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by dsjoerg 13y ago
The quality of infrastructure is the result of political and cultural factors, which are therefore the more underlying/real problem. Do you have a choice of multiple ISPs? If yes, then that's the critical difference vs the U.S.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
"All too common a question now, can you imagine interviewing a chef and asking him what portion of the day he actually devotes to cooking?" Yes. Chefs also do shopping, menu planning, prep, hiring, firing, marketing, and schmoozi
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
What are you talking about? "RaisedBy.Us does not take a cut of any donations, but is simply the platform through which employees can donate." -- from TFA EDIT: Why do you think they would get the write-off and not you?
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
You are visiting the wrong websites, then.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
It's like saying Wal-Mart rips off its customers, because they use computers and their market power to buy stuff cheaply, and then they turn right around and sell it to their customers for more, making a profit 100% of the time.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
It is so gratifying to hypothesize your existence, and then, like a high-energy particle, here you are. (Hypothesized here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484795 )
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
The core of Dustin's argument is that Facebook may not have been patient enough; they should have trusted in their beautiful new design and waited long enough for the benefits to bear fruit. However, it's a cheap argument to make,
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
This is a good illustration of how the hard part isn't "solving the problem" -- it's getting everyone to adopt and actually _use_ the standard. Reminding everyone that an unused, unloved standard exists is just reminding
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
...and it's down.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
You almost got me.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Writing a whole iOS game in Scheme is about as crazy as flying an F4 with only one wing.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
It's not clear to me you read the article, because your comment doesn't refer to anything that was actually in it. Which part(s) of it are the way arrogant, cruel jerks operate? Were you referring to this? "Start standing up
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
"The advice given perpetuates the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside of it" <--- where in the article does it say anything like that?
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
I agree so much it hurts. In a parallel, more intelligent, universe, that same person said "I think all we can do now is remove the unsupported claims." Shaking my head.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Yes. I've been doing daily exercise for about 8 months, mostly daily 7-min workouts, and I feel nearly as fit as when I saw a trainer for 2 hours/week. Also, this form of exercise has turned into a habit I can't weasel out
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
What's depressing about that? If people feel they want to voluntarily contribute, how is that not a win-win?
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Is there anyplace I can go to get the summary of advice from the Sage Old Veteran Bitcoin Graybeards?
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
yep it's wild. even more startling is 1785 to 1900. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241.50+1785+to+1900
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Because it's too German in syntax. I think "call Michele" not "Michele anrufen" or whatever. Verb first.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
If only Steve Jobs were around, he would put the industry cabal back in place and fix this problem for you pronto.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
The paragraph that starts "First, it is rational for economic agents to hold as many bitcoins as they can afford to lose" is so poorly argued that I decided the rest of the article wasn't worth reading. There are several step
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Brooklyn would be 4th largest city in the US, right behind Chicago. 2010 census Chicago: 2.696M 2010 census Brooklyn: 2.505M Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Brooklyn https://en.wikiped
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
You'd think that, but the things that are obvious to you are not obvious to everyone <--- which itself is a thing I used to think would be obvious to everyone.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Really? Can you explain or give a source?
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
I would hope the passengers on a plane would be so brave, but there is a real collective action problem there for the passengers. Best case scenario, there are enough brave people on board willing to selflessly risk death to -- hopefully -
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
A throwaway thought: one of the (many) problems with 3-strike sentencing laws may be that the escalation curve is too quick to have the desired curbing effect. It is obvious (to me) that some kind of exponentiation would be more effective.
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
This is the moment where "ecommerce" stopped being "tech". Just like using electricity, or the telephone is no longer tech. Remember those fancy companies that use the new running-water system? Me neither. That was o
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
In my case it's because I don't understand it well enough to write doc. The people who _do_ understand it well have managed to do so despite the state of the documentation, so maybe they think the doc is sufficient? It's one
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
Look out cause here comes UrbanFetch!
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by dsjoerg 13y ago
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