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by tc 18y ago
Those passer-bys looking for the HN connection can find the original discussion about this takedown demand here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372270 Perhaps Sam Odio took to heart the advice about contacting the EFF?
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by tc 18y ago
Especially since neither the Fed, nor the Treasury actually have $7.76T. What people keep forgetting is that the problem isn't what we're seeing now. The problem is NOT that consumers aren't spending 'enough' money, or that banks aren't ma
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by tc 18y ago
FTA: Plus you have the difficulty of evaluating a "great" programmer in an unfamiliar language. Most people would agree that Linus Torvalds ... is a great programmer. But take him out of the Linux "C" world and make him try to get a job pr
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by tc 18y ago
FTA: The public markets have failed to solve this problem so it's going to get solved in some other way. The public 'markets' haven't failed to solve this problem so much as the government regulations that surround being public, such as S
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by tc 18y ago
Regardless of whether Cuban knew the upcoming PIPE was confidential, nothing about his sale of the stock was `fraudulent.' The investors who bought the shares from him were going to buy the stock anyway; Cuban did not make any false repres
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by tc 18y ago
From the Wikipedia page: "a review of available speed studies demonstrates that the posted speed limit is almost always set well below the 85th-percentile speed by as much as 8 to 12 mph"
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by tc 18y ago
It doesn't really matter whether the situation is by design or simply an unintended consequence. That highway speed limits are often set below the speed at which the vast majority of drivers travel means in practice that police can stop wh
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Engineers Rule: Honda and its culture of engineering(forbes.com)
49 points by tc 18y ago|37 comments
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by tc 18y ago
I went looking. The article I found is interesting in its own right: "Engineers Rule: At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366709 From the article: "Ho
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by tc 18y ago
A better syllogism: major premise: A democratic republic works best when the democratic system elects non-tyrants; that is, leaders who will not violate the inherent rights of even the 49% of the people who did not vote for them. minor prem
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by tc 18y ago
That's a fascinating question, actually. There are a couple of well-regarded approaches to including radio spectrum in a principled political framework. The most historically congruent approach is to apply the principles of homesteading an
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by tc 18y ago
Shouting fire in a crowded theater is wrong because you don't own the theater, so you are violating the property rights of the theater owner. If you did own the theater and shouted fire anyway, you'd be defrauding your patrons out of a sho
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by tc 18y ago
His essay here touches lightly on a pattern I've noticed among people who work in large corporations: they fall into the habit of asking for permission and guidance too often. It doesn't make any sense to complain about inept suggestions or
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by tc 18y ago
I realized after reading this (and 'Lies We Tell Kids') that we may not want children to use profanity for the same reason that we don't want them to use drugs or have sex: they're more likely to exercise bad judgment in how and when to use
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by tc 18y ago
The observation you describe from 'The Addictive Organization' seems similar to Orwell's formulation of doublethink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
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Writing Recursive Ascent Parsers using CPS(scribd.com)
2 points by tc 19y ago|0 comments
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by tc 19y ago
You are correct that individually it often doesn't make financial sense to litigate and attempt to recoup small loses, even if due to outright fraud (that is, 'violating the terms'). But often enough outright fraud will come back on the wr
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by tc 19y ago
Most credit card companies are based out of Delaware because of its absence of aggressive usury laws. With no physical presence in California, California's laws are mostly inapplicable to the relationship between an interstate card issuer
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by tc 19y ago
Certainly. By 'avenues of complaint,' I was referring to the FDIC and other regulators he was seeking out, not to the Hacker News post, which clearly has relevance and value to others. The heart of my suggestion was that while it is easy t
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by tc 19y ago
From what you've described, this ordeal cost you about $248.64 [1]. In terms of the problems that people funding young companies with credit cards often get themselves into, you escaped relatively unscathed. Rather than looking for avenues
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Scary thought: Maybe the Rust Belt is the whole U.S. now? (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
38 points by tc 19y ago|14 comments