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by nhebb 15y ago
I've had good experiences dealing with the DMV, Oregon Dept of Records, and the IRS in the last few years. That doesn't mean that the government is the model of efficient customer service. My father's dealings with the INS on behalf of a fr
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by nhebb 15y ago
I searched for law firms that provided this service, looked at salient points of theirs, then rewrote them in my own words.
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by nhebb 15y ago
Jesus, Silicon Valley / tech is one big soap opera. Is there any other industry outside of show business that has this much gossip and fake drama?
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by nhebb 15y ago
They left out a pretty major one - Valve.
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by nhebb 15y ago
"But the reality is that, even during boom times, most new businesses fail." This myth has been debunked many times (right-click => search: "business failure rate myth"). I wish people would stop repeating it. Of course, business coac
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More about new Apple Campus in Cupertino(archdaily.com)
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by nhebb 15y ago
But the unions do have influence. The Business Week article is from May. A few days ago, the USPS proposed a plan that would break existing labor contracts in order to keep it solvent. The plan includes cutting the workforce by 120,000 and
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by nhebb 15y ago
If the buyer needs to be aware, then so does Paypal - and they take steps accordingly. I feel sorry for anyone whose account has been frozen by Paypal, but if they didn't take steps to manage their risks, they would experience more fraud. A
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by nhebb 15y ago
For businesses, there are two other considerations: 1. Cost: you get more computing bang for the buck with desktops. 2. Anti-theft: Laptops are easy to conceal and walk out of a building with. I've heard about laptop thefts at places I've w
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by nhebb 15y ago
It's been said before, but it's worth repeating. Conferences are a high risk business operation. For every SXSW, there's a thousand "Learn to Buy Real Estate with No Money Down" conferences at the Ramada Inn next to the airport. Paypal is n
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by nhebb 15y ago
Charles Gasparino has a similar idea. US companies have about $1 trillion parked overseas that will be taxed at 35% if transferred back to their US operations. His idea is to let them transfer the money tax free, on the condition that they
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by nhebb 15y ago
They're called neo nazis here in the US too. They're not mainstream right-wingers, but an extreme element on the fringes. I'm still missing the link between not wanting communism to return to eastern Germany and neo-nazism, though. I assume
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by nhebb 15y ago
The part I didn't understand was that the slogan for the concert was "Never again communism - Freedom for Germany". Do I take this to mean that anyone opposing communism is considered a right-winger in eastern Germany?
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by nhebb 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrito... Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state
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by nhebb 15y ago
Nice work! One small point - the export format is listed as CSV but has semicolon delimiters. I know this is common in countries with comma decimal notation, but if targeting US customers you might want to make the separator configurable.
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by nhebb 15y ago
The bottom line is, you're not going to get legal reform out of a bunch of lawyers (i.e. Congress, and in this case, the President).
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by nhebb 15y ago
I like the redesign (it's hard not to), but I had similar misgivings. The biggest issue for me is the mystery meat navigation. The icon that looks like an iPod would intuitively go to music, but mousing over you see that it's for electronic
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by nhebb 15y ago
I understand that it was relative to baseline. But the bottom line we cut 2.1T out of the budget and S&P had advised 4T. This does highlight the issue of how cutting is done, though. The budget had a trajectory of 10T in spending increa
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by nhebb 15y ago
According to the CBO last week's budget agreement cuts $2.1-2.4T in spending [1]. S&P's guidance was that we cut $4T. So either the CBO is off as well, or this typical Washington budgetary spin. [1] http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12357
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by nhebb 15y ago
For reference, here's the discussion of Top Gear's response to the Tesla lawsuit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2400822
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I read the article wondering the same thing. It didn't spell out whether the historian had formed his opinions based on personal accounts and comments, or whether he accumulated evidence to support a theory.
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I'm basically the same way with the added point that I don't really like talking on the phone. I'm not asocial - I'm just not a chatty guy.
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B) Shorten the term of patents for software. IIRC, the current term in the US is 20 years - basically the lifespan of the internet to date. Software innovation turns much faster than that. A patent term of 5 years would allow serious patent
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by nhebb 15y ago
I'd be interested to know a couple of things. First, what types of sites were the people in the study were looking at? My gut feel is that I look at news sites in a different way than I look at product sites, for example. Second, for produc
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by nhebb 15y ago
I'm not arguing. Economics is so closely tied to politics that economic debates become just as tedious as political ones. When I think of economics, I think of the quote by statistician George Box, "All models are wrong. Some are useful."
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by nhebb 15y ago
I remember Krugman writing that a $1.5 billion stimulus was needed, but is a stimulus of that magnitude really feasible? We spent half that and had trouble with funding enough "shovel ready" projects. I think it's harder to infuse $1.5 tril
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by nhebb 15y ago
While Washington was busy debating whether or not to sabotage the recovery by failing to raise the federal debt ceiling Up to now, Washington has thrown every Keynesian trick in the book at this recession, and it doesn't seem to have had
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by nhebb 15y ago
The CGI is impressive, but I didn't like a lot of the interior set design, especially those in King's Landing. It reminded me of Las Vegas or some mall shop that sells furnishings with faux patina.
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I want to agree with you because I find Vivek's writings repetitive, highly subjective, and often misleading. But to be fair, without seeing the study I can't be sure whether he's talking about startups or entrepreneurs in general. The titl
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by nhebb 15y ago
This piece leaves me unconvinced that some products don't spread virally. It only shows that they didn't spread virally in the environments measured. I could list dozens of products and services that I know about and use only because of wor

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