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A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man(nytimes.com)
3 points by hexis 7y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 7y ago
When I put your values into this calculator ( https://tax-office.traviscountytx.gov/properties/property-ta... ), I found that the house in Rollingwood would have about 2K in City of Rollingwood taxes (just as you said),
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by hexis 7y ago
Bottle and can deposit has been going on in Massachusetts since at least the 80's (when I was growing up there) - https://www.mass.gov/deposit-bottle-can-recycling
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My Billion Dollar Mistake(producthabits.com)
8 points by hexis 7y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 8y ago
Bright flight.
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by hexis 8y ago
Let's assume ebooks are 20% (I know that's the upper bound you're positing, but let's start with that). If my salary were reduced by 20%, I would definitely say that I was making "much less". Would I say the sa
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by hexis 8y ago
I love public transportation and hate driving my own car to and from work. I stopped using public transportation for personal safety reasons. I am not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
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by hexis 8y ago
The affiliate income helps them to pay their remote employees.
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by hexis 9y ago
If their goal is to kill traditional retail, why are they opening traditional retail book stores across America?
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by hexis 9y ago
No Kindles can, they're based around Mobi, which is a quick file conversion away from an epub.
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by hexis 9y ago
I grew up in Boston and I spent tons of time riding the T. Driving in the city and especially parking was a nightmare and the T almost always got me where I wanted to go. I lived on the front range for 4 years about 10 years ago. I only too
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by hexis 9y ago
You can have multiple social logins on SO (including any arbitrary OpenID provider), so you can be very safe on that site.
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by hexis 9y ago
As someone who made a decent career for himself in tech without having been given a four year party immediately after high school, I am having a hard time seeing what I should be objecting to in this development. As far as I know, all of th
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by hexis 9y ago
I hope that wasn't during the summer. That's a big rectangle!
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by hexis 9y ago
That list is a synthesis of many different sources, most prominently the english Wikipedia. It is not directly relevant to the question asked by the parent comment.
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by hexis 10y ago
As it's currently structured, HSA's are usually a part of a health insurance plan with high deductibles. It's not an either/or thing, it's a both/and thing.
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by hexis 10y ago
This looks like a reasonable and unique URL for this story - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_5
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by hexis 11y ago
I haven't looked into Persona since they shut it down, but is it a protocol or a service? If it was actively developed again, would one be able to use Persona without integrating with any Mozilla service at all or would there always be
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by hexis 11y ago
> Also, they arbitrarily told Instagram to fuck off by only banning their image embeds, which pissed off even more users. As I understood it at the time, the integration was turned off from Instagram's side - http://statu
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by hexis 12y ago
TIL if you've run a bootstrapped web business for ten years, but didn't support Net Neutrality, you've just been kicked off Team Internet.
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by hexis 12y ago
Can somebody explain like I'm 5 what ELI5 means?
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by hexis 13y ago
Tolerance exists precisely for things which you hate. If you reserve tolerance for the unimportant issues, then you are intolerant.
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by hexis 13y ago
That was a well stated defense of intolerance.
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by hexis 13y ago
If bitcoin needs a savior, then it is pointless.
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by hexis 13y ago
No doubt that when bitcoin's success is obvious, he will also admit his mistake and go on to make another uninformed prediction.
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by hexis 13y ago
Another way to remove bosses is to work for yourself and co-ordinate with others through prices.
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RISD President John Maeda Departs for Roles at Kleiner Perkins and eBay(allthingsd.com)
3 points by hexis 13y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 13y ago
Getting Chrome Beta for Android did the trick. Thank you for the fantastic tools you Chrome folks are building.
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by hexis 13y ago
Anybody know if screencasting works with a Galaxy Nexus? I am not seeing the icon in Dev Tools and I can't find a list of supported devices.
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by hexis 13y ago
Well, that is certainly an enterprise URL.

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