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A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman chills entrepreneurs (economist.com)
171 points by kungfooey 15y ago|70 comments
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I've been following the author's blog at http://www.spousonomics.com/ - some fluff, but in general it's pretty good.
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by kungfooey 16y ago
In NY, health insurance coverage cannot decline anyone based on pre-existing conditions. So younger, healthy applicants have to pay more since there are a lot of people in the system who are a net loss. Thus, less healthy people are covered
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I moved out of NYC to a more affordable state for this very reason. In 2009 my health care costs and rent were nearly all of my take-home pay. I had a kid on the way and it was going to be even worse, so I moved. Now my healthcare costs, wh
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Schneier: (Android) Trojan Steals Credit Card Numbers(schneier.com)
3 points by kungfooey 16y ago|2 comments
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I never could get the "restricted driver" to work for me (I have on past laptops, but not this one). It's possible that this has changed with more recent restricted driver releases.
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I am a web dev that has been using Ubuntu as my desktop host OS since version 6.06, and I'll be the first to admit that, while 10.10 is a significant improvement, there are still some problems that probably keep it from being mainstream.
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Build a new year clock with an SQL query? Sure, why not(explainextended.com)
69 points by kungfooey 16y ago|8 comments
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I'm on T-mobile. It's quite stable. It's crashed about as much as the Samsung stock ROM. You can back up your data (most of it, anyway) with Titanium Backup (available in the app store, both free and pro). If your contacts are tied to your
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by kungfooey 16y ago
It took me a while to suck it up and flash a ROM on my Vibrant, but I'm happily running Nero v3 ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883379 ) now and I keep kicking myself for not doing it sooner. The difference in 2.1 to 2.2
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by kungfooey 16y ago
Is this for real? Is there any science to support the anecdotal experience of "the hot girl effect"?
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by kungfooey 16y ago
Like a few other posters here, I got my start in QBASIC (kids want instant visual feedback, and QBASIC certainly did that). Parents bought a computer, then forbid us to play anything resembling a game. So I wrote my own (and also discovered
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I don't own a MBA, but I have owned a lot of Dell laptop's over the past decade (including some of their higher-end XPS laptops). I don't know how good the MBA build-quality is, but if it's even slightly better-than-average, then this Dell
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by kungfooey 16y ago
This would be interesting/useful for smoothing geospatial polygons (eg, KML).
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I think it's appropriate to mention that the New York Times just ran an article covering some lawsuits related to tracking users: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21cookie.html?p... I think the take-away here is that if you're
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Ask HN: Advice for a US consultant wishing to live abroad for 1-2 years?
6 points by kungfooey 16y ago|8 comments
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by kungfooey 16y ago
One could argue that this has already happened to some extent (where the domain model is commonly known and well explored: blogs, ecommerce) via packaged solutions and web frameworks.
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by kungfooey 16y ago
There is no "unbiased news." Period. If what you want to do is get information without an overt bias, then yes, NPR is fairly good. Others have recommended The Economist, I second that. I would recommend getting your news from a variety of
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by kungfooey 16y ago
Geeze, your setup looks unusually similar to mine (that looks like an ASUS). (I have an ASUS laptop w/ a 21" monitor and an old Macbook for iPhone dev.)
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by kungfooey 16y ago
"Now we can build your spinning red logo in CSS!"
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by kungfooey 16y ago
Being the original submitter, I'm just glad to see it got the attention it deserves. :)
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect: What It Is & What It Isn't(talyarkoni.org)
18 points by kungfooey 16y ago|0 comments
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by kungfooey 16y ago
The title is somewhat misleading. It's not really a new tax, just a different interpretation/application of an existing tax. I do love how these bills always come under such monikers as the "Main Street Fairness Act." Lack of regulation is
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by kungfooey 16y ago
What sets this apart from Elance, oDesk, Rent-a-coder, et al?
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I've never heard it said that we read merely to increase our vocabulary. That may be a happy side effect, but it's certainly not a fundamental justification. I think most people read 1) to educate themselves and 2) for pleasure. On learning
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by kungfooey 16y ago
"Apart from foreign corporations, which are agnostic to which regime controls the country, nobody has a stake in the Congo." Corporations are going to prefer regimes that enforce the rule of law. The Congo's primary problem (from a business
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by kungfooey 16y ago
As I posted in the comments, I'm not the author. This guy is: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rbitar :)
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by kungfooey 16y ago
Note: I'm not the author. Just noticed some traffic coming via this to my personal site ( http://dailytechnology.net ) and originally intended to post it to see any comments associated. The original spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets
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HN Hackers (via google spreadsheet of consultants)(hnhackers.com)
97 points by kungfooey 16y ago|45 comments
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by kungfooey 16y ago
I'm glad it finally hit the front page. It deserves some attention.

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