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by patmcc 12y ago
I'm a lot freer with upvotes than downvotes - I use upvotes for both agreement and good comments, but will downvote only for clearly poor quality comments / trolls.
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by patmcc 12y ago
I'm in a very similar boat - my parents were 48 and 38 when I was born (I'm 29), so they're really starting to get old. My wife and I decided screw it, we're going to have kids now, despite not being in the best places p
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by patmcc 12y ago
The hugely surprising fact of the article, for me, was: "Just 2,000 babies have been born from cryogenically frozen eggs in the world" That's crazy to me; this all sounds like a huge bet on complete unknowns. I also wonder if
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by patmcc 12y ago
I'm no longer a Vancouver resident, but I know people who are voting no not because they think transit doesn't need the money (it definitely does), but because: 1) Sales tax is a regressive way to tax people. 2) Translink, the com
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by patmcc 12y ago
Why are light listeners like the example paying for Spotify? Shouldn't they just stick to the free version rather than going for premium? Following this suggested model, free users listening wouldn't help the artists at all - is t
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>It's more like you start a new pizza company and you're not allowed to use Stallman's Pizza Cookbook, which has some recipes you like. You can still hash out the recipes by yourself, with much annoying time and effort
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by patmcc 12y ago
For anyone who thinks this is high: when my wife (and lots of other women in her social group) is in the market for clothes, or wedding ideas, or baby/nursery ideas, she goes to Pinterest first. That is huge potential for monetizatio
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by patmcc 12y ago
A swipe pattern is no different than a password, either legally or practically speaking. It's just a nine digit number (with restrictions); the fact that it's swiped instead of entered is for ease of your own memory, nothing else.
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by patmcc 12y ago
Yes, of course. Companies shouldn't be forced to provide service if they feel it's not in their best interest. If you were a consultant (you may be), would it be reasonable to force you to accept any client? Things that serve all
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by patmcc 12y ago
I think this is a really strong post, because it reminds us that not all vulnerabilities are purely technical. Like a very clever and specialized phishing attack. As an aside: if anyone wants a keybase invite hit me up, I've still got
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by patmcc 12y ago
I love food and eating, but there are certainly meals where I'm hungry and want to eat something, but don't have the time/energy to make something nutritious and complete (lunch is often this way for me). If Soylent was cheap
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by patmcc 12y ago
Are they misrepresenting you? Are they saying "dominickt was a co-founder, currently holds shares, and gave us an incredible start" or "dominickt is still active in the company"? I think that's a major difference.
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by patmcc 12y ago
Increased human unemployment might, actually. If both cost and time weren't huge barriers, I expect more people would ride. But I think the future for humans looks somewhat similar to that of horses today; a small number of us will sti
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by patmcc 12y ago
My point wasn't that elements of those jobs couldn't be done (or even done better, by some measures) by machines, but that there exist people with a strong preference to humans in those jobs. Take croupiers; we have very good vide
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by patmcc 12y ago
I wasn't suggesting we invent jobs to keep people busy - I think we should strive towards employment being required for no one. Once food and material goods are post-scarcity, absolutely they should be provided to all. But as long as a
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by patmcc 12y ago
I really can't imagine 100% unemployment, because I think there will always be a demand for actual human people in some roles: hairdresser, waiter, singer, prostitute, masseuse, athlete, actor, croupier, etc. Will robots/AI be goo
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by patmcc 12y ago
That 30% isn't for nothing - it's for payment processing, reach, marketing, infrastructure, testing/approval (you may or may not like this, but users probably do like it), app delivery, etc. Like it or not, those things all a
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by patmcc 12y ago
The E in P/E is earnings (profit), not revenue. Your valuation is probably an order of magnitude high. Also your first link uses the vague "sales" which could mean end retail sales, in which case revenue to P&G would be e
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by patmcc 12y ago
I find it helps in recognizing connections - "Susan Smith? That doesn't ring a bell...ohhh that Susan, I guess she married and took his name." But I take your point, it can absolutely be used in a negative way.
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by patmcc 12y ago
Strike, if you're unionized. Quit, if you aren't. Encourage others like you to do the same. This isn't going to get better if you're willing to keep doing this job at that wage. You really need to walk away.
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by patmcc 12y ago
There's no real advantage - we currently have autopilot that's quite good, so you really have the best of both worlds - skilled humans plus useful computers. Hijacking is not that big a concern, and the cost of human pilots isn&#x
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by patmcc 12y ago
If you're wondering (like I was) why MA thinks this guy owes anything at all, it's buried in the middle: "Again, I hadn't lived there or worked there since 2003, but I did own part of a business that was headquartered in
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by patmcc 12y ago
The reason Log Drivers don't exist anymore isn't because of logging trucks, it's because the quality wood adjacent to rivers is mostly gone. Water transportation and sorting of logs is still very much a thing; come up to coas
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by patmcc 12y ago
If we had that, I suspect lots of people would say "ah, well, that's just a clever bit of programming - it's not really thinking/feeling/alive/conscious/whatever, so I'd hardly call that good AI"
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by patmcc 12y ago
>>We are many, many decades away from this being even close to a reality. If there aren't companies like SpaceX (or governments doing similar work) we'll never be any closer to that reality. Mines on the moon and O'Neil
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by patmcc 12y ago
It's not about whether they're smart or not - it's that a multimillionaire can lose a bunch of money on a private company and not be out their retirement savings. That's not nearly as true for the typical middle class pe
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by patmcc 12y ago
Sounds great - just make a list of what government spending is unnecessary, and compare with similar lists created by 10 random people from your city/state/nation. Everyone has a different idea of which spending is unnecessary and
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by patmcc 12y ago
Great idea; it's a bit unclear to me how to become a user (rather than advertiser), there's reference to an app but I couldn't find anything. I wouldn't mind getting photos printed for free with ads on the back. Still in
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by patmcc 12y ago
It's interesting, quitting a job and drastically changing your life could actually make financial sense if it got you to quit smoking. Assuming: 1 pack/day, $10 a pack (this is close in my province), 5% interest, over 30 years, ha
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by patmcc 12y ago
Depending on the size of the average transaction, that $0.30 could move the fee (taken as a percentage) into that bracket. Possibly kickstarter is just being a bit loose with the phrasing here, and possibly they're under a enterprise a

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