its_so_on

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by its_so_on 14y ago
"he was telling you how to match colors and hold a brush" You have no cause to complain here in this analogy. Either quit or happily let him tell you how to match colors and hold a brush, and if he tells you to paint like the sloppy kids a
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by its_so_on 14y ago
in other words: if you hire a personal cook you get to tell him what to cook, and he doesn't get to tell you what you should be eating instead.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
You and the original poster are completely wrong and misunderstanding the situation. "The CEO founded the 30 person company, and there are no other investors- it's all his money", if true, means that he's not CEO (in the startup sense) at a
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I'll give you a piece of advice (take it for whatever you want) that you're not likely to get elsewhere. People aren't stupid. The dominant model in many online ventures is that in some sense the "user is the product", which they're selling
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I doubt very much that Groupon has that kind of moolah to be throwing around :) Let's just leave it at that. (In my original comment, I considered including that the biggest risk to the business plan is Groupon, and that therefore the busi
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by its_so_on 14y ago
There's gotta be a business here to lend immediately successful groupon victims money at a high rate before they go bankrupt for cash-flow issues. I know it often "seems too good to be true" if a business tells you that it just needs a litt
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Maybe you're right. I will just say that if it were me in this situation, I would never in a million years go on an art appraiser's word that I 'can't' sell it, without even asking the appropriate agency.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I did miss it, because you made that last part up. You would be completely right if the article said "Mrs. Sonnabend was then able to retain ownership as long as the work continued to be exhibited at a public museum and not sold ." But I
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Where do you get the idea that museums wouldn't or couldn't purchase the work, assuming this purchase is OK'd by the government first - which given the history here and the work in question the family can easily count on? Your comment doesn
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I thought like you until the middle of the article, in the place I quoted. It's not that they have no way of making money off of it - they are only saying that. I would believe it if they got a letter from the wildlife agency saying, oh,
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by its_so_on 14y ago
another question. If the IRS values it at so far above its true price, can't they simply donate it and write off the inflated price - which come straight from the IRS - off of the taxes they owe on real-value, non-contraband works they als
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by its_so_on 14y ago
You miss that the article says it is a crime to possess or even transport the piece. This is like arguing that if you can't sell it without double parking, it's worth $0 and you don't owe taxes.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
genuine question: if it's so great and the capital of a rich country, why is it so cheap? (e.g. what you mentioned about apartments in the city center.)
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by its_so_on 14y ago
It's simply not true that it has no expectation of ever being able to be sold. The piece is already on loan to a museum and displayed there - the sale to a museum (perhaps the one displaying it) for its permanent collection is something th
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This article got a whole lot less interesting with the sentence: "In this instance, the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act make it a crime to possess, sell, purchase, barter, transport, import o
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I wrote out "Every even integer >2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes" on a sheet of paper. We'll see if staring produces a proof. Edit: had some interesting thoughts but after 20 minutes the goldbach conjecture remains...unprove
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Also this is Google, so it would be so out of character that it contradicts every single thing anyone has ever learned about Google first-hand, second-hand, or third-hand. This is not how you make a conspiracy theory.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
just want to point out that the "entropy of 38 bits" comes from the researchers - the first character has entropy of 2.5 bits but not all 30-length 'passwords' are valid, only a very small number of them, according to the researchers. 38-bi
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This is a sensationalist headline, and this is not a strong password length. Based on the information in the article, this is really equivalent to a "strong" 5-character password - not very secure. It's not "30-character unbreakable crypto
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This guy's problem is that he thinks pixel-fitting is an appropriate technique at any resolution: it's not.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Apparently the "subset of popular browsers" it works on is the null set - it doesn't work on any browser on any operating system on any architecture, C2D or otherwise. I'm curious why the HN title hasn't been updated yet.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
my entire comment is about the name Ryno, which I assume is a homonym for "Rhino". And you ride it, even though it obviously looks dangerous and unstable. Do you have any specific examples like that from BMW and HD? This wuold be like, I
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Hey, you found me.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
It's terrible branding, because it helps give the wrong impression. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YoCfm7nxU&t=4m0s It's a great tagline - if you're 15-19. Who wouldn't want to show their daring trying to ride a Ryno! Answer: any o
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Our society is awash with capital, but would you invest $4000 in exchange for 2% of some kid's "company" (unincorporated) for him to lease more hardware to complete his mission with the project? Of course not. "I'd need to hear a lot more
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Not me, I think it's great. For once you can run firefox, as opposed to some specific version you downloaded eons ago - the 90's model of software.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This is some pretty risky naming. It makes me think, "Cause of death: thrown trying to ride a Ryno." That would work if it were an energy drink - but this thing will be in traffic, which really is a major cause of death. I mean it doesn't
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This is not flippant, but if you think about it, it's what separates us from animals.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
In other words: The problem with English is that most of the people speaking it, writing it, or teaching it - collectively what I shall call the 'fringe' - could not so much as pen a tolerable introduction to a Penguin Classics paperback.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Do you intend to pay for access, or just go with whatever crap people send you for free?

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