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by kapnobatairza 10y ago
I think the fairly straightforward solution to the H1B issue is to tie it to a salary requirement, rather than a lottery/other subjective measures. If I want to hire a software developer from abroad and I'm willing to pay him abov
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by kapnobatairza 10y ago
If we are looking at the airline industry as a whole, wouldn't the worst offender always be a certain number of standard deviations from the norm? I don't think we can make a judgment unless we can see a graph that represents fail
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by kapnobatairza 10y ago
It isn't? "The technology, called ultrasonic cross-device tracking, embeds high-frequency tones that are inaudible to humans in advertisements, web pages, and even physical locations like retail stores." "any device micr
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by kapnobatairza 10y ago
This article is complete hogwash. "Ultrasonic" beacons are like any other beacon technology, whether audible, inaudible, bluetooth based or otherwise. All a beacon does is transmit an identifier or URL. It isn't and CAN'
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
Does a basic income need to be generated directly through government spending? With all the talk about QE and "helicopter money" over the past 8-9 years, I'm curious why very few have considering the merits of a basic income
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Ask HN: Have you had any old Gmail addresses hijacked?
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
CGP Prey is great, hadn't seen that video before but he does a great job of articulating why this time really is "different".
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
Yep, that's a much more apt description.
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
1) I think that the difference comes from how you look at the data. In the past, jobs that were displaced were replaced by other forms of unskilled or minimally skilled labour. The total pool of unskilled/minimally skilled jobs never s
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
Thank you. A basic income increases the negotiating power of the laborer because he now has an implicit price floor from where he can start his negotiations.
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
I don't think the author adequately makes the case that a UBI has problems as a form of welfare. His argument seems to boil down to the following: 1) Labour being replaced by automation isn't going to happen because it is going to
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
What does this have to do with Aaron Swartz?
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
I definitely agree that how much this makes sense depends on the city where you are located. As you said, Manhattan is probably one of the only cities where it does. Otherwise in most cities: Hotels are more conveniently located, better ser
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
I think that comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. I tend to be very tidy/neat, especially when I travel, which negates the need for daily housekeeping. I know some people who are not that way that need more regular
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
There is definitely a market for this, especially in a city like Manhattan where business rate hotels are hard to come by and can be inconveniently located compared to an AirBnB. When we have remote workers come visit us we put them up in a
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by kapnobatairza 11y ago
I suppose this doesn't come as a shock to anyone who has even had a passing interest in the case. The DOJ definitely wanted to make an example out of Ross and send a clear message to those that would try to emulate him. Even many in th
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Max2 Inc - New York, NY Hi! We are Max2 Inc. - the makers of the Scene app: http://www.sceneapp.io We are building a way to generate and surface real-time information about places around you - Think of it as "Waze" for
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
I'm sorry to be so suspicious, but do you have ANY experience working with Chip & PIN? How are you reprogramming your physical card on the fly? When you make such bold claims, it is difficult to take any other part of your product
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Couldn't agree more with you and the parent comment.
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
How do nautil.us posts seem to hit the front page so frequently and effectively? I know others have brought it up before.... I'm not complaining about the quality of the content, but many of them don't seem like "hacker news&
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
There is a very very very slim chance.... I wrote a bit about this last year when he was first arrested. http://msansnom.tumblr.com/post/63069733245/fruit-of-the-poi...
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
This is the kind of thing that makes ambitions to colonize other planets seem silly. If we can't even maintain or control the environment of a planet that is highly livable, how are we expected to terraform Mars?
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Not on the horizon for whom? I'm running a startup that already has combination magstripe/Chip and PIN payment dongles for smartphones ready to sell to the US market. The problem is there aren't many chipped cards at all.
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Most people throw away the cigar butt, I imagine cigar butt investing is picking up other people's leftovers.
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
You can probably trust Uber just about as much as you can trust the TLC. The only real difference is that Uber has a bit more real--time data they can mine. Even if you only pay for your cabs in cash, your privacy can be compromised by pick
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
I think there is a much easier answer to this and that is a basic income.
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
I think that it is the context of how the term is mostly used that resulted in the change: Think about an aspect ratio button on your TV remote. You use that to "correct" the aspect ratio of the content for your screen. In this co
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
It's more agnostic than true native development but less agnostic than a lot of other frameworks out there. And I agree that it is an early release and that they have room to improve on the desktop experience. I was just commentating o
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
I found it interesting that most of the demos provided work very poorly for "desktop web". I think frameworks like this exist in a no-mans land - A modern web framework is great because it allows you to easily deploy one responsiv
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
I'm not convinced that income tax reform needs to be so radical. However, I am convinced by the first part of his reform which involves instituting a basic universal income. In my mind a basic income solves a few fundamental socio-econ

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