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by tc 17y ago
(replying to this thread because the parent was killed) I object to this submission being killed. I understand the desire to keep HN 'pure,' but Peter Thiel is interesting to hackers and founders in the same way that a PG essay is intere
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by tc 17y ago
Do you realize how much one line of code, in the Linux kernel for example, would cost a large organization to write and maintain?
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by tc 17y ago
The key point in Greenspun's sentence is, an " organization of its size ." And he's right about that. It's amazing that a $3-4T/yr organization can do anything coherent at all.
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by tc 17y ago
Your thought process is suffering from selection bias. You're thinking to yourself, "California taxes are high but lots of smart people still live there." Yes, those people do, because there are enough offsetting positive factors for th
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by tc 17y ago
It is perfectly consistent to be in favor of soaking the rich at the national level but to be against such policies at the state or local level. No, it isn't. Policies that inhibit growth at a local level also inhibit growth at a nationa
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by tc 17y ago
If he needs to be within driving distance of Cincinnati, he should move to Indianapolis. Indy has a healthier and more progressive business climate. It's only two hours away, but it feels like a completely different world.
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by tc 17y ago
Best quote: Neither of the company's two founders, nor any of their successors, can alter the product's basic economics. This former executive claims they were trying to sell a product for $1.29 that cost them more than $1.00 to produce a
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by tc 17y ago
you pay a lot for the 3b as an investor....It indicates that the market do not believe MS's 'monopoly' is secure. Your argument makes zero sense. You may believe MS's monopoly is insecure, but if the markets believed that as well, then
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by tc 18y ago
Can you point to an example where a politician has received unequivocal credit or blame for something he or she did 4-5 years ago? It often seems that the look-back period is only about two weeks. The enormous cost of Sarbanes-Oxley to US
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by tc 18y ago
This line made me smile: I think this would have such a visible effect on the economy that it would make the legislator who introduced the bill famous. It reminded me of "Law 13" of "The 48 Laws of Power": uncover something in your reque
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by tc 18y ago
I like the tail recursion, but it really would be more idiomatic in CL to write: (defun integrate (f a b &aux (dx *small-dx*)) (labels ((rec (x sum) (if (> x b) sum (rec (+ x dx) (+ sum (* (
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by tc 18y ago
We must not be speaking the same language. I read " monetary policy " and " fiscal stimulus " as " the government getting involved with the markets. " Now I would hate to conflate Keynesian economics with any one proponent, but John Maynar
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by tc 18y ago
Agreed [1]. But the two notions are inseparable really. To the extent that Keynesian economics demands that the government get involved at every turn to 'fix' things, the only possible outcome is corruption, corporatism, and (if you dare
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by tc 18y ago
Yes, hence " almost ." Of course, this is true regardless of the language. In C, for example, even though the language does not include linked links, I've parsed through lots of programs using linked list in C (with the added treat that e
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by tc 18y ago
I'm curious though why you found it interesting. Without further data or analysis, the statements have no substantial meaning unless one conflates correlation with causation. You could just as easily say "people who go to college are more
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by tc 18y ago
My reading of the parent post was that the commenter was implying a causation by suggesting the difference between the percentage of college attendees in the general population vs the percentage of college attendees in the population of bil
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by tc 18y ago
(eq 'correlation 'causation) => NIL Which could also be explained by observing that people born into more fortunate socioeconomic circumstances, with all that entails (different value systems, better health, better connections,
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by tc 18y ago
Put another way, 70% of self-made billionaires completed college. This strikes me as higher than the national average, so completing college increases the chances of you becoming a billionaire. Your conclusion does not follow from the dat
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by tc 18y ago
Dan Weinreb is a smart guy, but too many of these points seem like straw men, at least if the point of identifying problems with CL is to investigate the apparent lack of mainstream adoption. Let's see: Too many concepts; irregular Yes,
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by tc 18y ago
Please: it 'raises' the question. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=538942 Maybe just in this one lonely forum we can recover and preserve the meaning of the phrase. To beg the question is to make an argument that has a circular depend
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OnLive cloud-rendered gaming could threaten Xbox, PS3, and Wii(news.cnet.com)
1 points by tc 18y ago|0 comments
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by tc 18y ago
It really is a license to print money. That's not an attack though, most SaaS businesses are. What's unique about being a SSL issuer is the relatively low levels of innovation involved. There is little technical innovation, and no time s
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by tc 18y ago
Can anyone point to a case where a SSL issuer has been sued successfully?
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by tc 18y ago
The amount of value you provide, less transaction costs, represents the maximum that you can charge for a product or service even if you are a monopoly (and there are no viable substitutes). In a market economy, competition drives prices
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by tc 18y ago
He was looking at wildcard certificate prices. GoDaddy is still $199/year for those, and Namecheap resells RapidSSL wildcard certificates for $148.88. Sure, both of those are way lower than my monthly bandwidth costs, but it isn't exactly
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by tc 18y ago
I checked his ip->city database against a dozen class C's with which I am intimately familiar, and in every case they were either correct or as correct as possible (i.e. someone in that /24 is located in city X, even if most people in
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by tc 18y ago
I was trying to find a free SQL database of IP geolocation with country, city, region, latitude and longitude for a project but none was accurate and up to date so I decided to create my own and now I offer it for free. He makes it sound
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The Kindness of Strangers(schneier.com)
3 points by tc 18y ago|0 comments
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by tc 18y ago
Don't be so sure you won't end up a libertarian if you keep your eyes open. The injustices you've just discovered are the underlying sentiments that motivate most libertarians. The basic libertarian insight is that far from being new, thes
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by tc 18y ago
In the context of the article, it is pretty clear that the author isn't asking whether Einstein was wrong per-se about special relativity; he is asserting specifically that Einstein was partially mistaken in his criticism of quantum mechani

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