kjackson2012

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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Hyperbolic nonsense? I suggest that you educate yourself on what is going on right now. There is no hyperbole, there is no pollution, there is only uneducated folks like yourself that don't seem to understand that things have bro
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
You probably won't read this, but: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/animal_fore... It's not enough that an asteroid hit the Earth, but it's such a simple theory that everyone can rem
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Exactly. Technology and especially things like cryptography and hacking, can potentially get you thrown in jail again, after a decade of peace. Does anyone even remember the immense legal problems that Phil Zimmermann had with releasing P
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
If HN wasn't interested in politics, the threads wouldn't make it onto the first page. If you don't like the post, then downvote/flag it. If you don't like the post, but your peers do, which appears to be the case
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
The theory that dinosaurs died due to a meteor is already outdated.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
This. The Catholic Church supports both the Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory (no jokes about the TV show please). So don't blame the Catholic Church for this one. Given that South Korea is split between Catholics and Budd
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Is this "revelation" really that interesting? Everyone knows that Microsoft can't fight anyone based on price. Every salesperson in the same situation knows that the only way to fight low price is by selling based on percei
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Is it true that Google does not protect the rights of non-US users from having their emails read and copied by the NSA? If that is the case, then why would any foreigner ever use Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc?
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
It's so creepy how Zuckerberg and Page, as well as every other CEO's responses are worded exactly the same. The same goes for Apple too. It's entirely not believable that everyone's answers would sound so similar.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
So we're expected to trust someone that has been lying to us for 5 years?
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
- What indirect access does Google provide to the government? - What lawful data does Google automatically provide to the government without any requests? - Can the government can ask Google for data once, and then Google is required to con
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Do they hire H1B's? That would be a really quick clue as to whether or not they are doing work for NSA. None of my Indian friends know any H1B that works at Palantir, which is really odd, but maybe other people have different anecdot
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Sorry, but why exactly is the founder of Referly posted on HN as if they actually have credibility? I've seen a bunch of posts by them, but if they can't generate $40k in revenues... do they actually know what they are talking about? There
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
The problem of ageism is pretty well documented in engineering, especially software engineering. I'm in my 40s, and I've been programming my entire career. I'm trying to get into management so as to extend my career into my 50s and 60s. T
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Congrats, you singlehandedly killed any desire for anyone to ever want to acquire your business. Who would possibly want to buy a business where the founder is ready to abandon ship as quickly as possible?
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Or, in Reddit parlance: "Bro, do you even lift?"
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Half the time with same amount of bugs? I consider low bug-count as part of the requirement for "predictability", since a buggy product isn't considered finished. If you're talking about someone who consistently hits their deadlines with a
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Sorry but I disagree. The best engineers are the ones that can plan reliable estimates and hit their targets. They deserve to be highly paid, since they create stability and predictability in an otherwise chaotic process. You don't have
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
Of course this is helping. They aren't convicting anyone, they are tracking down leads. I'm sure the police would be engaging in this exact same exercise if they had the manpower. Luckily, there are hundreds or thousands of motivated volunt
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by kjackson2012 13y ago
In another era, maybe 5+ years ago, any API provider that had such draconian service terms such as Twitter would have been promptly dropped by most API developers. Why do people continue to develop to Twitter's API? It's obvious that Twitt
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
The only way it "works" is if people start using it to pay for goods and services. Right now it is an investment vehicle for speculation. And the crazy volatility suggests to me that most people won't feel comfortable using this as a curre
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
This entire incident has snowballed from ridiculous to insane. However, I find it interesting that Playhaven wasn't DDOS'ed for firing the guy. If they had acted rationally and didn't fire him, this wouldn't have been the unmitigated clust
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
They forgot to add that all childish jokes should not be shared amongst each other, ever.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
It doesn't just pertain to diamonds. It's the same thing with expensive clothes, bags, shoes, wines, cars, gadgets, etc. It's just a way to flaunt one's wealth. It's unfortunately a side effect of our consumption-oriented society.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
Facebook can lose 50% of its users and still have more users than basically anything else on the Internet. All they need to do is figure out how to monetize these users consistently, and they will be fine.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
Only 3 exit Tor nodes in the Bay Area? I'm surprised, I would have expected a lot more.
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
That's not how a market works. First it overshoots its "true value" because of a buying frenzy and then falls back down, rinse and repeat. I can't speak to whether right now it is still on the rise, or if has overshot its "true value" and
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
A rising price does not imply long-term viability. A stable price does. For long term viability, people can't just be buying and selling it, they should be transacting with it. It seems like the most active form of Bitcoin use that I'v
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by kjackson2012 14y ago
At the Safeway where I live, there are nuns that stand outside with a grocery list of food they ask people to donate for them. I didn't know if they were really nuns so I asked the cashier, and they confirmed it, so it made it a lot easier

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