tabeth

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by tabeth 8y ago
I fail to see what's misleading about asking for a competitor to Facebook. Microsoft's competitors are Apple on the hardware and software front, Google on the search engine front, Atlassian on productivity tools front, GitHub on t
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by tabeth 8y ago
> Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on. How can one say this? How can you know without action? You can spend your entire life thinking about
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by tabeth 8y ago
You save $100/month by not needing to take transit, but how much more is housing that's within biking distance? Extending your logic you might as well live within walking distance and save the Citi bike cost, as well.
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by tabeth 8y ago
Which MOOCs give you credit that transfer to a 4 year university?
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by tabeth 9y ago
Outside of me (NYC) there's homelessness and pollution. I guess that's not so bad? Also, it's not that I think things are bad, it's that I think the increasing concentration of wealth is resulting in increased potential
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by tabeth 9y ago
If the unfairness over YouTube's policies resulted in this kind of outcome, I wonder what the majority of people will do once they realize[0] that the world is stacked against them. Tax breaks for the rich, "too big to fail"
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by tabeth 9y ago
If it's not arbitrary, what are the criteria for legality? If there are no set criteria (whether it's amount of deaths, addictiveness or otherwise) then isn't it arbitrary by definition? EDIT: Regarding my comment earlier abo
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by tabeth 9y ago
Who does this stuff even benefit? The seemingly arbitrary lines drawn between marijuana, alcohol, tobacco and other "drugs" is so weird. So much moral righteousness.
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by tabeth 9y ago
> It's usually opt-in > it's ticked by default and somewhat hidden above and below the ToS/EULA. Well, yeah. The point is that it isn't really opt-in.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Re: "Email marketing" I wish it was opt-in as opposed to opt-out. The amount of email spam and physical spam received is absolutely ridiculous. I shudder to wonder how much electricity is wasted sending unwanted mail and deliverin
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by tabeth 9y ago
Question: suppose Google had code running on their servers that was licensed under AGPL. AFAIK that means they have to release the code running on their server(s) , but because Google's code is proprietary and closed what would happen?
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by tabeth 9y ago
Obviously more information is needed, but I thought the entire point of having a driver behind the wheel is to manually intervene to prevent this very situation? I'm very curious to see how they'll investigate this and who will
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by tabeth 9y ago
This should shock no one. Health wise, alcohol is bad for you. Period. However the potential decrease in loneliness and potential resulting friendships may negate the health negatives somewhat. However the increased likelihood of injuring y
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by tabeth 9y ago
Inclusiveness is definitely important. I'd be interested about the following trade offs in a more practical, balance sheet, sense: 1. Does providing job security at the expense of pay increase or decrease loneliness? Obviously if the p
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by tabeth 9y ago
> We're actually transferring the management of the income share agreements to a third party company that's built a software platform for this that directly uses ACH. Care to share the third party?
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by tabeth 9y ago
1. In the contract, students agree to something called a Tax Information Authorization ( https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8821-tax-informati... ) to allow us to view their tax information to verify payments if n
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by tabeth 9y ago
Thanks DannyBee. I appreciate your reply.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Very cool! Some questions: 1. How do you know the student's income? 2. How do you know if they're hired or not? 3. What if a student is hired and then is laid off? 4. What if a student is hired and promoted within the first year?
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by tabeth 9y ago
> The key words in the article are "civil, not criminal". My keyword is why .
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by tabeth 9y ago
I've already read that -- it does not explain why . It simply states that it cannot. What law restricted it? Why was that law put into place? How often are recommendations for prosecution followed up on successfully? EDIT: Thanks ever
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by tabeth 9y ago
Why can't the SEC send people to jail? I don't understand the point you're making. If people believe something is an injustice should they just shut up? Even if they can't send people to jail people should complain if th
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by tabeth 9y ago
What exactly needs to happen for white collar criminals to be punished commensurate with their crime and consistent with the magnitude of "regular" criminals' punishment? Holmes' punishment is effectively nil. Meanwhile:
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by tabeth 9y ago
Perhaps just as shocking to me as this news was the fact that he was 76! Given his accomplishments and youthful demeanor in his recent communications this totally caught me off guard. That, and the fact that he lived way longer that expec
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by tabeth 9y ago
A trust is obviously less transparent, but marginally preferable to full anonymity.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I won't say that I thought about the numbers too much, so I'd agree that it's a "horrible" idea, however I want to point out a few things: > Most people know that on average you will lose money I don't think
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by tabeth 9y ago
Apologies for my cynicism, but given that this happens pretty frequently [1] I can't ignore the incentives when dealing with such large amounts of money. [1] http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2018&#
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by tabeth 9y ago
This is great for the winner, but how would you prevent collusion here? Suppose all winners of every lottery were anonymous -- how would you know the lotteries are even legit? 1. You might argue that auditors and other government officials
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by tabeth 9y ago
Well, that's because reddit is simply a platform, right? reddit undeniably has tools to allow for strong moderation. see /r/AskHistorians for a perfect example of this.
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't see the connection between the quality of the tooling and whether or not there's strong moderation. HN is pretty strongly moderated and reddit inherently allows for very strong moderation. Do you think HN is not strictly m
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by tabeth 9y ago
I apologize -- I mean the platform itself offers strong moderation. Unlike Facebook, for example. I agree with your point, though.

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