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by dtby 16y ago
I use DuckDuckGo almost exclusively for web searching, but admit I hadn't really thought of DDG as a technology play, either.
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by dtby 16y ago
I admit that your point was very well hidden. It probably helps that I am rich while (as one might expect) most HN users are not.
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by dtby 16y ago
This mercenary, puerile response is why I've given up on HN as a source of interesting tech news. Or, rather, why I'll give it up as soon as Gabe's site (or something similar) takes off. Even if I have to write it myself.
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by dtby 16y ago
some of whom I hope you meant some of which.
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by dtby 16y ago
For whatever it's worth, I personally really like your site design. You likely don't remember my feedback on my difficulty navigating it, but I actually appreciate its simplicity and lack of overweening bells and whistles. I'm far more lik
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by dtby 16y ago
Understand that I have not read your wordy post. I come from a poker background where the correct response is nearly (99%+) "You call too much." I could give this piece of advice to nearly everyone who asked me for advice on how to play a
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by dtby 16y ago
Excellent. Thanks for responding. For better or worse (for my sake, not yours!) I know what this means in terms of how I may be able to use it in conjunction with an exotic options platform with which I am tangentially involved.
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by dtby 16y ago
Are all of your gaming activities under the Maltese license? Sorry if this is too business and non-HN oriented. I will remove this question, if requested.
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by dtby 16y ago
I have a Nokia N900 and I find making and receiving VoIP calls (Skype and Google Talk) just as convenient as POTS calls. I had never owned a smartphone before this, so I find its lack of battery life disturbing, even though it seems on par
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by dtby 16y ago
I believe you have answered your own question. If the headline had read "People's Restaurants to Eliminate Hunger," I would have assumed it was yet another political DPRK story on HN, as opposed to a political Belo Horizonte story on HN. [
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by dtby 16y ago
"The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy
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by dtby 16y ago
_Faith of a Heretic_ - Walter Kaufmann
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by dtby 16y ago
Thanks for the response. I'm not being intentionally obtuse, but I still don't understand your specific objecton(s). As I read it, I think it comes down to "a difference in degree is a difference in kind." I would argue that you can't real
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by dtby 16y ago
I wonder how you square this with your past, as I understand, as an online poker pro? As a former professional poker player myself, it never would occur to me to denigrate the work of financiers or suggest that what they were doing was immo
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by dtby 16y ago
I always simply ask "Is this a going concern?" The answer is always telling,.. even if they don't know what I mean.
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by dtby 16y ago
I love you; you pay my rent.
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by dtby 16y ago
I love you; you pay my rent.
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by dtby 16y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but, as a customer, I don't "need to recognize" anything.
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by dtby 16y ago
Book it.
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by dtby 17y ago
It eliminates the legitimate justification for a hedge. Not as described by the parent. His problem was that they were creating the financial instruments and the hedges. This is exceedingly common. I'll leave the moral outrage portion o
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by dtby 17y ago
In what way do you think that makes it an abnormal hedge?
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by dtby 17y ago
Actual economic scarcity is pretty much the only business model, but I think you are using the term differently. A profit-maximizing enterprise should be looking for market clearing volume and pricing. Produce more than the market will co
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by dtby 17y ago
Easy on the over-reaction. I've never asked anyone to be banned for anything. I've said that, even as the articles align with my political philosophy (and, yes, are interesting to me)... they should stop being both posted and upvoted (nee
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by dtby 17y ago
It is not within the purview of HN. I almost always completely agree with everything posted at mises.org. That doesn't mean that I am interested in "converting" the denizens of news.ycombinator.com.
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by dtby 17y ago
I'm approximately as Anarcho-Capitalist as one comes... and I wish I would stop seeing mises.org info on HN. It may not be the "wrong" venue, but it's decidedly inappropriate.
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by dtby 17y ago
I don't understand the "bad thing" which is happening here. Are we supposed to be so thoroughly invested in the quality of Google search results that it's a personal affront when someone games the system?
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by dtby 17y ago
It seems unlikely that medical technology will not continue to advance. As such, there will always be new techniques which are, by their very nature, expensive relative to older proven means. So, yes, we'll be able to provide today's state
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by dtby 17y ago
Without arguing the points above one way or another: Unless I misread your initial message, you suggested that the government was not "taking" wealth from anyone, but rather it somehow had "surplus" wealth to be distributed. My question is
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by dtby 17y ago
Whence comes this wealth? Government is not a wealth-creating enterprise. It's (arguably, entirely; verifiably, primarily) in the wealth redistribution business.
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by dtby 17y ago
I don't understand this line of reasoning. How would these convictions stop the web? How will the reversal of these convictions keep the web from being stopped? If it doesn't get reversed at the EU level does this mean that they managed t

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