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by holdenc 10y ago
It would be interesting to see incidences distributed over different types of divorce outcomes.
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by holdenc 10y ago
I'd say welcome to China, but let's be realistic. America offers plenty of opportunities to get locked up for 24 hours for breaking selectively enforced laws (protest anything lately?) and then perhaps even worse for resisting ar
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by holdenc 10y ago
I am a US expat living in Asia for the past 7 years. Being a digital nomad from my home here is great. But I dread taking trips to hotels, or working in coffee shops, or perhaps the worst place ever -- on a beach in Koh Samet Thailand. T
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by holdenc 10y ago
A $150K salary leaves around $8K a month income. Spending $5K of that on a mortgage payment doesn't leave much for anything else.
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by holdenc 10y ago
Agreed. My condolences to anyone who finds themselves with a salaried tech job and a $5000/mo mortgage payment.
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by holdenc 10y ago
That Yahoo took so long to give up the DMOZ directory-style mentality is just another example of technologists favoring a neatly ordered solution over an organic one. In the crowd-sourced organic model, there is less curation, and more a t
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by holdenc 10y ago
Sad to see that a majority of these bad tickets are in poorer neighborhoods. It seems most of Manhattan (below the Bronx) is relatively ok.
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by holdenc 11y ago
Agreed. As an aside, the popped blazer lapels were cringeworthy.
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by holdenc 11y ago
I don't own a phone is the new I don't own a tv
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by holdenc 11y ago
As someone with a life-long obsession with bathroom neatness (I've been driven to violence by roommates who don't respect my toilet paper roll orientation rules) it's comforting to know I can find a sane person to live with.
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by holdenc 11y ago
Calling Bloomberg a tech company is generous. They are a data company, and the quality and breadth of their data is unmatched. Reproducing this completeness of their data requires would require agreements with a huge number of data provid
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by holdenc 11y ago
The timeline for the rise and fall of prices has been very fast. For example, if the US stock market indices double in price tomorrow then fall by 50% a week later how much worse off are we? Yes some people are getting hurt by this, but no
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by holdenc 11y ago
It's certainly a shame when unsophisticated investors pile in after a huge run-up in prices. The good news is that if they got in one year ago they are likely still above water. If they got in after that they should have been wary of
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by holdenc 11y ago
Let's get real about the China stock market "crash" -- all major China stock indices are still up between 30% - 70% from 12 months ago. Somehow the run-up in prices was business as usual, but the slide down is a catastrophe.
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by holdenc 11y ago
Was this paid for by Jean Pigozzi? Very little new information on the lives of globe trotting wealthy elite.
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by holdenc 11y ago
It's worth noting: if you do 100K+ monthly via PayPal, you get a VIP support team for all business issues, and a Christmas card with their faces printed on the front. No kidding.
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by holdenc 11y ago
This article deals with a romanticised and populist interpretation of creativity. Linking creativity and rejection is likely comforting to many isolated and rejected creatives. And while the Van Gogh archetype is a familiar one, it's i
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by holdenc 12y ago
Yes, Google Checkout became Google Wallet, which shut down their API for digital goods three days ago: https://developers.google.com/wallet/digital/
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by holdenc 12y ago
The point is this: while people with good jobs feel they have something to live for, much of what happens is the simplistic perpetuation of consumerism. And, while the unemployed tie their value to their net worth, they miss out on some of
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by holdenc 13y ago
Who's more unemployable -- an older developer? Or, an older developer with noticeable plastic surgery? I suppose there's some truth in the article, but most older developers, or even just technically astute individuals, that I kn
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by holdenc 13y ago
So, if my DNS is hacked, I can call Google and OpenDNS and have them correct my records upstream? And then contact Verisign for a registry lock? And expect a personal response from MelbourneIT (even though it's likely their reseller&
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by holdenc 13y ago
Pretty amazing that a company like DigitalOcean can shake-up the market for VP servers prior to even taking funding. Their $5 servers have changed the game for nearly every hosting company that offers virtual servers. And to think they&#x
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by holdenc 14y ago
I like the strapped-on-whale powered submarine. Any ambitious valley billionaires ready to fund trips through the ocean on whale powered submarines? Just make sure to collect the money before they get on the submarine.
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by holdenc 14y ago
I'm working on something similar, but for customers. It's called customers-as-a-service. Basically, it provides on-demand paying customers for products that have none. It's quite simple and only charges a 10% premium on your base price.
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by holdenc 14y ago
I have often thought the same logic applies to why display ads work better on low-brow, pedestrian websites. If your website caters to smart people, good luck getting clicks. If you are pof.com then you are already attracting the kind of
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by holdenc 14y ago
Oh the Places You'll Go is a superb children's book that takes apart difficult problems such as conformity, risk-taking, complacency and failure. It follows a young protagonist through a psychedelic landscape discussing the painful, confus
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by holdenc 14y ago
Case and point: https://www.google.com/search?q=parrot+secrets+e-book
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by holdenc 14y ago
There are many things to blame for a lack of jobs. But the jobs are gone, many to other countries, and are not coming back soon. College graduates are facing a different reality than existed even 10 years ago. College experience counts f
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by holdenc 14y ago
This is a correct interpretation, and better expression of what I was trying to say -- essentially, there are still lots of basic problems that need fixing. A college graduate is well prepared to market themselves intelligently, in a trust
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by holdenc 14y ago
For some people a college degree can lead to a crippling level of entitlement, and unwillingness to do the kind of work they hoped to escape by attending college. A college degree doesn't preclude someone from waiting tables, cleaning up m

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