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by md224 13y ago
Agreed. To assume every YC startup is going to be a beautifully-operated dream company would be to fall prey to a seductive mythology. Tech startups are run by human beings, creatures that can be brilliant, passionate, and level-headed, but
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The Role of Certainty Decay in Consumer Communications (2011)(marketingpower.com)
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by md224 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. > Yes, alcohol is freely sold everywhere Don't stores need licenses to sell alcohol? Or are you comparing it as "any store with a liquor license" vs. "only pharmacies"? I can see that as bei
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by md224 13y ago
> The state will license and regulate private cannabis farms and then sell the marijuana at pharmacies Curious why this is troubling... I can understand arguments for limiting government regulation, but I'm okay with cannabis being
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by md224 13y ago
The wife's search was irrelevant, as the report states the search was for "pressure cooker bombs " not "pressure cooker". So we really have no idea who searched for that one.
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by md224 13y ago
From the Medium blog post: > But my son’s reading habits combined with my search for a pressure cooker and my husband’s search for a backpack set off an alarm of sorts at the joint terrorism task force headquarters. From the Suffolk Coun
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by md224 13y ago
Alright, that's a fair point. I still think it's a bit scary/sad that we need to worry about our public Facebook posts being potentially misconstrued by local police as grounds for a visit.
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Ask HN: Why are some comments not replyable immediately?
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by md224 13y ago
So you're saying that a woman posted photos of firecrackers on Facebook on July 4th, and this may have contributed to a visit by the police? And this is supposed to be BETTER? I agree that we need more information before jumping to con
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by md224 13y ago
NSA response to today's revelations: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2013/30_July_2013....
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NSA Response to XKEYSCORE allegations(nsa.gov)
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by md224 13y ago
I understand your point, but you fail to realize that comments like "why are you surprised?" induce a kind of digital bystander effect: they're essentially defusing moral outrage via social proof. If you read a comment like t
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by md224 13y ago
I'm operating under the good faith assumption that hatsix actually hasn't come across any discussions relating server bans and net neutrality before reading your comment and the original article. That's what I took his comm
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If You're Wondering What's Wrong With America, Look At These Four Charts(businessinsider.com)
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by md224 13y ago
Yep, and in this case Google is "really" banning all servers for non-business accounts, according to the original article.
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by md224 13y ago
Would Tor nodes count as servers under Google's guidelines? Could Google theoretically prohibit someone from running a Tor node if they're not a business-class account?
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by md224 13y ago
The real question here is how important it is for home users to have the ability to run servers without signing up for a business-class account. Google wants to create an equivalence between two groups: 1) People who want to run a server at
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by md224 13y ago
I was a bit confused by this too, but perhaps he means that in an ideal system of universal skin-in-the-game, volatility and chaos will serve to optimize the system by triggering failure for those who took risks unwisely and, therefore, pro
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by md224 13y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe the term "policy wonk" is not necessarily negative... I assumed it simply referred to one who is well-versed in policy debates and data. For example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/bl
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by md224 13y ago
Yes, members of the Al Qaeda affiliates know that we know who they are. But do potential sympathizers know who the Al Qaeda affiliates are?
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by md224 13y ago
I think their reasoning for withholding a list of names of Al Qaeda affiliates is a bit weak, but I can still see how it might make sense. After all, we're fighting for transparency because we know information can be powerful, but that
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by md224 13y ago
Interesting how much of the commentary here is on the patent being silly, rather than the implications of the monetization technique that the patent describes. We are allowing people to pay a fee to have their expression privileged over oth
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by md224 13y ago
This is actually a pretty interesting post, though I'm a bit confused as to how it relates to my earlier comments. I may add more later, but for now I will just say: welcome to the singularity. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org&
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by md224 13y ago
> This is the basic mistake they’ve made: they’ve fallen prey to the belief that money and meaning are two totally separate things. Ah, what a terrible mistake to make! To think that one could derive meaning from one's life independ
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by md224 13y ago
This is a very good point and needs to be addressed. Two thoughts: 1) What about differentiating between speech in support of an idea vs. in support of a person running for election? This may be useless though, as it still privileges viewpo
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by md224 13y ago
Right, but the problem is when money becomes correlated to your ability to persuade people. There needs to be some way to weaken that connection. I don't think candidates should be prohibited from trying to persuade voters, hence the n
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by md224 13y ago
I think I want my legislators insulated from money overall. They should not have their chances of election boosted by their cash flow. Of course, this doesn't help the problem of poorer candidates trying to run against candidates who a
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by md224 13y ago
> pro-security candidates get more donations from the defense industry My intuition tells me that these kinds of contributions are a bad thing, a potential vector for money to influence who gets elected and how they vote. Do you disagree
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by md224 13y ago
Instructing founders to build products based on themselves as the initial market sounds like good advice, but it worries me slightly that if this advice were taken universally in tech circles, we would innovate in a fairly egocentric direct
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by md224 13y ago
I would point out that the conception of the state arose "organically", in the sense that basically all of our structures and hierarchies are socially constructed. With that in mind, would you see it as "wrong" if, upon

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