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by fipple 8y ago
This kind of fact isn’t really well suited for a jury to try. There should be some other mechanism for civil suits. 12 laypeople cannot be a good judge of whether the latest Intel CPU violates an AMD patent or whether this or that medical l
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by fipple 8y ago
50% of all this money is being captured by Bay Area landowners.
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by fipple 8y ago
Using the cliche allows you to make a statement that contains zero information. If you use different language people might try to read into it.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL... my mother was in a hospital more famous than Mayo and it’s a lot different than you might think. My mother got 1000% better care than her roommates that didn’t have 24/7 family coverage.
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by fipple 8y ago
A $2 billion minimum size for a vendor getting a $10 billion contract is perfectly reasonable.
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by fipple 8y ago
Imagine what happens to people like this who have no family.
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by fipple 8y ago
All the fuss about Kodi makes me think I should get a box. Is it worth it?
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by fipple 8y ago
If you read his quotes it’s clear that he doesn’t deserve to be bucketed with Trump.
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by fipple 8y ago
Ask any kid with a phone whether they’d rather lose their Disney, Coke, Mattel, or their phone.
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by fipple 8y ago
I think he drew a great line: he didn’t want to hurt anyone but didn’t mind destroying property.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s not just TV, almost all of the best art is the vision of a single person. The Beatles are the biggest exception.
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by fipple 8y ago
If there’s a day I know I will die, you can be sure that other people’s money and stress will be pretty low on my priority list.
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by fipple 8y ago
If I’m hiring someone remotely for ~100K I don’t care one bit if they need another $10K for a space.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s not even price difference — before WeWork, the stodgy Regus was the only place to get Class A space on a short term basis.
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by fipple 8y ago
There is of course a lot sad about this story but something joyful as well. Many people commit suicide without such a final moment of exhilaration.
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by fipple 8y ago
Why do you call them both Johns? Is that a Beatles fan inside joke?
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by fipple 8y ago
Who are both Johns?
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by fipple 8y ago
Sure, but it limits the amount of impact your movement can have. If you save black Jewish vegan disabled lesbians from oppression that’s admirable but ultimately only affects 10 people.
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by fipple 8y ago
The use case for California rail is for rural lawmakers to use their structural legislative advantage to get the big cities to pay for their larger towns to get economically connected to them.
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by fipple 8y ago
Isn’t that what’s already happened? We went from civil rights movements for blacks (>10%) to gays (<5%) to transgender (<1%).
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by fipple 8y ago
I am a serious listener to and creator of music and I HATE live music. I can’t hear the subtleties as well, and I can’t put my best performance forwards. The only exception for me is chamber music.
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by fipple 8y ago
"Not in San Francisco" and "easy to exploit" are very different. I had great, professional work done in Russia on Upwork. It didn't cost $200 per hour, but it didn't cost $2 per hour either. The engineer who di
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by fipple 8y ago
No, they don't really, which is why they're always out and about making noise. The good people just keep getting promotions and salary increases and don't spend a lot of their time "networking." When's the last
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by fipple 8y ago
Yeah, my guess is that the principal function of HQ2 is to increase negotiating leverage with Seattle.
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by fipple 8y ago
Except for the first line it is a fairly interesting comment.
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t know about the techniques but the theory isn’t prima facie impossible. A paintbrush can act like a microphone just like anything else, and if the paintbrush (more likely a putty knife or more rigid object) picked up a sound while ap
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by fipple 8y ago
When Party A is a multibillion dollar corporation and Party B is an individual, the arguments can not be parallelized.
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by fipple 8y ago
One thing that people constantly praise Spotify for is the quality of their music recommendations. You can find so many testimonials of people saying that their "Discover Weekly" playlist suggested them songs which they felt they
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by fipple 8y ago
Not at all. I’m a much worse person on the Internet than in meatspace.
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by fipple 8y ago
Part of that is social interaction being less necessary. My dad made many friends asking random people on the street for directions to a gas station or for a restaurant recommendation. Now we get that all from our phones.

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