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by rory096 10y ago
We can't complain about individual (non-accredited) investors getting locked out of fast-growing tech companies and simultaneously complain when companies IPO when they've reached significant revenue but not yet hit profitabilit
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by rory096 10y ago
Looking into it further (it's been a while, never expected to see him back on the front page), it seems he did take the trip but plagiarized most of the images (except the ones of him and his boarding pass) and much of the text/ca
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by rory096 10y ago
No he didn't. Derek Low is a notorious plagiarist; these stories were discredited back when they first appeared on HN and Reddit last year. http://andystravelblog.boardingarea.com/2014/10/02/singapore...
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by rory096 10y ago
>used in perfume Are you confusing amber with ambergris? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
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by rory096 10y ago
Key phrase: "I cannot."
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by rory096 10y ago
>you cannot have any regulations to force sharing the network >Nothing in this... shall... require a Party to compel It says nothing about prohibiting regulations - that clause clearly just says no changes are required by the agreemen
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by rory096 10y ago
The big problem is that routes used to be useful without turn-by-turn navigation - back when there were bubbles on each turn you could click on to see. Now you're stuck trying to read a long list of directions, or you use turn-by-turn
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by rory096 11y ago
>I cant tell if I am shadow banned? Yes, you are. Seems to have happened after this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291099
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by rory096 11y ago
Part of the reason the tax code is so complex is the goal of a progressive tax system where wealthier people pay a higher share of their income. A flat tax, while simpler, is regressive- everyone pays the same percentage. Couple a flat tax
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by rory096 11y ago
That's a little much. They do offer a Search API [1] (well, until Friday). Just not terribly surprising it wasn't any better than Bing (since it is Bing). [1] https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/
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by rory096 11y ago
Yahoo Search is already powered by Bing – since 2009.[1] [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8174763.stm
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by rory096 11y ago
FYI (and obviously it doesn't help with the systemic problem), a Chrome extension to collapse HN comments was posted a few weeks ago. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap... https:&#x
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by rory096 11y ago
CamelCamelCamel. Amazon only, though – and who knows if they'll be shut down too under this policy.
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I'd call those criticisms spurious. First off, the Concorde had a unit cost of £23 million in 1977 - about $130 million in 2016 dollars – for a plane 2.5x the size. An early-bird unit price of $200m doesn't seem all that unreasona
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by rory096 11y ago
So? Show me another startup with billions in non-binding commitments from customers saying they'd love to buy their product if it existed. It's a founder's dream.
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by rory096 11y ago
This is awesome . Great counterpoint to all the naysayers and middlebrow dismissals on Monday. I'm pumped to see this thing fly.
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by rory096 11y ago
Nitpick: Walt Watson is the back-seater in question — Brian Shul was just the guy on the stick (and the author of the story, of course).
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by rory096 11y ago
A thousand times this. Do any of these providers not have the intermittent periods of 6-10 minute delays on emails to Gmail like Mandrill?
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by rory096 11y ago
>oh hang on, I see now: Trump Foundation No relation. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4774818,00.html
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by rory096 11y ago
Seems likely that the heuristic would stop holding true at the high end of the vote total distribution. As a post that directly called on the HN community to take action a high percentage of readers went back and upvoted. But with 1000 poin
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by rory096 11y ago
There are – that's a restraining order.
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by rory096 11y ago
> I can run a hedge fund from a few floors in a Manhattan sky scaper. It would have the land footprint of perhaps 10 large coffeeshops. Google and Apple have barely any land footprint compared to any factory of any size. That hedge fund
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by rory096 11y ago
SketchUp is probably the only software product they've sold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp
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by rory096 11y ago
That's not the policy. If the article headline is clickbaity or misleading the HN headline is changed to a representative sentence from the article.
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by rory096 11y ago
What's stopping them? English ability?
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by rory096 11y ago
Not to mention that states all over the country have been raising their driving ages, reducing the number of eligible drivers. Here in New York you can no longer get a license until you're 17 years old if you've taken driver&#x27
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by rory096 11y ago
100km is the Kármán line, the generally accepted boundary of space. It's the point at which aeronautics become useless, as the atmosphere is too thin to support lift greater than your weight without going faster than orbital velocity.
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by rory096 11y ago
Venmo was actually acquired by Braintree, which in turn was later acquired by PayPal.
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by rory096 11y ago
Of course not. It's not in any way an advertisement.
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by rory096 11y ago
Why don't you edit it?

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