omouse

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by omouse 10y ago
Public utility doesn't mean no one gets paid. You're the one not being realistic.
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by omouse 10y ago
why start a company when you can start a co-operative?
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by omouse 10y ago
Proposal to Twitter: let us own you as a public utility and turn into a co-operative.
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by omouse 10y ago
OpenWeb! :D
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by omouse 10y ago
> Because so much business is done in cash, very few people pay tax on the money they earn. >... The size of this shadow economy is reckoned to be as much as 20% of India's entire GDP. What's been the effect on the economy
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by omouse 10y ago
How many lines of code are you at? Have you written tests?
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by omouse 10y ago
It didn't confuse me but it did annoy me! The x-prime looked like the elm equivalent of mysql_real_escape from PHP. I've only been using the pipe syntax and this makes things simpler; backticks are special syntax, pipe syntax is j
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by omouse 10y ago
Intellectual property shouldn't exist because it grants a monopoly on ideas which is a violation of property rights. It's an unnatural monopoly.
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by omouse 10y ago
like the US Constitution and amendments?
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by omouse 10y ago
Good luck getting cash from the VCs here though, it's a struggle.
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by omouse 10y ago
> But then you walk into your apartment where you only have a (simple) bed and desk, maybe a few pieces of clothing on the ground and you feel empty and depressed. It's at that point you realize that you need to make your own fun a
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by omouse 10y ago
The only people who win with ads are those who make money already and don't really need the ads. It's not worthwhile.
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by omouse 10y ago
thanks for linking, I'd like to see if there's a news article on it as well.
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by omouse 10y ago
for devs it would actually get our salaries up to the right level, the big tech companies held down wages for 4-5 years.
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by omouse 10y ago
Why not just be a co-operative and really be meritocratic and fair?
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by omouse 10y ago
Intentional. It is a happy route to wearing glasses and a beard to deceive the world on your identificational categories. It's clever because someone will not usually be writing in this manner. The only good identifiers are "Ameri
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by omouse 10y ago
> If companies had that much leverage we would all work at minimum wage Yes, we would! And they try really hard to do that. > I've seen non-competes in contracts with 150k+ compensation. Getting 150k to do something is not coe
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by omouse 10y ago
> I guess the problem in practice is that employees just sign their employment contract no matter what it says, which is unfortunate. In other words, the problem is that they are coercive . Employees usually sign because the company h
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by omouse 10y ago
That's not the logical conclusion. Have you ever seen a large corp and how inefficient they are? The only reason they can remain large is because they can afford to buy politicians and legislation to keep their competitors small. Big C
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by omouse 10y ago
First you're assuming a certain level of intelligence and then using that to argue from authority; that the arguments put forth on news.yc are somehow "better" because of this assumed intelligence of the news.yc commenters. I
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by omouse 10y ago
Thank the lord, non-competes are a criminal waste of productivity.
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by omouse 10y ago
What's the problem with that? It seems to be working so far.
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by omouse 10y ago
>In a draft paper published last week, Shane Greenstein and his colleagues Feng Zhu and Yuan Gu found that over the years, individuals who edit political articles on Wikipedia seem to grow less biased — their contributions start to conta
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by omouse 10y ago
I like this idea because you can also adapt your schedule to others.
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by omouse 10y ago
There's a bit of a formatting issue later on in the article, apologies for that, it's the <> html issue ;/
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by omouse 10y ago
this is my favourite part: >let us consider that being ‘blocked from making changes’ can actually be a very good and necessary thing. It’s something that the senior engineers of yesteryear once had the power to do. They sometimes did it
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by omouse 10y ago
Have you ever had a project manager who has software development skills and experience? It seems like there is a class division now, even at startups where the devs are on the frontlines and all actual decisions are kicked up a hierarchy. I
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React tutorial converted to Elm(codementor.io)
5 points by omouse 10y ago|1 comments
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by omouse 10y ago
missed a comma there!
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by omouse 10y ago
Because canadians are risk-averse. Hence why only the banks have been continuing to make money; they even invest in each other to keep the risk-averse cycle going.

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