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by lhnz 13y ago
Only somebody that believes in black-and-white separation between good and evil would insist that the good guys have to be beyond all reproach. Life isn't that simple.
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by lhnz 13y ago
You could possibly draw a connection between Ryan Dahl pleading for simplicity in that gist, and Isaac Schuetler claiming that they would not be adding extra complexity to Node.JS. By the way, your post comes off as unnecessarily rude.
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by lhnz 13y ago
There is a correlation between startup success and "founding teams" therefore investors often use the existence of a team as a proxy for a higher probability of success. Teams can have convexity or concavity effects - that is, the
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by lhnz 13y ago
I think that's the wrong level of abstraction. Everything has a cost of existence. I do not think that it is useful to discuss the "cost of acting under uncertainty" when you can discuss the "cost of existence". The
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by lhnz 13y ago
I wrote a blog article about requiring skin-in-the-game the other day. My food for thought is: Small transactional costs stop things from existing at the fetal/growth stage. Evolution destroys them long before the long-term benefits de
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by lhnz 13y ago
2013: Warning child abuse is illegal. 2015: Warning Tor/VPNs are illegal. 2020: Warning extremist left-wing sites are illegal.
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by lhnz 13y ago
It's not about money, it's about power. And I mean 'power' in the full sense of the word: the autonomy, money and status/connections to do what you want - whether that's changing the world, giving your family a
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by lhnz 13y ago
I still find it difficult to believe that the Russian government didn't have information about the US' spy programs already.
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by lhnz 13y ago
I like the comment that disagrees and then ends by saying "I am not sure what Mr. Dao is looking for except a hug." Tut tut Mr. Dao. Did you think you were going to be allowed to "lean out" just then?
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by lhnz 13y ago
How is that insulting? It's the reason that he's high on the leaderboard and the reason that he is recognised by the community. I'm just stating the truth here - he is unusually smart. Edit: It has to be pointed out that I wa
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by lhnz 13y ago
Because he is way above the intelligence of 90% of HN users and noticeably so.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Your headline needs some work: "Do I suck at this?" Reduce the negativity; other than that the resources are good.
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by lhnz 13y ago
They are prized for their simplicity. Show me simplicity which doesn't also mean a lack of options...
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by lhnz 13y ago
Solitary confinement is psychological torture. The effect is to deteriorate the mind. If people end up having panic attacks afterwards clearly it has caused them damage. Whether it's widely held by the masses to be torture is of no i
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by lhnz 13y ago
People go where for information? If you are talking about e-commerce sites and think that a higher density of information will win-out over a pretty site you need to start being more data-driven.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Why not use it just to show pretty pictures? This is nice.
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> In a letter from VALITOR´s lawyers, VALITOR relates how it sought the opinions of MasterCard International and VISA on the proposed July 1 cut-off. In its response MasterCard made clear to VALITOR that it no longer desires to block
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by lhnz 13y ago
Can they do H1Bs?
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by lhnz 13y ago
Because it's not possible to keep who you are secret from the US government indefinitely. Better to go out into the open before they have the chance to smear you as a terrorist. The media would write articles about who they thought you
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by lhnz 13y ago
Well it's quite clear they're a party in the decision-making process if they are able to call up those countries and twist their arms into refusing it, so I don't really understand what point you're making - I guess in t
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by lhnz 13y ago
Agreed. But I think underlying this is the thought that it would be good if there was an equitable justice system as opposed to an inequitable one.
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> If Snowden really felt beforehand that the civilian justice system was so completely inequitable it seems weird that he'd have been so insistent on its involvement elsewhere. The 'justice' system fulfils what power r
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by lhnz 13y ago
> I'm of the apparent internet minority (read: most Americans still don't know or care about PRISM/who this guy is) who doesn't care if the government looks at my porn history. 1. PRISM is an apparatus just waiting fo
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by lhnz 13y ago
They revoked his passport because they needed time to negotiate with other countries to refuse him the right to asylum. And this isn't about just being questioned. If he is extradited back to the US, expect a lot worse to happen to him
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by lhnz 13y ago
Fair enough, but at this point it's pretty close to exile without being a perfect example... Still: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974040 I think effectively it is a bad situation which has been created for him
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by lhnz 13y ago
Yes, he did break the law but it is absurd for you to use the word 'justice'. Justice: The quality of being fair and reasonable. He's not running away from something which is 'fair or reasonable', his human
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by lhnz 13y ago
Your argument stems from an inability to check what "exile" is... "Exile means to be away from one's home (i.e. city, state or country), while either being explicitly refused permission to return and&#x2
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by lhnz 13y ago
Yes, those two words are probably not precise enough to describe the situation. However if you read the context, what is being said is pretty much true: they are using citizenship as a weapon in order to deny him the human right to seek asy
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by lhnz 13y ago
The concept behind IFTTT is brilliant. Can you arrange H1Bs or are you only hiring inside the US?
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by lhnz 13y ago
Yes, it depends on the domain but outside a few industries (and low-level code) software isn't a life-or-death matter. Infrastructure is a different kettle of fish, while it might sometimes be a life-or-death matter, generally it'

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