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by shiven 12y ago
I do like this idea of a 'vesting'-like timeline. Especially in high-risk, high-turnover projects, tying final bonuses upfront to sticking till the project ends sounds like a rational solution.
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by shiven 12y ago
Sorry to invoke Godwin's law here. But now your defense of Catmull is quickly devolving into "What about all the good things Hitler did?".
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by shiven 12y ago
Does it still take 10-15 mins when one is running a fever of 102? Or when walking on crutches? Or carrying a weekly load of groceries? Just because you can walk does not mean everyone else should as well. There is nothing wrong with choice,
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by shiven 12y ago
If someone doesn't like following rules "just so", my guess is they would/could/should have invested their retirement money in a nice cabin in the woods or a penthouse in the urban jungle, depending on their particu
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by shiven 12y ago
Manuel Navia[0] would likely disagree. To an extent, at least. The fleet-footed companies you talk about, generate at best, lead compounds. Turning those leads to INDs (investigational new drugs) and then actual "medicine" is tota
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by shiven 12y ago
I have no clue why you're being downvoted. But what you write is the gospel truth when it comes to drug discovery. Speaking from personal experience here.
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by shiven 12y ago
Sure, sure. (Guess I missed the forest for the trees and all that...) But in either case, first the patent granting authority needs to be held grossly liable to prevent this rampant abuse, then and only then will subsequent measures be ef
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by shiven 12y ago
It is the examiners who allow patents through. I would go so far as to argue that just because I ask for something, from the public, via the government, I shouldn't just get it . It is the responsibity of the examiners to deny a non-d
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by shiven 12y ago
Here is a hypothetical solution: (0). Make patent issue fee ridiculously expensive (100k+ ?). (1). Increase the salaries of every patent examiner to ridiculously high levels, supported by the extremely high fee. (2). Make every patent exami
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by shiven 12y ago
Wait, what? A distributed file system written in Fortran? Is it even possible in a language like that ?
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by shiven 12y ago
Since we are sharing Anecdata, my experience is quite the opposite of yours. SSDs might be the middle path here.
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by shiven 12y ago
Things more 'physical' than apps have been made and distributed in an attempt to solve a problem the wrong way , or even the wrong problem entirely. History is littered with examples of great aspirations and benign intent that ei
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by shiven 12y ago
All your family jewels in one place? Accessible from a common front-panel? Abso-f-ing-lutely NO offline backups that count? Like I said, they had it coming. Seriously, if you don't have the code-and-data backup that will enable you to
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by shiven 12y ago
Looking at the armchair post-mortems on HN, they had it coming, one way or another. Putting your only backups the same place you host your full product? Priceless foolhardiness!
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by shiven 12y ago
Thanks for simplifying!
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by shiven 12y ago
So is my wife (not the CEO or bodybuilder part, but parent and cooking). More power to the likes of you! I'm sure there are as many folks with your motivations and inclinations as there are with mine.
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by shiven 12y ago
Not a US company or established in the US. So not the example I asked for. I am aware of other non-US cooperatives, eg. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul
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by shiven 12y ago
So you admit you are getting a bad deal? Personally, quite the opposite actually, if you read my full comment. Have you EVER foraged in your life? You mean, by the dictionary definition of foraging? In the wild? Then, No. But, if you me
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by shiven 12y ago
Nice concept! Free-agent nation, but with a Marxist twist, heh! I like it! Any place that has successfully implemented this in the US?
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by shiven 12y ago
Genuine question. Is there any verifiable, quantitative data to substantiate what you wrote or is it all a HackerNews urban-myth? I am genuinely curious because I hear that argument thrown around a lot, anytime non-monetary compensation is
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by shiven 12y ago
In other words, you're getting the short end of the stick. People do not value perks rationally. If they did, they would deny every last one of them. How many people value anything rationally? Ever? As humans we are programmed to b
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by shiven 12y ago
He thinks the lavish perks at many technology companies, especially the free on-campus meals, are a disguised form of mind control, designed to get employees to work 12- or 14-hour days. WTF is wrong with people!?! I'd work my butt o
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by shiven 12y ago
Psychotherapy is still at a woo-woo stage in its scientific development. Primarily because nobody has a real clue as to what connects the "mind" to the "brain" at the fundamental functional level. A century after Freud
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by shiven 12y ago
For all the browbeating about erosion of privacy, I have yet to come across practical, consumer-proof solutions to anything that protects against said loss of privacy. Digital, software, hardware anything? The only solutions out there a
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by shiven 12y ago
Why are credit cards 'evil'? Honest question. I mean they don't go spend themselves, are protected 100% against fraud (in the US at least) and if paid in full every month, cost nothing to the card holder. If anything, it is n
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by shiven 12y ago
The question is, as in security, trustworthiness. Trust and/but/then Verify you say? If I have to verify, what's the point of trusting, might as well read amazon reviews and do my own research via google, fb, twitter etc. For
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by shiven 12y ago
Present day China is probably as 'Maoist' (or some would argue, communist) as GM or Chrysler are 'American' cars.
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by shiven 12y ago
Ok, now it loads in full. Earlier I was getting the login/signup screen after pressing the "show full article" button on the iPhone. Thanks!
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by shiven 12y ago
Link is NYT-walled on my iPhone. Could the mods replace it with a link to the full article please?
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by shiven 12y ago
ferret owner s make good pets too? Nice!

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