truthtechnician

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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Parents. Savings. Welfare. Thrift. The article's point is that for many poor people getting a shitty job that only pays enough for rent and food is pointless when you can get rent or food from your parents, or from welfare, or by thrift alo
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
OH NO! I CAN'T DOWNLOAD MY PIRATED SOFTWARE AND MOVIES!
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
The irony is... running back to native platforms because the web sucks is exactly why the web still sucks.
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Awesome. Doesn't have a way to generate revenue, but hey that doesn't matter to Silicon Valley! I bet you could go sell it for $10k
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Today I learned Hacker News is filled with libertarian ideologues. It's amazing that people who pride themselves in critical thinking and problem solving (hackers), can actually be so naive as to believe this nihilistic Ann Rand crap. HN is
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Whether he votes with his dollars or not is irrelevant to the fact that selectively presenting the truth to influence people is dishonest.
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Except the founder gets paid either way, and paid more than anyone else usually. If the business goes bust nobody takes his house, or his things - he just finds another job or starts another business with VC welfare.
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
And running adverts wouldn't destroy a huge portion of the userbase?
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
I'll bite. Here's why I don't think Twitter is profitable or will be: 1) No ads. I don't see any now. "But, they can add advertisements later!" No they can't. Adding advertisements to Twitter will destroy their brand and everything that mak
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Taxing income higher than capital gains encourages investment over consumption.
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
I run my own mail server with a roundcube frontend interface, for $5 a month (if that) on Amazon EC2. What's the point of SSL in Gmail if Google has your certs?
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by truthtechnician 15y ago
Pass a bill requiring the budget to be balanced. It's that simple.