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by kauffj 11y ago
If you intern as a CS major, you will probably be paid somewhere between $10-$25/hr. If you intern in Hollywood, you will make a nominal amount. Does anyone find this surprising? There is a practically unlimited amount of programming w
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On Wine. A Tragedy(medium.com)
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by kauffj 11y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies...
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by kauffj 11y ago
That map seems highly inaccurate. Two of the cities I've worked in over the past year have anti-Uber legislation or enforcement and neither is on the map. Portsmouth, NH made Uber illegal and even went so far as to have the police char
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by kauffj 11y ago
The unfortunate nature of the seen and the unseen is that we will always notice the times we approved a drug too early or tested too aggressively, but we will never notice the deaths that happen because we were too timid or cautious in our
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The DMCA's Chilling Effect on Research and Innovation(blog.lbry.io)
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Twitter Takes a Side in the Culture Wars and Lies About It(popehat.com)
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by kauffj 11y ago
I am (or at least was) a big fan of the EFF. It is the first charity I can remember giving money to that I earned myself. However, I think they've gone in a direction of picking fights that are popular but a deviation from their origin
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by kauffj 11y ago
Many people seem to hold an intuition or belief that it is wrong to profit, or profit "excessively" when providing certain types of services, particularly related to "care", survival, or necessities (e.g. "price gou
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by kauffj 11y ago
In the debate over the continued utility of human labor in the face of automation, I suspect gene editing (and/or embryo selection) is the most ignored countervailing factor.
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by kauffj 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_traveler There are several countries that will offer you citizenship by investment, including some with visa-free entry to US and Canada. Of course there is no guarantee this wil
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by kauffj 11y ago
You are spot on. It is all about relative status and that was Keynes' big mistake (Russell makes same mistake). Relative status is also the hidden driver behind most of income inequality debate.
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TopScore (YC 200Never) Is Hiring an Enchanted Ungulate(usetopscore.com)
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Don't forget one of the best/worst examples: Joseph Nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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by kauffj 11y ago
Super slow to respond to this, but this is possible! But note there can be no speculation in names since selling is mandatory.
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by kauffj 11y ago
We're building one: http://lbry.io
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by kauffj 11y ago
I'd hire you to fire me any day.
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by kauffj 11y ago
I'm a citizen and I think that. Perhaps you describe most citizens, but certainly not all.
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Testimony on HB552, to Legalize Bitcoin for Payments of Taxes and Fees(blog.lbry.io)
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The Valley News also printed my letter in support of Tor: http://www.vnews.com/opinion/18607311-95/forum-help-lebanon-... (2nd letter) Hopefully it helped. I've only lived in NH for a bit and it is crazy how
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by kauffj 11y ago
TopScore | Philadelpha, Pittsburgh, New Haven, San Francisco | Full Time | REMOTE | http://usetopscore.com TopScore is hiring a Chief Support Officer. The CSO is responsible for managing our existing support operations as well a
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by kauffj 11y ago
If you're a FOI supporter, I'm one of the founders of http://lbry.io a startup launching this month that could absolutely put those to good use. We're creating a fully decentralized market for information, with an
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by kauffj 11y ago
Check out this diff that shows the before and after of the article: http://newsdiffs.org/diff/934341/934454/www.nytimes.com/2015... It reads like a different article entirely.
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by kauffj 11y ago
> On two different occasions I contacted the FBI about the project and offered to provide full sets of data that I had collected. The FBI twice rejecting a set of information that could have reasonably led to the arrest of several pedoph
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As Reddit Burns, It Powers the World(blog.lbry.io)
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by kauffj 11y ago
An individual holds information that is in the public good to be released. Said individual is threatened with significant harm by states if the information is released. Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up
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by kauffj 11y ago
If there were a completely transparent market for bribes, I think that would be a far superior system to the one we have today.
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by kauffj 11y ago
The individual who leaks this information is doing so for the public good. Why not also allow them to be compensated for assuming that risk?
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by kauffj 11y ago
I run a ~10 person completely remote SaaS company and that matches our tools exactly, even down to the way we set up our HipChat rooms* . For MobileJazz or others that operate completely remotely, how often do you meet face-to-face? We asse
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by kauffj 11y ago
Information wants to be $100,000.

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