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901.
by gohrt 11y ago
A recent trend (that employees should push for) are yearly (or more often) buyback events, where the current major investors and new Series X investors offer to liquidate current/former employee positions.
902.
by gohrt 11y ago
Yes, that's the fantasy reasoning, the bears no relation to how mass slaughter actually does and does not happen.
903.
by gohrt 11y ago
Bullets fly in both directions, but I wouldn't acquit the police so easily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico
904.
by gohrt 11y ago
It's what you sit on when you have dinner with the adults!
905.
by gohrt 11y ago
Aside, that's not true, in many jurisdictions. US tax authorities chase down and collect money from biodiesel users who don't pay the fueltax.
906.
by gohrt 11y ago
You are saying that welfare systems successfully alleviate poverty, to insinuate that welfare systems not needed to alleviate poverty?
907.
by gohrt 11y ago
When Amazon opened in China, they had a big problem with these temp couriers showing up for work, stealing a package, and going MIA
908.
by gohrt 11y ago
How fast is internal storage? When has an SD card failed before every other part of the phone , including USB port and screen?
909.
by gohrt 11y ago
Wow, I have never interviewed at a company that asked for formal rules of big-O. And of course most professionals at those same companies (you've heard of them) tend to use "O()" to mean "approximately" or "on
910.
by gohrt 11y ago
Maybe I was incredibly lucky, but whenever someone rails against how awful the "standard" math education is, and recommends a "better way", I note that the "better way" was how I was taught. I suspect what happ
911.
by gohrt 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description
912.
by gohrt 11y ago
1. That is blaming the victim. 2. Telling someone that I intend to kill them, means that is would be stupid to not kill them?
913.
by gohrt 11y ago
G+ happened to it.
914.
by gohrt 11y ago
That gave me mixed feelings. On the one hand, the teacher did an admirable job (for a teacher) of seeing the correct thinking behind the "wrong" notation. On the other hand, the teacher still accused the student of making a mistak
915.
by gohrt 11y ago
Mountain View Citcy Council has consistently blocked Google's attempts to expand housing.
916.
by gohrt 11y ago
Americans don't favor a tough-luck, fire-at-will attitude. Employers do (obviously) and employees don't. Same as with rentals.
917.
by gohrt 11y ago
Many professionals in the real world work in team environments where they depend on each other, and you can't just ignore your teammates bad work. This is certainly true in all but the smallest software shops.
918.
by gohrt 11y ago
It used to be a hassle to get fresh food too. http://yourbrainonfood.com/
919.
by gohrt 11y ago
The reason was obviously hubris combined with marketing spice appeal. http://nemaload.davidad.org/
920.
by gohrt 11y ago
> Today, Costco alone sells more stuff every year than Amazon by far. Perspective
921.
by gohrt 11y ago
Costco prints the unit cost on every price tag. That's not enough for your heuristics?
922.
by gohrt 11y ago
Fun fact: Startups are absolutely R&D. D is for Development. Everyone who writes software is R&D as far as the IRS is concerned -- I have filled out the tax forms at my jobs.
923.
by gohrt 11y ago
From the article: > If Clinton really wants to deal with short-termism, she’d be better off targeting the way executive compensation works, instead of the way capital gains are taxed. Ultimately, the solution to short-termism isn’t on W
924.
by gohrt 11y ago
You can find many ethnic-Asians in all of these groups: US Citizens, permanent residents, and student-visa holders
925.
by gohrt 11y ago
Haha, in USA it is called Aggravation. I should have known the board game corporation didn't invent it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggravation_(board_game)
926.
by gohrt 11y ago
That's... Glowforge's business model. The high-level control logic software is in the cloud.
927.
by gohrt 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276430 They open source the firmware because the firmware is a dumb client; all the logic that controls the laser (aka makes it not set your house on fire) is hidden in the cloud.
928.
by gohrt 11y ago
While we're throwing around baseless stereotypes, the one I've heard is that men are reluctant to "date up", and successful women have trouble finding mates because of this.
929.
by gohrt 11y ago
Thanks for clarifying. The point that matters here is, word games aside, what is the legal difference between "the integer can be 1, 4, ..." and "the integer can be 4,..." (excluding 1) As someone who has ordinary skill
930.
by gohrt 11y ago
When a patent covers X, Y, and Z, (or, 1,2, and 3) and it turns out that X (=1) is unpatentable, would that make Y and Z unpatentable? Anyway, EFF does a disservice by through flame on the issue instead of explaining it clearly. I still hav

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