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by rick888 16y ago
I find it hilarious that people have to resort to personal attacks to defend the fact that they were obviously cheating.
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by rick888 16y ago
The middle class will be gone if we continue to raise taxes in the US and have social programs that we just can't afford. It will equal everyone out in a sense and we will be left with the really rich and the rest.
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm really not a monumental Gore fan or detractor, but I find your insistence that he's unethical puzzling. Usually the left is decried for not taking business considerations into account. Gore is doing the opposite, and being pilloried he
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by rick888 16y ago
"point out where they were "damning" and where information was "falsified", hint: it didn't happen, you're a fish swallowing a hook." No, you are. You are supporting the push to take money out of your pocket to support the nonsense that is
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by rick888 16y ago
"It has nothing to do with corruption. He has publicly discussed his business interests, they are common knowledge, and he is in part using it a case study for the good economic opportunities behind sustainable technology and policy. Corrup
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by rick888 16y ago
"Gore's investment in carbon credits was originally part of him trying to put his money where his mouth was, not just pull a fast one on everyone. But you can always find a devil if you look long enough." so...he's not hiding the fact that
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by rick888 16y ago
"A handful of US scientists have made names for themselves by casting doubt on global warming research. In the past, the same people have also downplayed the dangers of passive smoking, acid rain and the ozone hole. In all cases, the tactic
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by rick888 16y ago
"Cars don't come with hidden costs in the form of overdraft charges, late payment fees and foreclosure and the seizure of your assets, if you pay cash for them." You are mentioning all of them here. Can we really call these costs "hidden"?
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by rick888 16y ago
"Sure, you could chalk it up to jealousy of success, but the reality is that there are people out there who are in it for more than money, and sometimes it hurts on a visceral level to see mediocrity succeed wildly." Mediocre is a relative
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by rick888 16y ago
"No it's not. The salaries are in fact the only reason we have this problem, so that's the key to the solution. And no, we don't consume "more care" than any other country (Japanese do way more)." We should first figure out why it costs doc
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by rick888 16y ago
"Is it really so messed up that even if you have 3 Million $ in the bank, you can not buy health care in the US?" If you had 3 million in the bank, you could easily afford a plan through many of the private health insurance companies in the
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by rick888 16y ago
"The United States may possess a shrinking middle class, but the number of its citizens who consider themselves middle class (because they can't face that they're rich) may actually be growing. " When you live in a place like Chicago, with
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by rick888 16y ago
I would stick with your day job. I was an independent contractor for a year (while trying to work on my startup). Contracting is much more tiring than working a 9-5, which makes it difficult to work on your own projects after you are fini
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by rick888 16y ago
do we really need to give this more attention? really? REALLY?
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by rick888 16y ago
"According to the CBO, families in the top 20% pay average federal taxes of 25.1%. The figure in President Reagan's final year in office: 25.6%. " This doesn't include city, state, and any other number of taxes a person pays. Most people p
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by rick888 16y ago
"isn't this the point of the AGPL" Yes, it's my point. I won't use a license that has such an asinine restriction.
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by rick888 16y ago
"But a company SHOULD help their customers get their software working because it's good customer support, and because "fixing my problems" may well mean improving their software." It might improve their software, but most likely it will be
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by rick888 16y ago
"It has scaled wonderfully for Evernote:" This is the exception rather than the rule.
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by rick888 16y ago
"You’re not buying your car outright or it would cost the full 100,000,000$ it took to design the model. Yet, you can still sell it to a third party, modify it, and take it apart to see how it works. I really don't see why software is any d
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by rick888 16y ago
why is this modded down? The patrick ass lickers of HN must be out today.
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by rick888 16y ago
"He did that while working a substantially-more-than-full-time salary man job." I know. He put lots of effort into his products. However, success is based on results, not effort. A successful business to me means you can pay all of your
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by rick888 16y ago
"By what finish line are you judging him? He is well respected by his peers, he writes insightfully on difficult topics. he is independent and is spending his time as he chooses. And he is not done yet." This is all good. However, I have s
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by rick888 16y ago
You call him a genius, yet he spent 6 years promoting a product (which I might add only took him a few days to create) that is only now just breaking the $1000 or $2000/month mark. Most smart people would have cut their losses a few years
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by rick888 16y ago
"Enforce minimum wages that people can actually live on. Most poor people work significantly harder than your typical white collar office worker. The only thing that separates most of the middle class from the poor is that the middle class
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by rick888 16y ago
"you are justifiably upset when later told that you were actually RENTING software X" You aren't renting it. You are paying for a license. Renting implies that you are paying the company a monthly fee to use it, which rarely happens with
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by rick888 16y ago
"Companies of all sizes rushed into the digital space because it was where the future, customers, and money were. But offering software, music, books, movies, and anything else as a digital download to a person who actually purchased it is
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by rick888 16y ago
"The value of your service to a user isn't going to increase simply due to the passage of time or growth of your site. " Yes it will. If that user uses your service every day, over time, it will be more valuable to them. Most services als
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by rick888 16y ago
I hope they do abandon it, because I know I won't go anywhere near the source until they do. The AGPL contains this little gem: "if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely
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by rick888 16y ago
I have felt this way about being successful for a long time. It does have to do with luck. However, without the right knowledge or experience, the lucky situation will most likely be meaningless to you.
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's possible that you hired the person you want for your company but you were not motivating him enough to work long hours." I don't know what would motivate anyone to give up their personal lives and most of their free time for a company

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