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by elblanco 12y ago
I honestly don't understand where most tax dollars go in the U.S. I'm in Korea at the moment and the tax burden is overall very light when compared to the States, but the level of service you receive is absolutely tremendous for t
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by elblanco 12y ago
That's a bit hyperbolic, rude and unfair. It's a stupid example, but it's not advocating violence. Maybe a little property destruction. But nothing that would harm a person. I get his point though. There are expectations you
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by elblanco 12y ago
At least where I grew up, bikes were not supposed to ride on roads without sufficient shoulder for them to pull out of the way of vehicles. The flip side is that there's a big lobby that tries to ensure that most roads have such a shou
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by elblanco 12y ago
Correct, where I grew up, we were taught in school to get out of intersections as quickly as possible, or dismount and walk across the crosswalk if it was available.
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by elblanco 12y ago
You know for a fact that there are historic roads all over the U.S. that date back to before the car. Even old farm roads have been turned into highways, but that doesn't mean they weren't originally purposed for things on foot.
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by elblanco 12y ago
I feel like there's lots of space for b2b disruption in banking. Banks really shouldn't be in the business of building secure and robust software. They don't manufacture their own vaults either.
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by elblanco 12y ago
It seems to me that it's obvious the Euro-way is the better one. Get cyclists off the roads and safe. I agree with the OP, sharing space with unprotected humans wearing nothing but a few grams of styrofoam on their head for protection
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by elblanco 12y ago
It might just be the complexity of the language almost lends itself to complex approaches for relatively simple tasks.
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by elblanco 12y ago
No I think he's right. At least around where I live (well, used to live, I'm in Korea at the moment), cyclists are not supposed to ride on roads that disrupt traffic or don't have a sufficient shoulder to pull off onto to let
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by elblanco 12y ago
I'm with you on your main points. But this kind of talk doesn't help your argument.
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by elblanco 15y ago
At risk of coming out of HN retirement, a friend forwarded this topic to me. I wrote an extensive commentary before signing-off: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059012 (now back to peaceful slumber)
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by elblanco 16y ago
Thanks for reminding me how far down HN has come in the last six months or so. Engineering, science, logic and rational thought is no longer a valuable concepts here. This site is now firmly rooted in constant appeals to emotion. It's not a
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by elblanco 16y ago
Oh, I agree. Even the original bid price seems outrageous to me. However, one thing to keep in mind is that the city government of NYC is massive . Something like a bit over a quarter of a million employees working in everything from teach
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by elblanco 16y ago
I did a research case-study on this project and the FBI system as part of a study on enterprise architecture failures. The principal purpose of the CityTime system was to prevent city employees from filling out and signing time cards for th
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by elblanco 16y ago
> it claims that it is consistent with the university's character to publish the work. that is not an appeal to authority. The statement alone is sufficient for the argument, bringing in notable and revered historical figures does not i
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by elblanco 16y ago
Funny thing to say on a site dedicated to building businesses using computers . (and to the people here who've downvoted me such that I've just burned up 8 points of karma for simply pointing out there was a logical fallacy in the letter a
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by elblanco 16y ago
This was a really great presentation. I love how he ate his own dogfood and did the entire presentation with his tool.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I disagree that the original response was not an argument. I'd ask that you review Anderson's letter again. I'm also unsure why you are attempting to connect epideictic rhetoric (used in several places in the letter) to the logical flaw in
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by elblanco 16y ago
>I don't see the reason for downvoting parent. Who knows...people tend to get offended when their reasoning is held to measure against rational thought for some reason. Given that his argument is supposed to be "we are Cambridge, we hav
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by elblanco 16y ago
In my experience with several lawyers, many of them argue almost entirely from a position of logical fallacies -- better to win via confusion of the argument than win via logical argument. Actually, appeal to tradition and appeal to precede
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by elblanco 16y ago
> On the other hand, it's only a logical fallacy if it fouls an argument. ... > It's part of an explanation for why he won't do something ergo it's an appeal to authority or at the very least an appeal to tradition/precedent (or
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's also a surprising appeal to authority logical fallacy. Those people don't work there anymore. (not that I disagree with them that they shouldn't censor the findings)
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by elblanco 16y ago
Weird http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050168
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Today's $60 1TB drive would have cost $1 trillion in the '50s(computerworld.com)
4 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
You should see the unreadable mess in his blog. http://thedutras.blogspot.com/ When did English drop those letters? 400 years ago? If he really wants to use those letters, he should also use the grammar and vocabulary constructs. http://
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by elblanco 16y ago
Maybe what you mean is that there's no GNU in their Linux?
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's actually very interesting. Anecdotally, as somebody who grew up in a "Foundry" area...when I think of moving to another city, other Foundry cities come up first in my mind as places I want to live. I never really attributed it to regi
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Tron : Legacy - Analyzed as a Religious Allegory(elblancoswhitespace.blogspot.com)
4 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
Travel, then startup. I'm kinda doing it backwards at the moment, but I did a fair amount of traveling before going to work at this place and it was some of the most valuable life experience I've ever had. I think that if I can sum it up in
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by elblanco 16y ago
May I humbly suggest you use either a better OS or browser or some combination of said components. It takes 0% CPU on my netbook running XP and Chrome latest version.

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