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by vdaniuk 12y ago
You are being disingenuous. (a) "A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest." "Th
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Yeah, because surely YC would give up one of their most important generators of competitive advantage willingly. Also, ofc, with you being one of the top HN members would not support that. I don't have any personal benefit from any out
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I would certainly be not against some external entity or random event shutting HN down. That would lead to genesis of new communities and contribute to spreading the influence to several or dozens of separate entities. Ironically, voice of
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Conflict of interest is very real and full disclosure should be a norm in the community powered media with so much influence on tech industry.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>I often tell people that if you are not a paying customer, you are the product. You should stop doing that because it is a harmful oversimplifation. A thought terminating truism. Is Wikipedia user a product? Is Creative Commons user a p
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I do not feel that world is heading towards another world war as it happened in the XX century. Why? Putins daughters live in Europe/US. Same for childer of other Russian top government officials. Same for China. Who will go for total
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Point taken :)
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>I won't be deactivating my account over this Personally, I consider that quote and post contents in general harmful to a stated cause of a post. At the time of writing, this is a top HN story and what message does it convey to othe
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Great drugs don't sell themselves only because the game as in game theory is set this way. If the incentives/punishment structure setup would be different, drug marketing in the US could be much more beneficial for the end user.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
No. You don't factor in switching costs and opportunity costs. Human professional development is path dependent. Starting to code earlier means you start to get monetary or psychological utility out of it before you learn other marketa
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
> When I say tested properly, I mean tested completely. I am still in the learning phase, but even I know that complete testing of any complex software is practically impossible. So, how do you guarantee completedness in "proper&quo
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
India is an unique, magical and increasingly important country and I love its culture and people. However if half of its citizens don't have a toilet in their homes, yeah, its a third world country.[0] As usual, that's not the pro
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
See, when you put is this way your advice is sound and I agree with it. And I recommended to name and shame strategically, while consulting a lawyer. But in the original comment you called naming the company "petty and childish" a
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Good, happy to hear that. As someone who was also struggling with a depression, among all other methods I'd like to recommend you to try meditation, yoda and taichi. Meditation has scientifically proven benefits for people affected wit
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Wait, how is he going down to the level of jerks by pulicly naming and shaming a company? Why do you say that? I just don't understand your rationale. This sounds absurd. Could you elaborate maybe? Yeah, for some future employers it ma
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
This opinion is short-sighted. There may be zero practical attributable scientific or engineering benefits, though I am sure there will be plentiful. However, such epic events are extremely inspiring! It is massively televized, broadcasted,
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>dumb politics, idle time, typical OSS drama Feeling a bit trollish, aren't you? Consensus building is extremely important to make "the thing work" sustainably in OSS communities. I guess you don't want to invest time
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I certainly can't do it in a rigorous, scientific manner. However, my line of thinking is as follows. Persons with antisocial personality diaorder ( a correct term) fail to exhibit guilt, empathy or admit the responsibility for their a
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>It's important to have perspective about what police do and deal with everyday. They aren't acting irrationally. Sure they aren't. Most of them are psychopaths(yes,"psychopath" term is not a perfect model for de
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
> The entire time, the officers' job is to protect themselves and their fellow officers. >This is unpopular, but I believe it to be true, I think. Your belief is simply wrong. The risk of dying in a line of duty for cops is quite
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Your comment is so generic it is hard to argue with it. Also it is a fact proven by the growth of the gdp per capita and average living quality that economics in general is not a zero sum game. Currently the overall number of programmers&#x
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
It is not ironic, they and other publishers are in a Nash equilibrium. No single player can change the state of monetization world. This should be recognized as it is counterproductive and useless to shame/attack individual players. Al
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Lol, yes, it is true.Don't you think there are a lot of people who understand Russian on HN? See the official press-release of the ZEFS(ЗЕФС) company that installed the monument. Google translate of the relevant press-release part: &qu
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - technology entrepreneurship generalist with basic/intermediary knowledge in multiple web technologies. An unicorn for hire :) I am a strong technology entrepreneurship generalist with primary area of expertise i
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Location: Thailand / Digital nomad Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Mostly no Technologies: beginner and intermediary experience in multiple web technologies: ruby, rails, javascript, node.js, python, golang, html, git. Currently learn
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>Fascism, communism, nazism, socialism, etc, are subsets of leftism/statism. Now you are just changing the definitions to suit your agenda. I see no point in the further discussion.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>Academia ... republicans/libertarians/capitalists ... state ... leftism. There are so many generalizations that this statement loses any value. Also state == leftism? What about fascist and quasi-fascist states?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
You are absolutely correct, this is a very important issue that tends to be overlooked in the debate because of the anti-ad zealots.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I believe that you and anyone else should not have moral reservations to visit any site with an adblocker even if they request you not to do that. >free marketing - search engines, aggregators, social sites But, judging from this quote y
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
HN is so oblivious about ad industry, it isn't even funny. The ad industry is moving towards action-based model of payment, where advertisers pay for the purchase, lead or download. This ad blocker will just provide more data about use

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