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721.
by gohrt 11y ago
Some of the books are textbooks that take a few months to get through (about 1 month of full-time effort when non-employed, if you consider that you'll read about 4 textbooks in a semester of school), and many are rather casual reads (
722.
by gohrt 11y ago
It's not a cold case like in Serial, it's an expose of an allegedly fraudulent prosecution. The documentary makes a new case that the criminal convictions are maliciously incorrect and relied on misconduct by police and prosecutor
723.
by gohrt 11y ago
and credibility has no place in a rational debate, but the courts rely on it heavily.
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by gohrt 11y ago
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt > I eventually negotiated the final agreement with Guy Kawasaki, where, in addition to the $100,000, I managed to get a 10% royalty of the wholesale price if Apple
725.
by gohrt 11y ago
> Giving them a pass because it's "assumed" ...is the law of the land in USA It's called "puffery" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery > In law, puffery is a promotional statement
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by gohrt 11y ago
You can donate to a "charity" that employs your friends and family, not society at large. I can create a Betterness Foundation, and donate all my income to it, and you can do, and the Foundation can spend its resources bettering t
727.
by gohrt 11y ago
Right. A CTO could negotiate these terms. Everyone else should value their options properly at 0
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by gohrt 11y ago
You weren't witness to the events you speak so confidently of.
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by gohrt 11y ago
You don't honor a death. You honor a life, at the moment of death, because death is moment when you realize you didn't pay enough attention during their life.
730.
by gohrt 11y ago
That's fine. I don't care if the Cxo is lying or stupid. The conclusion is the same: I don't trust them to deliver value on my shares.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Even with the Update at the end, Kerr misses the point. The police are (a) using a tool that is generally known to be broken, (b) obviously lying. He defends the court's ruling without challenging the fact that the court is relying on
732.
by gohrt 11y ago
It bothers me as much the Paypal Mafia and YC Mafia businesses hiring practices. New/small business hire their friends, people they know and trust.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Quirky is a platform for advertising individual product developer ideas. C&A is a marketing+product company that builds products based on consumer research and iteration. IOQ, Quirky is a vanity platform like Print-on-Demand book compan
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by gohrt 11y ago
I don't know about "get what you pay for", but when you buy something called " Woo Power", you shouldn't expect good power.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Anker instantly offers free replacements to anyone who posts a bad review.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The American standard is logical: command and "and" are interchangeable: "A and B and C" "A, B, C" "A, B and C" The Oxford style is inconsistently, doubling up command and "and" in the last
737.
by gohrt 11y ago
That's why hyperlinks exist.
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by gohrt 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort > Quicksort (sometimes called partition-exchange sort) is an efficient sorting algorithm, serving as a systematic method for placing the elements of an array in order. Develop
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by gohrt 11y ago
Even better: METALS: Math Engineering Technology Art Language Science at which point we're back to "education is good" and we've cancelled the whole point of the STEM concept in the first place.
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by gohrt 11y ago
https://www.worldcat.org/title/learning-perl/oclc/42854427&r...
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by gohrt 11y ago
They destroy those records shortly after you return the book, and fight government attempts to access those records.
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by gohrt 11y ago
what are they going to do with millions of books, if they are incapable of decoding hard drives
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by gohrt 11y ago
Do their kids have friends, or are they just being dragged along on dad's vacation?
744.
by gohrt 11y ago
Are you planning a divorce?
745.
by gohrt 11y ago
You can't just send EVERYONE to Berkeley/SUNY/UW. "Prestigious" is inherently anti-universal-access. The only solution is to crush the power of these prestigious universities.
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by gohrt 11y ago
A US state is pretty similar to a EU nation, in terms of population and economy size.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Day care is far more labor-intensive than college. The student:staff ratio in daycare is at most 6:1, for 40 hr/wk attention to students. At a college, the ration is 10:1 or 20:1, for <20 hrs/wk attention to students
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by gohrt 11y ago
You don't go to prison for white collar crime. That's almost impossible to prove. You go to prison for getting caught lying during an investigation about white color crime.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Lex Luthor and Mr Glass did horrible things intentionally to inspire humanity to find its strength / find a superhero.
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by gohrt 11y ago
I hope they get the album back and re-sell it to an honest buyer, instead of keeping stolen money.

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