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Trump’s immigration ban is terrible for entrepreneurs(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mjfern 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjfern 10y ago
ContentGems at http://contentgems.com . CG automatically powers social media, websites and customer newsletters with engaging curated content. It's a serious, profitable side project and we're approaching our fifth year
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A large slab of ice is breaking off an Antarctic glacier(businessinsider.com)
239 points by mjfern 10y ago|118 comments
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Overheated Arctic sign of climate change 'vicious circle'(phys.org)
12 points by mjfern 10y ago|2 comments
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by mjfern 10y ago
I would start with a skeleton crew, including volunteer contributors, and scale over time as readership increases.
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Pro-Trump CEO gets booted from Y Combinator over harassment concerns(techcrunch.com)
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Let's get Trump to accept climate change(reddit.com)
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by mjfern 10y ago
This concentration of tourism is by design. They call these areas "dead zones." The idea is to create a national park of millions of acres and concentrate all the tourism into just a few select areas and roads. You assume these ar
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Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins with Photos from Facebook (What Else?)(wired.com)
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by mjfern 10y ago
This is a red herring. Just because there are also a frightening number of driving fatalities doesn't mean we shouldn't better regulate firearms. It means we should ALSO better regulate driving.
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by mjfern 10y ago
If you're careful about hiring and put in place the right incentives, then there doesn't have to be much dead weight. And if there's little to no dead weight, then I think it's very noble and honorable for a company to c
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by mjfern 10y ago
Of course mass surveillance leads to a chilling effect. Personally, I'm now concerned about what I say in email, in text messages, in discussion forums, and in telephone calls. I fear that if I use the wrong words or visit the wrong we
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by mjfern 10y ago
It's great to see a founder CEO (Hamdi Ulukaya) making a bold ethical move like this to support his employees. It's not flashy or earth shaking, but it's very real and it will definitely change many lives for the better. This
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Helium Core – The Basic Building Block for iPhoneography(kickstarter.com)
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by mjfern 10y ago
Well said, and in addition to asking leaders to abide by the law, why aren't we holding our leaders to some kind of moral standard? I just can't believe that we need laws to prevent executives from choosing to elevate their career
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by mjfern 10y ago
This isn't just a matter of cheating. VW knowingly manufactured millions of vehicles that polluted at unprecedented levels. These managers and executives chose to destroy the environment, affecting their children, my children, and all
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by mjfern 10y ago
Yes, the defeat device VW employed for emissions is an environmental tragedy, but this is just a symptom of a much more central issue. That is, VW was actively promoting technical and business leaders that lacked any sort of moral compass.
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by mjfern 10y ago
There is something fundamentally wrong with our system that "growth" is used as the main metric for assessing business success. It's growth for the sake of growth (and more $), and not deploying business to solve hard custome
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Ask HN: Information extraction software?
5 points by mjfern 10y ago|4 comments
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We don't understand privacy(blog.photoshelter.com)
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You Could Actually Snooze Your Way Through an Asteroid Belt(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by mjfern 11y ago
I'm in Raleigh/Durham, NC. You have great universities here (UNC, Duke, NC State, etc.), nice weather with 4 seasons, blossoming startup culture, Research Triangle Park with Red Hat, SAS, and a variety of other big tech companies
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How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2015?(nytimes.com)
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by mjfern 11y ago
Can a moderator here please explain why this post is being flagged off the home page? Immigration issues are relevant for HN and in addition a Trump presidency would seriously impact the direction of this country for startups, tech, and bey
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by mjfern 12y ago
Why is this story being flagged off the home page? And before you say it's because the story is unrelated to hacking, please have a look at the other top stories on the home page... #5 "Confessions of a mortician" #9 "Th
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Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance with Attorneys General(nytimes.com)
23 points by mjfern 12y ago|9 comments
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Poll: Pro bono coding for a social cause?
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by mjfern 12y ago
No
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by mjfern 12y ago
Yes - 1 to 2 hours per week
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by mjfern 12y ago
Yes - 3 to 4 hours per week

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