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by jsteele 17y ago
You didn't answer the question.
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by jsteele 17y ago
Who are "civil libertarians"? People who value their civil liberties? People who are willing to do something to protect them? Whatever they are, you say you're not one. Interesting.
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by jsteele 17y ago
"This brings us back to Twitter." Nice one.
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by jsteele 17y ago
awesome!
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by jsteele 17y ago
I have to agree. To me, it seems naive not to expect problems when mixing business and personal banking (corporate veil: pierced), not having the correct paperwork available, using not-on-file email addresses, etc. If PayPal or a bank didn'
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by jsteele 17y ago
I hate to belabor the point, and I'm pretty sure you get it anyway, but it's not the general subject or tone of the story that matters, it's the exact wording, which would be very hard to guess, especially for longer excerpts. It's not a ma
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by jsteele 17y ago
> I don't know, that probably could have been written a > week ago. No, it couldn't have, unless you have a time machine and a friend on the NYT's national desk, because it was in the Times today, not last week: http://lmgtfy.com/?
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by jsteele 17y ago
"Skeptical readers can savor the irony that Shockoe Moto [his motorcycle repair shop] specializes in imports." Working on non-import (i.e. US-made) bikes would be the specialty. Otherwise, it's like writing that some restaurant specializes
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by jsteele 17y ago
10 years ago was literally, 1999ish.
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by jsteele 17y ago
I think Noam is a pretty cool guy. eh kills pomo and doesnt afraid of anything.
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by jsteele 17y ago
I introduced some of my friends doing a company to Fred, and had one of the CEOs of a current Union Square investment (that is doing well) also recommend them by email. He said to me he would meet with them, and never emailed them back.
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The Best Places to Get Free Mp3 Music Downloads(pineappleorange.wordpress.com)
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How to Intercept and Process data from Cookies(pineappleorange.wordpress.com)
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Why Free is Doomed(andyabramson.blogs.com)
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by jsteele 18y ago
Fail. We don't need another subprime lender. This country has seen enough shenanigans from IndyMac, Countrywide, and the other clowns on Wall St. Entrepreneurs, find something else to create because this is a lousy way to make money and tax
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by jsteele 18y ago
I'm not going to agree with SM but I have to agree with their general point: Hacker News isn't the best design, aesthetically or for usability.
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by jsteele 18y ago
The problem of finance isn't that its results are intangible, they are tangible. So I agree with you on this point. Its that it's an industry with strong political ties, like automakers, that is simply not allowed to fail and is propped up
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by jsteele 18y ago
Its not anti-banker populism. Its the bailout mentality that these bankers have that's disconcerting. A startup that fails disappears the way its supposed to, but when a big bank fails we all pitch in the bail them out. That's the problem.
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by jsteele 18y ago
"TwittyPic acquired" "Pet Holdings hires TwittyPic Developer" Which headline is more truthful? Which is more interesting? I doubt the latter would make it to the top of HN since it doesn't jive with the startup mythos. Congrats to bemmu, bu
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by jsteele 18y ago
Jwesley has 1 submission in his history. universitiesandcolleges.org. I have a domaintools account that shows in the past it had the whois of "John Wesley"(it's on private whois now). But w/o the paid service,just to prove my point: Check
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by jsteele 18y ago
These are all just restructured wiki articles. Not selling anything yet, though probably eventually going up for sale since there's no other plausible reason for their existance. http://abutterdish.com/ http://bodyfatgone.com/ Also owns
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by jsteele 18y ago
Hey there hypocrite. You have your own weight loss domains. And ever better, you have several spammy websites about online colleges. They may not be right, but neither are you.
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by jsteele 18y ago
Except that you don't use the full MD5 sum, so it's not a simple matter of brute-forcing it.
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by jsteele 18y ago
When "85.7% of the population [of India] was living on less than $2.50 (PPP) a day in 2005" is it really that surprising that they are only at 2.8% penetration? Many people in India are just trying to make enough to eat and survive. You thi
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by jsteele 18y ago
Ahhh good ol' Kulveer. Time to revisit my old comment from 292 days ago: ---- As the first poster said, don't believe everything you read. The media is all about hype and thousandaires don't roll off the page. The details: the acquisition p
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by jsteele 18y ago
look into caching rss readers. They're very nice.
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by jsteele 18y ago
I didn't get through the whole article, but "Google is building a new secret weapon that has more to do with the brain than search."? Google published their MapReduce paper in 2004... http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
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by jsteele 18y ago
"Your current group has no one with 100pct of their networth on the line." false, warren buffett's wealth is on the line. from this forbes magazine in front of me, he also has the MOST wealth to lose too. and i'm not sure having desperate t
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by jsteele 18y ago
Now just a damn minute. If the article you linked to is correct, then the World Bank is playing a devious game of sleight of hand: They got the idea that the US must have "intangible wealth" because of the fact that the domestic resources a
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by jsteele 18y ago
You hit the nail on the head: This whole essay is based on a false premise (which nonetheless is strongly believed by PG). Cambridge only seems to be a "smart" town if your social group consists of people associated with MIT, and you're onl

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