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by kolpa 8y ago
Is it perhaps because scammers have impersonated your doctor's phone number?
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by kolpa 8y ago
You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. The State of California has passed a law declaring its opposition to "winner take all". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vot
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by kolpa 8y ago
Who is saying "women having it all" and not "men having it all" ?
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by kolpa 8y ago
You want everyone to stop making computers, because some people overuse them?
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by kolpa 8y ago
What did we know in 1990?
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by kolpa 8y ago
> at a special price no less! the price is $0. How do you feel about HN's implementation of the same feature (noprocrast)? https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomc1985
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by kolpa 8y ago
OK, but that's an awful way to run a business, turning a way polite customers just because they don't vocalize for you.
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by kolpa 8y ago
That article is almost certainly wrong, or at least misleading. The question at hand was whether this statement was a direct request for a counsel, or just chatter. "This is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do
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by kolpa 8y ago
Right, but the honor-killing was triggered by a miscommunication due to the phone's poor ability to transmit language.
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by kolpa 8y ago
I'm curious where you live. In my area, a "nanny" is exclusively or childcare (and well paid, including Social Security and Unemployment premiums), with no meal prep or laundry. We "cleaned the house for the nanny"
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by kolpa 8y ago
Surely you could solve this problem quite simply by having both participants and the experimenter join a group chat using COTS software+accounts (Skype, Hangouts, Whatsapp...) pre-installed on the machines?
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by kolpa 8y ago
Microsoft could return to charging for Windows (via OEM installs and fleet licenses); or just leave it free as the "best way to experience Live/365/Azure".
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by kolpa 8y ago
But who is the "we" in this regard?
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's not proven that " constitutional democracy" is the ideal. The "foundation of modern government" says that a Black person as no rights, but counts as 3/5ths of a person for their master's voting rights
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by kolpa 8y ago
Please explain the difference between “don’t be evil” and “Do the right thing”.
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by kolpa 8y ago
It's a negotiable fuzzy boundary. How would feel if your friends made private copies of posts you shared with them? ("Took a photo of your yard sign"). How would you feel if Facebook provided them a tool to help with that? H
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by kolpa 8y ago
Of course you can blame someone for doing something they freely choose to do; that's what blame is. They are under no obligation to enforce the copyright and refuse a liberal license. Anyway, archiving is exempted from copyright. http
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by kolpa 8y ago
We didn't entrap ourselves. Disney bribed our government officials.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Trademarks are not protected from being used in works of art, only from use in branding.
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by kolpa 8y ago
> I do worry about pricing myself out of the job market How is that possible? Either because you have enough money to retire, and you don't want to work, or you would rather work for 0 even though you want money ?
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by kolpa 8y ago
> Problem is that a 40yo dev needs 2x the pay of a 20yo but doesn't bring 2x the value. That's just not true. A 40yo could be paid more or less than a 20yo, and could bring 0.1x to 10x the value.
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by kolpa 8y ago
English has non-homophobic homonyms too. We just carry on regardless.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Lying for financial benefit and to impress investors is covered in this article: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html which harkens back to when AirBnB spammed Craiglist users (violating Craigslist ToS and users' st
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by kolpa 8y ago
Dishonesty "when it doesn't matter, in the eye of the investor" is a YC requirement: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html """ Though the most successful founders are usually good people, the
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by kolpa 8y ago
How can you say that "nobody was under the illusion"? Surely millions of people were -- the newspapers didn't disclose that the name was a pseudonym, and plenty of other advice columnists aren't pseudonyms.
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by kolpa 8y ago
ASCII with the English charset is easier than charset juggling and Unicode? Less subconscious negative feeling from Latin-alphabet-users? It's a linguistic version of website moving to "flat" UI design.
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by kolpa 8y ago
Different companies offer different levels/pay to the same candidates on different days. Don't look for too much in a small ample.
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by kolpa 8y ago
See also 70MillionJobs, a YC company for connecting jobs with employees that have criminal records. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101452
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by kolpa 8y ago
NIMBY is the state of nature. Biased rent-control disincentivizes YIMBY
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by kolpa 8y ago
CA is the most desirable geography in the USA. The homelessness problem isn't because CA is trendy. CA has been the destination for the USA's disenfranchised and opportunity-seekers for decades because it's the best place to

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