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by pemulis 14y ago
If you don't have any friends you can stay with in San Francisco, a good alternative is booking a bed in a hostel for a few weeks. They're cheap (as low as $25/day, if you're willing to share a room with a few people), centrally located, an
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by pemulis 14y ago
Do you know if anybody has pictures? That sounds interesting.
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The three main causes of homelessness in America are sudden economic misfortune, mental illness, and addiction. People in the first category are actively looking for a way to get back on their feet. Giving them money is better than giving t
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by pemulis 14y ago
For the most part, I only give money to homeless people who put out a cup or a hat and don't try to sell me on a story. I've been lied to so many times that I assume every story is a lie. I don't try to buy specific items like food or train
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by pemulis 14y ago
For those of you who want some background on why big publishers have mostly abandoned the midlist, this article[1] by Kevin O'Donnell is a good summary. Short version: A Supreme Court ruling related to tax markdowns on slow-selling books ma
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by pemulis 14y ago
Our stories are even closer than you think. I looked for people like me in my college town, but it was a small city with few tech businesses (mostly state government contractors), so I didn't find much. Now that I've returned to coding, I d
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by pemulis 14y ago
The problem with the manic loner method of learning to code is that it can lead to burnout really quickly. I taught myself to code in a similar way. It was my senior year in college, I was getting a degree in creative writing, and my only p
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DRM is Crushing Indie Booksellers Online(paidcontent.org)
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With Tor Books dropping DRM, can publishers finally stand up to Amazon?(blog.edityourstuff.com)
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I think that the two items are related, though. Could they have raised an A-round working just four days a week on a startup that was not profitable? I doubt it. If anyone knows of any cases where that happened, though, I'd be interested in
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by pemulis 15y ago
The root of the matter isn't some egalitarian desire to have a 50/50 gender distribution in tech. It's about acting professional and not making your female colleagues feel uncomfortable or alienated.
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by pemulis 15y ago
The claim in the article isn't that nobody would write and perform music without copyright, but that there would be less of it, and that it would be of lower quality. My claim is that labels, publishers, and music producers will exploit art
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Would you have a problem with it if Steam started serving games without paying the developers? Also, when he talks about the cost of producing music, he isn't referring to the cost of setting up a microphone, which is miniscule. What he's t
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by pemulis 15y ago
I see what you mean, since Y Combinator is an institution now, and its selection process has an impact on the overall ecosystem. But let's say Startup A, which is top-tier, would become a $75M company with Y Combinator's help, but would bec
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by pemulis 15y ago
I don't really see the moral problem. YC is a group of investors, not a charity. Of course they're going to look for the kind of hardy founders who would succeed even if they got rejected.
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And submarining Android app discovery doesn't hurt.
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I wonder if Teza even used the code Aleynikov took with him. If they didn't, would he even face civil penalties?
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by pemulis 15y ago
I wonder if we should take Milner's statement with a grain of salt. A reporter asked him, essentially, if he is planning on dumping his Facebook shares as soon as they IPO. There's no way his answer was going to be yes. He has to say no, an
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by pemulis 15y ago
I see where you're coming from, but there are a number of things that would need to happen for this to work. 1) The Assad family would have to find the threat from NATO credible. 2) They would have to believe that there is no chance of de
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by pemulis 15y ago
I was going off of a quick Google search of Bashar al-Assad's personal wealth, which led to an MSN article putting it at $112 billion ( http://money.ca.msn.com/savings-debt/gallery/dictators-and-t... ). Since huge chunks of the economy are
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by pemulis 15y ago
The total wealth of the Assad regime and their associates is in the hundreds of billions. You would have to pay them several trillion dollars at a minimum, though I doubt even that would be enough to convince them to leave.
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Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic(thewirecutter.com)
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That's not what the Citizens United decision says at all. It allows Super PACs to collect unlimited donations to run campaign ads supporting or opposing specific candidates. That may open the door to corruption in a certain sense, but it do
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by pemulis 15y ago
The important part, as the video points out, is the phrase "enables or facilitates." Google, Facebook, Youtube, and other sites that either allow user-generated content or generate links through web crawlers are "offering goods or services
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by pemulis 15y ago
That's just the inverse of going long on a stock: Other people observe you buying up many shares of a stock, causing the price to go up, which in turn causes your long bet to come through. The degree that this changes the market depends on
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China's Black Market City(reason.com)
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Average housing prices in China tripled from 2005 to 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_bubble
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by pemulis 15y ago
If every shop clerk, Starbucks barista, bus driver, electrician or other professional realized that there must be a better way of working, what would happen? The first three you listed are well on their way to being automated within a few
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by pemulis 15y ago
Not really. HFT is a subset of algorithmic trading, where many small orders are placed to take advantage of intraday (or intraminute, or even intrasecond) shifts in the spread. A large strategic order executed through an algorithm is a diff
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by pemulis 15y ago
If that sort of thing was effective, income inequality would have dropped over the past 60 years as government regulations raised the minimum wage and shortened the work week. Instead, it dramatically increased. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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