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by tc 14y ago
They're bundling an ordinary car loan with a put option, and Musk is personally guaranteeing the put. Elon Musk is great. He's always all-in.
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by tc 14y ago
This protocol causes a valid and enforceable contract to be formed. In fact, the constraints imposed by the protocol are almost exactly what you might learn about contracts in the first year of law school. A contract is composed of a 1) re
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by tc 14y ago
Beware that retrieval fee! The retrieval fee for 3TB could be as high as $22,082 based on my reading of their FAQ [1]. It's not clear to me how they calculate the hourly retrieval rate. Is it based on how fast you download the data once
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by tc 15y ago
PG is articulating the philosophy of natural law applied to present circumstances. Natural law is one of those tenured ideas that we always rediscover or reinvent when our statute laws start going too far astray. Many bright thinkers have
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by tc 15y ago
What Apple is going to be missing without Steve Jobs isn't creative talent or even someone capable of saying 'no.' It's going to be missing someone who has the absolute credibility to say it. Anyone can be a tyrant. If Steve Jobs was a dic
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by tc 15y ago
Certainly, biting off too much at once isn't workable. But then again, biting off too little can stall a movement too, as it can fail to inspire as much passionate support as a somewhat larger bite. Starting a movement is a hard problem -
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by tc 15y ago
It's not immediately clear to me whether this solves any part of the current problem. But on reflection, I believe I understand the motivation here. Big companies that use patents as a revenue stream (MSFT, IBM, etc.) typically bide their
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by tc 15y ago
The guy is responsible. The situation is unfortunate, of course, but what was the guy thinking? He put his neighbors as well as his property at risk. AirBnB should help the police catch the perps, but past that, AirBnB should make at mos
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by tc 15y ago
Both AirBnB and the guy share responsibility. Sure, the guy had tools he didn't use, but AirBnB works on this all day every day. They have money, so they should pay some of his actual damages, say $15-20k.
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by tc 15y ago
AirBnB is really at fault here. They should pay his actual damages and restore his property. $50k.
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by tc 15y ago
AirBnB should go over the top for the guy. They should repair the property, pay out the remainder of his lease, and pay to put him up in a nice place somewhere else. $100k.
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by tc 15y ago
AirBnB is completely at fault and created such egregiously false expectations that the guy has no responsibility at all and is the victim of not just the tweakers, but AirBnB's misrepresentations. They should pay for all of his damages as
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by tc 15y ago
The fact that we're talking about a guy now changes my opinion on this.
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by tc 15y ago
The fact that we're talking about a guy doesn't change my opinion.
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by tc 15y ago
Whether the AirBnB host was a guy or a gal shouldn't matter, but it does.
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by tc 15y ago
Whether the AirBnB host was a guy or a gal shouldn't matter, and it doesn't.
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by tc 15y ago
It's OK for us to have different standards here.
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by tc 15y ago
> I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damages This is bad news. They're going to backtrack on this. The sooner they do it, the better for them politically. I understand the problems of setting a prece
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by tc 16y ago
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ; Feynman and a colleague are staying at a traditional Japanese hotel in Kyoto: The next morning the young woman taking care of our room fixes the bath, which was right in our room. Sometime later sh
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by tc 16y ago
"User-friendly" accounting software (such as QuickBooks) tends to obscure the fundamental simplicity of double-entry accounting. If you want to actually understand your books, use something simple and powerful like John Wiegley's ledger: h
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by tc 16y ago
"Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster," he writes. "Pain is part of the price of freedom." Pain is part of the price of freedom. That's a truth that could use to be applied more widely.
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The Scheme Programming Language, Fourth Edition(scheme.com)
92 points by tc 16y ago|6 comments
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Mubarak ordered Tiananmen-style massacre of demonstrators, Army refused(americablog.com)
27 points by tc 16y ago|6 comments
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by tc 16y ago
Well, I suppose you don't always do the smartest thing when you're standing on a burning platform.
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by tc 16y ago
I'm reminded of the country song whose chorus goes: "I've got friends in low places." -- [1] I agree, as noted by Nathan below, that this isn't helping Wikileaks' reputation any (despite, of course, WL having nothing to do with this). That
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by tc 16y ago
100:1 odds that this won't be gracing the aisles of Whole Foods, or the galleries of fine theatres, or the elegant lobbies of ritzy hotels and restaurants, or anywhere else that the politicians and power-brokers who run this increasingly in
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by tc 16y ago
Since I know that many Googlers follow HN, I just want to say: Thank you. Thank you for ensuring that a clean, root-able, modern phone is available for developers and all those who like to fully own the devices they purchase.
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by tc 16y ago
This was simply a case of simultaneous editing. I saw your comments only after writing the substance of my updates (and in the case of wmf's comments, only because of this meta-point). I don't want anyone to think that your comments were
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by tc 16y ago
"On November 22, after being informed by Comcast that its demand for payment was 'take it or leave it,' Level 3 agreed to the terms, under protest, in order to ensure customers did not experience any disruptions." Leave it. Level3 set a
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by tc 16y ago
"Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason," Why didn't she? Perhaps she was in the middle of a row. But often the reason that no one helps is that everyone is expecting

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