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by loumf 13y ago
Ayn Rand was forced to pay for SS and Medicare (like the rest of us). Is it really anti-libertarian to take what you are forced to buy? They are subsidized, but I assume she was at the end of the income spectrum that is doing the subsidizin
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by loumf 13y ago
Also, being listed on FB's responsible disclosure page isn't worthless.
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by loumf 13y ago
I like this one: http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/sad-subjects/cgd/DM2109/technique_for_...
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by loumf 13y ago
Can you explain what this means exactly: "I'll navigate to any URL you send me while logged into the site." If I give you a URL what exactly are you going to do? Also, when logged into the site, are you logged into the account where the not
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by loumf 13y ago
In "Ghost World", it was to show how offensive it still was.
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by loumf 13y ago
They will drive salaries down by simple supply/demand (but that's not a reason to not to do it -- just like increasing the number of engineering graduates is a good idea regardless of wage effects). Totally agreed on the cap for large compa
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by loumf 13y ago
All things being equal, public policy usually prefers employer-employee relationships over 1099. Tax collection is more sure, worker's comp and unemployment get paid (and the individual is covered), etc. Probably the best way to deal with "
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by loumf 14y ago
It was adnam's recognition that made me think it was used before. Also voidnull appears to have a long standing interest in this concept, and so might have used a variant of it before. Again, just a data-point -- the idea is to sort a gia
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by loumf 14y ago
That might be so, but it's still a possibly identifying fingerprint.
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by loumf 14y ago
voidnull claimed the page was legal, but it is not legal in Germany (according to other comments here). voidnull appears to be a native English writer and uses $ when referring to monetary amounts in a few contexts.
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by loumf 14y ago
It also helps SDF to know about possible vulnerabilities. And, there's also the stated reason: to get Tor and SDF some publicity.
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by loumf 14y ago
I have no intention of trying to find out voidnull, but here are some thoughts on what we know: 1. We have a little bit of text we can be reasonably sure voidnull wrote -- some sort of text-likeness algorithm might be able to give us some c
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by loumf 14y ago
HN doesn't require an email at signup. You only need to give one if you want password recovery to work.
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by loumf 14y ago
Isn't the way to get through this is to start running a lot of Tor nodes and hope to trap voidnull? If so, don't we think that those that care about breaking Tor are doing this?
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by loumf 14y ago
voidnull is trying to prove that SDF is NOT a perfect safeguard.
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by loumf 14y ago
Be careful with how to interpret that. They know their problems, but not the solutions. Ask them about problems that they know they want solved.
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by loumf 14y ago
Rich Hickey's previous projects to clojure were all about Lisp<->JVM interop (see http://foil.sourceforge.net/ , but there is at least one other) -- so I think he found limitations to what you can do.
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by loumf 14y ago
They probably don't track the USPS service catalog to make sure all boilerplate legal text needs to be updated. The current wording still meets their criteria, and there's not really much of a reason to update it.
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by loumf 14y ago
We got out of the great depression by turning labor into bombs and destroying the results of productivity. And by hiring people to kill people. It really can't get more unproductive than that. Sure, I'm all for doing something productive -
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by loumf 14y ago
But, everyone will be able to buy that. If you want the DVD after the run, you can have that. The rewards are all things no one can buy except by backing the kickstarter.
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by loumf 14y ago
You probably don't care if you can convince tptacek, but to random people following along (who you might be able to convince), calling tptacek mindless undermines your goal.
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by loumf 14y ago
He would no longer be referring to Lean Startup. He would no longer be implying that part of the business model was being held constant.
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by loumf 14y ago
Pivot is a term of art popularized by Eric Ries and the lean startup movement. Pivots frequently keep a large part constant, thus the word makes sense.
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Announcing #twitstarter(loufranco.com)
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by loumf 14y ago
Of course, PG covered this in the Arc FAQ Why not use some other delimiter than parentheses? We tried various possibilities. Square and curly brackets lose because they are less directional than parens (left and right differ in fewer pix
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by loumf 14y ago
If someone pays you in cars, yes.
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by loumf 14y ago
It is exactly the FSF's reasoning for LGPL -- to stop a non-free alternative from becoming a standard: Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Lesser GPL in certain
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App.net is Bring Your Own Back-end (BYOBE) for mobile apps(loufranco.com)
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by loumf 14y ago
You do not have to rely on an application process when looking for a job. This isn't just advice for people who think they have a challenging story -- it goes for everyone. There are hundreds of stupid ways you get filtered out. There are e
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by loumf 14y ago
There are alternatives that amount to basically the same thing and are also disruptive, but perhaps differently. For example, they could leave the Euro, print money to bailout, let inflation rise, let their new currency devaluate, etc. It'

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