harryh

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by harryh 7y ago
"I want something for cheaper than you are willing to sell it to me so therefore I will steal it" is....not a great answer. We don't accept that answer for other products.
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by harryh 7y ago
Over the air broadcast signals don't work in a lot of places so you need to send the bits over a cable. Putting that cable in the ground and sticking the right equipment on the end costs money. That's a totally reasonable thing to
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by harryh 7y ago
I remember 10 years ago that the answer to rayiner's question was always "I don't want to pay a ton of money for a whole bundle of crap I don't want when all I want to watch is one specific thing." I saw it all the
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by harryh 7y ago
Ah, interesting. I stand corrected on that subpoint. Thank you.
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by harryh 7y ago
Can anyone give an example of a patent that was necessary for its intended purpose? The entire drug development market would collapse without patents.
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by harryh 7y ago
Patents, at their best, are for IP that requires significant capital investment like drug development or wireless modem chips or things like that. You have to pay a bunch of talented and expensive people a bunch of money for a long time how
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by harryh 7y ago
What did you create?
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by harryh 7y ago
Psssst. Create a 2nd "Person" in Google Chrome and turn off JavaScript for that profile.
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by harryh 7y ago
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra[1] 1. Well, maybe said by him: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
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by harryh 7y ago
The emotional complexities of "receiving a huge payout for the lost child" make me even more sure that employers shouldn't be getting involved in this. It's a deeply personal decision that people can have wildly differin
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by harryh 7y ago
Your expectation is wrong: https://www.nysscpa.org/news/publications/the-trusted-profes... "Since 2014...34.3 percent worked at small companies." And this is for "small" defined as <= 100. T
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by harryh 7y ago
IMHO it would be cheap for companies to simply buy infant life insurance for all employees Individuals can buy this sort of life insurance for themselves without the help of their employers. Given that it is, as you say, "cheap"
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by harryh 7y ago
This has nothing to do with growth, but a change in the ratio of working age people to retired age people.
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by harryh 7y ago
"HackerNews posters bragging about how they never enable JavaScript in their browser" <--- LOL. Have an upvote.
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by harryh 7y ago
This is not an accurate description of WeWorks's problems. These problems are legion, but they rent out space for more than they pay for it.
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by harryh 7y ago
You don't have to be suspicious, this has been explicitly stated by many fiscal conservatives on many occasions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
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by harryh 7y ago
Sure you can: https://www.fastcompany.com/40514341/two-activist-apple-shar...
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by harryh 7y ago
"Don't ever try to stop bad people from doing bad things because if you do they will only do worse things" is not a point of view I am willing to accept. In addition, "Government programs NEVER just end" is also obv
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by harryh 7y ago
There are lots of organizations that do both good and bad things. I hear that the KKK sometimes did some good community building work in addition to lynching black people. It is, apparently, the judgement of a large swatch of GH employees t
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by harryh 7y ago
GH employees don't just get a salary but also equity. So in addition to being employees they are, in fact, owners of the company. It seems perfectly fair for a company owner (even a small one) to voice an opinion about how the company
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by harryh 7y ago
I think the core idea here is: this organization is doing bad things. By not supplying them with goods and services we can stop those bad things from happening. Whether that happens because the organization reforms or because the organizati
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by harryh 7y ago
Yes, but publishers just give people the opportunity to buy something. Advertisers put the speech in front of people whether they want to buy it or not.
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by harryh 7y ago
I am not a GH employee nor do I speak for them. But I think a fair point of view is that it would be GREAT if the employees of Xerox and Canon and Lenovo and Apple and Ford and the airlines and even the farmers all took the same stance as G
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by harryh 7y ago
I think there is a pretty clear difference between publishers which sell speech to people that want to buy it and advertisers that take money in return for putting speech in front of people automatically. Maybe both forms of money entangled
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by harryh 7y ago
Maybe back with AirBnB was just getting started. But not anymore.
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by harryh 7y ago
Ah yes, the downfall of WalMart. The... checks notes ...largest company by revenue in America.
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by harryh 7y ago
YC owns a tiny tiny piece of AirBnB. They definitely do not have any sort of power over the issues that you bring up.
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by harryh 7y ago
The issue is who gets to be the arbiter of what counts as "political propaganda and deliberate lies"? The founding fathers thought that if government was given such power it would be abused to stifle speech that fell outside of th
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by harryh 7y ago
I think you misunderstand the potential scope of WeWork's business. A third of WeWork's desks are rented by companies with 1,0000+ people. IBM, Microsoft, and a big chunk of the Fortune 500 are all customers.
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by harryh 7y ago
It's pertinent to the matter at hand because trade policy is about enforcing this sort of morality at a large scale. If it is, in fact, immoral to buy goods from China then we can enforce that through trade policy that restricts free t

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