mtowle

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Ask HN: How much more is there to Google the company than meets the eye?
5 points by mtowle 13y ago|3 comments
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by mtowle 13y ago
Public policy circles can (and will) think whatever they find soothing. The rest of us continue to roll our eyes inwardly, just as one does when listening to Tolkein fans debate whether the Eagles should've merely flown the Fellowship to Mt
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by mtowle 13y ago
I don't disagree, but at the same time, by the nature of the system, people aren't capable of behaving in a way that rewards what they like. "Vote-signals," if you will, are as noisy as human communication is capable of being.
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by mtowle 13y ago
>not the fantasy land of trickle-down economics The war on straw wages on
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by mtowle 13y ago
"In all fairness" my ass. It's only a man's name.
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by mtowle 13y ago
herro :)
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by mtowle 13y ago
You would presume that now, yes. Nobody who was presuming that when he said it, however, made much of an effort to speak up. Sort of like how "everybody knows" it was Congress's fault campaign promises X, Y, and Z didn't pass, yet at the ti
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by mtowle 13y ago
Hey man, Just wanted to say you're doing an A+ job of responding to people's concerns here in the thread. People usually suck at this, too, but you've really got your shit down. Which, to me, demonstrates that you've been working the produc
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by mtowle 13y ago
How could anyone possibly care about such a thing?
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by mtowle 13y ago
It's articles like this one that make me wonder why anyone is submitting pieces from the NYT, et al. Their audience is simply not HN's audience.
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Ask HN: What does the E.F.F. do, exactly?
2 points by mtowle 13y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What does the EFF actually do with all their fundraiser money?
1 points by mtowle 13y ago|0 comments
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by mtowle 13y ago
"That's a lot!" Nah, if anything, it's surprising Nakamoto would even be that close. Hopes are one thing, but nobody predicts successes of this magnitude.
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by mtowle 13y ago
>because of That's how the history is written, yes. And how the history is written...is irrelevant. Where are all these profitable, distant colonies with voices in parliament today? Australia? Canada? Technically not sovereign, but they
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by mtowle 13y ago
I think you're misunderstanding me. It's my claim that any sufficiently profitable colony sufficiently far away from its mother country will inevitably cease to be a part of said mother country. The how is irrelevant.
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by mtowle 13y ago
The flow of human events isn't bound to individuals. Names merely get played up in the remembering, and the events downplayed. E.g., America was going to revolt regardless of whether T.J., et al had ever been born. Really amazing that a war
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by mtowle 13y ago
In fairness, I thought it was a quality piece otherwise. It was probably just something her editor threw in.
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by mtowle 13y ago
>If our experts can't agree on the value of bitcoin, why should consumers? This is quite possibly the dumbest rhetorical question I've ever heard. On like 3 different levels. Replace 'bitcoin' with, like, anything. Oranges. Trees. Car
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by mtowle 13y ago
See my response to the other guy. I don't think you can "explicitly" solve the community problem, due to the issue of poseurs. E.g., if you explicitly create a site called FilmEnthusiasts.com, you'll get some film enthusiasts (i.e., exactly
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by mtowle 13y ago
Alright, here's what I've got so far. Constraints: 1. The web as it exists today is largely slanted toward clickthrough. Yes, this means that the Reddit Comment Model dominates, but it also means that the content users link to is sensationa
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by mtowle 13y ago
Like I said, I don't necessarily know. I'll tell you what, I'm going to go think about it for an hour and come back. For now, stating the problem correctly will have to suffice: What form factor rewards Depth over Sensationalism? The latter
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by mtowle 13y ago
You may want to reconsider the "top 15" thing, and even the pages of content thing, if you're trying to fill the longform niche. I don't know what direction you'd necessarily want to go in, but I do know that the form factor you're using ri
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by mtowle 13y ago
The top python link, which should direct to http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ instead directs to http://www.crummy.com/software/beautifulsoup/ --which causes crummy.com to throw a 404 error at you.
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by mtowle 13y ago
Either that or you're a narcissist and insist on everything being about you. "What's with the baby clothes section on Amazon? Babies can't buy clothes."
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by mtowle 13y ago
>The very fact that the counter-argument has to be carefully constructed is itself damning Either that or the need to carefully construct arises when you know how snarky and dismissive the fine folks on the other side tend to be. They a
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by mtowle 13y ago
To be clear, I'm solely focusing on the opportunity for racism. E.g., it's not an accident that the Germans, in the aggregate, that anti-Catholic sentiment in the 1850s was significantly stronger in the North than in the South.
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by mtowle 13y ago
There's no way Montanans tweet just as often as Californians.
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by mtowle 13y ago
I want to see that predefined rubric. I am unwilling to believe Iowans are more racist than Mississippians. Being racist in Iowa means hating like 3 people in the next county over.
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by mtowle 13y ago
After I'm a billionaire, for my second startup, I think I'll hire exclusively women, save myself 30% on human capital, and run everyone out of business. "Take that margins! Pow! Kablam!" Somebody give me a Nobel for thinking of this. Obviou
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by mtowle 13y ago
Pokemon startup? mew.io (available)

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