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by gsmaverick 15y ago
``Expulsion from "your own house"`` implies you own it, if you have a large mortgage then you don't own your house the bank does. Being foreclosed upon is part of the contract not some unjust expulsion from your house. Obviously the situa
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
There are many dangerous things out there that are legal and for good reason; if you choose to ingest it you have that choice and in the end you are responsible for that. Are you also for prohibition on smoking because that gets in the way
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Why should they be illegal? Why should any government regulate what you can and cannot put in your body? For the record, yes I would rather live in a society where drugs were freely accessible.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Increasing the money supply devalues the currency even if that's not the intended goal; that is basic economics.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Don't visit sites that use the Like button, block the Facebook domain. It's not that difficult.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
The United States does have a central bank; it's the Federal Reserve. They kept interest rates abnormally low for much of the last decade which meant that borrowing was incredibly cheap causing many consumers to overextend themselves. Reg
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Mozilla is de-emphasizing the version number and eventually will get rid of it altogether. You can currently only see the version number in small font on their homepage.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Read the details. It has to do with the way GAAP applies to virtual goods. GAAP makes you book the revenue over the "estimated average life" of the good whereas Zynga's non-GAAP measurements book the revenue all up front when the good is
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
The growth being referred to here is measured in a real sense (inflation-adjusted) rather than nominally.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
That's what the upvote button is for.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
That's what you wanted him to say so you could attack him. He was merely stating an observation of the given data in an unbiased manner.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
It very much depends where you are a teacher. In Canada, especially in Ontario, it is a really high paying job that is relatively easy due to the strength of the teacher's union.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
I believe their primary incentive is to easily convert flash ads for their advertising partners to HTML5 so they can be displayed on mobile as well.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
The problem is the fact that most parents don't want to make the sacrifices that come with having kids plain and simple.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
This is what Yammer does as well; employees can all use the service but if the company wants admin privileges the have to pay.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
From the looks of it this is actually TinEye's main commercial activity, they merely expose the search interface to demonstrate their technology.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
The Fed does not have accountability to anyone as seen in their resistance to being audited. After they are confirmed they can do what they want, as a board, without any direct accountability.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
I was doing these as well in Grade 5 (2000) with our sets going up to 50 questions in 60 seconds.
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Ask HN: Selling/Marketing to local business
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
It seems very likely they will get their way with draconian copyright legislation in Canada in the near future.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Very few people are going to go through the hassle of installing a new client just to make a phone call if a good solution, which both parties have, already exists.
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by gsmaverick 15y ago
Regarding pension, matching 401k is not comparable with a government backed defined benefit pension.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
Twitter has a very clear business model: advertising. They are on track to make $150+ million this year from it.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
I remember him saying that the photo on the cover was one he explicitly asked not to be used as it was just taken as a fun shot.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
Is dumping millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico an acceptable level of risk for you? I don't see you saying we should stop drilling for oil.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
New startups don't just create jobs for the people they themselves hire. Google & Facebook in particular have created far more jobs than those on their payrolls.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
Most of them are gone.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
They have 95 remaining employees, please read the article.
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
You forgot to include your email address :P
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by gsmaverick 16y ago
Where has the profit from the past 10 years been going? They should have been improving capacity all along knowing this explosion of bandwidth would come.

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