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by trysomething 12y ago
Nature has endowed mankind with diverse faculties, fallible reason and variable fortune, and so in a free society there will by necessity be "winners" and "losers". Those of you who reflexively oppose gentrification
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by trysomething 12y ago
Frankly there is no need to keep beating the drum about these startups. This is at least the 4th article about the parking apps on HN's front page in the last couple weeks. It's also been on TV. This is not not deeply interesting
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by trysomething 12y ago
Today's tally: 9 It crossed the line quite a while back, but I'm not particularly interested in taking a principled stand here. I'm just curious as to how they are doing this.
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by trysomething 12y ago
Not as far as I'm aware.
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Ask HN: Calls from debt collectors tied to iphone activity?
18 points by trysomething 12y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Does anyone still believe Dorian S. Nakamoto is the creator of Bitcoin?
1 points by trysomething 13y ago|0 comments
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by trysomething 13y ago
It might actually be great publicity. Watsi is awesome, but not well known amongst the general populace (who are probably far more likely to donate to dubious organizations like the "christian children's fund"). As Chase Adam
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YouTube ordered to pull anti-Muslim film(sfgate.com)
2 points by trysomething 13y ago|0 comments
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by trysomething 13y ago
Even if this were true, even heavy pot smokers inhale far less plant material than your average cigarette smokers.
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by trysomething 13y ago
What we are seeing here brings to light an inconvenient truth: you simply cannot legislate away obnoxious social behavior. As long as I remember, Craigslist has prohibited discriminatory advertising to ensure listings comply with the fair
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This is the World's Best Designed Pizza Box(qz.com)
1 points by trysomething 13y ago|0 comments
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by trysomething 13y ago
> salaries would likely fall without them The median salary would likely fall, the mean would likely rise (or stay around the same) but the very top salaries would rise dramatically, in line with what these same players make on the fre
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by trysomething 13y ago
1. Absolutely, they do target these people, particularly through internships which are essentially recruiting tools. The BigCo advantage is that any decent salary will seem like a lot to people who've never had one before. However, the
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by trysomething 13y ago
This conduct is obviously despicable, though certainly not out-of-character for Steve Jobs (all due respect for his talents). However, I generally believe this will resolve (and has been resolving) itself via market mechanisms. The mistaken
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by trysomething 13y ago
They could be , it's all relative of course. The most affected engineers in this case were likely the cream of the crop. It's in a way analogous to professional sports, where (if salaries were truly unrestricted) the very top p
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Ask PG: How would you fill out a YC application with YC as your idea?
171 points by trysomething 13y ago|29 comments
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by trysomething 13y ago
Yeah, in this case it should be Yelp's job to filter out fake reviews. Yelp should foot the bill for operations like this or for engineers to write better algorithms.
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Ohio State University Gets Armored Military Vehicle, Dodges Questions About It(reason.com)
28 points by trysomething 13y ago|22 comments
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by trysomething 13y ago
Separately, Jimmy Wales reportedly said that 0.7% of Wikipedia's users have made 50% of all Wikipedia edits and 1.8% of users have written more than 72% of all articles, and he was quoted in the New York Times in June as saying “A lot
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by trysomething 13y ago
A bunch of the "unconnected" companies (as well as the connected ones) are in fact y-combinator companies. Seems odd that they missed such an obvious (and well-publicized) network.
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The AURA Breathalyzer .. (indiegogo.com)
1 points by trysomething 13y ago|0 comments
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Viewpoint: Leave Junior Alone About His E-Cigs(ideas.time.com)
2 points by trysomething 13y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986(theatlantic.com)
51 points by trysomething 13y ago|43 comments
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Ask HN: Help, I'm over-extended and I can't get up
4 points by trysomething 13y ago|7 comments
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts(cnn.com)
14 points by trysomething 13y ago|3 comments
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by trysomething 13y ago
One thing we're learning is that Snowden/Greenwald merely revealed symptoms of a metastatic disease spreading through our government and society. The American State no longer exists to protect its founding ideals but rather to enl