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by temphn 15y ago
What has iOS copied from Android? Serious question.
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by temphn 15y ago
The only thing is that the problems with Detroit are not in the past, but very much in the present. Ann Arbor and UMich, for better or worse, have a much better reputation in 2011 as engineering centers than Detroit.
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by temphn 15y ago
"Superior" is only one bit of information, in that it only says "x is greater than y"...but not by how much, and with no measure of statistical significance. Finland's technological and industrial output clusters with Sweden, Denmark, and N
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by temphn 15y ago
If you are interested in feedback, had a similar reaction. Many people are now more interested in reducing distraction, not increasing it. Maybe you could find a way to do that, blocking and batching feeds.
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by temphn 15y ago
Finland's schools are great because they are full of Finns, in the same way that schools with many Finns in the US do very well. Hong Kong and Singapore's schools are great because they are full of Chinese, in the same way that schools with
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by temphn 15y ago
> The problem with your stance is that preventing the expression of emotion is often a cover for elitism. Elitism is a good thing. HN is an elitist forum. Youtube is a forum for the mob. There is a reason that Idiocracy portrayed stupid
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by temphn 15y ago
If they are vitriolic about the issue then they are likely to be a wacko. Whether liberal or otherwise is TBD. After all, only a wacko would say "f * Cloudant" to someone's face who they just met or heard about.
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by temphn 15y ago
The most important thing to do with any article is to Google the name of the reporter. Pui Wing Tam's only MO is writing poorly conceived hit pieces on Valley companies and personalities. Here she is literally going through Salesforce CEO M
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by temphn 15y ago
Monsanto has received terribly negative press, this is true. Part of that negative press is due to public dislike of GMO foods in Europe. Part of that is due to their DRM-like technology that stops farmers from replanting seeds after one ge
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by temphn 15y ago
It's probably really hard to run a company with tens of thousands of employees and achieve market success while also having everyone inside like and respect you. From a systems standpoint, it's hard to argue with Amazon's recent successes (
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by temphn 15y ago
Hmmm. You only think they should make a living? I would hope most of us would want Igor Sysoev to at least put $10-$100m in the bank. He has easily created that much value over the past few years for hundreds if not thousands of companies.
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by temphn 15y ago
Actuarially speaking, young people just don't get that sick or need that much healthcare. Also, people doing startups tend to be risk-takers and are usually already risking their life savings. So this is really not a barrier.
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by temphn 15y ago
Is the concept that you have some persistent buttons on the left hand side for common tasks associated with the app? Sort of like a dedicated area in the browser that a webapp can add site-wide or page-specific UI controls to, rather than h
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by temphn 15y ago
Meta comment: it's funny that a pink haired girl in ponytails is correcting a boy on hardcore C details. Sure, a few of these women exist in real life. But we really need to resist these Orwellian psyops as the depiction is not really refle
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by temphn 15y ago
Relatively few people who have three children out of wedlock are "Smalltalk hackers". Just sayin'.
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by temphn 15y ago
Malcom "igon value" Gladwell is probably not the person one wants to cite on an empirical or technical matter. http://monkeysuncle.stanford.edu/?p=541 Pinker’s term: “The Igon Value Problem” is a clever play on the Eigenvalue Probl
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by temphn 15y ago
The ironic part is that many of these VCs actually voted the people into power who are now turning on them. I wonder if Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen have buyer's remorse today. These SEC appointees didn't fall from the sky, they came fro
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by temphn 15y ago
> You have yet to show that the increase in voluntary expatriation is correlated with high earnings, much less caused by them. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1983238,00.htm... While a small number of Americans hand
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by temphn 15y ago
By your own admission you are not a tax lawyer. Perhaps this is why you are conflating two different things, income and assets. All US income for 10 years after expatriation was subject to US income tax for 10 years Yes, and that
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by temphn 15y ago
It's by no means cheaper. It used to be free to leave. Now they expropriate 50% of your net worth. Massive shift in US policy. Used to be hard to enter the US. When they make it hard to leave , that is a terrible sign. Legal Background: ww
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by temphn 15y ago
One word: Solyndra. After they just wasted another $535M of taxpayer money in crony capitalist payments, why do you think it's "ignorance" to evince strong opposition to these kind of attempts at meddling in the economy? VCs and angels fund
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by temphn 15y ago
Taxation is only feasible because the authorities have guns and use them to jail tax resisters. And 100% taxation is quite literally slavery. Do you seriously disagree with either of those two points? No one signed up for continual boiling
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by temphn 15y ago
Singapore? Hong Kong? Your underlying assumption is that the US can increase taxes and regulations indefinitely without consequence. But capital and talent are more mobile than ever before. Record numbers have been renouncing citizenship in
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by temphn 15y ago
This law will be written in a week by Whitehouse interns without any experience running a business or employing individuals. And it will be constructed to be applicable across vast swaths of the US economy, or else it would not be "stimulat
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by temphn 15y ago
If you intern at 23andMe, it's a "hello world" level problem to correlate genetics and ancestry/race. Or just submit a blinded set of saliva samples and see whether their ancestry painting algorithm correctly identifies the pre-1492 ancestr
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by temphn 15y ago
Google Bamshad and Wooding. There are plenty of papers that analyze Indians and show that you can probabilistically identify not just subcontinental ancestry, but caste as well from the genome.
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by temphn 15y ago
Government agents have guns. Amazon does not. Who's really threatening who? The only card Amazon has to play is to leave.
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by temphn 15y ago
This comment is completely out of line. Trashing something pretty decent on its launch day is not a sign of elevated or discerning taste, it's a sign of someone who does not understand how hard it is to ship something. Having some kind of o
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by temphn 15y ago
Perhaps in some old economy industries, but when's the last time you saw a startup CEO playing golf? Lots of people think it's all about the idea, and they can just hire someone to "code it up" and that's the easy part. Lots of people also
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by temphn 15y ago
This particular contradiction runs deep. The last bastion of unapologetic masculinity today is gangsta rap. A CEO is nothing if not competitive, a traditionally masculine trait. Yet a modern CEO must also be uber-PC. Thus the contrast.

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