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Ask HN: What smartphone should I get if I'm concerned about privacy?
7 points by padobson 8y ago|9 comments
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by padobson 8y ago
I like the leadership of Domino's here. As logistics focus more on the home as the final destination, companies like Amazon, FedEx, Uber, or even Postmates are going to have to look at infrastructure conditions as a threat to their bus
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by padobson 8y ago
What if your house was the shopping mall? When Sears, Macy's, JCPenny, etc all die, there's going to be a lot of shopping malls with big empty spaces. If those spaces were transformed to residential, it'd be trivial to walk t
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by padobson 8y ago
All of this. There is no defense for hiding the truth from your customers. How is anyone helped by selling tofu to someone that wanted to buy beef? And if something can be labeled GMO or non-GMO, why can't it be labeled lab-created or
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by padobson 8y ago
I think the right is correct that a victim mentality is extremely dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. This can't go understated. Life is hard and often tragic. Everyone will be a victim of injustice, often grave injustice,
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by padobson 8y ago
I'm willing to accept there is racism in the tech industry, but I'm not willing to accept that it is the ONLY variable keeping black folks from tech jobs. This problem needs a real, statistical, multivariate study. Any publication
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by padobson 8y ago
I'm with you. I have to believe a joint country climate accord where member nations pledge to suck X gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere (or finance those that do) is a much easier political sell than 1) taxing fossil fuel compani
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by padobson 8y ago
It doesn’t matter if your audience doesn’t know what a gadrooned platter is. Often people are flattered to have an unusual word thrust upon them. They say, Well, that author thinks I know what he’s talking about! This is one of those rare
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by padobson 8y ago
Alito wrote for the majority, joined by Thomas, Gorsuch, Roberts, Kagan and Kennedy. Breyer dissented in part. Ginsberg and Sotomayor dissented completely.
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by padobson 8y ago
Do Canadian companies make that much less money than American ones? Why should they get to pad their profit margins because 120k CAD is "good income"?
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by padobson 8y ago
The relevant PG essay on submarines: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by padobson 8y ago
This is an excellent list and fairly close to what I do. Diet and exercise can be game changers. I jog for exercise. When I'm dealing with a deep bout of depression, nothing works better than a fast mile. A comfortable pace for me is a
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by padobson 8y ago
Working in the eastern time zone for clients on the west coast has allowed me to find some ways to solve this problem. The time difference is about a "half day", the one PG is describing here. So if I schedule all of my meetings i
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by padobson 8y ago
I'd suggest finding a co-founder. This can be difficult depending on where you live. Go to a meetup and talk about your idea. Find someone who gets jazzed about it and ask them to come on board. Give them some tasks to do to prove they
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by padobson 8y ago
If I was going to sum-up this comment, it'd be something like "Sell what you know." The viral growth of companies started by 20-something founders is fueled by 20-something consumers. The growth of companies started by 40-som
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by padobson 8y ago
I can't help but wonder if the person that made this is biased towards finding bias.
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by padobson 8y ago
Great reference! I seem to remember some old computer game, I think it was Amazon Trail 3[0], in which there was a side quest where you had to trade rubber for other items while near Fordlandia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by padobson 8y ago
Has anyone ever considered moving to some wilderness and just developing an urban center there, a la Sim City? If there's such a shortage of cities, perhaps building one from scratch is a viable option.
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by padobson 8y ago
The new Fitch analysis make it abundantly clear that cities are hot, and suburbs are not. I'm not sure this is true. I'd say it's more like demand in cities is outpacing supply, whereas that's not the case in the subur
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by padobson 8y ago
I know there are efficiency tips here, but the "one hour" thing seems like click bate. For example, it says writing topics should be limited to topics you already know or have been studying recently to limit research time. Well, t
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by padobson 8y ago
As I read this, the New Yorker seemed to highlight the problems from a more leftist, social safety net perspective. The Chinese immigrants circumvented the tax code in every way they could - working under the table, starting unregistered bu
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by padobson 9y ago
This is just bad business, only particularly egregious because it's in healthcare. No great product mind I've ever studied sacrificed making a great product for a more profitable, adequate product. In the long run, the company tha
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by padobson 9y ago
Your critique of my post is valid and I agree with it, but I'm not sure my ultimate point is diminished. From what I've read, wealth and income mobility are correlated, if over longer timelines. Finding good statistics on wealth m
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by padobson 9y ago
>> Inequality may be a problem , but it's not an existential threat or even a primary concern to developed countries >If a single person's net worth is more than a medium sized country's GDP, we DO have a problem .
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by padobson 9y ago
Whenever I see these inequality articles, I feel the need to mention a few things: - The "1%" is ever changing, the mobility in and out of that group has only increased over time [0] - Most measures of inequality are local or nati
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Universities Taking on Debt to Attract Students Taking on Debt(2014)(forbes.com)
1 points by padobson 9y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 9y ago
There must have been lots of cultural clashes during the dawn of civilization between farmers and herders, because the Cain vs. Abel story seems to pop up in different forms fairly often.
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by padobson 9y ago
What's truly interesting about this is your assumption that God is an individual, a single person. What's more interesting is the comment you're replying to actually describes the super-personal nature of God - what Christian
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by padobson 9y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Those passages in the Bible are some of the most relevant to the OP.
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by padobson 9y ago
spending money on stupid stuff The problem here, as with any economic ideas, is properly defining "stupid stuff". Value has to be defined on an individual basis. If someone gets more entertainment from digging holes and filling

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