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by jvm 12y ago
I guess my problem is I rather like Manhattan and if rents got cheaper in the process it seems like wins all around to me :-) I understand that other people don't feel that way, but at the same time I think if people were told the choi
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by jvm 12y ago
> protection of the city’s environment, architectural heritage, neighborhoods, diversity, and overall quality of life from the radical transformations of turbulent American capitalism ...and ironically creating some of America's hig
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by jvm 12y ago
This sounds less convenient, harder to implement, and no more secure than OpenID, and even that failed to gain traction.
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by jvm 13y ago
> A lot of people simply don't want to live in a crowded city in an apartment crowded on every side with other apartments. I'd prefer a location in a low-density suburban area (with a lot of forest around me) where I could get
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by jvm 13y ago
I'm sure it's quite cheap to produce, but the true cost is in the research. Having the US shoulder that cost while offering a much cheaper rate is a commendable model in my book. If they are charging an excessive amount in the sta
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by jvm 13y ago
> How is Square/Stripe getting around the issue that most exchanges wait for 6 confirmations before a transaction is accepted? How do you know they're not getting 6 confirmations? They could just give you a confirmation screen,
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Python 3.4.0 released(python.org)
280 points by jvm 13y ago|135 comments
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by jvm 13y ago
It has a pretty similar score to the US, I haven't personally observed police corruption here, have you? (Obviously it goes on, I'm talking about first-hand perception)
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by jvm 13y ago
That's exactly what the auto manufacturers want. They're blocked by the dealership lobby. Relevant Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
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by jvm 13y ago
> majority of them are worthless fluff useful only for sensational headlines There's a sampling bias here. A similar dynamic goes on with Physics.
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by jvm 13y ago
> I don't want my emails to be directly in the hands of the NSA Then I hope you don't send any messages in plaintext, and good luck with the headers.
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by jvm 13y ago
> we rag a lot on Federal Reserve chairpeople for not doing NGDP level targeting I wish HN was actually this economically informed.
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by jvm 13y ago
Insider trading seems unfair. But after a lot of thinking and listening to arguments on both sides, I now actually find the argument in favor of legalizing insider trading fairly compelling. I'd suggest that anybody with strong feeling
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by jvm 13y ago
Vim persistent undo solves this problem: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/undo.html#undo-persist... ...I'm sure Word will catch up eventually.
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by jvm 13y ago
I don't have a strong opinion about whether this was a good deal; $16 bil certainly seems like a lot of money, probably too much. But I think you're underestimating their market share, broken down by country here: http:/&#x2
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by jvm 13y ago
Weird, so like they themselves have a chargeback policy? Ugh.
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by jvm 13y ago
This is a 'feature' of the credit card system, it has nothing to do with PayPal. If you buy something with a credit card, you can chargeback by claiming a defective product and get your money back from the card companies. Then the
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by jvm 13y ago
Mobile in America is so messed up that the worst carrier in Europe literally is the best carrier in America.
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by jvm 13y ago
A lot of the quality of a mattress comes in how long it lasts, so the jury is still out on that. Nevertheless kudos to these guys for building something high quality with low overhead!
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by jvm 13y ago
It was bought by Microsoft but continues to operate.
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by jvm 13y ago
Solving it would mean solving AI.
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by jvm 13y ago
AI-complete, awesome terminology you coined there.
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by jvm 13y ago
That is bad if true but if the alternative is for those investors to buy some other units elsewhere it's still useful to build this to prevent them from doing that.
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by jvm 13y ago
Sometimes I think westerners just can't wrap their heads around just how poor Bangladesh is. Their GDP per capita: $2000, adjusted for living costs (PPP). Please, everyone, try to wrap your head around that number. That means a totally
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by jvm 13y ago
> The tech to lend or entirely transfer ebooks is clearly there (some books can be lent once for two weeks), you are operating in an environment where the vendor does not allow it. There's a mixup in terminology here. We're no
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by jvm 13y ago
But the reason you can't share ebooks isn't that you don't own the medium the data is inscribed on (you do), it's the fact that the only practical ways of sharing them involve copying the text, which is not allowed on tr
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by jvm 13y ago
The south, northwest, and former east Germany are each quite distinct culturally and have very different voting patterns.
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by jvm 13y ago
The German system requires a 5% threshold to be seated; IMO that represents a sizeable chunk of people's viewpoints. And either way, the winning coalition must represent a majority of Germans. That promotes centrism not extremism.
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by jvm 13y ago
Vimperator also has this by default (^i triggers it I believe). Then you never have to have the disorientation of leaving a vim environment :-)
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by jvm 13y ago
Nasdaq is up only .5%, MSFT is up 7.35%. Given that MSFT has high weight on the Nasdaq, a 7% move for them probably accounts for a large proportion of that .5% overall move.

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