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by drone 13y ago
Unfortunately, you may have had a point, but the abusive and offensive way about which you've made it makes it nearly impossible to discern it. Your comment is exactly why I stopped reading comments on news papers, it is full of ad ho
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by drone 13y ago
That cuts both ways. As an US citizen, I have no reason to believe my data is safe, say, in Germany, and certainly not in France who have been caught using their spy agencies to spy on US companies before. What enforceable mechanism has t
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by drone 13y ago
> That won't help Google any more than it helped Microsoft. I'd love to see the comparison as to how Microsoft's strong-arming of VARs to sell only their products and Google's penalizing RG for attempting to subvert t
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by drone 13y ago
Google is neither a public utility, nor a monopoly. You can always use one of dozens of other search engines. In fact, if you felt that Google was so bad, you can simply suggest others do so as well. Why does the government need to get in
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by drone 13y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm not counting the "buying" of a house as much towards CoL, renting is still fairly inexpensive, assuming you don't want a "luxury apartment," but gas prices (still paying less than $3/gal
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by drone 13y ago
Glad to see two great Texas cities in the top ten for the 35+ cohort. Both SA and Houston have been great cities for me, and the other tech workers I know. SA is a beautiful city with lots of great jobs in the security and networking indus
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by drone 13y ago
They might even like Houston better than Austin. Cost of living can be a bit lower, and Houston loves the mega-wealthy, with lots more room to add mansions. The city is probably only slightly less liberal than Austin. Houston will probab
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by drone 13y ago
Indeed, or your local hackerspace, etc. In fact, the poster I commented to would probably find people there already working on the sorts of platforms (s)he envisions.
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by drone 13y ago
I've found the real cost factor is not so much the robotics platforms when you want to make big+specialized things like this (because the robotics platforms specifically designed for one's particular problem space are often few or
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by drone 13y ago
> Lots of awful laws were "the law of the land" for much longer. I don't think it's as awful as you make it out to be. I think the situation before it was passed into law was far, far worse for the prosperity of indi
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by drone 13y ago
What is the average rate of return for LPs in VC funds?
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by drone 13y ago
Fraud assumes false disclosure, accurate disclosure assumes complete disclosure, but neither cover intentional omission.
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by drone 13y ago
shrug It's been the law of the land for what, 80 years? If you want every body and their brother to invest with minimal restrictions: you register the security and create all of the disclosures. If you don't want to go through t
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by drone 13y ago
> If somebody genuinely to risk their money as an investor, it's not in their self-interest for us to forbid them to do so. That is what they want to do. And it's also not in anyone else's self-interest to forbid them from
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by drone 13y ago
Prior to the securities Act of 1933, the measure of viability of a particular investment vehicle was on a state-by-state basis where they wouldn't allow investment vehicles that were unlikely to return a positive return to most investo
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by drone 13y ago
How can you make a rational decision when you have incomplete, or false information?
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by drone 13y ago
It's a test that's defined by law [1], ostensibly to protect the non-wealthy from being scammed easily. [2] AFAIK, the intent is to prevent scammers from directly selling highly risky investments to the average Joe without explai
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by drone 13y ago
Hate speech is just the speech that the majority has determined that they don't want to hear, and clearly, in some countries, are willing to exercise state violence upon those who commit it. The problem with making speech legal or ille
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An Interview with MakerBot’s Bre Pettis on Stratsys Patents and Lawsuit(makezine.com)
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by drone 13y ago
> I tend to be a reasoned sort of guy, this doesn't mean I don't say stupid things, I do, but when called on those things I can tell you how I reasoned to them and you can help me see the error in my reasoning. ... When they wo
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by drone 13y ago
Anyone operating in a template-driven manner is not reasoning by first principles. I'm not sure what legs your argument has, we might as well say that speaking an existing language like English, French, or German makes us robots by for
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by drone 13y ago
How much risk is there in not taking the offer? They're not making a $3Bn counter-bet.
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by drone 13y ago
By "growth-oriented," I'm referring to those companies who eschew any profit in deference to further growth (even if they could show reasonable profit at a slighter lower rate of growth). For these companies, they lack the im
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by drone 13y ago
> For other companies that are interested in playing the long game, I think it makes more sense to explore alternative compensation structures like profit sharing, etc. IMO, for non-growth oriented companies, I believe this is the best w
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by drone 13y ago
> but can't you mitigate this with larger or better equity grants to those employees In a perfect world, yes, however, most companies are reticent to offer additional equity to existing employees. Not that it doesn't happen, b
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by drone 13y ago
The problem with this model is that the company at liquidity event often rarely resembles the company during the early phases. As such, the employees which benefit the company the most during the early phases, and whose skills are most ali
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by drone 13y ago
Indeed, I spent so long refusing to watch it because everyone I knew was harping on about how great and cerebral the movie was - which has a tendency to cause me to want to find flaws. On a whim, I finally watched it a few months ago and w
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by drone 13y ago
So, by that same token, is not being forced to give cash as a result of losing a bet distasteful and disrespectful of the poor? Shall we all go through a committee to get pre-approval before taking any action to ensure that it offends no on
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by drone 13y ago
No, I'm sure there are some great running instances out there - but I was put off by the difficulty of getting it reliably running without being an expert in its configuration. Additionally, the fact that I'd have to spend at leas
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by drone 13y ago
My experience with Neo4j (this year) was abysmal. The take-away I had was: it's only good for very small graphs. Generally, I'd spend some time writing a script to load data into it, start loading data, respond to it crashing a fe

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