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by tjic 18y ago
I find it quite amusing that the folks at NPR, who live largely off of taxpayer dollars, whether the economy is doing well or poorly, have the gall to call anyone else "oligarchs". The salaries for lots of NPR folks are available in public
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by tjic 18y ago
Damn it - you beat me to it by a few seconds!
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by tjic 18y ago
Transportation costs are incredibly cheap. For example, the "eat locally" folks are anti-scientific, and don't acknowledge/realize that you can move a cargo container full of food across an ocean of 1% of the cost of raising the food. Movin
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by tjic 18y ago
Duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93509
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by tjic 18y ago
> I haven't done any searching yet except sending my cv to that company division in Canada to be told I have to go through the standard way (sending my cv by their website) to apply for an internship even if I already worked there. Make
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by tjic 18y ago
I've worked with developers who never EVER allow themselves to be interrupted. Yes, yes, I acknowledge mental state, "flow", etc. ...but when you've got a developer who comes in, nods "hi", goes straight to his desk, codes for 8 hours, then
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by tjic 18y ago
Fascinating. This it the first thing that I've ever read that made me think that moving from MA to CA might be a win for me, personally.
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by tjic 18y ago
> Why is it bad that in order to automatically generate binding legal documents, someone involved needs to be educated in the subtleties of legal language? I wouldn't put up a huge stink if the law was "you must pass the bar exam". Howe
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by tjic 18y ago
> There are already signs that startups may not spread particularly well. The spread of startups seems to be proceeding slower than the spread of the Industrial Revolution Government was much smaller at the time of the Industrial Revolu
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by tjic 18y ago
When do you have to decide? How much looking have you done for an internship in Canada?
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by tjic 18y ago
> You can't suddenly impose laissez-faire capitalism on an industry so closely tied to government regulation. Pretty much every time it's been tried, you get a ton of innovation and rapidly falling costs. The US, ICC trucking regulation
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by tjic 18y ago
Another introvert and I refer to this as "human emulation mode". ;-)
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by tjic 18y ago
It was 15 years or so back, but the Diagonalization Proof and Godel's incompleteness theorem blew me away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument The first time I grokked relativity is also seared in my memory.
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by tjic 18y ago
I suggest that there's selection bias in stories like this. It's well know in finance that average pay off grows with variance, both because of the "risk premium" and because your losses are capped at "going out of business". If you've got
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by tjic 18y ago
> No way. Guaranteeing the integrity of Amazon's Customer Review data is not the job of the state According to many theories, much of the point of the state is to lower transaction costs. That's why states get involved in things like cr
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by tjic 18y ago
> Well then, unless your actual name is "tjic" then we are both criminals right off the bat. Under US law, there is no such thing as a sole "actual" name. Any name that you use for non-fraudulent purposes is a legitimate name. TJIC is
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by tjic 18y ago
> he didn't actually do anything that I think should be illegal. Registering multiple false user names? Giving false feedback? Restraint of trade? I'm not a fan of government prosecuting someone for registering on Facebook with the use
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by tjic 18y ago
> Which is why any sane health care reform will likely include a mandate requiring people like you to carry coverage; insurance works best with a large pool of risk, where coverage isn't biased towards those at most risk of making claim
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by tjic 18y ago
I second this - this guy definitely shouldn't have gone after Amazon stockholders.
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by tjic 18y ago
The Oxford English Dictionary. It defines every English word they're going to ever come across outside of technical literature, it's got tons of historical examples, shows the connections between English and other languages, and more. If we
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by tjic 18y ago
Is anyone else gritting their teeth and cringing, waiting for someone to say "Atlas Shrugged" ? :-)
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Unexplained red flashes on the moon's surface(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tjic 18y ago
"Progressivism" means lots of regulation. Canada is considered progressive, and has censorship. Feminists pushed for it, so that women wouldn't be degraded. Of course, feminists ended up as the first victims of the censorship when feminist
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by tjic 18y ago
Why in heck was this voted down? Marginal Rev is a fascinating blog, and it this comment is by the guy who posted an article that rose to the front page, explaining "not only is this article fascinating, but there's a lot of other fascinati
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by tjic 18y ago
Yeah, the Emacs and Linux fees these days are outrageous.
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by tjic 18y ago
I think that this was unfairly down-voted - there's a ton of great information here.
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A name that says "everything" says nothing.
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by tjic 18y ago
> How do you get started? All that's required is a great idea for a product Harrumph.
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by tjic 18y ago
I dislike the government asserting that I am not a fully competent adult, capable of making my own decisions about what agreements I enter into and which I do not. If I'm not competent to read a non-compete and agree, or not agree, to it, t
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by tjic 18y ago
Groan. It's the RepRap. AGAIN. Google's got 93 hits on RepRap being mentioned here at news.yc. As I've said before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295880 ) I am dramatically underwhelmed. The construction is shoddy, the technique (b

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