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by larrys 12y ago
"Ethics - Are people really altruistic if they gain pleasure" To me this is a matter of degree and not absolute. So it's not "if gain pleasure (or benefit) then not altruistic" and black and white but rather that so
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by larrys 12y ago
Good points but I think the entire post is just link or karma porn anyway. While I agree that forks like this post sometimes make interesting discussions (and here I am discussing it) I'm not sure what the exact authority is of the OP
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by larrys 12y ago
"So, point one is that this is not a battle of equals: it's a big-ish corporation being picked on by a Goliath more than ten times its size, in an attempt to extort better terms." This is really a stupid way to put it. The 1&
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by larrys 12y ago
"I don't know why you were downvoted." Probably because a) it seemed like a joke statement b) didn't go into any detail on how git would solve this particular problem.
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by larrys 12y ago
"Especially considering that these opinions are used in colleges teaching law and are referenced in textbooks." Somewhat similar to what happens in medicine though or other disciplines. You learn something in school which isn&#x27
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by larrys 12y ago
Some people seem to feel that there is something wrong with marketing that makes you want a product or service. As many people with an expensive luxury brand can tell you (whether it's a handbag or a car) nice things are often nice way
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by larrys 12y ago
I think the reason you are getting downvoted (I upvoted) is because you are making statements like this: "buying is almost always better" "This nyt analysis isnt correct" I think the point of what you are saying simply i
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by larrys 12y ago
I guess in the end I just like to do what I want to do and not have to ask for permission or get approval. I purchased our offices and wanted to install a door and just did it. I want to put in an alarm system I know it potentially adds to
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by larrys 12y ago
As another example I always buy a car for cash and never lease. I want to be able to wake up any morning and get a new car exactly when I want. And I don't want to have to obsess over miles on the car or at least have it quantified &q
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by larrys 12y ago
"You buy a house tomorrow for $200k and want to sell it in 18 months because of a job opportunity or family emergency?" Well it goes without saying (and this is always true for anything you read on the web, right?) that the specif
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1 out of 8 Techmeme.com stories are from Tech Crunch(techmeme.com)
3 points by larrys 12y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"If you rent, you can leave whenever the heck you want and then go live wherever the heck you want. " You can do that when you own as well. You have to sell your house. After all you can't just get out of a lease whenever you
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Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145 million records(reuters.com)
94 points by larrys 12y ago|97 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"As recently as last night, we had high hopes that a meaningful reform effort would move forward this week." What appears to have possibly happened here, by virtue of the fact that they appeared to have such high hopes, is that
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by larrys 12y ago
Perhaps someone who knows more about this than I do could explain why in this article it says that static electricity is not a form of energy. But I know I've see cases where you can get static electricity to light a bulb for a brief t
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NYPD considering using drones to fight crime(nydailynews.com)
2 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
Can't do that. These are corporations with vast paper trails. The concept of "Tortious interference" [1] comes to mind but I'm certain there are other legal theories that could be employed by Comcast. [1] http:/&#
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by larrys 12y ago
Good points but avoids the reason why pilots actually start at such a low salary. It's not just the senior pilots. Essentially it is supply and demand. The supply of people that want to fly an airplane [1] exceeds the demand for pilot
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by larrys 12y ago
"What about the captain? Out at sea a ship can basically go on a kind of autopilot today." There is for sure a certain feel to boating. Although I have never obviously operated a boat of this size I have owned smaller boats and de
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by larrys 12y ago
"SoundCloud is already moving into a direction that I don't particularly like" What direction is that that you are referring to?
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by larrys 12y ago
That's just parroting of what newbies see others doing. Back in the 90's I remember when people first started including dogs. Totally unheard of in business until that time. As far as why (other than what I've stated) it&#x27
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by larrys 12y ago
"And, I mean, the great-looking ones, like the really high-caliber studs — they flirt right back, no problem. Because they know their status will never be questioned. But guys like you never flirt with me. Because you get scared that m
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How Quickly I reply to offers(domaininvesting.com)
1 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
But the OP said specifically: "What meetups/cafes/events can I go to to network" The goal appears therefore to be to network. Not to do interesting sight seeing things. Nor to meet "interesting people" unless t
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by larrys 12y ago
"Quality joinery is not done with screws." I wasn't doing quality joinery. It was part of a school project for children. "If you think you saved time taking the bit out, putting it down somewhere safe/accessible, sw
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by larrys 12y ago
I'm a fair bit older than you are and remember thinking when the internet came about that I had lost a big advantage over other people since I was someone that was always really good at self teaching and figuring out how to do things g
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by larrys 12y ago
Yeah but I can see how for people it is really difficult to not fall into the trap of just taking the easier route and not spending the time to do it the hard-er way. But this really all boils down to a version of the "teach a man to f
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by larrys 12y ago
I think what is lost today, with the ability on youtube to see how to do everything, is a common sense and old school approach of the way things used to be done. That is, by thinking about it and trying to figure it out without knowing exac
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by larrys 12y ago
"I don't think yCombinator failed to see the market potential, in my view they are actively looking for potential " Much of life as we know does have a luck factor involved. Who is to say if they had spent the money (could af
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by larrys 12y ago
"By using a middleman, he know that he won't get scammed: either he get the domain, or the money back." That is actually the point of using an escrow service such as escrow.com for domain transactions. Escrow.com in essence m

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