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by logn 12y ago
Did you ever consider hosting your own job ads site? This is how Slashdot is still alive and maybe why Stack Overflow was made. At $300 per ad, you'd need about 800 ads a month to reach $3 mil/year. Achievable?
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by logn 12y ago
They're selling API access and the data: https://opencorporates.com/products
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by logn 12y ago
If you go with PayPal I'd recommend only using their free services (e.g., the "subscribe button") or going with BrainTree ( https://www.braintreepayments.com ) which is also free and a nicer way to integrate PayPal
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by logn 12y ago
I disagree with the premise of this argument. First, regarding sources: all I was pointing out is that there are multiple ways to frame the statistics, and that the framing is predictable based on the political bias of the source. Second, l
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by logn 12y ago
ASCAP tracks radio plays and online streams. It's the federally designated company to handle royalty payments to musicians/performers. I don't think the government controls music. If journalists' royalties were based on
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by logn 12y ago
The grammar mistake in the author's sentence does not matter as much as the "grammar matters" example. And there's a difference between errors and ignorance. If you type fast it's easy to not fully think through all
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by logn 12y ago
I wouldn't expect a conservative think tank to frame the issue any other way. He's an alternate take: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/chart-shows-corp-ta... Payroll taxes now make up 35 pe
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by logn 12y ago
Many tech companies pay 0% in taxes. Some pay a negative tax rate. The wealthy pay about 10-20% effective taxes. The tax burden has been shifted to the middle class. And this isn't considering inflation, which taxes everyone except tho
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by logn 12y ago
Engineers are subject to the same problems of labor scarcity (or lack thereof) as the people whose jobs are automated. Engineers are also automating their own jobs. If they could sell their talents for more than peanuts, they would; many tr
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by logn 12y ago
According to this study, the public did not support torture: http://academic.reed.edu/poli_sci/faculty/rejali/articles/us... Also, I don't think election votes can ever count as approval; Congress h
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by logn 12y ago
It will never happen because the prosecution would logically include Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and some legislators. I don't see a Republican administration prosecuting them because of loyalty, and I don't see a Democratic one
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by logn 12y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, as I've never done anything frighteningly ambitious. One point of advice from the PG article is " Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. &qu
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by logn 12y ago
I'd imagine they're using (at least indirectly) https://publicsuffix.org/list/effective_tld_names.dat Amendment procedure: https://publicsuffix.org/submit/
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by logn 12y ago
I can't imagine that declining revenues would hurt Chrome. There are lots of other ways for Google to cut costs before limiting their investment in the browser. And Mozilla has always been happy to ride the coat tails of Google Search.
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by logn 12y ago
I have three phone numbers. And I avoid services that request phone numbers.
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by logn 12y ago
Not really specific to coders or like your examples, but see http://www.nsbe.org/Home.aspx
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by logn 12y ago
It often takes an expert to know whether a job is simple or not. And it often takes that expert some investigation to find out. DIY is fine, but specialization of labor is fine too. Also, web scraping is a great example of something that ca
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by logn 12y ago
I don't think libre or open source is broken. I think some projects are broken. I think other projects are those people simply don't like, don't want to fund, and have to use because there are no other options. With some crea
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by logn 12y ago
More like sell scuba training to passengers on the way down then use that money to pay for repairs.
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by logn 12y ago
And the special interest lobbying of tax preparers to not let the IRS fill out our taxes. The IRS could prepare a fairly reasonable tax return, and let people modify it for their deductions or unreported income. But for most people, all the
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by logn 12y ago
I'm waiting for a product I can flip on like this to enable P2P 4G/5G mesh networks.
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by logn 12y ago
I saw this on a TaskRabbit thread too. Edit: and they do concern themselves with shaping opinion via social media. I imagine they very much enjoy mining ride sharing data. But yeah maybe they don't care about HN comments. Relevant link
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by logn 12y ago
I've been noticing that comments advocating P2P replacements of sharing economy apps all get downvotes, and no comments explaining why. I'll assume these downvoters are NSA puppets for now.
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by logn 12y ago
Maybe this post got their attention? (edit: doubtful as it was posted 4 minutes ago) We're Sorry Whimseybox is no longer taking new subscriptions, gifts, or shop orders at this time. https://whimseybox.com/subscriptio
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by logn 12y ago
PHP is fine but it has problems: http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ I'd say the same thing about C++. And I think newbies should be warned about both of these languages.
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by logn 12y ago
Also the monthly "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681039 For quality developers on freelancing sites, I recommend finding people who submit bids of at least $40/hr. And
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by logn 12y ago
Or Redshift on Linux.
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by logn 12y ago
> Are there other employment opportunities for the staff in D.C.? It seems like this would be a good opportunity for First Look Media to bolster their reputation/morale after the very public squabble with Matt Taibbi. First Look pro
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by logn 12y ago
Journalism is the most depressing career lately. I think taxes should be raised (on the wealthy) and that artists, journalists, performers, etc. should have easy access to government-funded royalties. And I think this would be a good way to
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by logn 12y ago
We have amendments for these though. It will be tiresome to have to continually revisit amendments to basically say "they mean what they say". How about this Amendment instead: Any attorney general should be able to sue for impeac

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