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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Why are people even posting on HN? The easy answer is do an ACH chargeback and be done with it. Do it quickly as well since the price has plummeted. Don't even bother with contacting customer support.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Hopefully you are selling him the BTC at today's rate, and not at $868. This post is an admission of guilt on your part, so if you don't, he likely has a great case when he sues you (which I would, if I suffered a $12k loss like
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Do an ACH chargeback as quickly as possible, don't be an idiot and wait for a response, otherwise you may miss your opportunity to walk away without losing $10k.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Incorrect. If you have self-driving cars, the entire flow of traffic could be much more efficient, virtually eliminating traffic jams. You could drive at the speed limit with a lot smaller distance between cars, etc, packing in a greater d
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
If I remember correctly from another article yesterday, the company went through 7 more rounds of funding after the founders were kicked out. Most of the heavy lifting was done after their ouster, so quite frankly they don't deserve an
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
What's poisonous about it? It's the blunt truth. In stack ranking, you don't have to be the best employee, you just can't be in the bottom 15%. If you get laid off, it means you're in the bottom 15%. There'
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
What it means is of your team, you were in the bottom 15% and maybe you weren't a bad employee, but you weren't even in the top half of your team.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
No reference to the stoned virus? I remember that being extremely widespread, despite not having the Internet to easily propagate it.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
I absolutely despise Perl with every ounce of my body. I'm not saying that it's a bad programming language. I'm also not saying it can't be used to create extremely useful software, or that you're not a great progr
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
It depends on your down payment and your salary. Does your wife work? Are you open to sending your kids to a mediocre school or do you want them to attend a private a school? All areas with good schools will run you over 1M for a house. A
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Isn't it strange that one arm of the government, ie the NSA, can get PRISM and all their extremely complex surveillance and correlation programs up and running but these much simpler and more straightforward web sites are generally fai
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Having actually worked on vCenter, I can tell you that it is at best adequate for what it does, but the code is amongst the shittiest I have ever worked on.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
I find it hard to believe. In 1995 people barely knew what the internet was. I was accessing the internet through Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.11 and had a 14.4k modem. The idea that Time Warner already had a sophisticated Web division smel
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
If there is a bubble, it's most certainly not starting, it's ending. With the Fed tapering imminent, and interest rates starting to rise, there's no way that a bubble will be starting at this point. If anything, it will pop
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Ditching BBOS and using Android is exactly what SGI tried to do by ditching IRIX and going with Windows NT. It destroyed the company. Not that BBM has any hope at this point, but getting rid of BBOS is not the solution, because they will
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
That's comparing apples to oranges. All the other data used to create the original graph o calculate temperature such as tree rings, etc do not take into account the temperature of the oceans, etc. There may be perfectly good explanat
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
The number of people on food stamps went from around 15M in 2001 to about 45M in 2013. I think many people need good stamps but the point of eligibility of food stamps is a good point, in that there are probably a lot of able-bodied people
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Global temperatures are basically flat for the last 17 years, and below every single computer model of climate change. This is even more stark given the fact that the most co2 has been produced in the last 17 years. I think the theory is pr
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
I've been programming in C/C++ for 15+ years and I enjoy it. Personally I think the C++11 extensions are not useful and could bloat/kill the language. It feels like they are trying to make it a scripting language, which isn
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
I'm politically centrist, supporting neither the Republicans nor the Democrats. I was opposed to the recent $40B food stamp cuts that the Republicans passed in the House, until I read this article. Angie appears to be collecting food
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
You likely won't get high interest rates like 8% unless you have higher inflation rates. So someone who makes 2000/month right now, by the time the Interest rates increase to 8%, their salary would have Also increased.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
I think the takeaway is that founders with strong accents will have a hard time getting acceptance in YC, just like single founders. Not because PG is racist, but just like single founders, the empirical evidence shows that they aren't
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Poverty in the US is nothing like poverty in other countries. Poor people in the US mostly still have tvs, etc. Poor people in true Third world countries wash themselves in puddle water, and poor children play in garbage dumps. I've se
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Does "almost everyone" mean the retail brokerages, like E-trade, TDAmeritrade, etc, or just the HFTs, hedge funds, etc?
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
The first $5M is exempt.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Oh, so NSA laptops aren't encrypted?
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Your post was about a supposedly "sexist" comment in Bootstrap, not Aaron Swartz. Aaron Swartz is completely irrelevant. That comment in the Bootstrap code is not sexist, instead you are a hypersensitive alarmist. You are hurti
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Do a twitter search for "one fine body". You tell me if it's used only by males or if there's an equal distribution between males and females. You are a hyper-sensitive alarmist that only pollutes real sexist issues wi
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
This is not sexist. Females say this just as often as males.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Oh you mean unconstitutional, like executing an American citizen without due process, like Obama has already done? Being a member of the US military is completely irrelevant, you really have no education on this topic. I suggest you read u

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