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by jmharvey 13y ago
By my math, if you're talking about Denmark, I don't think you're as unique as you think you are. There are a total of about 18 million valid Danish ID numbers (approximately 36.5k valid DDMMYY combinations * approximately 500 valid serial
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by jmharvey 13y ago
As I understand it, a big part of change.org's model is building a political mailing list, so they can follow up with you at election time and say, "you signed this petition that we sent to this politician, and they [did/didn't] do what you
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by jmharvey 13y ago
I'm not really worried about printing useless items, I'm more concerned that the 3-d printer itself is one more (fairly significant) item of "stuff" to have to deal with. For a 3-d printer purchase to result in a net-negative amount of stu
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by jmharvey 13y ago
Whenever I think of 3d printers, I think of this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html I'm not sure whether 3-d printing will result in my having more stuff or less. In the long run, I could see it working out either way, but with
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by jmharvey 13y ago
IANAL, but I have thought a lot about what constitutes cheating at gambling, as opposed to legal advantage play, and I think this is cheating. The key distinction, for me, is that the machine is not a game in and of itself, but an interface
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Many users are also "once bitten, twice shy" about using facebook apps at all. A lot of people have trouble telling the difference between a simple facebook oauth login and a full-fledged spammy app, and are reluctant to use the former for
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by jmharvey 14y ago
If the goal is to make an email feel like it's written by a human being, why not emulate what human emails actually look like? Does the author photo actually make it feel more human, or less? I can't think of a time I've ever gotten a rea
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by jmharvey 14y ago
It might worth it to AT&T to actually build a 1 gigabit network to dissuade Google from encroaching on their territory in other cities. As the only gigabit player in a location, Google can charge users much higher rates than if they're
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Even if you get paid in bitcoin, if the real value of bitcoin increases, it's unlikely that you'll maintain the same nominal wage. Your real output is relatively constant, so your real wage (whether it's paid by an employer or is the profi
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by jmharvey 14y ago
That's the image from the front of the bag, the image in question is on the back.
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by jmharvey 14y ago
The "apply in April and spend six months in limbo" structure of the H-1B program seems like it would heavily favor multinational companies that can hire someone for a position abroad, and relocate them to the US if their visa comes through.
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by jmharvey 14y ago
I think so. I've had a deadspin story I submitted disappear, even though it was on-topic. (It was a story about satellite feeds glitching under certain conditions.)
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by jmharvey 14y ago
The main thing he's railing against are the "video game design" degree/certificate programs that are constantly promoted on daytime TV. These programs will load your teenager up with debt while promising a dream career, but unless they're
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by jmharvey 14y ago
I can't go into a store and buy a suit with gold, so it's not a useful medium of exchange for me. If gold, or bitcoins, fell out of the sky and into my lap, I certainly wouldn't mind. But given the same value of gold, bitcoins, or dollars
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by jmharvey 14y ago
The time spent refueling calculations seem a little odd. Do people really spend 15 minutes per gas station fill-up? I feel like my fill-ups (including the detour to the gas station) take a lot less time than that. And the Tesla calculation
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by jmharvey 14y ago
> Tesla's program requires 10% down, almost unheard of for a lease As I understand it, the down payment is roughly offset by the tax credit, so the experience of the buyer/lessee is similar to a normal car loan.
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by jmharvey 14y ago
One of the considerations when choosing a framework is how difficult it is to implement in the first place, but another consideration is how widely adopted it is. It's a lot harder to find someone who can maintain Sinatra code than someone
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by jmharvey 14y ago
We can do some back-of-the-envelope math to estimate how much you could make doing this. Let's assume that the benefit from bitcoin mining is roughly equal to the cost of the electricity used. Electricity in the US costs about 12 cents pe
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by jmharvey 14y ago
The problem she described is a bit tougher to solve than simply saying, "don't hire booth babes." "[W]omen who are pretty but not models, dressed in normal street clothes" describes a pretty big percentage of the general population. Under
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by jmharvey 14y ago
I don't really follow your math. In your scenario, you're over-selling shares in the lottery ticket (a la "The Producers"), meaning you (as the intermediary) profit if the underlying investment fails, but you lose if the investment succeed
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Neat! I wonder if you could crowd-source some of the missing data. I tested it with "I'm a US Citizen travelling to Macau." but didn't get any result. The US state department web site http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_955
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Aside from the faraday cage shielding, that shouldn't be too hard to achieve. Why not just shut off your cell phone?
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Usually I'd use a combination of my Mint records (which had convenient totals for each online merchant, of which I really only used 5 or 6 in a typical year) and the Massachusetts safe harbor law (which essentially allowed me to assume that
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by jmharvey 14y ago
I pay use tax. I've also been audited several times. It's easy to say, "oh, everybody ignores x tax, it's completely unenforceable," but if you get audited, yeah, the state can look through your bank and credit card records and get a pret
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Im a Coinbase customer. I'm waiting for my pending transaction to go through, and for USD to hit my bank account. And I'd rather have Fred and the rest of Coinbase working on solving that problem than explaining what, exactly, the glitch
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by jmharvey 14y ago
(YC XX) is generally only used on HN for launch and funding announcements.
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Seems unlikely. From their blog yesterday: This is probably as good a time as any to mention that if you are in SF and are an awesome software engineer, we’re hiring: https://coinbase.com/jobs Companies that are running out of
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Sales tax is an unrelated issue. My local corner store has to collect sales tax, even though it's just a user, and not a transmitter, of dollars.
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by jmharvey 14y ago
When Google announced they were killing off Reader, the big problem was that there was no obvious alternative. That's not the case when they remove features I like from Chrome. I hear Firefox is pretty good these days, I'll probably try s
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by jmharvey 14y ago
Finding a good lawyer can be hard, but a good lawyer won't object to reviewing docs you got online. Lawyers review contracts written by other people all the time. If your lawyer won't review a well-written document because of its origin,

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