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by pdq 11y ago
Right, the standard contract term is called 'consideration', meaning that for a contract to be valid and enforceable, each side must be giving up something of value as part of the transaction. There's a pretty good summary he
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What does Uber have to do with the story, other than to demonize the company? Was the suspect also a "milk drinker", and if so, why not put that into the story as well?
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by pdq 11y ago
He was responding to the "last few classes". Those are from 2007 and 2009 respectively.
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Aereo Founder’s New Startup Wants to Bring You Wi-Fi–And Cut Out the Providers(wired.com)
47 points by pdq 11y ago|28 comments
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IBM has transitioned into an enterprise services/consulting firm over the past 15 years or so. Their game plan is to get huge $$ contracts from Fortune 50 companies and government agencies, which is a long and costly process. This kin
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by pdq 11y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-cheung-brings-homejoy-c... https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e...
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by pdq 11y ago
> Tangent but: I doubt the rate raise will stick. They'll probably have to cut it again. I see a "planet Japan" scenario in which global central banks are zero-bound for decades, if not "forever". Rapid growth is
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by pdq 11y ago
If you want an embedded programming, OS, or firmware job, your best bet is with a hardware/semiconductor company. No, you don't need a masters or doctorate -- a CS degree is just fine. I highly recommend taking a low level job;
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by pdq 11y ago
Right, this is text-message-only Zirtual, at $100/hour. They also include the standard Magic physical services as well, but I don't see why you'd pay for physical at $100/hour plus the Magic surcharge, when you can use
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by pdq 11y ago
THIS. I remember Reddit being seen as the red-headed-stepchild to Digg, back when you could get 3-letter usernames. Digg was estimated to be worth $200MM. And then Digg v4 got released in 2010, with a huge community uproar. People flocke
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NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files(stratos.seas.harvard.edu)
76 points by pdq 11y ago|9 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
Yelp killer? Let me know when Facebook has a dedicated app on your smartphone that doesn't require login which searches for businesses in a map view, with pictures, ratings, and reviews.
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Creating high resolution integrated circuit die photos with Hugin or ICE(righto.com)
26 points by pdq 11y ago|0 comments
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The same way anyone gets a raise: increase your skillset, show your employer how much more productive you are (with numbers), or get work from another employer at a higher wage.
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by pdq 11y ago
Great article. I'm fully in agreement with your analysis and am a huge proponent of free markets solving health care in the US. One striking area you can see the difference in the US is in elective surgeries -- for example cosmetic su
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by pdq 11y ago
In what universe could interest rates ever be negative and considered "natural"? Or even a zero interest rate being considered "natural". If you believe that to be true, what rational entity would take the risk of loani
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by pdq 11y ago
This story has been "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" for more than the past year. Every 4 weeks they threaten and no change. I'm hoping they finally move, because rates have been too low too long. Yes I realize this is likely the w
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by pdq 11y ago
SoundCloud - http://soundcloud.com This is the YouTube of music, and has been exploding in popularity.
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by pdq 11y ago
Pretty cool, this is like virtual colocation. I have a few suggestions: 1. You should put up a performance/benchmark page to compare to both bare metal and virtualized competitors (ala your "value"). For example, here'
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Don't look down: Tech unicorns face reckoning as valuations detach from reality(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by pdq 11y ago|0 comments
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This bureaucratic system also survives due to the vested interests of CPAs, tax preparers, and tax attorneys making their living off of it.
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Mythryl programming language author is dying(mythryl.org)
26 points by pdq 11y ago|1 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
Both Pinterest and Twitter are getting hammered by Instagram in popularity over the past 2 years. Have a look at Google Trends [1]. [1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=instagram%2C%20twitt...
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by pdq 11y ago
This is a partial ALU and Register File. It is not a CPU.
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by pdq 11y ago
You turned Reddit into a Facebook feed (or LinkedIn feed). I don't think that's an improvement.
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There's a 9 letter problem facing Twitter, even beyond monetizing revenue. Instagram. EDIT: you can downvote me, but have a look at Google Trends [1] [1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=twitter%2C%20instagr
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by pdq 11y ago
Note this is the same Clifford Wolf who has built a Verilog synthesizer [1] and reverse engineered the Lattice FPGA bitstream format [2]. On a slightly different topic, the RISC-V group has built an impressive Javascript RISC-V emulator tha
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Fuzzy string matching using cosine similarity(blog.nishtahir.com)
83 points by pdq 11y ago|18 comments
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by pdq 11y ago
> It's becoming clear that increased automation as well as the rise of artificial intelligence is threatening ever more jobs. This sentence is absolute FUD. Every technical revolution over the past 300 years has been made with auto
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by pdq 11y ago
Here is what I don't understand. Uber is not supplying the cars -- the drivers are. If you look at virtually any other "employee" field (trucking, taxis, etc), the company owns and maintains the fleet of vehicles, and the em

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