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by larrys 11y ago
This mirrors somewhat my experience many years ago with bartering. The places that were bartering were doing so because it was some low hanging fruit way to increase business and it was easy to to. And they were places that weren't par
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by larrys 11y ago
For http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ your thoughts on why that is better than using rsync ? Edit: I am now noticing this tool isn't even maintained anymore.
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by larrys 11y ago
I use rsync. Question for you (or any expert here). Is there any possible way that rsync can alter the source file (unintentionally I mean, by accident or bug)? And what happens to an rsync file that is modified while in the middle of a tra
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by larrys 11y ago
Thanks for that. But for some reason both that and the save comments seems incomplete. Hard to believe those are all of the stories I upvoted I upvote everything I read typically and upvote (from memory) more comments then "saved comme
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by larrys 11y ago
Feature request: Along those lines, I was trying to find an article (using algolia) which discussed different names for AWS service names confusion and it was useless for that purpose (given search terms I tried). Since I always clear my b
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by larrys 11y ago
While shocking people have to keep in mind that pricing relates to more than cost but more importantly value. The fact that a particular product or service was priced a certain way for years is not as relevant as it might seem on the surfac
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10 Annoying Things About India and Indians (2011)(fullstopindia.com)
2 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Maybe those with non-conforming views simply decide to keep their mouths shut for fear of some kind of retribution which could be either written or downvotes by the majority that are reading a particular story or comment thread.
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Amazon founder Bezos unveils rocket plant, launch pad in Florida(reuters.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
I think that (rejected from KFC) is a variation of the "humble brag". A way of attempting to relate to people that are not billionaires as if to say "hey keep plugging away you could be me one day!". The fact is we don&#
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by larrys 11y ago
"They are nothing for entrepeneurs. (sic)" Well the exception to that is that having an elite university degree can definitely help getting taken more seriously when fund raising, hiring employees, and gaining customers (as I have
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by larrys 11y ago
It's kind of funny how people who have made it as big as Jack Ma are still obsessed enough with Harvard to mention almost as a badge of honor that they were rejected from Harvard. As if to say "see Harvard was obviously wrong here
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How the Rich Steal Parking Spots from You(philly.com)
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by larrys 11y ago
Lawsuit for what? Hire an attorney to go after the miles and pay them and hope that he wins? Do you think a major corporation (who must handle simultaneously hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits over everything and anything) really cares?
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by larrys 11y ago
Often, "to complicated" simply means "no time and no patience to RTFM".
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by larrys 11y ago
In the early 80's when I graduated Wharton, Stanford wasn't even on the radar at all at least from my recollection. Stanford picked up steam post Internet because of it's relation and proximity to Silicon Valley. If that wasn
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by larrys 11y ago
Not sure I agree with the "warm analog sound of tape". I do agree vinyl has a nice sound. As someone who grew up with high end cassette decks (denon iirc and Ohm speakers) (with dolby which always muted the highs for me) there is
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by larrys 11y ago
"We mourn people we feel a connection with, because of the pain we feel at losing the connection." Large groups also mourn because (for lack of a better way to put it) a crowd effect. There are people who are impacted for sure but
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by larrys 11y ago
"Steve Jobs never raised a hand against his wife. But, he did treat subordinates very callously." Part of it might be simply that people don't recognize mental pain as being as bad as physical pain. [1] The truth is mental pa
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by larrys 11y ago
"if you are required to return the cartridge" I'd love to see the exact legal language that even specifies that condition "required to return". After all we can assume that most people don't do that or actually
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by larrys 11y ago
"Not sure if trying to "trap" the liar is always the right way to go." Agree almost never the right thing to do. Trapping people makes them dig in their heels typically as opposed to giving them a graceful way to give yo
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by larrys 11y ago
There is plenty of merchandise that people buy that they don't need and can do without. Many of the products in the article are just technology variations and extensions of the type of products that sold for years in Sharper Image, Bro
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by larrys 11y ago
It's good add copy and ranks high on the link-bait scale. They say after all: "and then unit and load tested it, all without using any servers." ...with a title of "Microservices without the Servers" when what they
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by larrys 11y ago
It would be more accurate to compare someone with an advantage such as Trump had, to people who had the same or similar advantage but never were able to achieve as much "fame and fortune". By the way he could have also gambled awa
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by larrys 11y ago
Perhaps greed is the wrong word here. (By the way I am definitely not the morality police that is for sure..I have no problem with people making money practically any way they can) I think your good judgement was clouded by what you though
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by larrys 11y ago
"Squatting on domains and making people who want to legitimately use the domains " Everytime someone trots out that squatter argument they assume that if the person who owned it that wants to sell it "for ill gotten gains&quo
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by larrys 11y ago
Your point about paypal is of course correct. Importantly though in this case the buyer knew the price was to good to be true and his greed got the best of him. Plus the thing to keep in mind is the level to which a company like paypal can
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by larrys 11y ago
Just so you know the filter that people who own and trade domains is actually much better than even what the OP (and you) are describing. It's actually more like "a 3 letter .com being sold for $5,000" where the 3 letters are
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by larrys 11y ago
You of course are right. Tail between legs is embarrassing but in the end you won't go hungry or homeless. Problem is in popular culture there are also stories about the 1 out of 1000 guys (just like you) that essentially gambled and c
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by larrys 11y ago
"PG has a huge incentive to wax heroic about the "risk takers" "makers" and "founders"" To be sure (in the spirt of NY Times "to be sure" statements) [1] PG (who went to Harvard of course as

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