thefalcon

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by thefalcon 10y ago
Raise your prices/get acquired?
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Why not Erica?
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by thefalcon 10y ago
And in the US you have to present your ID for pseudoephedrine which is presumably getting linked to some database to prevent you from walking down the street to get two more boxes there.
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by thefalcon 10y ago
I have many favorite anecdotes from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" (of course) but one that always sticks with me is this: The first time I was in Las Vegas I sat down and figured out the odds for everything, and I disco
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Gaming regulators prohibit many on-the-fly changes to machines while on the floor. Online casinos certainly could and probably are doing some variation of this though, and all those manufacturers sell "at home" software versions o
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Please report back!
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by thefalcon 10y ago
When was the last time you plugged your iPhone in to your computer? I don't think I've ever plugged my current phone in to my computer since syncs and backs up to the cloud anyway for me.
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Yeah, I had a lot of faith in that opaque package (more specifically 538's than the NYT, and at least he was "only" giving Clinton a 73% chance) and I'm left wondering why. Even if Nate's model was right and we just
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by thefalcon 10y ago
The message was directed towards those without a college education; I see college as a place where people are encouraged to develop their critical thinking skills. If you have underdeveloped critical thinking skills then you'll be more
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by thefalcon 10y ago
The problem is that stuff doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's not bigotry and misogyny vs. a house plant. It's bigotry and misogyny vs. lies, apparent technical incompetence, cronyism, disregard for the law, and everything else t
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by thefalcon 10y ago
So my guilty pleasure is Big Brother (US version) and I watched recently as the "houseguests" were reading product labels (they get very bored in that house) and began discussing what GMOs were. They all agreed they were terrible.
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by thefalcon 10y ago
And where does it end? What if the main product isn't GMO, but some small part of the additives in the product were GMO?
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Morgan Freeman's likeness - including his voice - is already protected legally, no?
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by thefalcon 10y ago
FWIW, selling shoes online - especially to pickier clients at higher prices - requires a high return rate. When you're shipping both ways with no revenue to show for it, that adds up quickly.
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by thefalcon 10y ago
The idea and the promise of Jet was great, the initial implementation from both the vendor and consumer points of view were a complete train wreck that turned me away from the site. Not sure that there's going to be much left after the
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by thefalcon 10y ago
As a counterpoint: the example of the document containing blocks of code inside what looked more like a word document, to me, exactly explains visually what "designed for humans" means in this context, and I think it's well p
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Can YC be convinced to spend tons of money on it? Add it to the project list?
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by thefalcon 10y ago
How do we go from waiting to doing?