melvinmt

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   SF, LA sue Uber saying it misled consumers(sfgate.com)

   7 points by melvinmt 12y ago|0 comments
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   Yeah sorry, I meant most of Europe: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/lawdem/unit02/supporting/map_civ...
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   Yep, that's why I said for better or worse, because it's also the reason why the EU sometimes can't have nice things.
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   The thing about EU countries [1] that most American companies continually underestimate is: the primary focus of the legal system is to protect citizens/consumers, not companies, for better or worse. You can't escape this as a com
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   OK, I get that you have the risk of your bank account being closed due to citizenship (which I imagine, is something that can only happen after the fact?) but I just don't see what the possibility of closing of your foreign bank acco
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   > My concern is that if I was a US citizen, the bank might close my account for the reasons cited in the article. So now I won't be able to get citizenship (and e.g. vote, get a US passport) until my loans are completely paid off an
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   I second this, I typically forget about these things (meaning I never bother to look for new issues) until I get the email.
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   Just one of many reasons why it matters: More Total GDP = More Military Spending.
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   by melvinmt 12y ago

   Not on Mac but it does on Windows.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    That's interesting, I didn't know that. Just discovered that the go-import meta tag on Github appears on every repo, not just Go ones.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Here's the PDF version: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
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    Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003)(demarcken.org)

    5 points by melvinmt 12y ago|1 comments
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    It's actually more like this: Encrypted (Certified) EVERYTHING'S FINE Encrypted (Self-Signed) OMG!!! Unencrypted EVERYTHING'S FINE (while it's not)
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Haha, when a 5 year old says this, it should be the cue to unplug the computer and tell the kid to play outside.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I don't know who said this but I always remind myself of this quote during desperate times: "Worry is a waste of imagination". In other words, don't waste your brain cycles on things that didn't or don't go
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    > you never see the money Also important to add, if you invest with 401k/IRA money, if you don't want to pay a lot of taxes or early withdrawal fees, you won't "see" the money until you retire.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Me too, my brain is wired to read Gerrit as a common Dutch first name, so I thought he was talking about a person named Gerrit.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    This was Buffett's motivation on investing in 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I suspect it was allowed to foster a potential partnership.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    "Possession is nine-tenths of the law" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_th...
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    > So I'll ask: What is it I need to read/work through in order to at least "get" Go and really understand its strengths (whether or not I end up liking it)? I highly recommend to read this article where Rob lays out t
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    They already have a device for that: https://fresh.amazon.com/dash But yeah, it would make sense to integrate it with Echo as well.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Seems like the movie Her is not as far in the future as we may think...
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I keep hearing over and over how traffic sucks in LA but I've learned two things since I got here: don't drive cross-town too much (I live near the busiest intersection in Hollywood, yet 90% of shops and restaurants I need are wit
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    You're absolutely right, it probably does originate from the colonial/medieval days but nowadays it's just an expression, at least in Western Europe. The biological correctness of it didn't even cross my mind; blue blood
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    We're digressing, but yes, halfbloed, gemengd bloed (mixed blood), it's all basically the same. Just found out that mixed blood means mixed European and Native American ancestry specifically in the US ( http://en.wikiped
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I'm not sure what's wrong with that statement (I'm also not a native speaker). Please let me know how I could have worded it better. (In my native language, Dutch, it's common to refer to people of mixed race as having &
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Well if you acknowledge that the names are considered European/Asian as you say yourself, and you switch up names on purpose, is it that strange that people are surprised that the person doesn't match up their name? At least your
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I think FB cares more about ruling the world than WhatsApp's P&L statement. From "Mobile is Eating The World" [1]: Global SMS: 7.5tr messages a year WhatsApp: 7.2tr messages a year (with just 30 engineers) [1] https:&#x2
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    "I stopped watering my lawn the day I bought the house" In some cities, not watering your lawn may get you a fine too: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-brown-lawns-...