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by temphn 15y ago
The thing is that there's an optimal amount of such laws. Not too little, not too much. If businesses couldn't move, there'd be no pressure to junk bad laws. Also, the fact that a business can move from a community is a good thing, as oth
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by temphn 15y ago
Why should there necessarily be state-run media?
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by temphn 15y ago
Yo man: f these haters. Even the well meaning ones with their rubbernecking advice, even the fellow YC alums who don't understand that when a man has just been through hell and back that the last thing he needs is more people piling on wi
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by temphn 15y ago
FWIW I didn't downmod you. Both high and low levels of education correlate with voting Democrat. And higher income generally correlates with voting Republican. The tricky part is that higher education also correlates with higher income. I b
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by temphn 15y ago
Well, if you disaggregate it, the Republican voters in blue states are statistically net tax payers, and Democratic voters in red states who are statistically net tax recipients. It's a Simpson's paradox type phenomenon, where the aggregati
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by temphn 15y ago
Ever hear the parable about the man in the arena? It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is a
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by temphn 15y ago
The issue is choice. The same people who'd scream if Murdoch had the power to force everyone to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal don't think it's a big deal that everyone is forced to subscribe to the BBC.
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by temphn 15y ago
20under20 is a fairly well thought out "anti education agenda". It's not against the idea of learning, just the outdated concept of going $300k into debt for content you could have learned by yourself online. Predictably, Wadhwa is very muc
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by temphn 15y ago
How is this different than craigslist, a dating site, meetup.com or really any site that allows random people on the internet to meet each other in person? People need to have some smarts about who they meet with. The service can do some th
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by temphn 15y ago
Chrome is growing at the expense of IE, Android is crushing Windows Phone, Google Docs forced Windows Office to go online, Google Desktop search is better than Windows Desktop search, and Gmail has taken share from Hotmail and Outlook. And
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by temphn 15y ago
When Windows was better than the competition, it was winning in the marketplace. Now Google and Apple are better than the competition, so they are winning in the marketplace. Capitalism is working just fine. Unlike Microsoft, by contrast, t
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by temphn 15y ago
> I suspect that AirBnB are telling themselves "We did no wrong, we didn't trash her appartment, she's a litigious who is dragging our name though the mud". Fair enough. Grow up, you are running a company that is going disrupt the hotel
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by temphn 15y ago
> That's not "talking to reporters." http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2011... "Meanwhile, I communicated by email and by phone late Friday with a woman who said she was "EJ," a corporate events planner who later
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by temphn 15y ago
You don't have to believe in a conspiracy. You just have to believe that there are some extremely difficult customers out there. Given that AirBnB offered her money and she isn't picking it up or returning their calls, but is talking to r
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by temphn 15y ago
For those just tuning in, Paul Carr has been bashing AirBnB since last summer: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/25/fawlty-logic/ And has a vested interest in their failure: Disclosure: I like hotels a lot – and I’ve spent much of my l
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by temphn 15y ago
> I think your view is common enough, and you had the courage to say it out loud. Thanks, I guess. Philosophical: seems to me that the tone of HN has shifted. Not in the standard way, it's not less intelligent per se. Rather, there is a
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by temphn 15y ago
> But for virtually the first time in the history of capitalism, the internet bubble permitted early-stage companies with no tangible assets to raise significant capital based on a plan – but without property, franchises, revenues, pate
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by temphn 15y ago
He's trying to be self-deprecating there, and saying (I think incorrectly) that genetics plays only a small part. Genuinely curious, what do you think he should have said?
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by temphn 15y ago
Well, ok. While being entirely rational, let's also think about a related angle. The woman is out quite some money. She wants it back. The most coldbloodedly rational act on her part would have been to wait till they closed the round and th
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by temphn 15y ago
Edit: bring on the downvotes! That's right, downvote a difference of opinion, and forget about logical or reasoned counterargument. Next time the internet lynch mob will come for your startup; hope that someone takes your side when they do.
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by temphn 15y ago
There was tons of collateral damage in that war. It's a huge pain to transfer funds overseas and is a major impediment to opening up offices in other countries. Many banks won't even deal with the hassle if you're an American with a small c
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by temphn 15y ago
Thanks, tokenadult. We surely disagree about many things but you are indeed a seeker of truth.
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by temphn 15y ago
A similar set of assertions by her fellow traveler Latham was debunked by the scientific community a few months ago: http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/04/the-genome-hasnt-fail... It should be noted that every paper 23andMe has curated t
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by temphn 15y ago
For references on the biology, read Simon Baron-Cohen or Louann Brizendine. Regarding your statistical "argument", obviously the example of Lisa Leslie does not mean the median height of women is greater than or equal to the median height o
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by temphn 15y ago
Did you see the chart? That's what the empirical data shows. Tax avoidance behavior increases as tax rates increase, you have moving targets.
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by temphn 15y ago
This whole endless search for the reason why "women aren't in computing" is just a modern day version of epicycle theory. In ancient times, they couldn't admit that the earth went around the sun, so they came up with the increasingly baroqu
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by temphn 15y ago
Note that in the article comments it is pointed out that it is not clear if the article refers to billionaires in yuan or in dollars. In the former case, there would be many more billionaires and the death stats not quite so unusual.
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by temphn 15y ago
Read the full article. The policemen said they would not arrest the kids in the mob who had attacked them, despite multiple eyewitnesses pointing out this mob, ostensibly because of the lack of individual identifiability, but in reality bec
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by temphn 15y ago
One thousand upvotes. The criminalization of everyday life (of which licensing/regulation/registration/TSA searches are a key part) goes hand in hand with fewer actions against actual criminals like those involved in the recent spate of "fl
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by temphn 15y ago
There's a good list by Megan Mcardle here. What people don't get is that increasing US debt is a short term fix. People are going to stop buying Treasuries and the US is going to default. It's just a question of whether it happens on Aug. 2

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