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by fipple 8y ago
Except that China has a state sponsored IP exfiltration program (like Alexander Hamilton funded for the US in the 1700s). So the same logic doesn’t apply to Indian, Turkish, etc. employees.
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by fipple 8y ago
why not?
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by fipple 8y ago
Is McDonalds radically inclusive because they welcome the stranger with open arms?
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s because 1) nobody gives a shit and 2) it would need legal review to make sure that it wouldn’t expose the defunct company to further lawsuits over copyright or patent infringement. That’s expensive and not worth it for a dead company
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by fipple 8y ago
What does “radically inclusive danceform” mean? Looks like you’re trying to make a fun dance seem like a political revolution.
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by fipple 8y ago
This is just bad infrastructure design. The gas line grid should have a safety vent that blows open in an abandoned field at some pressure between the operating pressure of the line and the maximum pressure the houses can handle.
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by fipple 8y ago
I’m simply never going to support any policy framework that would require me to cycle in Chicago in the winter. I know it’s possible but I’m not doing it.
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by fipple 8y ago
Things like snow aren’t necessarily a problem in the beginning because you can start by selling a self driving car that doesn’t work in the snow. There’s still a market for it.
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by fipple 8y ago
I'm going to leave this Nabokov quote here for the benefit of others: "Incidentally, I use the word reader very loosely. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active an
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by fipple 8y ago
There is definitely something deeply weird and unprecedented about a world where the richest countries are having the fewest children.
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by fipple 8y ago
Why a PITA? Just show a known movie to the person while scanning.
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by fipple 8y ago
There’s no point for stick shift other than entertainment these days. When computers can synthesize porn they can definitely shift gears better than a human.
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by fipple 8y ago
Hehe... maybe the Uber parallel is they were afraid to hire a non asshole due to fear of diluting their asshole culture.
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by fipple 8y ago
Here’s a counterpart: I will take whatever transport form requires the least amount of walking and is most comfortable. I don’t usually care what it costs, within reason.
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by fipple 8y ago
You set rules for society and harshly punish people who break them. Look at Singapore.
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by fipple 8y ago
The very price sensitive customers like you are very numerous, but it’s the frequent price-insensitive business travelers that make up much more of the industry’s profits. So they care much more about the 5 million frequent business travele
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by fipple 8y ago
Hard to trust a naming product with such a clumsy name itself.
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t know about making games but music making software on iOS is a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to get started with than on PC.
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by fipple 8y ago
And the satellite laws are based on a stronger government interest than those sex laws. The sex laws are solely for the interest of the foreign victims whereas the satellite laws are protecting domestic participants.
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by fipple 8y ago
Mary Bergin ftw
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by fipple 8y ago
Well, I think there's also a pretty great track record of basic medical research making it to practical use.
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s a bit of a heavy club. I forward dozens of messages every day and it would really suck to lose these features in software because some psychos are misusing it. Why not root out and eliminate the psychos?
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by fipple 8y ago
If this is reproducible and legit I’d love to see him win the Nobel Prize in Medicine instead of the basic science people who usually win.
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by fipple 8y ago
Homeowners create laws that benefit them at the expense of non homeowners. The two biggest are refusing to expand supply and Prop 13 (they enhance each other’s effects which is why the California situation is the worst).
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by fipple 8y ago
“HN user ‘fipple’ says punching Mike Tyson in the face was a ‘mistake’”
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by fipple 8y ago
The supply curve is ~0 due to homeowner capture of laws, so the price elasticity is huge. Very basic stuff.
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by fipple 8y ago
Harry Truman would have been waiting for the punchline. He had no money, but he thought he shouldn’t denigrate the office of President by writing books or cashing in with a corporate gig. Medicare was partly passed to get him health insuran
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by fipple 8y ago
I think it’s fine for a homeless person to come in for half an hour to peruse books and check them out. In that case the homeless population of the library will be roughly the same percentage as they are of the city overall. That’s obviousl
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s exactly what’s happened... software engineer salaries at the top end have grown like crazy.
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by fipple 8y ago
Don’t see anything anti “civil rights” about using a punishment often given to people who kill a single victim to people who kill hundreds of thousands, just because the more efficient killers do so from an office building.

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