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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The main reason people flock to the Bay Area is because of the growth in the Tech industry. However, as we all know, there is very, very little technical reason that has to be there, or could not be spread out. The only reason really is the
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Suppose someone sells their home grown produce to supplement their income. Now, the neighboring plot is interfering with their ability to do that.
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Does that plot have a legal right to control what happens on your plot? Cause that is what's going on here: they would interfere with the other person's plot.
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There's room for everyone in the country as a whole. Hell, there's room for everyone who currently lives in California in California as a whole. The problem is that too many people want to live in certain smaller parts.
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And every startup would again be having to worry about patent trolls. Patent rights have not diminished one bit. What has diminished is the ability of patent trolls to abuse the patent system, and more review allowing for patents that shoul
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I don't see this as being too terrible. Hopefully it causes companies to focus more on selling things to customers, instead of just "growth hacking" to get more users that don't actually contribute to the bottom line.
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Why do they need their own server? What's wrong with Dropbox, Google Drive, et al? Or, what's wrong with the network drives from Seagate and WD that will let you access those files remotely (aside from the fact that they do cost m
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"edit: regarding the Mt. Gox situation. You present it as something that should have never happened in civilized society, but I think it's growing pains on the way to something better." But they're growing pains that don
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No. To the US Government, there is no other currency than the dollar. If you are a US Citizen, and working in the US, then you are using US Dollars. Everything else would be an asset. So if you are getting paid in BTC, that, to them, would
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BTC and USD are not on the same level. That's why your analogy doesn't work.
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Yes, you do.
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Same way you'd keep track of any other profits. And, in the eyes of the IRS, it is your responsibility to do so.
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Please, next time use a normal gallery style layout. And, no pictures of the inside? That's probably the most interesting, and most important part.
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Money is the easiest way, but it seems like it's always the way of last resort, after everything else has been tried, and those things have blown up in their face.
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They know that the options would be quite difficult to pass up, and so they don't have to try as hard to retain people during that time. "Treat like shit" may be a slight exaggeration, but we've also all heard about the
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I think we'd need both "assumed value of options", and "Actual value of options when they were realized"
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I think it is a bad thing because it encourages the company to treat people like shit.
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But if we all do demand that, then they won't have a choice.
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Having worked in a few agencies and departments that do both iOS and Android apps, whenever possible, they want parity between the two. So if the Android app is doing it, odds are better than not that the iOS app is also doing it to the ext
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Neither of those justifies taxing a person making 30k as if they're making 80k.
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"Alternatively, they didn't have much confidence that the folks who are exploiting grad students would be good consultants about grad student welfare." Ok, but then who did they talk to about grad student welfare?
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Nobody but the GOP is to blame for what's in the GOP's bill.
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I disagree. If I unleash a horde of spambots on this site, posting spam, and they get removed, am I being censored? If I constantly use slurs and other insults at other users, and I get my account banned because of it, am I being censored?
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He doesn't make a valid point, though. He makes a completely orthogonal point. If you believe his point, that what Twitter is doing is bad, then how can you justify expanding the ability to do that to other, unavoidable actors? If I do
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It doesn't, though. There's also the concept of "free association," which is included in "free speech". Look at it this way: HN is a very heavily moderated board. There are lots of troll posts and spam posts th
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Except each of those companies has competition. Voat and Gab, among others, were born out of the idea that Reddit and Twitter were being unfair. And one had the ability to join one of those alternative platforms, even while still remaining
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The thing I ultimately don't get, and that makes this entire argument disingenuous, is that, if you believe that what Twitter is doing is wrong, then why on earth would you decide that you want to enable more actors, especially ones th
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They said UI code. You shouldn't be reusing that anyway. You should be writing stuff to take advantage of the native platform.
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I mean, there is going to be an adult on the bus. There is no way they're going to put a bunch of schoolchildren on there unsupervised.
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Yes, competition would be nice. And you won't find a single NN proponent who would be opposed to increasing competition. But you know what? That's a completely orthogonal argument. Because we do not currently live in a world with

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