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by mamurphy 10y ago
I presume that they learn how to bike. If you meant to ask "What about people that physically can't ever bike (but can drive)?" What percentage of the population, honestly, do you think that is? Out of shape people can lose w
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by mamurphy 10y ago
While we talk about free and open source reimplementations - is there anything similar to Sim Tower? I quite enjoyed that game, and haven't seen anything like it since.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
And with this, the world edges ever so slightly closer towards the dystopia pictured in Continuum where corporate oligarchs control government and the world. It's on Netflix if you are interested. See also: https://en.wikipe
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by mamurphy 10y ago
This is really rough for timed tasks that take more than 25 minutes, like meetings. Is the solution to get everyone on-board (like the meeting organizers in my example)? I've tried this and liked it, but had a hard time sticking with i
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by mamurphy 10y ago
The author's conclusion that calling the Fire phones a failure and the Alexas a success is "just pos-hoc narrative" is a bit tautological. If you are evaluating the performance of something in the past and labelling it as a s
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by mamurphy 10y ago
I liked this article. A parallel three questions are ("What do I want?" "How am I acting right now?" "How do I need to act to get what I want?"). A little bit of mindfulness can go a long way.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
It would have been cool to read an article or view screenshots comparing the old and new dashboards. As a non-stripe user, I am not going to create an account to view a dashboard (that is apparently new).
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by mamurphy 10y ago
50 was an awful lot of ways for this reader to digest. I would have preferred 10. The list is hit or miss. #1 - Backing up data - is a great policy. But does it really prevent getting hacked? Rather, it mitigates the impact.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
It's good to note that this would be a worry, and the name Oldster is troubling, as it's common definition is "an old person." However, aside from that, they do seem to toe the line with phrases like "veteran,"
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by mamurphy 10y ago
Interesting idea. Let me talk about something very tangential, if I may: a minor branding query. Why go with "A Qureshi Media startup. Contact us at contact@qureshimedia.com" in the site footer? It made me wonder "hmm, why ha
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by mamurphy 10y ago
What's the source for this data? Is "West Street" the name of a gang? If so, it appears that there are many micro-territory gangs that named themselves after streets. If not, what are all these areas that are named after stre
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by mamurphy 10y ago
Employees are not taxis! /s
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by mamurphy 10y ago
>regulations are obviously costly, benefits are obviously great. the important hard question is the net. Well of course, but the comment I responded to questioned the assertion that there is a large, economy-wide cost. Is the benefit of
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by mamurphy 10y ago
Why did you feel the need to reply with this sentence? How does it advance our conversation whatsoever? You replied saying >Having a cost and having a "large, economy-wide negative impact" are very different things. Is a large
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by mamurphy 10y ago
"Regulations are very costly (in a large, economy-wide way)," to me, sounded like an almost-self-evident, incredibly easy to back up claim. 15 seconds with Google confirmed that initial assessment. http://digitalcommons
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by mamurphy 10y ago
I had been aware of the hanging chads in the Bush-Gore election, but I had not seen the butterfly ballot design itself. In such a close race, many voters likely voted for Buchanan when intending to vote for Gore... crazy.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
I definitely wouldn't say "HHHHHHHHH," since I tossed it 10 times, not 9. Saying "10 tosses, all heads" reduces the chance of omitting a toss in data entry, which is all to the better.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
As a note, I think many banks have now removed security images. My bank used to have them, and now they don't.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
>It seems to me like this is best left up to individual building associations and landlords. That is to say "I think that this issue shouldn't be regulated" or "I disagree with this law." And it's fine to th
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by mamurphy 10y ago
>As you acknowledge, there are things in between renting out an apartment full-time, and renting out a spare bedroom. E.g. renting your apartment for a weekend when you travel. Sure, but how does a lawmaker regulate and enforce "it&
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by mamurphy 10y ago
The legislation allows you to rent a spare room in your house. What it disallows is having an apartment you rent out in full on AirBnB, either doing that exclusively as an income source or yourself staying elsewhere whenever you are renting
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by mamurphy 10y ago
As noted elsewhere on HN today, I can't access the article, even by clicking on the 'web link'. NYT seems to have upped the ante - it's not even free-to-try anymore. I have no means of reading the article, and I don&#x27
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by mamurphy 10y ago
The bed-in-the back configuration he set up is pretty nifty. I wish more cars had back seats that would fold forward to allow that (or for carrying heavy loads).
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by mamurphy 10y ago
I didn't learn anything of note from the article after the three summary bullet point paragraphs (Users are mostly price insensitive, User acquisition costs are high, Good tech support costs a lot of money). I would tend to think that
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by mamurphy 10y ago
I think the article is a nice summary of why Microsoft lost, but it doesn't fulfill the promise of its title. "Should have won" implies that there were steps Microsoft should have taken to overcome the difficulties it faced.
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by mamurphy 10y ago
I didn't expect this article to be so long or to have such great examples. The idea that GMO providers should try to convince 100% of the population, not just the majority, was particularly insightful and unexpected. It makes sense, th
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by mamurphy 10y ago
This is an unfortunate name choice. It's very, very awkward to share with word of mouth. "Check out [hap * E] belly.com, friend." Friend goes to "happybelly.com." Friend is confused. Webmaster of happybelly.com is h
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by mamurphy 10y ago
Why would this ever be preferable to the built-in "find my phone" functionality on Android (and I assume something similar is available on iOS and other major competitors)?
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by mamurphy 10y ago
>I strongly believe that every person can make a living doing something they love. And often enough, it’s more of a mindset to become happy with your work. Often it’s not the work that sucks, but how we see it. >I remember, many years
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by mamurphy 10y ago
A good article on this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html Joel goes into depth on these 12 points: "Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do

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