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by tdaltonc 11y ago
This seems like a comment for a post about Uber. I don't see how it's relevant here.
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Myths about millennials(economist.com)
11 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Manhour/lumen is the only measure I know of that captures all of the elements of economic growth and can be estimated for every culture and back to before the development of spoken language.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
If it's not the "full internet" then it's not the internet. They shouldn't dress this up like a charitable project.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Is there a policy for what happens to ccTLD if a country changes its name or disappears?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
In theory law is super diverse, in practice there is a huge pool of startups that never do anything but "the standard documents" and they shouldn't be paying what they do for that.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Anyone want to do a $1 bet on an over/under for how long until word lens can handle Chinese?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
"Free Trade" is like "Frictionless Wheel". It's trivially easy to talk about and is simple in theory, but in practice they both involve a lot of messy engineering. For example, free trade in mayonnaise. That should
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
This week in startups -- http://thisweekinstartups.com/ All of the guests are there to promote something (themselves/their-startup) so everyone is a bit manicured, but it's still a good look at some of what goes o
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
You can't win a tragedy of the commons by preaching about the moral high ground. You can win it by reaching a binding political agreement, or by killing everyone else who has access to the common.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The point was to make it a costly signal.
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Gitfiti – GitHub pixel art(github.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk–they have families with money(qz.com)
3 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|2 comments
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Here’s how much a self-driving car could save you on car insurance(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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Deloitte Trials Blockchain Tech for Client Auditing(coindesk.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Gevent will probably never have a strong dependency on AsyncIO. Their disagreement is very deep and it's unlikely you could do things in a philosophically gevent way with the asyncIO tools.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
That's a big questions. 0492 was about bringing asyncIO in to python 3.5 . AsyncIO is part of the core python 3 where gevent is a package (origninally designed for python 2). They accomplish broadly the same thing. I think that AsycIO
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
This is going to cast some big ripples. There are a lot of packages that have been waiting for this. It might have been better in the long run if every one got on the AsynchIO train, but if nothing else the python2/3 saga has shown tha
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Gevent now supports Python 3(github.com)
92 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|8 comments
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The Case for the 32-Hour Workweek(theatlantic.com)
4 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
You are, of course, correct, but is that a distinction that matters?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The premise behind uber's valuation is that they could own the marketplace for transportation. But what if the market is not monopolizable? If users (drivers and riders) can costlessly participate in multiple transportation markets, th
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Google has been pattenting general ML algorithms(reddit.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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Python Release Python 3.5.0b3(python.org)
1 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|1 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> . . . people are just reposting headlines and treating HN as a comments section for the article itself. This is exactly what I do. What is the right way to use HN?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
This is the consequence of the NSA/CIA/etc preference for an insecure internet. They'd rather keep there offensive edge as opposed to contributing to a secure web that improves everyones defense. Perfect security is impossibl
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Verizon Acquires AOL (including TechCrunch, Engadget and HuffPo)(venturebeat.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Ya the PR team would have probably gone with this one: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPX0SCl7OzWilt9LnuQliat...
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The point about price setting isn't that it must be the driver/turk. It's just that it can't be uber/amazon.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I'm partial to #9, but it's great that they review so many in one piece.

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