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by kgrin 16y ago
I'm as sad about the demise of campaign finance reform as anyone, but there's something to be said for free association. You can make a case for restricting donations and such - but limiting people's right to essentially organize themselve
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by kgrin 16y ago
My immediate reaction was to run out and buy mousetrapster.com... not sure why, just seems like there's something fun one ought to be able to do with it. ...anyone got any ideas?
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by kgrin 16y ago
There may well be (and it appears quite likely is) a conflict of interest here, but there are less obnoxious ways of pointing that out. Like, say, the OP.
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by kgrin 16y ago
I've literally just now been looking for a freelancer to do this for me... precisely because I'm a developer who knows some things about systems, rather than an actual sysadmin. So yeah, I muddle through, but it takes 3x as long and is pro
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by kgrin 16y ago
"flat defaults and goes to jail" - the following isn't a joke question: do you actually mean that people go to prison for defaulting on a loan? I thought debtors' prisons were... a concept we got past around the Victorian era?
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by kgrin 16y ago
tl;dr: structural adjustments are hard, transition costs suck. It's easy to judge the author for feeling "entitled" to a high-paying post-law-school job, and - just to get this out of the way - obviously he isn't (entitled). Yes, he made h
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by kgrin 16y ago
Yep - we're aware of all that, and we can handle the various app-level changes... we just don't want to be in the "ongoing server maintenance" business.
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by kgrin 16y ago
Happy to use Rackspace or another dedicated server provider... the trick is that we don't want to be responsible for, say, security patches to the kernel. So really the question is: is there a company that'll manage the damn server(s) for
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Ask HN: HIPAA Hosting?
14 points by kgrin 16y ago|31 comments
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Ask HN: whither Billmonk?
37 points by kgrin 16y ago|28 comments
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by kgrin 16y ago
To elaborate a bit - it just really struck me as bizarre that he's basically giving his insurer a pass for raising his prices, because it's "business", and business can do no wrong - as a fellow businessman, he understands the plight of the
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by kgrin 16y ago
Fair enough; perhaps we should make the system a bit more progressive. Perhaps if FICA weren't capped at ~$100K, we could reduce Sally's share of the burden? Or if we eliminated any number of corporate-tax loopholes, or agribusiness subsi
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by kgrin 16y ago
It's interesting how his private insurer raising rates is obviously "ObamaCare"'s fault. Like all businesses, insurers raise prices because they can , thanks to market position, scarcity and all the other usual factors (distorted, as the
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by kgrin 16y ago
Random feature idea: export to blank properly named templates for Balsamiq, Mockingbird, etc. It seems like once you have a good idea of the interaction flow in Flowshark, the next step is to actually wireframe the individual pages - having
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by kgrin 16y ago
Curious whether these guys will have Blackboard waving its (many bogus) patents at them...
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by kgrin 16y ago
Just like Rails has some drop-in "fixes" (i.e. the admin) that don't come with the core, Django does as well. Dependency management: pip requirements files. Migrations (which the author doesn't like, but are pretty useful on a non-trivial p
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by kgrin 16y ago
"All the neighbors have to do is sue you in court..." Even for small claims court, it's a pretty big burden to file suit. This regulation may not be the best answer, but let's not pretend that short-term rentals don't engender problems for
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by kgrin 16y ago
FWIW, a few of the items seem to be specific to Sense UI; the unlock swipe, for instance, is L > R on my Nexus One, not top-down.
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by kgrin 16y ago
I was mostly responding to the comment, which was about the income tax rates. That said, while some of the HCR provisions resulted in new limits and exemptions on tax-free HSA/FSA accounts and the like, there really isn't a new "health care
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by kgrin 16y ago
Yes, taxes will rise to the draconian and economy-stifling levels we suffered under in the 1990s.
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by kgrin 16y ago
That's because it's not really meant to be "English"; think of it as a DSL for the law.
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by kgrin 16y ago
It's not a company's board of directors - it's the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a regulatory body established by Sarbanes-Oxley "to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors..." In
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by kgrin 16y ago
Summary: the court ruled narrowly on the patent in question (over-broad), while punting on the actual issue of "business methods" patents. Result (for everyone but the actual litigants in this case): no change from the status quo.
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by kgrin 16y ago
This isn't deeply relevant to the profiled product, but I found the following characterization of YC rather odd: "Y Combinator is the early stage investment fund that uses a biannual, weekend-long pitch and demonstration competition to find
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by kgrin 16y ago
At one point in the article he makes the correction that it's technically a "duopoly" - but certainly not a free market.
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by kgrin 16y ago
"Finance" is a pretty broad word; the payment card market (at least until recently) has been pretty free of regulation, certainly of regulation that would prevent the sort of abuses highlighted in the article. One interesting point is tha
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by kgrin 16y ago
The Ned Lamont featured in the article is the same Ned Lamont that ran for Senate in Connecticut in 2006 (beating Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary). Do note that the article is from 1996 - perhaps a "[1996]" in the title would be app
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by kgrin 16y ago
I wonder - is there an English class out there that focuses on "rewriting, rephrasing, riffing, and appropriation as real tools of the writer’s trade"?
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by kgrin 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that exclusivity ends soon; it's a question of renewing it or not.
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Ignoring [Government] Won't Make It Go Away(dashes.com)
1 points by kgrin 16y ago|0 comments

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