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by philk 16y ago
Of course you could. The target market would be masochists and they spend money on those kind of products/services already.
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by philk 16y ago
I don't really see that there's a problem with incivility on HN. Of your suggestions I only take issue with the first; if I had to post with my full name I'd leave. I've already got Facebook/Twitter/blogging if I want to publish something
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by philk 16y ago
I'm not sure that I can agree. 1) The blog post of yours which attracted such vitriol was entitled "Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees"; you aren't using a conciliatory tone and it seems unfair to expect one in resp
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by philk 16y ago
If I were an AT&T shareholder I'd be somewhat concerned to have a CEO who thought "hiring someone make legal threats" was a better use of company funds than just filtering the guy out as spam.
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by philk 16y ago
I can think of a couple of changes that would make this sort of thing much rarer: a) Force universities to publish[1] data on average graduate salaries after graduation. That way noone can delude themselves that a $100K major in Cultural S
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by philk 16y ago
Given there are followers of Islam out there who (off the top of my head) bombed the Danish embassy in Pakistan, murdered Theo Van Gogh and put a bounty on Salman Rushdie's head I don't find it shocking at all that there were people willing
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by philk 16y ago
The problem for Facebook isn't that people are going to quit, it's that they're going to stop sharing anything worthwhile. Once the majority starts treating it as a glorified address book there's much less reason for people to visit regular
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by philk 16y ago
If that doesn't work I'm just going to learn some French words and randomly sprinkle them throughout my conversations. Merci. Baguette. Champagne. [1] [1] See? I sound erudite already.
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by philk 16y ago
The university is bringing itself into disrepute by punishing a student who's actually motivated to create something.
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by philk 16y ago
Well this ruins my strategy to become smart. Time to move onto plan B, "reading War and Peace and telling everybody about it".
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by philk 16y ago
On the plus side Lauren Rosenberg's name is out there on the internet marking her as the person stupid enough to walk down a very busy highway and then sue others when she gets hit by a car. This will doubtless come back to haunt her in the
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by philk 16y ago
Also bear in mind that amongst other things we select for people who can't understand how contraception works and things look even shakier.
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by philk 16y ago
When someone does something incredibly stupid and then has the temerity to sue others for their stupidity it's really hard to wish them anything but ill luck.
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by philk 16y ago
I don't have a problem with someone tinkering with coffee cup designs if it gives them enjoyment. I just find the pretense that it's going to make a non-negligible difference to the environment puzzling and intellectually dishonest. What'
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by philk 16y ago
I have a hard time seeing how this is anything other than a feel-good distraction that provides little in the way of real benefits. Non-disposable coffee cups do not make up a meaningful proportion of our environmental footprint as a whole
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by philk 16y ago
From the article itself: This is a breakthrough not only because it may give us a cure for an uncurable, incredibly nasty virus, but also because the same method might work for other viruses, and because we have woefully few effective anti
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by philk 16y ago
I'm not sure what's so awkward about telling someone that you want a Prenup in the first place. If you're close enough to someone to consider marrying them then you're close enough to tell them that you need one.
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by philk 16y ago
Very good point. I find it interesting, however, that they're pursuing a strategy that will eventually render them irrelevant.
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by philk 16y ago
Yes, and nifty cartoons like this are a great tool to make the truth more accessible to people. (On a side note we as a public get the press we deserve. If decent investigative reporting got more readers than Brad and Angelina On The Rock
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by philk 16y ago
It's a shame, but the best thing to do with Facebook now is to treat everything as public regardless of privacy settings. Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm off to update my status to "I'm a team-oriented go-getter who is passionate about del
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by philk 16y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. The sooner we put this vaccine/autism bullshit to rest the better.
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by philk 16y ago
What he means is the difference between someone who's been a programmer for ten years but has learned very little (and done the same easy stuff over and over) and someone who's been a programmer for ten years and has done really impressive
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by philk 16y ago
Not a good article at all. a) Nobody has ever confused a car with an investment. b) "Assuming a modest 10% return". 10% after taxes and inflation is not a modest return by any stretch of the imagination and I'd be thrilled if I could ach
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by philk 16y ago
This is a downright shoddy article. a) An explanation of the derivatives Buffett holds, and the reasons for holding them is provided in his 2008 shareholders letter: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2008ltr.pdf It should also be n
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by philk 16y ago
If he's been cleared of all the other allegations then they should be ignored. Otherwise all we have is "Innocent until accused of something".
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by philk 16y ago
I don't trust Facebook but to be honest I trust sensationalist Hollywood dramatizations even less.
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by philk 16y ago
You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack
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This is Why I Hate Wall Street People(fool.com)
25 points by philk 16y ago|6 comments
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by philk 16y ago
Given in 2008 MS was offering $33/share for Yahoo and it's currently trading at $16.47/share I'd suggest that Yahoo stockholders are used to losing out financially.
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by philk 16y ago
I can't help but wonder whether it's complex by design so people will stick with the defaults.

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