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by selmnoo 12y ago
I have called you out on this issue before. Seriously, understand that the reason you'll be more effective if you're nice on this issue is that a significant subset of folks who behave in a way that keeps women away is because of
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by selmnoo 12y ago
It it possible for you to respond to a good faith question by not being a flippant prima donna? I actually agree more with you than him, but my goodness you have the worst attitude ever when you talk to people who have misguided notions o
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Microsoft Warns of Attacks on IE Zero-Day(krebsonsecurity.com)
5 points by selmnoo 12y ago|1 comments
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Moderation under Paul Graham was entirely, completely, absolutely opaque. That is not correct. Fairly often pg responded to questions about whether a post was getting flagged. Anyway, you're right that my comment wasn't reall
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Not really. Rankbanning is still happening (from what I hear and observe from several high-profile HN users), slowbanning is still happening, hellbanning is still happening. That would all be fine, but this is increasingly happening with pe
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Don't strike anyone, regardless of their gender. That shit is serious legal business. Things kids did while fighting on the school yard become felony charges as adults. Unless you have money. Because then you get away with it. Lik
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by selmnoo 13y ago
You must have at least one friend or family member who can put up an antenna though, right? Give it to them, and get a streamcast going! Sure it's five minutes of hassle setting the thing up, but once it's setup it's all free
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by selmnoo 13y ago
If Aereo loses, there's a nice little thing they can do. They should stop offering the streaming service, and start selling this thing (either recreate a similar competing device, or simply become a reseller!): http://www.ha
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Perhaps I should have used a better word than "unintended". Sadly I'm out of the editing window for that post, so I can't really change it. Sorry about that.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I've been looking forward to a discussion on Thomas Piketty by the HN crowd for a long time, I was afraid it would never get here because it would have been be too 'political' - but I'm happy this has finally made the fr
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for providing contrarian nuggets of thoughts. I once used to think SV was the powerhouse of American innovation and that gov't only retarded its growth, you've been a big part helping me in the process of
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Snowden asks Putin on live television if Russia spies on its citizens(usatoday.com)
34 points by selmnoo 13y ago|20 comments
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I'd agree with michaelochurch, interestingly. Capital has been taken hostage by the rich -- the system we live in is rigged. And that is not a controversial or unsubstantiated statement at all at this point, it's good science, e.g
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Well, usually it's for a specific purpose (drawing attention to something) or aesthetic that you use a shallow depth of field. There have been artists in the past that tried to go extreme in the other direction, trying to capture as wi
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by selmnoo 13y ago
As bad as Google+ may be, it is still a thousand times better than Facebook and all that Facebook represents. Purely as a social networking site, Google+ in my experiences is much better... it's just that Facebook won in numbers becaus
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Yes, clearly it is a problem that only the rich are able to have the resources to get ahead. But this is a much bigger problem than who's able to become a doctor and who's not, it has to do (imo) with the greater issues of society
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> To pay this off in 10 years, the monthly payment would be on the order of $3400. Once employed, hospitals agree on some arrangement in which they help pay sometimes up to as much as 50% of their loans (HRSA alone pays $170k in loan rep
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Very interesting, that Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" is introduced in this article: A lot of other VCs and founders are also digesting Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the 21st Century.” With more than 200 ye
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by selmnoo 13y ago
uaygsfdbzf: your account is marked dead it seems, so most of us can't see what you write. Here's what he posted: Not an error. 0x02 means green character on black background. 0x07 means light grey character on black bg. It's
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Well, don't leave us hanging, show us the finished stitched image (and the individual images you started out with). :) As it happens I'm doing something these days that'll require me to stitch a lot of images together. I&#x27
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I like that. Let's keep this going. Howard was a businessman, investor, and four-term Republican United States Representative. He also served as the campaign manager for conservative Senator Robert Taft in Taft's 1952 presidentia
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by selmnoo 13y ago
But ahh, as I found out on HN the other day, it actually is: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an... ;) Seriously though, after working at a prestigious institution and seeing how often lun
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I know the article title is kind of big and sensational'y, but I really encourage everyone to look into Piketty's book, it's really a behemoth. A lot of folks are calling it this age's 'Das Kapital". It's
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by selmnoo 13y ago
You don't think so? That is the implication I got from the tone of the article and the handful of examples given. I heard Clare Malone on NPR talking about the article she wrote, and if I recall correctly she actually used the word &qu
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Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world(theguardian.com)
34 points by selmnoo 13y ago|12 comments
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Precisely. The daily beast has more to say about this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/27/get-elected... I think most people are not aware how commonplace this is. Take Senator Ron Wyden’s
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Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence(washingtonpost.com)
115 points by selmnoo 13y ago|103 comments
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Great piece. I realize now that I'm more or less clueless about one of the things mentioned there: > An understanding of tax laws in your country How does one learn this? Is there a book you guys would recommend? I think in addition
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Huh? It's bewildering for me to read this. I'm on the other side on this issue (I don't agree with the norm of American-style mandatory tipping). What you describe as the reaction of people against tipping is the reaction I u
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by selmnoo 13y ago
That was a lovely read, thank you so much for writing and sharing it.

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