mckoss

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   by mckoss 11y ago

   BTW, pg is Paul Graham, founder of y combinator and creator of hacker news. So, "this guy" is generally very well respected by the the users of this site.
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   Taxi services are primarily regulated at the behest of the existing taxi companies to keep out competition. The public interest of the regulation is just a cover story. We just returned from Paris, and I can tell you that people in Paris a
3. 63.▲
   by mckoss 11y ago

   Why aren't French entrepreneurs rioting in the streets to protest against protectionist laws that primarily serve to shield incumbents from competition?
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura) by Lucretius is a fascinating glimpse at the foundation of scientific thought from the 1st century BC. I just finished reading it; it's an interesting mix of combining logic with observation t
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   Chaining. Definitely for chaining.
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   Alaska paid residents $1,800 in 2014 under its Permanent Fund program (a negative tax).
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   Thanks! Seems like there is a market for durable "portable" structures that can be built on disputed land, and then moved if needed.
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   Thanks, I misread the comment.
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   by mckoss 11y ago

   From my memory, they had a reputation for bait and switch - raising money during a disaster, but spending it elsewhere. I think they cleaned that up, including a change in leadership. This article is new in claiming innefectiveness at usef
10. 70.▲
    by mckoss 11y ago

    Can $2,000 build a whole house? Even in Haiti? I would think 10x that for anything we would call a "house". Its not surprising there is a vast unmet need in Haiti given its poverty and the scale of the disaster.
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    I would not let a single news story exclude you from including them. I've seen too many cases where journalists completely botch an investigative story due to biased sources and their own ignorance. I personally would like to see the
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    I don't agree that the modern Red Cross has anything to do with Christianity. I've never heard of them evangelizing or take any position on religion. Why do you think that?
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    I would worry about lead investors front running their trades; its pretty easy to make money in the market if you can get a large number of people copying your trades AFTER you make your own.
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Paper describing the proposal for Telescope time-allocation: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.1943.pdf
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    Telescope Time Without Tears – Borda Count Peer Review(youtube.com)

    1 points by mckoss 11y ago|1 comments
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    See also Google's blog post summarizing Borg -> Kubernetes improvements. http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubern...
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Does that matter? There was nothing drug specific about the site implementation - you could sell anything you wanted to (gold, collectables, etc). He provided a system that could be used as a valuable service for legal activities. It coul
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Agreed. From the FBI press release on his conviction[1] no mention of the murder-for-hire charge. This conviction and sentencing all stem from the drug-selling business enterprise. Our war-on-drugs sentencing is quite disproportional, IMH
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Bob Simon of 60 Minutes also died this way in February. Wear your seatbelts in cabs and Ubers, people!
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    I'm sorry; I don't see it. I've seen hundreds of date pickers and color pickers and alerts, and they look very similar. The visual design language of the web co-evolves across millions of sites. There are only just so many
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    ACLU Response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q83Y5nyOSE
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    I was hoping to see a list based on how the price of a product better communicates a product's value. It's sad to me that there is so much energy focused on the manipulation of the buyer as the goal. Frankly, I consider the aggre
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    Cross-platform mobile app screencast (Ionic and Firebase)(github.com)

    1 points by mckoss 11y ago|0 comments
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    The right to peaceable assembly in the First Amendment of the Constitution SHOULD mean that the government cannot require a permit to do so (otherwise, it wouldn't be a RIGHT). If a large number of people want to get from point A to po
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Not that far but: "As part of our Patent Acquisition Agreement (see section 4.4), sellers will retain a license back to their patent. For you lawyers out there, the license is “irrevocable, non­exclusive, non­transferable, non­assignab
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    Google Patent Purchase Promotion(google.com)

    75 points by mckoss 11y ago|41 comments
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Thanks. So it seems all a publisher has to do is avoid using ad-like terminology in their ad URLs. They can just stick them in /images/id along with regular content images and AdBlocm will have no way to tell them difference.
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    How does it distinguish Ad from Content in that case?
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    by mckoss 11y ago

    Note the journalistic bias - describing Kim Dotcom as "notorious".
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    by mckoss 12y ago

    I agree - totally illegal (or should be).