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by hexis 15y ago
"it's just that the government isn't in the business of throwing money away" In all seriousness, this is why they shouldn't be investing in startups. Early stage investing is all about "throwing away" a bunch of money and (hopefully) making
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by hexis 15y ago
Assuming one made it through the 5 month training in DC and was offered a job, would that job be based in DC or would it be remote-compatible?
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by hexis 15y ago
"When O when will we get regulators with some distance from those they are regulating?" Oh, that's an easy one.
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by hexis 15y ago
"“It’s disappointing when an old friend releases such a terrible interface,” Lucas Charles, a linguistics major at Portland State University who has been using Ubuntu since 2001, told me. “It’s not inherently bad, just buggy.”" Considering
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by hexis 15y ago
Here in Texas, it means someone from the Northern US. It sounds really funny in that context. :)
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by hexis 15y ago
yankee?
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by hexis 15y ago
She has a lot of experience in open source, to say the least. From the author's about page - "I currently work as the Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. I also am an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, and IntraHealth Open, as well
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by hexis 15y ago
"The Windows message is much more palatable to corporate buyers, committees, middlemen, and people who don’t like to be told what’s best for them..." "[P]eople who don’t like to be told what’s best for them" sure ended up in some strange co
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by hexis 15y ago
"Suppose you're working on a product that is time sensitive." Pick another project. There's a lot of money to be made on the internet.
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by hexis 15y ago
I agree with you, that was sloppy writing on my part.
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by hexis 15y ago
If you need living expenses, save up. If you live somewhere too expensive, move. "If your idea is too expensive to start with a laptop and cheap hosting, think of another idea." Sorry to be somewhat flip, but starting a tech company isn't c
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by hexis 15y ago
Starting a tech company is so cheap that funding should never be the bottleneck. If your idea is too expensive to start with a laptop and cheap hosting, think of another idea.
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by hexis 15y ago
Even better, teach your kids to code. Cut out the middleman.
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by hexis 15y ago
DNT is like putting a note atop your plain text file asking unintended recipients to ignore the contents. What browsers need is something akin to encryption, where you're not asking for compliance, you're denying access.
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by hexis 15y ago
Part of my original point was that currencies don't have "missions", people do. A person may or may not wish to own a bitcoin in order to facilitate transactions. A person might also wish to own one as a speculative investment. Neither "mis
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by hexis 15y ago
No, I think I am correct. Currency exchange rates are prices and in that sense a currency is a good. The typical use of a currency is as a medium of exchange, but people use goods for different reasons. That was my point originally.
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by hexis 15y ago
Currencies are goods like any other goods and the people who own them have divergent purposes. When Krugman writes "we want [a monetary system] to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich", he's assuming a lot. Obviously
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by hexis 15y ago
“The Internet would be better if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer.” - Eric Schmidt There are no dogs posting on the internet and there's no such thing as a "fake perso
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by hexis 15y ago
This might be characterized as a bribe, but how could it be blackmail?
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by hexis 15y ago
This isn't "pre-cognition" any more than when Wal-Mart's supply-chain management software is.
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by hexis 15y ago
It sounds like having a boss helps you navigate the perils of a large organization. It feels like a problem posing as its own solution.
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by hexis 15y ago
It's a part of formal debate procedure. This blog post was taken from a debate in The Economist magazine.
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by hexis 15y ago
Why are people on HN who are critical of articles so quick to tell everyone precisely the sentence at which they stopped reading an article? If anything, criticism from someone who stopped reading mid-stream should be taken less seriously t
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Regrets of the Dying(inspirationandchai.com)
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by hexis 15y ago
I think it's less useful, when picking a strategy, to know what percentage of great successes were caused by obsessive focus than to know what percentage of obsessive focuses caused great success.
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by hexis 15y ago
Supposedly, OS X ran on intel chips for years before Apple made the switch for their products. I've got to imagine that Apple has been running OS X on their own chips, even if they have no specific plans to make the switch.
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by hexis 15y ago
Thinking that "problem X" is "problem Y" is one way to not understand "problem X".
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by hexis 15y ago
If you don't have a backup of your data that is in your physical control, then you are at risk. It doesn't matter if you're using "the cloud". By all means, use "the cloud" if you like. But keep a copy of your own data in case the service y
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by hexis 15y ago
Not that your response is condescending, or anything.
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by hexis 15y ago
In the US, it's standard to have a fixed rate for the entire life of the mortgage. It's my understanding that this state of affairs is due to US laws and that most other countries tend to have floating rate mortgages.

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