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by tjic 14y ago
I read about this years ago in The Eudaemonic Pie, I believe. http://www.amazon.com/The-Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/0595...
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by tjic 14y ago
> We wanted to increase the likelihood of attendees seeing people who they share something in common with Great. Steel City Ruby Conference thinks that the color of someone's skin or the shape of their genitals is the way that audience
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by tjic 15y ago
> Using petrol on personal transportation is such a waste. I'd like to see a heavy carbon tax so that this fantastic, but finite, resource would be directed to things where it really adds value. Forgive me if I respect the decentralized
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by tjic 15y ago
> I'd rather eat on wooden plates than stay with a head-ache As a hobbyist wood turner who makes my own wooden plates and bowls, I suggest that eating off of wooden plates (or "treen" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treen_(wooden) as it
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by tjic 15y ago
> I was tired of seeing my friends violate the confidentiality of our private conversations, by constantly forwarding our emails to third parties. You're trying to solve a SOCIAL problem with TECHNOLOGY. Better solution: get ACTUAL frie
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by tjic 15y ago
This has been done a dozen times before. I worked at Authentica around 1999-2000. They got it working decently enough and were later bought by EMC. http://www.emc.com/domains/authentica/index.htm The problem is that the data can be grabbe
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by tjic 15y ago
> "AWS Marketplace currently only supports Sellers with a US Subsidiary that can submit a W-9 tax form. " Sounds like you can blame the government here, not Amazon.
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by tjic 15y ago
> I hope you don't really view the world in a black & white narrative pitting the evil bloated government against sprightly nimble innovative companies. You read a WHOLE lot in there. Look at the point that I actually made, and JUST
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by tjic 15y ago
> On that note, this might be the perfect opportunity for some never-before-herad-of Russian billionaire to make their mark as well by providing similar services to the rest of Europe that may be underserved if SpaceX really takes off i
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by tjic 15y ago
> The space shuttle had a million competing goals - from the airforce who wanted a certain glide slope You missed the one goal that was in the forefront of all others: Justify a large budget / keep the permanent bureaucracy employed. El
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by tjic 15y ago
> > Women get equal pay for the same experience in the same job. > That goes against a whole lot of sociological research No it doesn't. Here's a report that the Department of Labor commissioned http://www.consad.com/content/re
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by tjic 15y ago
> But that assumes that both groups started out equal in the first place. Women get more degrees. Women live longer. Women work less, yet collection social security longer. Women get equal pay for the same experience in the same job. If
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by tjic 15y ago
> Maybe you're complicating this. It's just a basic principle of capitalism and freedom. Etsy can give away their money to anyone they choose to, if it helps them commercially (or in any other way). 100% agreed. I stand for the right fo
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by tjic 15y ago
I realize that I'm going to be in the minority here, but I find it disgusting that it's not just socially acceptable, but downright applauded to discriminate against 50% of the population because - through no fault of their own - they were
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by tjic 15y ago
Sure, the Strand is in lower Manhattan, but you're telling me a video that features a food truck and a uke book doesn't START in Brooklyn? 10:1 the apartment was in Park Slope.
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by tjic 15y ago
What irks me is the painfully studied hipness of the video. Indy bookstore? Check. Ukulele reference? Check. Food truck? Check. Brooklyn location? Check. Late 20-something SWPL protagonists in man-boy phase of life? Check. Ugh.
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by tjic 15y ago
> (on the grounds that political correctness is somehow more abhorrent than the behavior that is being critiqued) Or perhaps PC stuff is not so much abhorrent as deeply deeply BORING and un-related to what we want to read here at HN?
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by tjic 15y ago
Q: What problem does this solve? A: The "problem" that government officials don't get to throw their weight around and break anarchic, bottom-up, emergent systems that don't kow-tow to them.
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by tjic 15y ago
http://transportation.mit.edu/
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by tjic 15y ago
I spend several hours in the kitchen most nights, making my own asian dumplings, ravioli, bread, vinegar, etc. I dehydrate food, have 100+ spices on hand, and more. I clicked the link, saw the price, and immediately clicked "back". I have n
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by tjic 15y ago
> In 2011, NASA began developing a heavy-lift rocket for the human exploration of deep space ...which is sort of stupid, given that there are multiple private firms eager to deliver this service, and deliver it at a price point lower th
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by tjic 15y ago
> Scientist rarely keep the data secret. It's the basis of peer review. In a better world, that would be true. In this world, it's not. Most of the climate science data that Phil Jones and others have worked with, and most of their mode
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by tjic 15y ago
> you should be condemning Airbnb's pathetically slow response (which you do not dispute) Yes, he does dispute it. Read his post.
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by tjic 15y ago
> When I heard the airbnb business model, this type of situation was the first thing that came to my mind Same here. Great model, glad it works for some people, but the only price I'd take to rent out my house - with my personal items
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by tjic 15y ago
God forbid anyone reduce a fraction!
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by tjic 16y ago
"Infographics" these days tend to have graphics so bad that it's hard to pull any information out of them. This one was horrendous; it hurt my eyes and I immediately clicked "back". There's an art and a science to presenting information wel
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by tjic 16y ago
We've got several hundreds years of writing, temple records, etc.
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by tjic 16y ago
Public and private religiosity was ramping down in the Roman Empire around 30 AD as well. Beware taking 20 years worth of data points and drawing century long lines from them.
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by tjic 16y ago
My two startups, SmartFlix.com and HeavyInk.com, both clear this hurdle.
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Doitfuckingnow.com - email harvesting?
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