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by nhebb 14y ago
What he probably means is that California requires a supermajority to raise taxes. After the last election, the Democrats have that in both houses now.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I don't, but I've always wished there were a way to bookmark position within a page.
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by nhebb 14y ago
1. Set up a booth outside Yankee Stadium, display the Boston map, and sell coal-powered anything. 2. Repeat at Fenway Park with the NY map. 3. Profit!
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by nhebb 14y ago
It wasn't a willful misreading. I was addressing the part that I quoted - because it's likely to be a debate point in the fiscal cliff negotiations.
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by nhebb 14y ago
> I support President Obama’s proposal to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for high-income taxpayers. However, I prefer a cutoff point somewhat above $250,000 — maybe $500,000 or so. Personally, I don't care if the wealthy pay higher taxes
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by nhebb 14y ago
The remainder of the voyage to Mars was quiet aboard the USS HNterprise after Captain Graham threatened to "turn this rocket ship around if you two don't stop fighting".
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by nhebb 14y ago
Nice PR move. I have no reason to doubt their sincerity, but I had never heard of them before and this put them on my radar. As a consumer, their business model looks compelling - https://www.everlane.com/how
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by nhebb 14y ago
A judge has granted her a reprieve [1] based on freedom of speech and freedom of religion grounds. The student claimed it violated her religious beliefs. I don't begrudge anyone the right to practice their religion, but I do wish it had bee
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by nhebb 14y ago
It's a tumblr blog, so I figured the author meant link building. But, those are some good tips I hadn't thought of for my own blog.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Other than ego, would there be any point to doing SEO for a blog not connected to a product or consulting services?
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> I wonder if at some point in the future there's demand for a C level exec with populist charisma in the megacorps. Well, there was this company called Apple ...
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by nhebb 14y ago
Here's my laundry list of feedback: - The lead text is too chummy. Make it concise and professional. - When facing a blank page, one copywriting technique I've come up with is to make a list of all your features, and then next to each write
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by nhebb 14y ago
I misread your use of "our own" followed by a reference to the Tea Party. I still stand by my opinion, though, that we shouldn't give legislators a free pass on bad legislation just because we support the positions they have taken on other
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by nhebb 14y ago
> But yeah, let's definitely eat our own to ensure ideological purity. "our"? Leahy was the author of PIPA, so I'm not one to extend that umbrella. He has been a champion of civil liberties and other worthy causes, but that doesn't me
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Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants(news.cnet.com)
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by nhebb 14y ago
What strikes me as rude and presumptuous is when people complain about the HN site. There is no HN Pro with a support package. We're not paying to take part in this community. It reminds me of all the stories of freemium products where the
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by nhebb 14y ago
N.B. - For anyone wanting to look at their site's Win 8 traffic stats in Google Analytics, it's being listed as NT. The user agent substring is "Windows NT 6.2".
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by nhebb 14y ago
The author seems to have a different view of what an enterprise application is than I do. Of all the companies he mentioned, only Salesforce and Workday look "enterprisy" to me (plus maybe Box on the lighter side of enterprisy). If I had to
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by nhebb 14y ago
I'm halfway through Six Days of War by Michael Oren, and I think the most obvious thing that social media companies have done to handle the conflict is simply to exist. [Kindles suck for skimming back though a book, and I don't have an e
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by nhebb 14y ago
The problem I have with this is that it is needlessly stirring racial divides. 395 tweets out of ~120 million voters? Come on, do something positive for our country like mapping out the tweets of people still needing help from Sandy.
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by nhebb 14y ago
This compares top lines. I think a comparison of turnout model accuracy would be more informative. Most of the models that erred predicted that the 2012 turn out would lean less Democratic than the 2008 turn out model, based on the 2010 mid
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by nhebb 14y ago
Maybe they pee onto a turbine to recharge the battery.
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by nhebb 14y ago
The county maps have coloring errors. When I checked Oregon, most of the rural counties voted red but are colored blue.
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by nhebb 14y ago
There are other immigration reforms issues that have had wide bipartisan support, but congress doesn't seem to like to package legislature that way. There's a strong historically tendency towards bundling. > Maybe the President getting
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by nhebb 14y ago
Be careful what you wish for. The problem with trying to undo Citizen's United is that it's often oversimplified as "corporations are people", but the decision was (to quote Wikipedia) "that it was unconstitutional to ban free speech throug
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by nhebb 14y ago
Have you looked at: http://try.github.com and http://gitimmersion.com/
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This article isn't something I take seriously, but FWIW Herman Cain has a BS in Math and an MS in Computer science. It didn't seem to help him in the primaries.
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by nhebb 14y ago
This is interesting, but it leaves out Pennsylvania. Penn is a long shot for Romney, but the Romney campaign's internal polling must indicate that it's in play, otherwise they wouldn't be spending time in the final weekend campaigning there
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> The electoral college is incredibly unfair to voters who live in states that lean opposite their view. The Constitution doesn't mandate how electoral votes are allocated. Maine and Nebraska, for example, distribute the electoral col
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> Mainly because I don't agree with the premise that ideas are worthless - something that is echoed around all the time. I don't know the genesis of this, but the first time I heard it was in an interview with John Doerr a number of yea

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