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by flipbrad 16y ago
This was a product worthy of being spun out into a standalone company, free to pitch at the corporate market
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by flipbrad 16y ago
This will sound shockingly heartless and coldly rational, but is the bigger problem with that statement not the idea that a few hundred, or even thousand people dying in a plane-related disaster (when magnitudes more will die of, say, bad d
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by flipbrad 16y ago
People need to learn to refer the people that write these letters to Arkell v Pressdram http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman/arkell.htm (and I say this, as a trainee lawyer)
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by flipbrad 16y ago
4. Move it out of the jurisdiction of Costa Rica... no?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
very difficult for entropy to stay constant in a closed system. And surely universality (all-encompassing, there-is-nothing-else) means closed system? Or are we looking at open and closed in the wrong way; if the universe is periodic, could
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by flipbrad 16y ago
You're forgetting that self-censorship is sometimes the greatest pressure on editorial staff. These newspapers's primary duty, unless their staff have signed up to the Munich convention of 1971, could be seen to be to advertisers, and then
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Some thoughts on reading that log: - have a look at the stats on that: 8x US Killed IA (in action) 23x US Wounded IA 3x Afghan National Army KIA 10 x ANA WIA 2 x ASG 2 Enemies KIA 11 x GBU 31 (2000 lb bombs) 26 x GBU 38 (500 lb bombs) 1 x H
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by flipbrad 16y ago
or it makes no difference. The happiness trade-off from having the little feller around, knowing you sacrificed your next car upgrade, might make it totally worth it; but if you weren't at 60k, the sacrifices would be too large. it's possib
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by flipbrad 16y ago
isn't that quite circular, in a thread about minimalist living?
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Living in a cooperative - or at least taking inspiration from them - helps a lot with this problem in my experience. When you don't need, lend. When you need - borrow. Mobility also requires 'the cloud' - that cloud is a society you are wel
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by flipbrad 16y ago
much appreciated, grinich. didn't find that when i considered an edit - cheers
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by flipbrad 16y ago
there are so many things to add to that list. My favourites would be: * move away from situations when you don't, on a regular basis, feel like smiling whilst, for example, walking down the road. The world is huge and your spending power re
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by flipbrad 16y ago
'Deschooling Society' by Ivan Illich is by far the best book on this topic I've ever read. Old, and somewhat dated since it presages the Internet but never experienced it - but still as fundamentally brilliant
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by flipbrad 16y ago
you'll have to excuse me for the tone. I realise it was just a straight up repetition of the original article's outrageously negligent strapline. But it's still absolutely your duty to set it right rather than help propagate a very misleadi
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Give them the internet and a problem to get to the bottom of - then back off unless they have a question. And if they're not interested in your task, give them some other problem to investigate. Just because one child doesn't care about wri
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by flipbrad 16y ago
How about yourself gaining an understanding of facts and statistics and not presenting the findings of a study as you did when it suggests that 17% of UK school leavers are functionally innumerate (limited to “very basic competence in mat
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by flipbrad 16y ago
it's my identity, though. real or otherwise.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
wish they could somehow colour code things, maybe a toggle to colour code private/public stuff
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by flipbrad 16y ago
i have no idea what the hell that means, and quite frankly, therein lies facebook's problem.
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by flipbrad 16y ago
Ho-ho-ho: "Lebed.biz/Jonathan Lebed is not a registered investment advisor or a broker / dealer. Lebed.biz/Jonathan Lebed does not recommend whether to buy, sell, or hold securities. All opinions expressed by Lebed.biz/Jonathan Lebed are no
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by flipbrad 16y ago
"But weren't you scared to trade again?" "No." "This thing with the S.E.C. didn't even make you a little nervous?" "No." "No?" "Why should it?"
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by flipbrad 16y ago
<call a spade a spade joke>
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by flipbrad 16y ago
The minister that promoted the bill typo'd that IP in IP address referred to 'intellectual property' Freudian, or just cretinous? let's hope the Lib Dems get their way and repeal the bloody thing. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minis
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I'm not saying a dutch auction is necessarily a worse option. Indeed it might theoretically be the best. But they spent a vast amount of money setting it up, with all the extra legal fees and transactional costs, so let's not focus entirely
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by flipbrad 16y ago
I disagree with another HN commenter on the value of this article. Taking two backward steps through Eric Schmidt's conclusion: - "I wouldn’t change a thing - except maybe (an interview that Playboy published putting Google in breach of the
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by flipbrad 17y ago
To be fair, the T&Cs are not written in 'an almost unreadable style'. They're written so that in a court dispute, the meaning will be clear. They're readable by lawyers, and all the less fuzzy for it. The problem is that they're unreada
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by flipbrad 17y ago
I presume you could buy it from them. Now, who wants to help me start up a soul market?
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by flipbrad 17y ago
generally, you don't have to sign anything to form valid contracts. You're agreeing to stuff just by buying the food - have a look for T&Cs posted in the shop, at the till, etc
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by flipbrad 17y ago
It's not clear to me what this is - Paulson facing corruption charges, Goldman facing breach of fiduciary duty/conflict of interest, or Goldman and Paulson facing conspiracy to defraud?
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by flipbrad 17y ago
I'll bet the principle of 'buyer beware' wins out. This is about giving Goldman a PR hit, not a judicial one. It'll settle.

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