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by gohrt 13y ago
There is a huge increase in how much unpaid labor a household can perform if only one member is doing paid labor.
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by gohrt 13y ago
This happening so infrequently in tech makes it less of a loss. There are communities terrorized by criminal- and police-related violence, that lose so much more. Events like this should be a wake up call to be aware that tragedies happen
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by gohrt 13y ago
"I refuse to own a tie" is a fact, not an opinion. Much of the following discussion is an opinion. He's not a "minimalist", he is a freedom activist. He believes ties impinge on freedom. The passenger does not run the train software. The tr
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by gohrt 13y ago
Huh. I thought he had a free-libre cell phone at some point. Anyway, one can buy a throwaway cell phone in cash, and power it down when not in use, I thought. Like drug dealers do. Still surveillable, but no more than any borrowed phone.
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by gohrt 13y ago
Your first sentence is deeply meaningful. The rest is all gunk -- it's basically his equivalent of his Facebook friends list.
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by gohrt 13y ago
Startups have a well-documented value based on financing they have raised. They have x% stake, and some investors have paid y% for a z% stake. The mystery is simply in the volatility of future value. Second market tradable shares and public
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by gohrt 13y ago
Stock grants are taxed as ordinary income, based on market price (or estimated value, for pre-IPO) on the day of vest.
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by gohrt 13y ago
Fast food servers in Seattle are on strike for higher wags right now , so, your analogy is... interesting.
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by gohrt 13y ago
Do you avoid Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, and Facebook, who also track outgoing links?
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by gohrt 13y ago
It's a book about programming, not computer science. You might be disconcerted to learn that the book isn't about chemistry, either, or whatever else off-topic content you insist the author had put in his book. BTW, Telescopes are cool, a m
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by gohrt 13y ago
> a) set up a cron to restart the web server every X minutes? Jeff Bezos was literally a billionaire, and many of his team millionaires, before Amazon.com deprecated that solution.
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by gohrt 14y ago
Such as the worldwide financial system.