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by dictum 13y ago
Sorry, I'd missed that. I had seen 'gender-dysphoric' before but didn't know the meaning of dysphoria and hadn't looked it up.
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by dictum 13y ago
> I'm fairly sure Jessica will just apply common sense though and would put me somewhere below full (trans-)women but above cisgendered men as far as priority goes, which would make sense. Why? If anything, a heterosexual man would
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by dictum 13y ago
While this letter is directed to the general public, Gates talks to many members of the global elites, some of whom may have privately voiced that concern.
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TinEye would be happy to service them, I think. http://services.tineye.com
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by dictum 13y ago
I'm not averse to working hard to make my app reach 1,000 MRR. There's a big difference between having an MVP done in 3 or 4 months vs. in a year when you're the only person designing, developing, marketing and supporting it.
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by dictum 13y ago
I'm really interested in starting a SaaS business with 500-1k MRR a year after launch. I'm frugal and the cost of living here is quite small. I keep hitting a block where I can't find a SaaS idea that could guarantee this rev
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What exactly are companies trying to achieve with very precise, self-healing tracking methods?
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by dictum 13y ago
The additional revenue that comes from a perfect domain is roughly equivalent to the cost of building a bike shed. Actually, it depends on the audience, as ibstudios pointed out. A "mobile audience" isn't enough information t
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by dictum 13y ago
I can't confirm Cracked as the pioneers of the listicle, but ca. 2007 Digg was the altar[1] of listicles and Cracked was the leading source for most of them. [1] This has been beaten to death already, but the top subreddits definitely
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by dictum 13y ago
I didn't know much about how Freshdesk was founded, but this post is interesting: http://blog.freshdesk.com/the-freshdesk-story-how-a-simple-c... From that HN thread: > Whenever I read something like this I can&#x27
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by dictum 13y ago
Microsoft didn't have to acquire anything to compete with most SaaS businesses: They have Excel. Small businesses have tighter budgets, but often the owner is the person doing certain tasks that in a big corporation would be given to i
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by dictum 13y ago
I don't even know what Google's terms of service are anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030768
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> Leaking details of NSA attacks on Chinese networks doesn't help the American people. Let me ask a facetious question: does spying on Petrobras help prevent terrorism in the US?
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You could say that the US government can do whatever with the data of citizens of other countries that flows through US networks, but that still wouldn't justify the NSA tapping on foreign-only networks on grounds of do-whatever-we-wan
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> In any case, being spied on by a foreign country is considerably less bad than being spied on by your own. In the wet dreams of conspiracy theorists, our government spies on its citizens to discover their political views, and then impr
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> Mr. Obama started off by saying the government could not protect against terrorists and cyber threats without penetrating foreign networks — and protecting against them. By the logic that arrives to this conclusion, the government can
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by dictum 13y ago
Tangential: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230345300... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7055115 )
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> That prompted Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag to suggest referring to the newcomers as "Software Americans." What is the word when you know you shouldn't look at something, but the urge to do it is too strong? Ma
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by dictum 13y ago
My comment was a reflection on your comment—"It must be so wonderful living in your world" implies the parent is shortsighted and was ignoring the difficulties of real-life development.
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There's a nice world where people aren't snippy about comments that aren't particularly offensive.
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> A public company in case you forgot is an institution designed to create value for share holders. I don't know much about US law regarding this, but I thought the only thing a public company shouldn't do is destroy value . I
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by dictum 13y ago
Most acquired products aren't dead if you use an specific definition of "alive": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_theseus
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> a massive global communication channel that is not under the control of the people in power. They're working their hardest to correct that horrible mistake.
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by dictum 13y ago
Mental Summarize: Impermium is Joining Google! January 15, 2014 When we founded Impermium three years ago, our mission was to help rid the web of spam, fraud, and abuse. By joining Google, our team will extend a special thank you to Accel
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by dictum 13y ago
Mothers watch their sons out of love and genuine care for their wellbeing. Mine did a bad a job and that's why my next sentence will be bitter: If a company wants to make me use a telescreen, they might as well make it a suppository.
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by dictum 13y ago
I expect the official explanation to be something like "we cannot endorse an unofficial service that might give misleading information to our students." Every censor does it from an honest desire to keep this terribly misleading
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I understand your point: different countries have different costs of living and different average income values. Even though it's entirely hypocritical of me (I'm somewhat okay with Chinese companies paying lower wages as long as
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Xenophobia is racism's twin sister.
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They will hand the data in serious disgust. ;) It's another case of just slightly affecting your wording so that customers believe that past returns will guarantee future returns. All that is said is true for the past and the present
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by dictum 13y ago
Instead of giving up altogether, I suggest a different approach: choose your enemies and compartmentalize your personal data. Stuff related to your personal life and your feelings? You probably can't keep it from the NSA, but you can k

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