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by sheepleherd 10y ago
the article says they plan to go beyond Xero, Xero is just... First
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
any creation of voting districts is a Gerrymander. What method do you favor, and how is yours better?
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
or, "people with secrets to keep and who enjoy socially frowned upon entertainments are attracted to privacy, anonymity, and encryption projects", ya know, scratch the itch, right. I was working at one time on a really interesti
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
you're right, but that's Steve Jobs you're talking about. In contrast, Andreesen spent many years after Netscape in wealthy obscurity which makes me doubt his innate PR tendencies. Speaking of the power of PR (whether innate
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Marc Andreessen is a bubble, or a couple of them. The guy was a programmer (no insult, so was I) who wrote, while young and enthusiastic, a derivative copy of well known software idea... he got rich, good for him (no sour grapes, so did I
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
by moving from hunter-gatherer economies (where every single person was engaged in food production) to agriculture, and then from agriculture to mechanized agribusiness, we created a vast pool of unemployed humans (like 90 to 99% of the hum
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
the observation that "the markets are too short term focused" is not a useful starting point for a moneymaking strategy because it can be shown with a simple explanation to a layperson that it isn't even an observation, it&#x
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Or (4) they do believe the research, and they use it in their calculation that says that while they should err on the side of caution and should overdo force "a little bit" just in case, that they should be careful not go too far.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
I'm not sure if you are disagreeing with me or agreeing and adding on. If you are suggesting that rational behavior is emerging every time, or even much of the time, somebody says "Wall Street is too focused on the short term&quot
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Amazon is not an antithesis at all, it's in my column! look, language is imprecise and none of us are writing encylopedias here that we reedit till they are perfect, so to keep it short: Amazon is pursuing a long term strategy, and it&
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
I think it's a mistake to apply ideas from the mathematics of functions (other than statistical functions) to "trendlines" observable in financial market data. The idea of local maxima, for instance, suggests to most people w
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
There are other explanations for such a trend as you describe that do not hinge on long term vs short term thinking. For example, if you have control over a golden goose asset and managing it to maximize wealth is best achieved by sitting i
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
sigh... lemme tell ya what they taught us in finance theory class: rich investors are not stupider than average investors; in fact, if investing "for the long term" is the right thing to do, rich investors actually have the resour
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
The GPL protects users; if you use software, a GPL license protects your right to make changes to the software via the source code to correct problems and make it suit your needs. I understand that many developers and suits to not wish to g
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
early C++ compiling wouldn't be the problem you wouldn't uncover... I worked on a large early C++ project and we had problems on the scale of a couple of years. Even if C++ wasn't changing, the compilers were.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
TL;DR pro-tip: to see the ASCII art in question, just scroll down, they are surfaced in the article, not sequestered as links
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Am I the only one here who memorizes passwords, types them in, and it works and they serve their purpose? I've got a few "schemes" to systematize a bit, I share passwords for non critical things, etc. My biggest beef is the c
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Insider trading is a term with a specific meaning, and that is not it; true, but nor is the specific meaning of insider trading what most people think it is. "Trading on inside information" is a term for what many people attempt t
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
just as a counterargument to the "unfairness of unattractiveness"... that attractiveness is desirable isn't "unfair", it's just the definition of attractiveness. If physical attractiveness didn't matter, &
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
please have the parser accept the following ASCII formatted unix stream: FirstName LF MI LF LastName LF except don't allow trailing whitespaces at the ends of lines so more like FirstNameLF MILF LastNameLF *if she's a MILF, defini
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Everybody saying "lawyer", ignore, that's expensive and bad advice, you already know what the lawyer is going to say, lawyers are incredibly cautious and not particularly flexible or business savvy in helping you, all you&#x2
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
other's here have criticized this article pretty effectively. my own peeve with it is that it further relegates client-server computing to the dustbin of history by thinking of centralized data resources as servers, and users' com
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
yes, as I said in my other response to somebody else, I was not trying to explain the study, I was trying to test out the PP's suggestion about "somebody wanting something from somebody"
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
First, I was responding not to either the study in question, nor to a question of harassment or stalking, I was trying to make sense of the formulation the PP made about somebody wanting something from somebody to see if I could square it w
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
nobody is excusing it at all. But you are dreaming if you think you are going to stop it cold turkey along with you stopping shoplifting, child abuse, elder abuse, car accidents, bank fraud, armed robbery, etc. Those things are also biologi
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Yes, women realistically do experience a lot more sexual violence than men, so it is not an unfounded worry; but as ordinary and normal and safe reproductive courtship entails a lot more approaches to women, the physically smaller nurturing
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
There is a large class of "creepy" which covers men creeping on women. In that case your formulation is correct, but I would reword it as "you're too focused on something you want, my ass and cleavage for instance, that
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
What I described is actually how it works as I was taught in a university law course. Your "economic analysis" sounds to me like logical speculation on your part, which while it may be a superficially valid way to parse the situat
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Cui bono? who benefits? There are general principles in the law that would say in this specific case, Google is making money off this arrangement, this arrangement is based on making money off of scanning emails, people wronged by this arra
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
For people interested in the legalities of licenses, it's released under the Apache License 2.0 which is a "free software" opensource license that is compatible when combined with GPL3, but not with GPL 1 or 2. the Apache 2.0

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