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16y ago
This article highlights why I'm a fan of apple more than google. Apple is going to exert the power to control the carriers. Apple is about the only company that can, or will, exert this kind of power. I hope google changes, and starts gett
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16y ago
In an attempt to not be so vague as to be meaningless, it appeared like I was putting words into YCs mouth, which is not what I was intending. It is more simply stated that we have different priorities. As a result of my experience with VC
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16y ago
I think he's talking about making an AMI for his particular packages. This is an issue for me to. It looks like a hassle and the instructions look vague and all I want to do is just setup a VM on my machine and then run it on amazon. Turnke
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16y ago
Maybe you wouldn't call it bootstrapping, but someone whose in their mid 20s, who has been working as an engineer for startups for the past 5 years, could easily have saved $25,000-$75,000. IF you live cheaply and "bootstrap" by focusing
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16y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but I think it is kind of amazing that a "few hundred thousand in revenue" would be considered a failure. It is a shame that it might be in some circles. Say, $300,000 in revenue, and a %80 operating margin, would
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16y ago
1) History of working for startups, and in every case, the VCs seriously damaged the startup with bad advice or strings tied to the money, which has left me wary of VCs. Further, I have been to a couple events in the bay area, including a
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16y ago
Thank you for remoinding me: never argue with a leftist, they'll just lie.
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16y ago
Godwins law doesn't exist. If you bothered to know what You were talking a out you'd know Godwin never made any such law. It is an excuse for holocaust deniers to refuse to admit that the Nazi party was real and did exist and therefore the
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16y ago
Omg, do you know Nazi is short for? Nationalist socialists. It is a socialist party. Fascism differs from socialism only in the businesses being titularly in private hands, but they are completely controlled by the government in both. I
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16y ago
Of course, i forgot that leftists are always informed about everything, perfectly objectively, and if you catch them in an error, they will simply lie. Ok, you are all bigots, and you've been told to hate beck so there is no point in taking
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16y ago
So, you think tibias a bad thing for peoples purchasing power to go up, and for there to consequently be fewer people at or below the poverty line? And for those above the poverty line to have more disposable income to invest in long term
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16y ago
Yeah, I knew that was a group of arrogant douche bags who are probably incompetent before I even got to the puzzle. I didn't bother to look at the puzzle, it oddest matter how difficult it is, it's presence is just icing on the douchcake.
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16y ago
Of course because your understanding of becks general manner comes from the daily show. That's the waht's brilliant about this form of political propaganda- it makes you think your engaging in critical thinking awhile spoon feeding falseho
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16y ago
Absolutely, and I say this as one who studied many semesters in college the films of Germany, Nazi, pre-Nazi and post Nazi. Of course you won't accept it as a socialist hate campaign. Do you think that Germans are genetically predisposed to
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16y ago
These conclusions, however, are also consistent with about 70 or more years of economics investigation by members of the austrian school. In fact, is whole economic cycle, that ended in 2008 was predicted by austrians in specific in 2001 a
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16y ago
I wonder if you guys realize that to republicans, Rush Limbaugh is a comedian. He tells jokes, and when criticizing him to republicans, they will often say he is just making fun. Jon stweart is the rush limbaugh of The left. And thus as a
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16y ago
Caricature exaggerates an aspect that exists for comedic effect. Stewart fabricates lies to denigrate political opponents for comedic effect. One is honest,the othervis dishonest.
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16y ago
Here's a citation: basically everything Stewart has said about beck is a flat out lie. Of course, Stewart is a socialist and to them, beck must be a theocrat and so they portray him as such, but realitybis, he believes in freedom of relig
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16y ago
I'm an American, I used to watch the daily dhow regularly, and you are spot on. The show pretends to be giving the news, t itbis dishonest, and it essentially tells lies about others in order to mock them. If it mocked them for things they
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16y ago
It really depends on the state of your company, your product, and what you're bringing to the table vs. your employees. If you've got two non-technical founders and you're going to need an engineering team of 40 to bring your product to mar
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16y ago
It really depends on the frat. If it is a frat that is oriented around academic excellence (are there any of those?) then don't worry... just being in the frat will help you in this regard. I think the secret for this whole process is this
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One of the things I learned nearly 20 years ago is that it sucks to work in shops where the engineers are arrogant, because the more arrogant the less likely any good engineering is tolerated. These kinds of puzzles communicate arrogance to
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16y ago
I read war nerd mostly. The rest of the paper didn't interest me so much. The unique thing a out war nerd was that even though he was too much to take for me, and sometimes I believed he was wrong, he presented such a different, enlighten
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16y ago
It has always stymied me why Russia is so messed up when almost every Russian I meet seems to be great and cynical. Maybe Russia being messed up makes the Russian people great... And maybe unlike Americans Russians can conceive of corrupti
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16y ago
Eventually the criminals who believe that our only recourse is a constitutional amendment, and are counting on the difficulty of obtaining one, will be in for a rude awakening.
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16y ago
You're not saying to whom the matter is confidential. My client work abroad is certainly confidential, though the US government may not care, the client does.
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You assert that this does not apply at the border, but you miss the fact that nowhere in the constitution are these rights set up as exceptions "near borders with other states". All of the amendments that make up the bill of rights are abs
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16y ago
You're still chasing a red herring: By all accounts this guy was polite. You're using the word "politeness" to mean "absolutely subservient to the whims of authority". He WAS polite, but stood on his rights. Including the absolute right to
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16y ago
Only that you're probably less likely to pull him out of the car and beat him within an inch of his life, than most "officers" would to someone being sarcastic or joking.
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Funny how the thugs in uniform are to be treated as humans with emotions, but our victim deserves the abuse he got! We are trained in our society to be absolutely obedient to authority, and no abuses by authority, such as the lies this guy
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