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by kevinpet 13y ago
This is a lot of fancy math and graphics that don't differ all that much from what a very simple analysis can give you. Only Revere belonged to five of the groups of interest. Of the three who belonged to four groups, two of them are i
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Palantir may not be printing this on t-shirts, but they aren't that secretive about what they do. Let's say you're an FBI agent with a warrant that allows you to spy on Joe Schmo, and any of his foreign contacts (not named in
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by kevinpet 13y ago
It's a service built on top of Pinterest, using a confusingly similar log (same color and scripted P), which uses the word "pin" to refer to a piece of content posted on Pinterest. Throw in some confusion of trademarks with "you can't copyr
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by kevinpet 13y ago
The "inventor" appears to be head of a small defense sub-contractor. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cognitivecode Note that the patent has not been issued. I certainly hope that this gibberish isn't taken to be sufficient details for s
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by kevinpet 13y ago
If you had absolutely no idea for what kind of salaries people got around here, then this data would be useful. Is it $25k or $250k? This can answer that question. But what people are really interested in is "is $125k high or low" and this
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I'm no fan of Obama, but simplistic political name calling doesn't seem to add much to the conversation.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Part of that was sunk costs. Presumably he was gambling on Powerset being a much higher exit. This store and the "I left $300k for github" are two sides to the question of what do you do when you are facing a soft landing rather than launch
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I'd expect the real founders to be in for no less than 1 / (num founders * 2). But in this context for taking a below market salary (as opposed to forgoing salary entirely), I think he's trying to convey >5%, as opposed to the standard
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by kevinpet 13y ago
It's untraceable until he starts using it. Not bitcoin in general, but Satoshi's stash specificially.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
If you read the notice carefully, you'll see they do not claim the target of the takedown was infringing their copyright, but only claim that it is an illegal circumvention method. Which is interesting because I've never seen a DMCA takedow
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by kevinpet 13y ago
So you're telling me you get my email, my political inclinations, and my offline purchasing habits. T&C includes the "no class action" and binding arbitration clauses. Privacy policy doesn't actually mention anything about campaigns I u
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by kevinpet 13y ago
No, it's more like he offered to sell a UML diagram, and then after he had created it, the site came back and demanded a video of him having created it.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
How dare someone not value your hobbies as much as you do. This article is specifically about a time efficient workout that does not require special equipment. While this article does not report on a controlled study, I don't think it deser
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"That eventually combined the right idea with the right execution in the right market to make a living. Not buy a boat you can land a helicopter on. Not conquer the world with iPads. Just make a living." I think I wouldn't call that a succe
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by kevinpet 13y ago
With the gun facing up is probably the most reasonable way to play. The round would have a good chance of falling out.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Not for a public C corp. They must maximize shareholder value, or a minority shareholder could sue and win. Patagonia changed their corporate structure to a California B corp to allow this.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
It's a big turn off to me to see these kinds of purely political articles on HN. I like my life somewhat compartmentalized -- I'd like to be able to discuss technology, science, and startups with people without getting dragged into "OMG the
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"The results show the Bay Area's economic inequality and its relationship with transit and urban form." I'm not sure what they are supposed to show. It seems to show me that there's very little relationship between income and mass transit s
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by kevinpet 13y ago
As the parent points out, what's potentially wrong with this method is the absence of cost benefit-analysis based on what value this will provide vs. any negative effects this will have (in addition to the actual cost). Your argument is an
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I had no idea what he was talking about until the replies. You and grandparent are wrong. Standard behavior on web forms is tab moves you to the next element. You are expecting gmail to act like a desktop app, and maybe you could make the a
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by kevinpet 13y ago
What an astounding lack of mathematical understanding. First, if you raise $36M, getting acquired for $100M could very well mean next to nothing for common stock holders. The odds of a venture-backed startup failing may be 75%, but the odds
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by kevinpet 13y ago
It's pretty, but go and try to solve the problem "I want to see what library is open today so that I can take my kids there". The best I could do involved clicking through to find a local library and then an alphabetical list that forces yo
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by kevinpet 14y ago
"because Skype support didn't verify if the person owned the account or not, just wanted those 3 points mentioned above" So, what? Is the author expecting Skype to just have some "does this person own the account" crystal ball? What do they
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Because no one is quite sure that they would use it. I'd pay $200 for something that I might use every day. I wouldn't pay $500 for something that I might use every day or might end up a gadget that I pull out to play with periodically.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Does he disclose how much he currently makes from the blog and credit card offers? Because it's pretty easy to "retire" when you make a decent living off a low effort job.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think you're getting down voted because you're claiming something directly contrary to the controller's words "he did not understand margin". When someone close to the events clearly says one thing, and a completely unconnected speculator
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The accountant's job is to tell you how it is, not persuade you to fix it.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Reality: fake tweet causes scoreboard to indicate inaccurate value for several minutes. Nothing has been erased.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Designers who think their site should behave differently from web standards need to go away. This is completely inappropriate for typical sites. It's only appropriate for web apps that really do deal with files.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The economic benefit of insider trading is a well established economic possibility. It's not a pure transfer to rich people.

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