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by meritt 10y ago
HN isn't really. Take any thread which talks politics and you'll notice it gets flagged, removed very quickly. HN works because it's heavily moderated. It's the equivalent of "No politics discussion!" instilled
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by meritt 10y ago
http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1789406294 has a decent summary of the problems over the past few months. > Centipede Central is the chat Reddit is referring to—a chat room within the Slack-like Discord
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by meritt 10y ago
They have, overwhelmingly. The problem is it's an anonymous platform and bans are irrelevant for most internet users today. This was all nicely summarized by John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in 2004.
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by meritt 10y ago
The problem is they aren't their own little community. They actively target, brigade (large group upvoting/downvoting), and intentionally troll other communities with their only goal being to fuck with people and overwhelmingly pu
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by meritt 10y ago
Is there anything preventing me from using these servers as proxies with incredibly cheap bandwidth? I assume it stacks? When we reach transfer limits I can just spin up an additional $5 instance to add another 1TB? $5/mo per 1TB of ba
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by meritt 10y ago
We have about 20TB in an AWS S3 bucket we'd like to backup somewhere separate from Amazon. Is there any chance of Backblaze offering ingestion from an Amazon Snowball export ( https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ )?
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by meritt 10y ago
A) Recruit, hire, and train a handful of quants, pay them $250k/yr+ each, and hope they bring a positive edge to your algorithmic trading. B) Award $10,000 to the winner(s) among hundreds of participants aggressively competing to sol
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by meritt 10y ago
This was obvious from the RNC speech and further reinforced when Thiel donated $1M to Trump. A contrarian bet, sure, but $1M is a pretty small price to pay to have a 50/50 shot at CTO of the USA. I'm sure he'll see a very sig
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by meritt 10y ago
Indeed. And two countries most emboldened by a Trump presidency? Russia and China. China, US, Russia are the 3 top contributors to global warming by a significant margin. China has 60% more CO2 emissions than the United States, but Trump&#x
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by meritt 10y ago
HN is an echo chamber when it comes to tech choices, but it's absolutely not when it comes to politics. I've seen many pro-Trump supporters in the ranks here, which is very surprising given the demographic.
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by meritt 10y ago
Today, Trump appointed Myron Ebell (a massive climate change denier) to head up the EPA. We're so utterly and completely fucked.
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Where are you sourcing the jobs? indeed.com api or something?
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by meritt 10y ago
Hype? It's an hour+ commute between East Bay and UCSF. All my friends doing a residency put in close to 80 hours a week at other facilities. I'm not sure how that's remotely sustainable to waste that much time commuting.
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by meritt 10y ago
How is your question any different for Perl, Python, Ruby, or Node.js?
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The companies who create new technologies (mongodb, docker, nodejs, mesos, etc) and the companies who provide infrastructure or support around those new technologies (aws, azure, google, any number of consulting firms). The vast majority of
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by meritt 10y ago
One big hurdle to hiring remote (we're 100% remote) are the significant expenses each time someone from a new state joins our team. All sorts of new taxes/fees/fines/paperwork, suddenly we have nexus in StateN and they w
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by meritt 10y ago
I'm not defending the practices of small businesses but a couple things to note here that make it particularly difficult for a small business to provide insurance and not violate the law: 1) Group health insurance plans tend to have a
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by meritt 10y ago
For health insurance component, that doesn't kick in until 50 employees
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by meritt 10y ago
Good founders live and breathe their business every minute of their life. They're up most of the night and back at it the next day at 6am. They're constantly worried about increasing revenue, the threat of competition, and making
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by meritt 10y ago
Engineers making $300k/yr aren't interested in first-hire jobs over at the latest "Uber for X" YC-backed company. There will be exceptions, certainly, but that's going to be incredibly rare. First hires tend to be m
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by meritt 10y ago
Man, you've got an absurd sense of entitlement and self-worth. You honestly believe that a first-hire, in addition to receiving a competitive salary + benefits, is also owed >5% equity? No founder of a company with any traction is g
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by meritt 10y ago
As a longtime PC user, I'm very thankful how the excellent Apple offerings really propelled the PC laptop market over the past decade to focus on both build quality and high-end specs, most notably Dell XPS and Lenovo/Thinkpad X1
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by meritt 10y ago
Because Trump is the first candidate in history who has promised to ban an entire demographic of people, expressed confusion on why we don't use nuclear weapons, and threatened to attack a country based on some rude hand gestures. This
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Thank you. It's not going unnoticed.
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If Dustin and Justin wants to really come out against it, they'll come against Thiel explicitly. Continuing to take his money while claiming to supporting the opposite is hypocritical. They are playing the same bullshit card that Sam A
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by meritt 10y ago
I'm still boycotting Thiel and any of his significant investments. For example, we cancelled our corporate Asana account after the Republican Convention and cited that as the sole reason for cancellation. After his egregious Trump supp
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by meritt 10y ago
Nobody. WikiLeaks is playing politics and doling them out as they see fit.
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by meritt 10y ago
Also interested in this. Revenue is solid but I imagine a lot of that is pass-thru to the artists? Middle-man platforms can usually only do about 10% margin before opex.
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by meritt 10y ago
Why are new phones so large? I'm stuck on iPhone 5S because everything newer is so damn big.
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by meritt 10y ago
My view is Trump is an existential threat to our way of life and society. His authoritarian trigger-finger views and sheer lack of understanding of anything related to governing a nation will yield a world war and erase many decades, if not

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