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by mattm 13y ago
Or when you call don't press anything. The system may assume you have an old rotary phone that can't make the correct tones and automatically forward you to a person. You can also try http://gethuman.com/
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by mattm 13y ago
No, it's because the FCC eliminated the Fairness Doctrine [1] which lead to the rise of biased "news" channels in order to gain viewers. The Harper government in Canada recently eliminated Canada's version of this and I
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by mattm 13y ago
I've faced these kind of issues in the past and am currently developing a course for programmers that can help with this. It will be launched this week. If you are interested, please email me and I'll notify you when it's a
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by mattm 13y ago
If you read this book - http://www.amazon.ca/When-Body-Says-No-Hidden/dp/0676973124 - you may re-think that.
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by mattm 13y ago
Most likely due to stress
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by mattm 13y ago
It's also better to have them being given some income instead of having to steal for it which generally costs way more than if the money was just given to them directly in the first place.
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1st HN Nagoya, Japan Meetup - Today 2pm
4 points by mattm 13y ago|0 comments
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First HN Meetup in Nagoya, Japan - Sat June 22(hnnagoya.doorkeeper.jp)
4 points by mattm 13y ago|1 comments
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When Patents Attack... Part Two(thisamericanlife.org)
3 points by mattm 13y ago|1 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
Unfortunately, I've noticed this is quite common on HN. The top comment is quite often some long discussion about some minor point of the article. I really wish HN would implement collapsed comments so I could choose to expand the discuss
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Quebec Cracks Down on Airbnb(theglobeandmail.com)
56 points by mattm 13y ago|51 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
Sorry for my naivete but what the range for founder-level equity?
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The Caring Capitalist(youtube.com)
1 points by mattm 13y ago|0 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
Why did you answer both "Yes" and "No" to your own question?
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by mattm 13y ago
The article is titled "An Insider's Educational Experience" so it is mostly based on one student's experiences. Living here in Japan now, I sometimes wonder how my life and beliefs would be different had I grown up and gone through the educ
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Japan: An Insider's Educational Experience(ranmagazine.co)
32 points by mattm 13y ago|9 comments
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by mattm 13y ago
Is there a need for it?
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by mattm 14y ago
Just came across this interview - http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watte... where he said "I've never regretted stopping when I did." However, I seem to remember from his 10th anniversary book, that the main reason f
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by mattm 14y ago
Yes I know he's just doing whatever makes him happy but I sometimes feel sad that if the internet had come out just 10 years earlier, he may have gone the self-published route which didn't really exist at that time for him. Instead of just
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by mattm 14y ago
It's a shame that Bill Watterson just simply disappeared.
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by mattm 14y ago
And yet I have gigabit internet here.
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by mattm 14y ago
I suggest anyone read "Barbarians at the Gate" about the fall of RJR Nabisco if you believe that stock ownership actually means you have an influence on the company.
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by mattm 14y ago
Since getting married, I noticed that my wife does this. She usually gets tired and drifts off to sleep around 9 after dinner. Then she'll wake up for an hour usually between 12-2 and do some things before going back to sleep.
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Google lets users pass on digital assets after death(ctvnews.ca)
1 points by mattm 14y ago|0 comments
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by mattm 14y ago
> Nailed it Can you point to a specific event in history where this actually occurred? Because so far all I've seen are people theorizing what will happen in this situation. Your argument would carry more weight if you backed it up.
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by mattm 14y ago
> A tweet from Ambrosia's official Twitter states that the company is still in business I worked at a small consulting shop that had one large client providing most of the work. There were rumours of problems with this client not havi
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by mattm 14y ago
Mt. Gox I believe has a flat percentage fee on all trades so someone can make as many micro trades as they want and still pay the same fee as one large trade. It's pretty easy to solve by charging users who make over a certain limit of micr
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by mattm 14y ago
The scary thing is that there are no checks on withdrawals from your account. Anyone with your account number (which is available on all checks) could in theory withdraw money from your account.
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by mattm 14y ago
"It" is just a system. It doesn't think anything. It's the people who think it's worth using it for something. So really you hate the people that use it.
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by mattm 14y ago
> National currencies are much less volatile than Bitcoins have shown themselves to be. I think Zimbabweans, Argentinians, Russians, Mexicans, Romanians and a handful of other nationalities would disagree with you.

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