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by mchristoff 17y ago
so let me get this right... currently you pay capital gains (28%) on 50% of the worth of sold stock. this proposal would eliminate that if the stock is held for 5 years? correct?
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by mchristoff 18y ago
i'm one of the lucky few hosting a few sites (not live yet) on the heroku platform and i can say that it's the best deployment experience i've ever had (prior to heroku i hosted my old startup on engineyard). literally all you need to do is
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by mchristoff 18y ago
ps did anyone actually look at this: http://yelp.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452b44469e2011278fa14eb28a... the favorite review is clearly marked. seriously - if the claims of reviews disappearing maliciously are true then sure let's hang yelp
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by mchristoff 18y ago
sure, if in fact it is true that bad reviews do get deleted. i believe this topic is still up for debate. does anyone on HN actually use yelp? have you guys ever talked to a small business person who's had interactions with yelp?
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by mchristoff 18y ago
1. this isn't like search results where there is an algorithm that returns the quality of review. by most standards one review is the same as the next. the ability for a business to highlight the review in which they feel puts them in the b
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by mchristoff 18y ago
fair
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by mchristoff 18y ago
hn amazes me sometimes. how does expressing your point of view warrant downvotes? bad language? going against popular opinion?
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by mchristoff 18y ago
dna is a rad place and i have utmost respect for the people who run it (i'm actually 50yds from it right now), but jwz's comments don't prove anything. for one thing, night club reviews notoriously suck ass on yelp or any other review site,
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by mchristoff 18y ago
agree. there's enough people out there that live on facebook that i postulate that more than a few would pay something for facebook++. i think they could make a killer product around photos alone. zuckerberg has said it many times that he t
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by mchristoff 18y ago
hmmm... you know i just wrote this, and i'm realizing i'm just falling into this trap needless argument. looking back at my thread i think i approached crabapple's initial comment with way too much zeal myself. the thing that irked me the m
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by mchristoff 18y ago
no where did i say my dad only worked 25 years. i said he worked for gm over 25 years. does this mean it was his first job, no? as for student loans, i certainly do have them. it's unfortunate that in this country simply getting student loa
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by mchristoff 18y ago
This is exactly my father's situation. Zero deductible health care, huh? Maybe 10 years ago, but certainly not now. Demononizing honest people based on stereotypes that people cling onto to support their perceived notions does not solve the
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by mchristoff 18y ago
woah woah woah! i appreciate your zeal and your need to direct your anger somewhere, but your sending it the wrong way buddy. my original comment was not meant to express how hard mine or my family's life is/was, it was to clear up statemen
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by mchristoff 18y ago
sure, no one is entitled to a job. that's not my point at all. things change and jobs change. what I was trying to explain is why my dad would travel 100mi to get to work. yeah sure, he could have went to med school or something, but he had
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by mchristoff 18y ago
huh?? in the last 15 years gm has closed dozens of plants. yes, certainly the union fought to get the best deal collectively for their workers, but you have to have rocks in your head if you think people like my father felt entitled. they f
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by mchristoff 18y ago
it really disgusts me that this comment has been upmodded so much. it reeks of overgeneralization, ignorance, and hyperbole. it's very easy to sit on your high horse and talk about hypothetical denny's waitresses, but a little harder when t
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by mchristoff 18y ago
yeah, pretty lame. because the decided to go with a new plugin this will be way less useful.
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by mchristoff 18y ago
@pg, what's your rate these days? Haven't had any of that slow cooked chili in ages :)
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by mchristoff 18y ago
indian fare from trader joe's is bomb, particularly if you're vegetarian and broke. it's $2 a packet and all you need to do is just squeeze it out and add starch (the nan they have in the bread section is also pretty solid). also, living in
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by mchristoff 18y ago
have you heard of youtube? looking at the stats, i'd say 100% of youtube users is by far better distribution than anything google could get with a link from google.com
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by mchristoff 18y ago
i think this whole flash killer stuff is still overblown. 1 word: video. how about another: sound. adobe has a strangehold on web-media and that's not changing anytime soon. truthfully as a geek i'm excited about chrome, but as a web develo
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by mchristoff 18y ago
party time!!!!
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by mchristoff 18y ago
"It's like that drive to improve the world just doesn't exist in some cultures. It's not the land, american indians had the resources to do it if they wanted. But they didn't. Almost no cultures did, except Europe." Your thesis that non-Eur
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by mchristoff 18y ago
Amy Smith's TED talk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/amy_smith_shares_simple_l...
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by mchristoff 18y ago
"It's not the land, american indians had the resources to do it if they wanted." That's pretty ignorant statement, and probably downright offensive to many. I'm no native American scholar, but I do remember reading about the law of the Iroq
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Blogging for Burma: Darkness(mchristoff.com)
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by mchristoff 18y ago
Does google apps have outages? I haven't experienced one in 6 months.
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by mchristoff 18y ago
I think the higher income bracket you belong to the less acceptable it is to spend your money on things that are considered "conspicuous". My feeling is that Patek Philippe watch and Italian marble counter tops express the same basic thing
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by mchristoff 18y ago
I can understand how it can be a point of confusion that I use these terms interchangeably, but it reflects how I feel about the name Myanmar, which is promoted by the Burmese government. I say "Burmese government" because Burmese is an eth
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by mchristoff 18y ago
Oh and almost forgot... I'm using Apture for all the cool context links. I was really impressed. Check them out at: http://www.apture.com/

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