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by qq66 10y ago
The title is wrong. The title should be "How I ended up successful in tech through the hard work and perseverance of my mother and myself, with a side dish of good fortune."
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by qq66 10y ago
> Do you think that the people at Ford were 'punished' when the leadership of Ford made bad decisions that cost people their jobs? Yes
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by qq66 10y ago
One possible solution is the constitutional right to an attorney in civil cases as well as in criminal, but I don't know how you'd protect that against abuse.
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by qq66 10y ago
The problem is that a sufficiently wealthy adversary can fund a case with little to no merit and the worst case outcome is having to pay the attorney's fees of the defendant. In the best case you can just bleed your opponent dry. This
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by qq66 10y ago
I think it feels like a "more accurate satire" because it mixes things that are overexaggerated and underexaggerated, and only by a small amount in either direction. So some of the strange realities (an executive Rollerblading int
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by qq66 10y ago
It's relevant because it's a $3b sale of a data visualization software company, which is more than any YC acquisition and bigger than all but a handful of YC companies.
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by qq66 10y ago
The right to turn down all work, at an evolutionary level, is granted only to photosynthetic organisms.
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by qq66 10y ago
This reminded me of a question I've always had... there's always a lot of mass of the food not accounted for in the Fat/Carbohydrates/Protein/Fiber. For example, a can of food that weighs 454g net might only have 15
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by qq66 10y ago
And maybe someone who just got a liver transplant that you enabled announces it to their friends and family on Snapchat :)
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by qq66 10y ago
> If snapchat shutdown tomorrow would anyone actually care, or would they immediately shift to the next best platform? You can say this about a lot of great companies. Toyota shuts down tomorrow, I buy a Honda instead. Sure, I wanted the
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by qq66 10y ago
The problem here isn't Peter Thiel destroying Gawker, because this was a case where Gawker did do wrong and was found liable for damages. In effect, Thiel paid for Hogan's lawyer the way the government pays for criminal defendants
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by qq66 10y ago
You would have to have a direct link to your counterparty. Otherwise you'd have to account for why your upstream ISP had record of traffic that you cannot produce any records for.
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by qq66 10y ago
The government has an easy answer to this, data retention laws, which are already common in many countries. The more companies start doing this, the quicker the laws will be passed, and the stricter they will be when they are. It's a t
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by qq66 10y ago
It would be more interesting if the emoji descriptions were user-generated, because individual subgroups often use the same emojis to mean different things (or an emoji just takes on a popular meaning of its own).
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by qq66 10y ago
Telemarketers run thin margins and usually use cheaper providers than Twilio.
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by qq66 10y ago
The price per megabyte is high but the price per SIM card per month is very reasonable. Twilio has never competed on price, it's competed on being the absolute easiest service to integrate with the rest of your infrastructure. Looks li
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by qq66 10y ago
I strongly doubt that Uber is dumb enough to apply surge pricing specifically to emergency rooms.
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by qq66 10y ago
Yes, I'm thinking in particular of my wife's digital piano, which has some horrific obsolete Yamaha software to transfer files, and my 2006 Acura, which has a completely crummy in-dash navigation system. Both would have been much
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by qq66 10y ago
Very doubtful that this will lead to a lower-total-cost-of-ownership phone for anyone vs. buying the $30 Android phone and replacing it when it breaks. More likely that this will become a standard compute/networking interface into a bu
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by qq66 10y ago
I think that if this project succeeds, it will be as a standard phone you plug into a lot of different devices. Ara could be generic compute/storage/networking, and cheap enough for you to click one into your sprinkler system, you
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by qq66 10y ago
I don't really think there's a way to make a skateboard safe at speed. Ultimately if the skateboard stops suddenly, you continue to travel at the speed it was going, and unlike a bicycle, nothing is going to absorb damage except y
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by qq66 10y ago
A shaky looking video might be useless as entertainment but still may have forensic value in the event of a crash / etc.
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by qq66 10y ago
Yes, what I'm saying is that the incentive disadvantage is much bigger than the data disadvantage. Apple Maps is worse than Google Maps because Apple cannot justify the kinds of investments in product that Google can.
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by qq66 10y ago
The smaller userbase of Apple services compared to Google Maps/Spotify creates not only a data disadvantage but an incentive disadvantage. Apple needs to make Maps or Music or iMessage only good enough to keep you on the iPhone. Google
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by qq66 10y ago
It's hard to blame them for that, though. They made a blog with a 140-character limit and it became one of the most valuable companies in the world. Who knows what it will become if they fiddle with anything?
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by qq66 10y ago
I can imagine that once a person has more demands on their time, their willingness take the quick and dirty approach increases (TV babysitter, bribes for chores, etc)
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by qq66 10y ago
That does sound like a reasonable approach. Some chores are just part of your obligations to the family, others are "extra credit."
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by qq66 10y ago
Agreed, but there is a kernel of truth in it -- the consumer Internet was first marveled at for "look what you can learn!" and now has moved toward "look how you can be entertained!" The Web used to be a library replacem
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by qq66 10y ago
My network is administered by the building, both at home and at work, so I wouldn't be able to change router config.
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by qq66 10y ago
That's true. What I should have said was "market size problems." The size of the market depends on how many parents think that this would be a good idea to use with their kids.

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