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by karzeem 17y ago
I agree that they're morally obligated, but there's more than one step between "they're morally obligated" and "courts should enforce that moral obligation". If colleges can be regulated in that way, then why not regulate corporations the s
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by karzeem 17y ago
There's an important distinction to be made here between public and private colleges. Can't private colleges, being private entities, restrict speech however they see fit, in the same way that your company can?
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I wonder how big a role it played that they had the nerve to ask PG out for a drink. I know it's not a sufficient condition for success, but it definitely demonstrates the type of personality you want to see in a founder.
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by karzeem 17y ago
I transitioned pretty much in one day. I'm not sure if I'm doing it perfectly, but it's gone quite well so far. I got some background on it from this article in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11Calories-t.html... an
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by karzeem 17y ago
Sorry for the threadjacking, but any HNers doing caloric restriction? I'm at a normal weight, but a checkup a few months ago revealed a personal-worst blood pressure of 128/75, so I've been on CRON since then. Latest blood pressure is 110
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Weirdly, it was owned by Microsoft until not too long ago.
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Loudmouths have followers for the same reason that stock analysts and oracles do/did. In the face of risk and uncertainty, it can be really compelling when someone tells you they know how to make it all better.
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by karzeem 17y ago
From the developer's perspective, he's got Amazon about to take down a major feature of his apps. He has to tell customers something when their apps suddenly stop working. I'm coming around to the idea that he probably shouldn't have inclu
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm not sure either. Maybe hilarious in its frankness? Maybe the magnitude of the mistake is hilarious? Notwithstanding that Collectorz made a bad mistake in basing part of their service on something Amazon explicitly doesn't allow, I tho
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by karzeem 17y ago
Say you're the sole shareholder of an S-Corp which, not including your salary, has $200,000 in the bank on Dec. 31. You have two ways to put that money in your pocket: either a) pay yourself a salary as an employee (say, $75,000) plus the
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by karzeem 17y ago
There seems to be a contradiction in his argument. He talks a lot about the signup pages, focusing on what he guesses is Tumblr's much higher conversion rate and the reasons for why that conversion rate is high. Shortly thereafter, he lay
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by karzeem 17y ago
The whole VC pitch process is basically a test that VCs run to detect future success. Obviously, it's badly prone to false negatives and false positives. So I think the thesis of the article is that checklists help VCs reduce both those e
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by karzeem 17y ago
Atul Gawande wrote an article for the New Yorker in 2007 about checklists for inserting central lines in hospital ORs which elaborates on some of the points in this FT piece: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
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by karzeem 17y ago
Tom Green's show is interesting and innovative, and his celebrity interviews are better than any you'll find on a TV talk show. Largely because the celebrities let their guard down in the low-rent facilities. Conan has a couple big persona
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by karzeem 17y ago
It's not really a question of how relevant ED is. The issue is that a government had Google censor something which is well within the bounds of free (albeit offensive) speech.
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by karzeem 17y ago
A lot of places have urgent care facilities, which is designed for stuff that isn't really an emergency but which you want treated that day.
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by karzeem 17y ago
It does make sense that successful people are more attractive to others, and that's probably not a bad thing. I was referring more to domination in the sense of forcing your will on others, especially if it's done assholishly. A lot of peo
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by karzeem 17y ago
You can be self-promoting without being a jerk. The problem is it's hard to finesse that, and it's a lot more acceptable for men to cross the line than for women to do it. I think it's mostly because we have this pernicious idea that manho
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by karzeem 17y ago
Regulation has a role to play, but you're right; people forget that making it really hard to start a bank means we get stuck with the big ones no one likes.
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by karzeem 17y ago
When I heard about the contest, my initial reaction was that it's a clever move for Gawker, both for publicity and to actually get what they want. But apparently, they could easily be sued for this. It's called tortious interference. They'r
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by karzeem 17y ago
We're successful because our moms send us lots of zaatar for the morning of a big pitch :).
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by karzeem 17y ago
One big argument for why you should have to pay school tax even if you don't have kids is the positive externalities of public education; you benefit from other people's kids getting an education, so you should pay for that. There's a simil
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by karzeem 17y ago
Good points. As a layman, I wonder, do courts demand that all of a contract's substance be in prose, or is it okay for two parties to agree to a contract that's partly in, say, diagram form?
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by karzeem 17y ago
I once heard someone say that curing cancer is like curing infectious disease; it's an entire class of problems that requires a variety of tools. In the past couple decades, there are particular cancers that have gone from being uniformly d
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by karzeem 17y ago
I think the stuff about articulating his vision is a VC's polite way of saying that they don't like the founder. And typically, how they feel about the founder(s) is a lot more important than how they feel about the idea.
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by karzeem 17y ago
My high school radio station's transmissions could only reach to the near side of the school parking lot, and I'm pretty sure that was to avoid having to deal with the FCC. Isn't this pretty much the same thing? If your transmission peter
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by karzeem 17y ago
And by those standards, the market is as optimistic as OP; Amazon is trading at a P/E of 76. Edit: I don't mean this necessarily as vindication for OP. A P/E of 76 seems very expensive.
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by karzeem 17y ago
I phrased my point a little clumsily. What I was trying to say (and what I think we agree Schneier is saying) is that if you know about a type of attack and think that it's a type worth defending against, you shouldn't wait for it to actua
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by karzeem 17y ago
We certainly have to be safe from past attacks, but Schneier's point is that with the government's strategy, that's all we're safe from. It would be a lot better to use a strategy that defends against all attacks we know to be possible,
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by karzeem 17y ago
The core problem with this scheme is one that's endemic to this sort of legislation. It's a basic assumption that economic interactions are all ultimately zero-sum, which is simply untrue. The idea that Google (or anyone else) must necess

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