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by rdl 7y ago
Terrorist groups don’t have formal rosters the way sports teams do. It is sort of like “former intelligence officer”. It is definitely a strong argument (strengthened by time and distance separation, degree of clear separation or renuncia
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by rdl 7y ago
I believe it is 1) different venue for trial (administrative vs a criminal case) and possibly 2) different standard of proof, especially for non permanent residents. (Not a lawyer nor an immigration expert on US law, though.)
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by rdl 7y ago
A lot of those are because there are specific laws barring people who have done those things from entry. Ideally, having those questions on the form (and the obvious implication that a "yes" entry means a denial of visa) educates
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by rdl 7y ago
It's public handles only. They specifically say they do not want your passwords. They also will not circumvent any security, so if you have a twitter account locked, or fb posts to friends-only, they are not included. This is explici
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by rdl 7y ago
Obviously, being granted a visa to visit a country as a foreign person is a privilege under law; this is totally different from restrictions placed on citizens (or persons legally present in the country). This would be terrible if applied
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by rdl 7y ago
Their content creator tools are shit. No integration with anything people use, and they are pretty buggy. They are capricious censors. I’d be fine with a platform articulating an arbitrary censorship policy and then following it. They don’t
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by rdl 7y ago
This is great; it's basically either 1) an alternative to Patreon for developers (which is something I have always wanted to exist) or 2) an alternative to Patreon for Patreon creators who are the tiniest bit intelligent and able to ac
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by rdl 7y ago
I've spent months in both Paris and SF. I hate walking around SF, and enjoy walking around Paris, at least in the 1st-8th. Density is a feature for walking. Paris isn't perfect, but also has fewer piles of human excrement in th
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by rdl 7y ago
I wonder if a viable H-1B reform would be a mix of a much higher cash wage floor (maybe indexed by geography, but $80-100k across the US, and $150-200k in a place like SF or NY), a requirement that they be hired by firms with at least n (=1
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by rdl 7y ago
I think it's also a lot worse in politics, in that you might reasonably have someone try to entrap you purely for political reasons. There are "politics" in commercial and academic settings too, but not usually played at the
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by rdl 7y ago
I'd like to think I would be equally willing to assist people independent of gender, but there are absolutely some formats of activity where I'd be very reluctant to participate with a female, particularly a younger/whatever
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by rdl 7y ago
I would pay +$500 happily for that as a CTO config. Retaining the touchid button would be nice but not critical. I'd pay +$1000 for mechanical top row plus faceid. My problem is that due to wrist injury I angle my left hand enough th
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by rdl 7y ago
Nice! Geoff will do a great job running YC; it is interesting to see how long people have stayed involved, even compared to the VC industry baseline.
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by rdl 7y ago
I don't necessarily think accepting this kind of interim CEO thing is the worst possible call for a company sometimes, but it's definitely not something I'd want to publicize even after the fact as the "CEO", VC fir
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by rdl 7y ago
Re: bizzaro undercover boss, If it's for a week, "just don't fuck it up" would be fine. If I got airdropped into something where I had no experience or relevant insight (e.g. CEO of LVMH for a week), the only thing I co
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by rdl 7y ago
I'd be a lot sadder if I'd scraped and taken loans and graduated the previous year from that school with a lot of debt. Even worse if you rushed through and graduated early or something (maybe to save money?).
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by rdl 7y ago
HK China Mobile is cheap and also tunnels around GF.
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by rdl 7y ago
Google Fi on iPhone is pretty meh (if you travel a lot internationally), but there is one reasonable advantage of google fi over a lot of other operators: reasonably secure against malicious number porting. There are better options to prot
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by rdl 7y ago
Amazon generally has always treated sellers/vendors like shit, but has always been good with consumers once you escalate it appropriately. I’ve had a lot of weird cross border Amazon problems and mail to Jeff resolved.
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by rdl 7y ago
I'm the opposite; I think it's good to have kids but I personally don't like kids and do not have any (and at 40, it's increasingly likely I never will).
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by rdl 7y ago
The distribution of who has children seems highly dysgenic -- the smartest and overall "fittest" women (in particular) have children late (and thus few), if at all. This is almost always an individually-optimal choice at the time.
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by rdl 7y ago
Alaska is Boeing, Virgin is Airbus, Alaska/Virgin is primarily Boeing...
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by rdl 7y ago
My plan for books is to pull the rare/valuable ones, then subscribe for the $100/mo 100 book/mo plan at http://1dollarscan.com/ and send them all the rest, produce PDFs, and pulp the books. I have maybe 3000
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by rdl 7y ago
Tech productivity goes up 10x.
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by rdl 7y ago
Tezos (Nomadic Labs) | Technical/Documentation Writer | Paris, FR | ONSITE Tezos is a top-20 cryptocurrency project with a focus on on-chain governance and security. We're a decentralized ecosystem with multiple entities working t
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by rdl 7y ago
Audible (audiobooks generally, but generally just Audible) is my primary form of long-form media consumption. I don't watch TV, I don't watch movies, I don't listen to very much music. I probably consume 100-150 Audible book
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by rdl 7y ago
There are also a bunch of cases where you specifically want "odd primes" (i.e. excluding 2).
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by rdl 7y ago
I wonder if the correct solution is "send an informative pseudobounced-as-spam message to sender AND put it in the spam folder", for borderline spam (which passes the other checks). Downside is it provides a deliverability oracle
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by rdl 7y ago
I wonder what the minimum-effort private organization would be which could comply with IRS rules to offer free filing of extensions, 1040ez, etc. I'd happily throw in $1k toward it (even though I'm not eligible, and thanks to Pue
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by rdl 7y ago
I wonder what a stock portfolio based on shorting companies who sign contracts with IBM India, Accenture, Wipro, etc. for outsourcing would look like in terms of performance. Probably too much of a leading indicator to be truly useful.

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