gtCameron

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by gtCameron 9y ago
Gay marriage has been legal in all 50 states for 2 years now
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by gtCameron 9y ago
What year would Wisconsin turn a profit off of Foxconn if it didn’t build a factory there at all?
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by gtCameron 9y ago
They aren’t handing Apple $208m. They are giving them tax breaks. If Apple didn’t build a data center in Iowa they would also collect $0 in taxes from them. The cost/benefit calculation is no where as simple as this article or comments
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by gtCameron 9y ago
Professional Engineer
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by gtCameron 9y ago
What they are good at is trying a shit ton of ideas and then optimizing and doubling down on the winners. If they just "stuck to what they are good at" they would still be a small online bookstore.
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by gtCameron 9y ago
It's kind of admirable they aren't even trying to hide that they are cut out, says it right in the first paragraph. "Realtors will lose millions in commission" is point #2. As if anyone other than Realtors would see that
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by gtCameron 10y ago
Exactly once for each contact that has ever sent me an email
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by gtCameron 11y ago
> Lots of people are unhappy with the NBA and their heavy focus on superstars. Ticket sales are down, and fewer people are watching it on TV as well. That's completely false on both counts. Ticket sales are at record levels [1] and
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by gtCameron 11y ago
I love comments like this. "I have a random hunch about a subject I have spent 30 seconds thinking about. I bet it is correct and the regulators who have full time jobs researching this are wrong"
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by gtCameron 11y ago
That is my experience as well. I would love to run an adblocker in blacklist mode and only punish the sites that annoy me, but I haven't found one that works that way. If anyone knows of one let me know.
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by gtCameron 11y ago
Stripe and Twitter do not have the same CEO, you are thinking of Square.
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by gtCameron 11y ago
The first line of the linked article is "If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name." Pretty sure Paypal owns paypal.com. Also pretty sure Paypal is not a startup. Not s
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by gtCameron 11y ago
John Oliver also did a great segment on this issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5mwymTIJU
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German automakers buy Nokia maps unit for $3.1B(money.cnn.com)
4 points by gtCameron 11y ago|0 comments
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by gtCameron 11y ago
I predict that many frustrations with IT would magically disappear if IT stopped calling everyone who doesn't know how to program morons or babies.
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Developers on Support(blog.freshdesk.com)
4 points by gtCameron 11y ago|0 comments
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by gtCameron 11y ago
Texas as roughly 5x the size of NC by landmass, and has approximately 3x the number of road miles. However, NC is more densely populated than TX. If you look at it by road mile per person they are almost identical.
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by gtCameron 11y ago
North Carolina does not have the most maintained roads of any state, they have "largest state maintained highway network in the United States." This is a function of them choosing to maintain roads at the state level instead of
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Posing Questions of Photographic Ethics(lens.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by gtCameron 11y ago|0 comments
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by gtCameron 11y ago
Related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777829
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by gtCameron 11y ago
Selig retired in January. Rob Manfred is the commissioner now.
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by gtCameron 11y ago
Some people read things simply because they are interesting, even if they do not contain any "new news"
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VCs Take the Media(thebaffler.com)
3 points by gtCameron 11y ago|0 comments
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by gtCameron 11y ago
You don't have to use Amazon, you can use one of the other 800 non-amazon specific static site generators that exist instead of this one. The fact that a tool doesn't accomplish the particular workflow that you would like doesn&#
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by gtCameron 11y ago
What browser are you using? I can scroll during animation in Firefox and Chrome on my Mac without any adverse effects to the animation
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ESPN Sues Verizon Over New Cable Packages(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by gtCameron 11y ago|0 comments
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by gtCameron 11y ago
> I get it, it's a great article but I don't think we need to share the same article and discuss it annually. Serious question - Why not?
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StubHub Sues Ticketmaster, Golden State Warriors, in Battle of Scalpers(washingtonpost.com)
57 points by gtCameron 12y ago|22 comments
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by gtCameron 12y ago
Why couldn't "fetch over wifi" use torrent type traffic from other wifi based users?
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by gtCameron 12y ago
There are some examples out there of cities "exporting" homeless, or at least giving the opportunity. http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2014/07/26/12578644/ http://thinkprogres

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