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by nirvana 15y ago
It was the US government that created the drug testing for jobs, when they passed laws requiring it for a variety of government jobs. This had a secondary effect of requiring it for private employers working with government, and then it gr
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Integrity is standing on principle, even when you don't like the outcome. Thus integrity requires me to point out that in this case, Maryland is violating people's rights. While I think employers should not ask for these passwords, and don
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>>You are why Hacker News is in decline and why anyone who is capable of argument-- such as myself-- is hesitant to post here >I'd hate to see what happens when you aren't being hesitant. Thank you for a perfect example of the k
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>"If you are claiming something without evidence (which you did)" False. >"the responsibility is on you to provide evidence that you are right, not on him to prove that you are not." False, and False. He made a claim, it is his res
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Your comment is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. You made six claims, all of which are false, and none of which you provide any evidence of. To best of my recollection, this "counter-proof" was the movie 2001: A Space Odesse
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Which is why there are botnets of millions upon millions of Macs out there infected by viruses, while its really big news that a trojan manages to get 600,000 infections on Windows. Oh, no, wait, its the reverse!
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It never did. It has simply been much more secure. The "security by obscurity" claim was a rationalization of windows fans to justify why the mac was so much more secure. Anyone who genuinely understand security understands that obscurity
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> They seem more concerned about not letting users jailbreak their devices than anything else. Ironic that you would use a feature that excludes malware from running but pisses off android fans, as an attempt to claim that Apple is not
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Especially the fact that Apple's OS security has been solid, all thru the past two decades, with very few exploits, while Microsofts has bee wide open during those period, and Microsooft deliberately chose not to close the holes because the
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Can you name a single mac virus that has infected a significant number of machines in the wild since the mid 1990s? Note a Trojan, is not the same thing as a virus. A virus self propagates, a trojan propagates when a user overrides a secur
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The acquisition was in stock and cash. So the VCs that put up the $50M may have just gotten $100M in pre-IPO Facebook stock, which may well dramatically increase their return post IPO.
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This article is pretty good and identifies a number of the reasons, but I think there's a couple broader reasons it misses, that effect government's actions in other areas as well: 1. Government's incentives are misaligned. Politicians wa
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> "Please, they're a electronics designer. They contract with whoever bids lowest, and always have." Do you have a cite for your claim that Apple has never been holding their producers up to a standard of quality, and has been entering
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> Watching really smart people repeat this emotional and unreasonable argument If you're going to make a claim about the quality of an argument, please back it up. Otherwise it comes off as a form of ad hominem. I'm not making an emoti
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"claim that Apple is somehow teaching the poor Chinese, who are incapable of ethical action. It sounds very insulting the way you put it :(" China is a country that only liberalized and allowed capitalism a few decades ago. It has started
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The real irony, to my mind is this: Apple is the company with the most integrity I've ever known. This manifests itself everywhere- from product quality to service at Apple stores. Apple has been proactive in making sure their employees are
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This is one of the reasons I'm kinda ambivalent about taking money. I've been working for startups since the 1990s (and starting companies too). I've seen the down years in 1995, 2001-2003, 2008-2009, and I've seen the manias of 1997-2000
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This was a big thing in the 1990s. A lot of people walked around with heads up displays attached to their glasses. I'm sure technology has gotten smaller, but I've not seen anything indicating that google has made a break thru. The goog
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I'm talking about the quality of the products and the management. The Store does great because they have good customer service-- I don't fault them there-- but it is still chicken wire and duck tape from an engineering viewpoint. AWS has g
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A, B and C are never really defined in these discussions, so I'm going to use my perspective: C programmers can't do FizzBuzz[0]. B programmers can, and LOVE PUZZLES. A developers are the ones whose idea of a "puzzle" is solving the funda
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by nirvana 15y ago
When Appsterdam came about, I went and researched the tax implications of starting a business in the Netherlands. The Dutch-American Friendship treaty essentially gives americans immediate residency if they start a business (worth somethin
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by nirvana 15y ago
I don't know why the earlier link was killed... but this is a useful service, and frankly, I think much more relevant to startups than all the political links and partisan anti-Apple stuff that gets posted to the front page.
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The difference, near as I can tell (since I'm talking about what two other people are saying and thus quite likely could be misreading either or both of you) is the method by which this wealth concentration occurs. To use extreme examples,
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by nirvana 15y ago
There is fundamentally sound economics behind the authors theory, but there's also really easy to understand logic: IF you have a strong state that controls the economy, then everything that is done must be authorized by the state. This is
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Wow. While people like to paint Steve Jobs as sort of a one dimensional character ("Pirates of Silicon Valley" is a good example) he's actually fascinating in large part, I think, because he's really an enigma-- clearly brilliant and has a
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by nirvana 15y ago
Steve Blank is shooting himself in the foot, I think. He's said (repeatedly?) that he won't make ebooks versions of his books because he wants people to be able to write in them, and to highlight things. I have around 800[1] books in iBooks
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You're very close. I agree with "Skip"[1] the rest. However, don't bother with a team or co-founders. Just build an experiment yourself. Then use that experiment to find a co-founder if you don't have one. I think co-founders should be peo
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I agree with you. The thing I'm debating is what is the appropriate further action you should take before you leave. I once left an interview because the NDA they wanted me to sign gave them rights to all of my work for the next 6 months,
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And where exactly did I say it wasn't work? I said that it might not have the same interruptions costs, and I said this as a way of acknowledging the people in this thread who say that they think open plan offices are great. So, what you di
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by nirvana 15y ago
Its a real shame that people will seek any excuse to misrepresent what one says-- as you do-- because they choose to feel offended. If you'll read what I wrote, you'll notice that I was granting a possibility to the people who disagree with

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