why I'm a little more optimistic about Yang 2024 than Yang 2020. I'm just worried that he's going to end up as the Ron Paul of the Democratic Party - highly appealing to a relatively small group of geeks, but cons
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by defen 8y ago
> * companies that buy blood and skin, and who come to possess other body tissue, do under circumstances retain property rights over that tissue Are there special rules about who can buy blood and skin? Otherwise why can't I just se
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by defen 8y ago
His writing style reminded me of James Ellroy's, except told from the point of view of an everyman instead of a gangster or crooked cop.
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by defen 8y ago
How seedy is it, compared to what we know about Singer? I'm guessing no outright bribery, but what about essay "help"? Cheating on tests?
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by defen 8y ago
In Firefox I get a blank page with 2 "PARSER.process false" messages in the javascript console...
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by defen 8y ago
So if Y Combinator did not have those terms, I could put my own copyrighted work onto Hacker News and then sue Y Combinator? That doesn't sound right.
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by defen 8y ago
> $100M in projected revenue? Yawn. Kill it. They should at least tell us what those projects are so someone can pick up the scraps.
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by defen 8y ago
Indeed. People are morally responsible for what they actually do; not for their presumed actions in someone else's alternate reality.
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by defen 8y ago
> We are indeed all mutts I get why Reich says things like this, but you have to ask what it would mean not to be a "mutt". Is that even physically possible? If not, why do we need DNA testing of ancient skeletons to prove th
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by defen 8y ago
> US/Canada human rights arguments arguments are pretty galling by a NA Aboriginal POV. By this metric the US and Canada can never condemn other countries for human rights abuses. Bringing up wrongs committed hundreds of years ago i
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by defen 8y ago
Not OP, and I'm slightly exaggerating for effect, but I would say that if a fresh ripe tomato is not the best tasting food you've ever eaten, then you haven't had a "real" tomato.
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by defen 8y ago
I don't think we need to invoke the Russians - I think an easier explanation is that some people just love being volunteer morality police. It cuts across political or religious ideologies. The justification is always prevention of h
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by defen 8y ago
> the right to surveillance on personal property Wait, what? I don't think I've seen that before, what does this mean exactly?
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by defen 8y ago
How hard would it be to extend the parser to handle arbitrary-precision numbers? Strictly speaking the JSON spec does not require numbers to fit into 64-bit ints / doubles.
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by defen 8y ago
4GB of English? 500 words per single-spaced page, 5 letters on average per English word, so 2500 bytes/page. 4 gigs then would be 1,600,000 pages. That's 219 single-spaced pages per day every single day for 20 years straight. High
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by defen 8y ago
Saying that they may publish something is not saying that they will.
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by defen 8y ago
> If we do not agree to affirmatively publicize that specific lie, they say they’ll publish the photos, and quickly. And there’s an associated threat: They’ll keep the photos on hand and publish them in the future if we ever deviate from
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by defen 8y ago
That's true, for teaching purposes it does help to simplify, as long as people know that they're not playing by the "real" rules (so when they play again without you, they play correctly). I don't remember the speci
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by defen 8y ago
> 5. No other communication is allowed. When playing with friends / casuals I've found that this is the one that trips people up (if you want to play strictly by the rules) - no, you can't ask if there are any reds left. Y
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by defen 8y ago
Walk the room: Offend the audience so much or bomb so badly that everyone walks out.
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by defen 8y ago
> if you are a millionaire and have a $200k house, then you don't really need to buy insurance for the house since you have ample funds to purchase or build a new one if the need arises. Unless that fire spreads to someone else&#x27
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by defen 8y ago
> they are fundamentally someone with power using that power to subjugate ( to varying degrees ) someone who they have power over. That doesn't explain the Roseanne Barr / Valerie Jarrett situation.
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by defen 8y ago
> To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages. That is not at all obvious. How would you respond to Elizabeth Warren&
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by defen 8y ago
In practice, how is a "speedy trial" defined?
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by defen 8y ago
> totally balanced lives, with a fair employer, earning good wages In that case you could view union membership as insurance, in case you ever lose that great job. Keep in mind that your local pipefitters union is not the only model out

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