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by mixmax 16y ago
The documentary "Why we fight" opens with Eisenhovers farewell speech and addresses this very problem. It'a available on Google video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682# and is worth watching.
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by mixmax 16y ago
I generally only listen to criticism from people that have accomplished something similar to what they are criticising themselves. There are so many negative people out there, and it's a good way to sort the wheat from the chaff. People who
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by mixmax 16y ago
"when people study success stories exclusively — as many avid devourers of business self-help books do — they come away with a vastly oversimplified idea of what it takes to succeed. This is because success is what economists refer to as a
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by mixmax 16y ago
I started learning how to program around a year ago, and one of my first and best resources was W3Schools. I think the authors of this document are missing the point of the site entirely, it's not about being 100% correct on all issues, it'
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by mixmax 16y ago
Back in the dot-com days I wrote a lot of businessplans, both for my own things and for others. I excelled at the whole hockey-stick curve and the "we will enhance shareholder value by doing x" (I always put in this Cryptonomicon quote to s
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by mixmax 16y ago
People aren't stupid, they're lazy. They expect things to just work out of the box. They don't want to create online accounts,they don't look through the setup menus and they certainly don't read the manual.
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by mixmax 16y ago
Also - building a lifestyle business is largely under your own control, if you work hard and have the least bit of talent you'll be able to make it work. Hitting the jackpot is much more a matter of things outside your control, even though
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by mixmax 16y ago
"The problem is these problems aren’t easy to fix." Can't the Telcos just scan all SMS messages and filter out the ones that contain the malicious sequence of characters?
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by mixmax 16y ago
It depends. Sometimes I see comments that I don't understand are downvoted - I upvote these and sometimes comment. But most downvoted comments are downvoted for an obvious reason: they're snarky, personal, ad-hominen attacks, trolls or just
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by mixmax 16y ago
Since this is HN a better question would be: How can I communicate with my laptop if when and if it goes online again? Can I SSH into it? Is there some program running at startup that would allow me to control it remotely? Best of luck with
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by mixmax 16y ago
The things you mention are what inflation is meant to nullify. In an economists perfect world the amount of a normal good you can buy with $1 would be the same as the amount of that good you could buy for 1 inflation-adjusted dollar at any
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by mixmax 16y ago
Application server is busy. Either there are too many concurrent requests or the server still is starting up Apparently scaling is hard too.
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by mixmax 16y ago
You're, of course, as correct as I'm lazy...
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by mixmax 16y ago
That's certainly part of it, and as you point out there's a good reason for that. I've encountered other instances where my comments are shown higher on the page even though they have fewer points and were submitted longer ago than other
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by mixmax 16y ago
Clickable links: The thread in question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2036588 Woodrow's link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2036640
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Ask HN: Should high-karma users comments appear higher on the page?
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by mixmax 16y ago
"The United States' incarceration rate is, according to official reports, the highest in the world, at 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 (as of 2005).[7] A report released in 2008 indicates that in the United States more than 1 in 100 adu
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by mixmax 16y ago
25% of the world population in jail is American. 737 out of 100.000 Americans are in jail, that's almost one out of a hundred. As a comparison Denmark has 59 out of 100.000 people in jail. And the number of Americans in jail has been rising
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by mixmax 16y ago
Probably one of these two: 1)HN is a side project for a busy man, and SSL/HTTPS simply isn't very high on the feature list. 2) Arc, the language HN is written in, doesn't support SSL/HTTPS
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by mixmax 16y ago
Agree - also, it's unfortunate for the Danish startup scene since he was one of the only knowledgeable seed investors in the country.
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by mixmax 16y ago
It's correct - he's a quite prolific guy, and was an early investor in Skype which was sold to Ebay for a gazillion. Right now he's broke though.
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by mixmax 16y ago
An artist did a very interesting thing a few years ago: He made a pencil from scratch. He cut the wood, mined the graphite, melted the lead, and created the eraser from a rubbertree. His pencil ended up costing thousands and thousands of do
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by mixmax 16y ago
I agree. And the first step to having a good economy is personal freedom and the ability to freely buy and sell goods across your border. All of which Israel denies the Palestinians.
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by mixmax 16y ago
I've never writen a political comment on HN before, and probably never will again. But this is one of these rare occassions where I really feel the need to do so, knowing it'll probably cost me karma and goodwill. Anyway... Of course there'
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by mixmax 16y ago
Because it works. No mucking about with CSS overflows, stuff that jumps to the next line, things that don't align, etc.
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This probably only applies to litigation lawyers, most, if not all of the lawyers I've worked with have been extremely polite and correct. They've also all had an excellent grasp of manipulation techniques and human psychology, and would se
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by mixmax 16y ago
What you're basically saying is, to stay with the arsonist metaphor, that if an arsonist burns a house down to the ground he should be prosecuted but if he burns down the whole village it's as much the villages fault as it is the arsonists
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by mixmax 16y ago
People have tried to make flying cars since the 60's and yet there has never been a successful product in the niche. What people seem to overlook is that making a flying car is easy. Making it so that the FCC will allow my mom to fly it and
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by mixmax 16y ago
This sounds eerily similar to the so-called startupscene in Denmark. The events revolve around bankers, bureaucrats, lawyers and consultants trying to make a buck off the entrepreneurs. This is an evil spiral since nobody knows what the hec
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by mixmax 16y ago
Do you have an e-mail? I'll mail you some links.

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