richard_cubano

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by richard_cubano 12y ago
Or you could, uh, buy Berkshire Hathaway...
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
It's not funding. It's the relative power of unions. In California, a cop costs $200k a year, when pensions and health care are factored in.
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
I have trouble understanding the purpose of consciousness. Some argue that it improves survival because an animal that has a certain type of mental model of the world will perform better. So, evolution has produced a brain which "trick
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
This has been covered ad nauseum elsewhere in the financial press, but you're assuming Yahoo pays zero corporate taxes on its sale of Alibaba shares. That's not how the world works. You need to deduct something like 40% from the v
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
Wouldn't it be even worse for other wearable companies if people could, you know, buy the iWatch in time for the holidays?
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
The single version of the watch is spot on. As is the implicit point that maybe they could have hit this year's holiday season if they hadn't tried to make so many different versions. The best part of what you wrote is the end, wh
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
Who drives in New York?
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
This.
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
Maybe they'll finally start running Capitol Corridor trains to Reno? That would be lovely in the winter for heading up to Tahoe for skiing...
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
I liked the one that was a C program that used argv[0] (or argv[1] - cant remember) as the connection string for an SQL database. Then the answer was SQL injection. I mean, sure, you can argue that's a flaw with the program, but it&#x2
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
You should have moved to Oakland. There's plenty of cheap real estate there, and it's on BART.
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by richard_cubano 12y ago
He says that the reduction in sensitivity on the digitizer "scared the hell out of [him]." Why do people say stuff like this? You know what scares the hell out of me? Getting mauled by a bear.
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by richard_cubano 13y ago
Welcome to the bubble.
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by richard_cubano 13y ago
Pull Request if anyone wants to see the code. Sorry this is in 2 places. https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/pull/13
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by richard_cubano 13y ago
I like this one better: http://voting-2048.herokuapp.com/ Edit: pull request here if anyone wants to see the code: https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048/pull/13
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by richard_cubano 13y ago
I like this one a bit better because it shows vote totals and has a visible countdown: http://voting-2048.herokuapp.com/
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by richard_cubano 13y ago
Bubble Alert.