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by sans-serif 14y ago
That's exactly what pro rata does.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Yep, because the job selection used to be so great in high-repression countries with few worker rights.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
I thought the idea behind the United States was that there wasn't supposed to be a single point of authority big enough to be effectively lobbied by whoever wants to twist the law for their own gains badly enough. If one state failed people
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Mount the reader separately, and connect it to the iPad with an audio cable.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Keys normally grant access so worst case once they're compromised you can take the server offline physically. Even private signing keys can be revoked though some damage may have been done. With Bitcoin, once it's copied, you can consider i
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Oh, I certainly support and enjoy a bunch of activities you and the other have mentioned. Personal development, pushing one's limits, et cetera can be very fulfilling indeed. I just don't confuse those with productive efficiency—which suppo
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by sans-serif 15y ago
The author needs to learn some economics. Specialization is the very opposite of inefficiency. The most precious non-renewable resource is time. Quality of life of nomads is laughable compared to the sophistications of modern societies, onl
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Benjamin Franklin would be delighted to know that he woefully underestimated science's impact on agriculture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wheat_yields_in_developing...
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by sans-serif 15y ago
That the US's implementation of this law is heavily lopsided in favor of the patent trolls doesn't change the fact that patents incentivize innovation. (Whether they're effective or not is another debate.) And does it need pointing out
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Ah, but the crucial difference here is a private organization can no longer exist once it has exhausted its purposes. A privately-funded bureaucracy which simply self-propagates while producing no value goes bankrupt automatically , regard
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Definitely "one new (unread notification in) phone", in iOS UX lingo.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
> I always thought you had to do the whole facebook connect crap before websites could just splash your fb friends list at you? No, you're wrong. > Someone was petrified that fb knows and may have already revealed Based on that some
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by sans-serif 15y ago
I'm perplexed. If you find Facebook's privacy settings arcane and its UI complex, how do you get around Linux or Photoshop at all? I totally fail to see how it can ever be a good business model to encourage users to share embarrassing stuff
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by sans-serif 15y ago
That's it? So if I rationally weigh my cost of having to watch where I click and find it to be significantly less than the benefits from hanging out with friends online, I'm a victim of an "abuse"? It's a sad day for HN when thoughtful disc
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by sans-serif 15y ago
He's free to criticize the initial experiment all he wants, but to hijack it and abuse it as he sees fit can't be objectively interpreted as anything but pure douchebaggery.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Would you have said this back when human lifespan averaged 40? Thanks but I think I'd sign up.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
Intriguingly enough, without outsourced jobs from first-world countries, economic development in the third world would be even slower and labor standards poorer due to the lack of employer competition.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
From that chart you could have said the same thing in Sep '10, Feb '10, or anytime between Oct '07 and Mar '09, and each time you'd be wrong.
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by sans-serif 15y ago
I'm sure I can't be the only one who's not seriously bothered by commute. I value my time as much as the next guy, but when I'm stuck behind the wheel I listen to podcast or crank up some MP3s, and when I'm on a train I read.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
Sadly HP is probably just looking to push WebOS into printers.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
It doesn't make sense only because you put it in terms of some completely abstract and made-up notion of "scrolling the window". Put another way: One finger drags the cursor up and down Two finger drags the underlying page up and down Four
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by sans-serif 16y ago
Yes, it's called HAM radio.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
Nobody's talking about you, Android.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
You're debating me out of context. Greatgrandparent raised the point about usability and I was simply rebutting it.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
See, parent and those who agree with him don't think this article adds much to any discussion either. If you don't enjoy finding out what your friends are up to, fine, introverts aren't exactly the world's latest discovery. Author probably
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by sans-serif 16y ago
What, are you serious? Since 90% of my non-techie friends can figure out who's going to see what you write in walls, messages and photo comments, I'm pretty devastated to hear that 5 HN users find it a challenge.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
And P&G sold much more rolls of toilet paper. You can totally compare sales of products priced three times apart.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
As long as it doesn't grow at the same rate as Twitter's, this should scale.
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by sans-serif 16y ago
Even if you're non-Apple users interested in UI/UX, the news will be of interest because in this field most everybody ends up copying Apple. flamesuit on
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by sans-serif 16y ago
What's wrong with driving down a street via Google Street View? Your house is already publicly visible as strangers physically drive past them everyday. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Google reducing the cost of doing that, and if

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