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by lzw 16y ago
I don't understand this perspective... I was confused at first, but I read about the first third of the couchDB book and then got it, and now I am excited that a "distributed map reduce system in erlang" (or javascript) is a much better sol
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by lzw 16y ago
Note something about collections: Collections agencies are not a party to a debt and thus they have NO LEAGAL RIGHTS, and further they do NOT have the right to "destroy" your credit, or even to affect your credit. You owe money to the orig
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by lzw 16y ago
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt. On the surface this may seem like a regular (though non-dry and very engaging while not being too long) economics book...but the lessons and perspective it gave me have made me more money than any
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by lzw 16y ago
You're trashing one of your cofounders in public? Even if all you say is true, it reflects on you a fair bit...
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by lzw 16y ago
Normally, stocks are the way to go, but we are not in normal times. The best place for you to put your money that fits your requirements is bullion. Gold, silver or platinum, or a spread of all three. Right now, were in a high inflation en
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by lzw 16y ago
What made the original Wall Street movie a classic is that, despite Oliver Stone's liberalism, he created a character in Gorden Gekko who was a genuine advocate of capitalism, even if he personally represented the less attractive side of ca
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by lzw 16y ago
Oh, I've done that, but there isn't much draw to the site anyway, and the fact that i finally joined when I was convinced that Facebook respected privacy, only to find out that they are constantly making things public by default. To be hone
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by lzw 16y ago
Plus, if you think about it, everybody is colluding all the time. All the founders who come help yc companies out are colluding with them to beat the competition, and yc is a big old festival of colluding. Colluding isn't really a crime.
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by lzw 16y ago
I've been shocked to discover that the cool, nice, smart people I knew in high school and college turned into bitter, closed minded, bigots in the intervening decades.... Logging into Facebook means seeing stream of inanity and reports abou
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by lzw 16y ago
Pairt programming for more than 20 minutes at a time. The best pair programming experience i've had was when it was occasional and my boss or another engineer would come over or I would go to them and we'd work on a bit of code together wh
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by lzw 16y ago
I'm not sure I believe this, really. Certainly Facebook has made zuckerberg rich, but until there is a liquidity event it is hard to say what Facebook is really worth.
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by lzw 16y ago
Oracle is marketing and support organization, notba software company. I wouldn't want to work for them, and don't like their products, but I respect that they deliver real value to their customers. It seems kinda odd to me that gosling isn
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by lzw 16y ago
I had a similar experience, only I was able to get early word that layoffs were coming and so I "volunteered" to "take the bullet" so that someone else could avoid being laid off. I'd been wanting to leave anyway, but had golden handcuffs
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by lzw 16y ago
And a huge dose of entitlement.
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by lzw 16y ago
I'm at a complete loss as to why presumably intelligent people pay attention to technophobes like miek Arrington. It was obvious to me many years ago that lacked integrity. McClure and Paul Graham, for instance, are people who I disagree w
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by lzw 16y ago
OF course, as the product of a government school, you believe what you were taught, and you think as you were taught to think, and therefore, simply pointing out obvious history is, to your unthinking mind "absurd". You trot out nonsense l
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by lzw 16y ago
I'm thankful he took the time to learn english and wrote this post in english, because lord knows I have not bothered to learn HIS language, and would not be able to read it if he hadn't. So, a few turns of phrase, or whatever, who cares?
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by lzw 16y ago
This sounds nice, but as a potential user of JavaScript frameworks, it is feeling like there are just way too many of them and they are undifferentiated enough that culling a set to evaluate is so difficult that i've just out it off for the
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by lzw 16y ago
There is a tendency in society to trumpet up ideas based on early evidence, especially when the conclusions sound logical, even if they aren't scientifically valid. For instance, another example isvsecond hand smoke. Much of the smoking p
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by lzw 16y ago
I like duckduckgo, but I find it's results harder to read thwn google.... With google it is clearer to me what is a result, and the results are more differentiated.... With ddg it takes more effort to parse the results page.
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by lzw 16y ago
This is an area of deliberate misinformation that trips people up. "Inflation" is growth in the money supply. This is why you hear people say things like "washington is cranking up the printing presses" when they talk about inflation. Whe
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by lzw 16y ago
Your unsubstantiated attacks against me are not appreciated. Others have provided links showing the states spending going up by %50, over a period where the GDP didn't go up by %50, the population didn't go up by %50. I saw no reason to p
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by lzw 16y ago
I think you misunderstand those who argue against increases in taxes. The argument is not "principles" but practicality of it. It is never %4 on %2. For instance the "bush tax cuts" would have cut the taxes of the poorest brackets in hal
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by lzw 16y ago
The error that no big-government types ever seem willing to address is that the money they take out of the economy, they take out right at the point where it would do the most good for people. Where it would be going to expand businesses a
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by lzw 16y ago
However you want to characterize it, the thing that those who want to raise taxes need to understand is that there is a global economy, and if you punish success, you'll get less of it. Washington benefited from this arrangement and the tow
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by lzw 16y ago
You've got cause and effect reversed. The economy is strong because people are successful, and they are successful because previously there hasn't been a heavy burden of taxation. This does not justify increasing the burden of taxation.
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by lzw 16y ago
This is a state that paid something close to $2B for new fancy stadiums that weren't needed, and has never met a glamor or status project that it didn't want to do. It is constantly spending money on status symbols whose real purpose is no
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by lzw 16y ago
Its facing a significant budget problem because the state is irresponsible in its spending. so you want to punish the victims of this irresponsibility, and give even more money to the people who have been irresponsible. Calling it "Regress
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by lzw 16y ago
Which is why it has a thriving startup scene. "progressive taxation" is nothing more than the idea that people should be punished for benefiting society. If everyone paid the same percentage taxes, then the rich would pay more than the poo
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by lzw 16y ago
I love it that you claimed I had an "extremely loose understanding" which, we must presume you know because you're psychic, right? And then you go on to quote numbers showing that spending went up %50. Of course, you must attack me pers

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