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by nhebb 13y ago
That's why I've never been a fan of sales taxes over income taxes. Texas, and the other states listed in that piece, don't have an income tax but instead rely on a sales tax and excise taxes (alcohol, tobacco, and gas) for re
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by nhebb 13y ago
If there ever comes a day when I actually use yahoo, I may just take your advice and look for that. ;-)
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I don't like the color scheme, but other than that it's not too bad. Yahoo does need to allow more user customization before they lose too many users. That said, people tend to be more vocal when they don't like something. I
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Since you weren't able to read the article, I'll give you a head's up that you should save face while you can and delete your comment. It's not the kind of topic to be flippant about. The article was written by the fathe
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I've only read a few of her pieces, and they seemed like straight up journalism. What's obnoxious about her?
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A feminine person keeps her body small and contained; she makes sure that it doesn’t take up to much space or impose itself. [...] raising one’s voice in an argument, and even laughing loudly are considered distinctly unfeminine. In his F
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by nhebb 13y ago
I agree that we shouldn't go to war. My point was only that, while ad hominem attacks are not a valid form of argument in a debate setting, I think they are when it comes to heads of state.
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I would argue that for heads of state, ad hominem attacks are perfectly valid. Even if Putin's logic is correct, it's reasonable to question his motives based on his character and past actions.
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I've heard John Doerr echo "Ideas are worth nothing", and I think the phrase is born out of the VC mindset. From their perspective ideas are actually worth nothing. They need to see execution and traction. But from the perspe
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JavaScript: The Good Parts has passages like this: The new function object is given a prototype property whose value is an object containing a constructor property whose value is the new function object. ... whereas Eloquent Java
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Also, this item from the Company Account bullet list: > Requires additional verification through Symantec Symantec owns Verisign, and what this means is that you need a Versign authenticode certificate for code signing. Verisign code-sig
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How do you detect sarcasm?
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The U6 unemployment rate is more indicative of the current state of the economy: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE
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by nhebb 13y ago
If this works as reported, this is truly great. But you know what would save even more lives? If we got the f&ck out of Afghanistan. What are we even doing there? When is this last time a reporter asked the President about the Afghan wa
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In case anyone is interested, pg wrote the SpamBayes Outlook add-in in Python about 10 years ago: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
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All the time, along with the arrow keys and numeric keypad. i hurt my shoulder once and had to type one-handed for a week. During that week the much hated caps lock key was a savior.
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This may sound snarky, but I'm absolutely serious: the first step in SEO should be to put link-worthy content on your own site(s), not someone else's.
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Here is a sample usage: 1. Click on the 'combo-box' tag. 2. The next page shows four UI sources: selectize.js, bootstrap-select, custom-select, and jquery-custom-select-menu. I clicked on selectize.js. 3. The selectize.js page has
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I would work on shortening the number of forward and back clicks required to browse through the different UI elements.
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Well, that's my point. When I read the interview, it sounded like his heart just wasn't in it anymore.
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The problem isn't with the programming language; it with his algorithms. Sagarin's rankings are often an outlier, frequently in ways that just don't make sense. </opinion>
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> Anecdotally, I think it's very hard for women to be accepted into leadership positions. If she's too tough she's marked as an "angry bitch" and will get rejected In my experience, the women bosses I've had
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tl;dr (emphasis added): " Solutions to this problem turn out to be mathematically equivalent to photon spheres around black holes in cosmology [...] As an application, we uncover super-coherent material eddies in the South Atlantic ..
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I didn't like this one as much as Snow Fall and Silk Road. The before and after image presentations would be better side by side instead of in series form. I had to toggle back and forth. Then, midway through the article, the page froz
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You should look into how the mayor of Beaverton, OR tried to annex the unincorporated land that the Nike campus sits on back in 2005.
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> My two teenage girls think of me as ancient. But I'm up before them and wake them to go to school. His daughters are teenagers now. Considering he started his relationship with de facto stepdaughter Soon-Yi Previn when she was in
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> But to this generation, it's denigrated as "retina bleach". Given that I'm 49, this feels like being carded at 7-11. I think the difference is screen resolution and intensity. I could sit at an old green screen for
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Blink is a visual annoyance, but it's nothing compared to the retina bleaching caused by jwz's site.
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Go to about:memory then click the "Minimize memory usage" button. P.S. If anyone knows how to add that button to the FF toolbar, I would consider you a minor deity for at least a whole day.
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It's gotta be a bug. Either that, or pg cracked under the strain of running the YC empire and implicitly announced, "You're all dead to me."

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