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by noahc 14y ago
The simple answer is that you redefine mainstream. Mainstream doesn't mean that everyone uses it like Facebook, but instead that "everyone" uses it just like "everyone" uses shopify or github. Quora goes mainstream when a certain elite, muc
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by noahc 14y ago
Inflated rounds tend to build on each other because no one wants to take a down round and as long as their is forward progress there should always be more value in the business than six months ago.
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I view quora as a highend QA website that connects me to experts. I have access to people with deep understandsings of technology, business, science, lingustics and culuture all while being "peer reviewed". I dont think the lower class and
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by noahc 14y ago
You could donate it to a charity, but they wouldnt have to spend it. This is what gates and soros do. Its basically a charity that funds other charities as they see fit. A charitable trust with pretax dollars would be an even better idea ho
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by noahc 14y ago
I know of an organization where if you wanted to purchase say $50,000 worth of new computers, HR (yes, human resources) had the power to make that purchase very difficult. It wasn't because HR actually had any say in the matter, but instead
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by noahc 14y ago
My understanding is that ~1M a year isn't enough to justify most people loosing their US citizenship over. However, Derek isn't exactly most people. My general sense on the issue is that money, in particular taxes, is something Derek worrie
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by noahc 14y ago
What law specifically are you talking about? Federal unions have complained that their low union membership totals is due to the federal government being the largest ‘right-to-work’ employer. Right-to-work allows an employee to determine w
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by noahc 14y ago
I'm not sure that is correct. If you look here[1], at the federal level it's about 31%. I also know of several teachers who are not in a Union. As far as Union jobs go, it depends. There are Union jobs that require it and don't require it.
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by noahc 14y ago
For those wondering about the Tax issue, I doubt that is the case because of: http://sivers.org/trust He put the company into a charitable trust, which isn't ever taxed except for on what he receives from the trust, which is set to the lo
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by noahc 14y ago
How is a union a regulation? A union is a contractual obligation between workers that they will only work under certain conditions.
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by noahc 14y ago
You might want to start here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/rYKceEmOr/ You can make almost any page load quickly if you have only five requests and about 3kb of Images and CSS together. Google's homepage is considered pretty minimal and
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by noahc 14y ago
Here is what you need to do: 1. Learn HTML/HTML5 - I can't really recommend anything here. I just sort of picked it up. 2. Learn Ruby on Rails - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ . You can probably pick up a lot of HTML and CSS from this tuto
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by noahc 14y ago
No, pretty soon we'll see WWSD t-shirts and wrist bands. I think this is a net win for HN!
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It violates the "only thing I ask..." line because it requires that all derivative works be GPL as well.
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by noahc 14y ago
Introvert has a definition which is colloquial, which is what you're pointing to. It also has a definition used in psychology as well, which is something completely different, than the term used colloquially.
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by noahc 14y ago
I typed in "w sushi" into chrome and I got https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ix=ucb&sourceid=c... which google set to my default. I expected to get " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi Do I have to setup all these different keyw
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I have DDG set as my default search engine, but can you do the following: ! fuji Ames => takes me to Fuji Steak House in Ames Iowa directly !w Sushi => Takes me Directly to the article on Sushi on Wikipedia !m 801 grand ave Des Moin
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by noahc 14y ago
The technology is trivial, but the reasons behind it and philosophy that drives it aren't. Google isn't going to come along and say, "oh, guys, you're right...Wave, Buzz, Google+ all a mistake. Social Graph..Mistake!. We're sorry. We are ro
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by noahc 14y ago
I'll assume you're correct in your explanation. I've never heard it explained that way. But as a native speaker "that" sounds slightly more correct than "which" because it seems less formal, however, if I heard a non-native speaker say "whi
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by noahc 14y ago
I agree the meta conversation is of a particularly low value, and it wasn't my intention. Unfortunately, it's towards the top too! I went back and looked for were I was slightly patronizing and the only thing I could find was this line: "So
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I don't think he should feel obligated to deliver. But, I think comments should generally add to the conversation. If they don't, I tend to down vote them.
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Maybe my comment helped make it the most popular comment ever. If so, I'm glad I could help! So, you had two of your photos chosen for this release or no? Is that rare? Thanks for the context in how it works. Do you see any trends in what g
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by noahc 14y ago
You are correct. Thanks.
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I don't always down vote, but when I do I prefer to leave a comment. I've probably down voted someone less than 20 times on HN, but when I do I like to leave a comment as to why. Its been the case where I've been down voted and wondered why
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Downvoted. Twilight frost is an awesome background though. You should add more info like "Hey, a little OT, but here's how the process works. Etc" to avoid down votes for lack of contribution.
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This is pretty common. In many cases they are strictly the hands and eyes of the technician. I know a large company 300+ where their IT guy was there only to call someone who knew more. I'm also familiar with a situation at many smaller ban
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by noahc 14y ago
Many bubbles are caused by a change in legislation that either incentivizes bubble participation or removes barriers to bubble participation. We saw this with the policies the Bush Administration adopted to further encourage an ownership so
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The point is that those people who are most likely to have a negative opinion of this are the types that read Ayn Rand and quote her. It's not so much a statement about her beliefs (I could see this going either way, really), but a statemen
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by noahc 14y ago
It sounds to me like all charges are criminal in your mind if they involve a finding of the court. This is not true
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Bradley, Keep on keeping on. You made the right choice and in the long run dealing with the take down notices and legal wrangling would have been a full time job. What most people probably wont understand is that no sane business is going t

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