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   by pdog 13y ago

   Is this actually true, or is it water vapor (H2O) that we're expelling each night?
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   by pdog 13y ago

   > As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. What can we do to improve the default pictures
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   by pdog 13y ago

   Luckily, everyone with deposits in Mt.Gox can convert them to bitcoins and send them to some other address. This is one of the benefits of Bitcoin.
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   by pdog 13y ago

   Wow. People pay a lot of money for snake oil.
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   by pdog 13y ago

   Actually, visiting a local market and cooking at least one meal at "home" sounds like a great break from all the restaurants and cafés.
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   by pdog 13y ago

   Certainly budget-conscious people too. And some places have great local fish, meat, and produce markets.
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   by pdog 13y ago

   > At an Airbnb, you get access to a kitchen, you can stay in a neighborhood with character (hotels tend to congregate around touristy areas), and you can stay at some pretty unique places. There are hotels in colorful neighborhoods wit
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   by pdog 13y ago

   I understand and I'm sympathetic to what you're saying. It's a bit counterintuitive, but I'll try to elaborate more on the points you've made: > They are parasites because they are spending money Parasites are
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   by pdog 13y ago

   Your cousin and her friends aren't parasites for delegating the management of their wealth to professionals. They'd be idiots not to get first-class lawyers, tax advisors, accountants, estate managers, and investment advisors to r
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    by pdog 13y ago

    This article would have been a lot better without those last few paragraphs.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    > He went to work for IBM, overseeing the construction of their big plant in South San Jose. A while back, the entire compound was razed. They replaced it with a Lowe's and a parking lot. Let's thank the baby boomer generatio
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    by pdog 13y ago

    And yet, still one didn't leak. Not one.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    You can subset Font Awesome. Check out icnfnt, for example: http://www.icnfnt.com/ It's currently at version 3.0.2, but I'm sure they'll update it to 3.2 soon.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    This ties into what Nassim Taleb says about fragility and "antifragility" -- a society that allows certain transgressions (to a degree) can be more robust and healthier. Arguably, we have that now. For example, selective enforceme
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    by pdog 13y ago

    Evan Williams isn't even swole. Why is he qualified to give workout advice?
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    by pdog 13y ago

    It's nice to see people like Mr. Wilson stand up for the rights of U.S. citizens by quoting passages from 1984 , but what can he and other influential members of the tech industry actually do to change the direction of the country?
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    by pdog 13y ago

    For those that don't remember, the biggest innovation in workstations is that we can build them out of consumer-grade PC parts.
18. 768.▲
    by pdog 13y ago

    They're already configurable variables in LESS: just change @gridGutterWidth etc.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    Am I the only person that saw woodegg.com as "Woo Degg"?
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    by pdog 13y ago

    For those wondering why, check out slides 14 and 15 of the 2013 KPCB Internet Trends report: http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...
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    by pdog 13y ago

    Agreed! Either would have been a better example for this project, I think.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    > If the history of the Internet has proven anything, it is that open technologies lead to unbounded innovation and unprecedented value added to the entire economy. When has that been true for hardware ? It seems to me that the most
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    by pdog 13y ago

    > As soon as you let individuals and businesses decide how they go about it, it's a race to the bottom... Or, you get free markets and laissez-faire capitalism, the greatest wealth-producing system known to mankind.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    Previously, Julian Assange met with Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. Schmidt and Cohen had requested the meeting to discuss ideas for their book, "The New Digital Age". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574589
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    by pdog 13y ago

    How many startup employees (not founders or investors) are getting even 0.5-1% effective equity?
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    by pdog 13y ago

    I could give you a few numbers on cougars ;)
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    Cougar Night in Silicon Valley(vanityfair.com)

    25 points by pdog 13y ago|15 comments
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    by pdog 13y ago

    But... the USA is the greatest country in the world by a lot of metrics... and it isn't a stretch to say NYC is the greatest city in the USA.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    When it comes to venture capital investing, you take your "unfair" advantage and leverage it to the hilt. It doesn't make sense to hedge your bets with a decentralized network of partners.
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    by pdog 13y ago

    It's interesting that his employment offer was a salary plus a $300K bonus over three years , and just a few years later GitHub is valued at around $1B. Not only that, they didn't take any funding in the beginning. (It was bootstrapped com