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I don't think it is as cut and dry as that. The reply that 'this is not a bug' showed a lack of concern that the reporter may have been having difficulties correctly submitting information about what would be a very signific
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My initial comment comes across a little too strongly against the article because it singles out one thing I found to be highly misleading. I think, ultimately, SV investors don't encourage much innovation. I wish there was more capi
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I never argued that Buffet doesn't understand railroads, furniture companies, etc. My point is that there isn't enough information about hyperloop, yet, to truly understand the risks involved in investing in it.
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For a counterargument, see http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19848/musks-hyperlo... I'm all for innovation and pursuing alternate forms of transportation, but I don't pretend Musk's claims ar
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The typical reaction I've seen is snark. The most memorable one was a Facebook post: "I don't care if Obama reads my text messages. All he'll learn is how to sext." Most of the "smart" people I know, bot
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I agree with your assessment of Obama essentially kicking the can down the road via placating sound bites ready for consumption by the masses. However, I'm curious what would lead one to expect any other response from a politician. A
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Your Medical Records Are for Sale(businessweek.com)
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The most egregious case of title manipulation that I recall was when the submission of a blog post that broke the airbnb scandal [1] was renamed. The title of the blog post was too generic to attract interest and gave no indication that it
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by mcphilip 13y ago
TL;DR Node.js is really popular. Also, JavaScript related job postings are sharply rising. Ergo, JavaScript will become the one true language.
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The NYT editorial board was extremely fast in condemning the Obama administration, saying it had lost all credibility on the issues of transparency and accountability in an op-ed piece on June 6th. http://www.nytimes.com/201
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For a glimpse at one possible future of U.S. democracy, I highly recommend this longform nonfiction article about Turkey [1]. It goes into detail about "...the resistance of what is commonly referred to as derin devlet, the 'deep
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As a couter example, I grew up in small town Texas near the TX-LA border and never heard of stories this draconian during my time there. On the contrary, I heard numerous stories of cops basically dumping out small amounts of marijuana fro
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I'm an American and agree with the basket case diagnosis. In general, I don't take seriously any comment that quotes the first line of an article and then rages against that one line. It makes me suspect that you haven't rea
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We already played this game yesterday evening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6144294
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I was with you on the original medium HN comment thread [1] and suggested that the police possibly did pay a visit but not directly related to google searches. That being said, you're coming across like an asshole gloating about taking
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I suspect the author incorrectly inferred that the visit was directly related to the family's google search history. Still, it'd be very unsettling if the post of a picture of firecrackers was a factor in the decision to send a s
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Good catch. My bad. Apparently my reading comprehension skills aren't as strong as I like to think.
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> I don't buy this, at all. I got the same impression after reading the post and before looking at the HN discussion. Good to see I wasn't the only one. Initially I was horrified by the blog post because we now know for certai
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by mcphilip 13y ago
For info on next steps in the processing of refugee applicants in Russia: http://rt.com/news/snowden-russia-immigration-asylum-758/
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I don't think reading great writing can be stressed enough. It helps you find a tone that you like and can take the pressure off of trying to find 'your own style'. For a good variety of nonfiction, try longform.org. If you
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One of my first jobs was at a company that sold and serviced surveillance equipment to school districts. It's a slippery slope where you can first focus on the good aspects -- murder cases solved -- but eventually encounter informatio
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I'm not sure where the term originated at that restaurant, but it probably had nothing to do with Canadians' behavior since it was in a small Texas town that only saw an actual Canadian every once in a blue moon. :)
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While I'm sure there are good waiters that do their best to treat all customers equally, I can confirm that their tends to be a snap judgement made about the tipping probability of a customer. In one place that I worked the waitstaff
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I didn't really start learning to code, even though I had a year of CS under my belt, until I found a problem that I wanted to solve. I was using Audiogalaxy to download music over a 56.6K modem and I wrote a program to monitor the do
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The article made a distinction between tip out and tip pool. Tip out was made to sound entirely voluntary, presumably on credit tips too. My post was meant to refer to an involuntary tip pool policy restaurant. The cash tip gives the wait
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On a side note, if you have a waiter or waitress that you particularly like and want to provide a tip that will not necessarily go into the tip pool, just leave a cash tip. This gives the waiter the ability to choose how much of the tip th
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Smoking is a nasty habit and harmful to my body. Now that that's out of the way, here are a couple reasons I smoke now and then: 1. Socialization. For whatever reason, it's easy to meet new people while smoking. You don't
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Some services that scan the assets on a network for a wide range of vulnerabilities: QualysGuard, Nexpose, McAfee EPO. There is a market there among Fortune 500 companies, for sure. The difficulties (as I've experienced it) are: 1. C
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by mcphilip 13y ago
From the linked US DOJ press release: >It is not alleged that the NASDAQ hack affected its trading platform. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/July/13-crm-842.html
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Can Edward Snowden be Deterred?(tomdispatch.com)
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