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by mos1 17y ago
... Scribd is legally indistinguishable from a caching proxy. You already said you weren't a lawyer. No need to prove it dramatically.
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by mos1 17y ago
2 - He is deliberately couching everything he says in 'weasel words' so as to never risk being wrong. This is often because he has to grossly simplify what his actual research has said in order for it to be consumable by a mass audience.
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by mos1 17y ago
I was just responding to Zak's comment about differences, giving a few. It wasn't meant as a complete argument of anything, or any sort. That said, two points: 1) doing so is not just immoral, it's against Scribd's TOS. 2) your claim that
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by mos1 17y ago
Posting it violated the Scribd TOS sections 8.1 and 8.8.
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by mos1 17y ago
Google cache doesn't beat your main site in the rankings, and it clearly cites you as the original source of the data. That said, it's irrelevant because they don't crawl for content. The HN admins are way out of line with their practices
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by mos1 17y ago
It's very different than the Green Stats. One is simply using a service, the other involves rehosting content without the request or permission of the author or content owner.
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by mos1 17y ago
Or have a used book store buy them in bulk. They won't pay much, but it's a single transaction so it doesn't use a lot of time.
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by mos1 17y ago
I read it as an argument that to reach truly obscene, globally recognizable levels of achievement, you need talent, determination, discipline, and luck. It kind of makes sense if you think about it, since achievement typically has a log-n
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by mos1 17y ago
Grad school isn't just about in-class education, it's about making connections, opening doors, and demonstrating a certain level of seriousness about the endeavor. If you have an MBA from HBS and an MS from MIT, there will be a lot of doors
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by mos1 17y ago
I was with you until you said 'Your loss.' That bit of snark ignores the reality that a developer has resource constraints, and they constantly have to decide how best to deploy their time, money and energy. Failing to address some platform
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by mos1 17y ago
Here's the problem: anybody who is actually professionally qualified to help you will be ethically obligated not to do so in this forum. As an example, I am a CFA Charterholder, and off the top of my head, I cannot give you advice for th
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by mos1 17y ago
I didn't close my window... but the only reason I didn't was that I was intending to provide a review for an HN'er, as a service. I vomited a little in my mouth though, as I despise invented marketspeak words. Also, I'm not on a particularl
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by mos1 17y ago
Hi, my name is mos1 :-) I doubt anybody would claim my entertainment budget is "austere", but it is substantially reduced from what it was when we lived in a smaller place. We almost completely stopped ordering out on weekdays, and we eat
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by mos1 17y ago
It matters, because if you're spending more time in your house, you're likely spending less money outside your house. A fancy kitchen might correlate to fewer restaurant meals and less prepared food purchases. A media room might correlate
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by mos1 17y ago
Generous unemployment insurance allows him to wait around for a long time, hoping to get back a job similar to his old job. However, absent unemployment insurance, he would be forced to take whatever he could get, thereby shortening the re
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by mos1 17y ago
what is the unintended consequence of a system that provides no assurances to workers during economic downturns? It exacerbates the business cycle for very obvious reasons, and it also slows economic growth as it results in more conservat
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by mos1 17y ago
My assumption is that they're working to recover fixed per-account costs, and anticipated support costs. When I've done tiered pricing, that was my logic.
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by mos1 17y ago
There's going to be an election in March, and the results of it will help determine what sort of place it will be for the foreseeable future. It's clear that if the sunnis and the shiites can't share power politically, that the levels of vi
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by mos1 17y ago
I remember this story from a couple years ago. Sad that the courts appear to not be going his way. That said, I'd love to see what the planning commissions specific complaints are, to see if we're dealing with some sort of legitimate conce
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by mos1 17y ago
I'm mostly surprised that your 'bootleg edition' is cheaper than the regular edition. Sure, it doesn't have a box... but it has a lot of rights granted to it, and it has some cachet.
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by mos1 17y ago
Why on earth should someone have to change companies to get paid what they're worth? Because the fact that your skill set has grown doesn't mean that your employer's needs have grown identically.
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by mos1 17y ago
Not every VC firm expects 90% failures. As a very public counter example, Fred Wilson has stated that his lifetime failure rate is 20%. To get it that low, he most definitely had to pass a lot of profitable but high volatility opportunitie
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by mos1 17y ago
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean they're lying. If you are presented with 500 investment opportunities a year, and only have enough capital to fund 5 of them, you are going to pass on a lot of +PV opportunities. Mayb
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by mos1 17y ago
No, you don't have to wait. Posted from Chrome on Mac.
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by mos1 17y ago
The iPad has a screen reader built-in, so they can pretty easily text-to-voice the caller id, and the text messages, too.
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by mos1 17y ago
No. Once again you are misrepresenting the alternate hypothesis. Simply put, the economic effects of modest increases in the minimum wage floor are sufficiently complex that it is difficult to conclusively prove that there is a negative ag
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by mos1 17y ago
It's just an off-the-shelf Barix Barionet 50. It does the job well, and only draws a watt or two (literally). Not terribly impressive, but $150 worth of my own work wouldn't have been able to drop the power usage to those levels.
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by mos1 17y ago
The key word in my post was substantially .
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by mos1 17y ago
I have a geothermal HVAC system, and it's not very well designed. If the loop temperatures drop below a certain point it becomes ineffective, and I need to manually switch to a secondary heat source. In a single afternoon, I was able to ho
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by mos1 17y ago
Yes, there are edge cases. Yes, if you jack it to levels that are substantially higher than market rates there are negative effects. None of that demonstrates that reasonable minimum wage laws, in the aggregate, cost jobs.

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