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by gonational 9y ago
> The overwhelming majority of business screw-ups aren't illegal, just bad decisions. The overwhelming majority of business lawsuits aren't due to crimes, just torts.
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With no disrespect to the developers at Apple, et al, each one of these problems that goes viral before reaching “proper” channels is a well-deserved slap in the face of these behemoth organizations. Perhaps, if the entire tech community re
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by gonational 9y ago
The notion of “flyover states” as an intrinsically pejorative term is a desperate attempt by those, who have already given up their natural lives for the collective allure of cities, to drag those with more (land, peace, free time, wisdom,
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by gonational 9y ago
The value of the ecosystem is that each component does its part and each other component that has interaction with that component reaps the rewards. This leads to a natural evolution of components in the ecosystem (for instance, DRF evolved
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by gonational 9y ago
READ CLOSELY: I don't think it's possible to travel to the past, but I've figured out how to travel 1 hour into the future. It works 100% of the time. Here are the instructions: 1. Visit https://news.ycombinator.co
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May the Next Etsy Learn Its Lessons(m.signalvnoise.com)
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Government interference is precisely the cause of our high medical costs (for instance, what do you think would happen to the price of Doritos if the government required everyone to purchase one bag of Doritos every week?). Second to that i
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by gonational 9y ago
Your insurance is there only to protect you, not to protect others that cause damages to you.
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by gonational 9y ago
It’s not up to the homeowner to use his insurance to repair his house when the city did the damage.
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The US military commonly calls in airstrikes that drop bombs that cost more than houses from aircraft that cost more than entire city blocks, just to kill a single person with a rifle on the side of a hill.
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Could you please tell us about your experience? I’m intrigued (and I think at least a couple others are as well).
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50 SWAT officers bombard, destroy bystander’s house with bombs(reason.com)
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> ... is anyone going to bother to nuke South America? Yes. There is this tendency to assume that, because you're ("you're" in the general sense) not thinking about a place, then that place necessarily isn't impo
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5,000 megatons would be enough to destroy every major and semi-major city on the planet, literally. There are 4,416 cities on the planet with 150k+ population. 10 100kt bombs are more than enough to destroy most cities on the planet, at lea
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There's one called Reddit.
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So as long as I build the next Twitch on my own you guys will just charge me $50 per month? That’s freaking awesome! It’ll save me $5300 per month in hosting already! [heads over now]
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I think Google should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as they don’t lie to their visitors and pretend they are a search engine, which is what they’re currently doing. Perhaps this is the solution; require Google to stop calling
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Node-based Blog Engine by the Creator of Shoelace.css(postleaf.org)
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> We estimate that the risk of a serious catastrophe caused by machine intelligence within the next 100 years is between 1 and 10%. VS > Odds are 33.3% repeating of course. In all seriousness, those are about the same.
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They've been upgraded to the Conflagration plan.
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> Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it's way too much. It doesn't matter what they think. They're your shares. If they think you shouldn't own 10%, then perhaps they should fork out whatever pric