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by wdr1 14y ago
FYI, Europe is a continent, not a country. It's compromised of several individual countries, each with its own laws & institutions. There is almost nothing that is singularly true across them all. To make such a broad generalization,
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by wdr1 14y ago
> he maintained a >50% top marginal tax rate average through his tenure. Why would you average a tax rate over various year? Seems a deceptive thing to do.
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by wdr1 15y ago
Web intents! http://blog.chromium.org/2011/08/connecting-web-apps-with-we...
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by wdr1 15y ago
Would $320M make much of a difference? The city of LA just spent $500M on a single school building. I wager had the money gone towards education, we would either have a $820M school building or a second one worth $320M.
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by wdr1 15y ago
There is no good that can come of government regulation of search engines, regardless of which nation's government we're speaking.
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by wdr1 15y ago
No thanks. I'd rather sell sugared water.
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by wdr1 15y ago
We used SSL client certificates for the 2008 Olympics ticketing systems. What a nightmare. It's hard to know how much to blame on Windows & how much has changed since then, but they were a never ending source of pain. We had to provis
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by wdr1 15y ago
It looks pretty, but, honestly, I can't see it getting me to leave OmniFocus.
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by wdr1 15y ago
How is this different from the tactic of its supporters to line up inflectional politicians & hollywood to make movies waxing romantic over nature, anecdotal polar bears stories, or the ice caps on Kilimanjaro? I mean, for or against, g
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by wdr1 15y ago
Part of the problem is that it's only labelled "lobbying" if you don't like the cause. Corporations paying for legislation relating to oil drilling rights? That's lobbying. Unions paying for higher teacher salaries? Well, that's differen
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by wdr1 15y ago
Didn't Jonathan Coulton already show that? > In 2010, Coulton's music brought in about $500,000 in revenue. And since his overhead costs are very low, most of that money went straight to him. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/1
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by wdr1 15y ago
>They should also personally attack each of the original progenators in the Senate/House of the bill. That will never work; it was a bipartisan group. The only way things are done in American are if either a union or corporation pays f
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by wdr1 15y ago
Nobody would bite, as they would likely quickly lose the domain via UDRP.
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by wdr1 15y ago
Same is true here in LA. The locations where there is a glut of housing is not the same places where people want to rent.
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by wdr1 15y ago
What's the source of the data?
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by wdr1 15y ago
What skills does your market demand? Given the situation, you may be better served by focusing on adapting to what is needed (presumably more mainstream languages like Java & C#?) I personally wouldn't want to do either, but it sounds
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by wdr1 15y ago
You're reading a heck of lot in a single recommendation from a single individual on how you could prepare for an interview.
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by wdr1 15y ago
Well, on the upside, it's good the US learned from Napolean's lesson.
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by wdr1 15y ago
In my time there, I would agree with that. My theory was Ticketmaster did well for theory reasons: 1) Venue relationships 2) Taking the fall on fees 3) Ability to scale People are often surprised by #3. Having seen many startups try &
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by wdr1 15y ago
I worked at Ticketmaster for 2-3 years. A chunk does go back to the venue, but also the promoter, and in some rare instances, also the artist. (How else do you pay the artist 105% of ticket price?) They could combine their fees into the t
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by wdr1 15y ago
Not only in Germany. The Social Security online tools have "hours." No, I'm not joking. I discovered this trying to estimate my mom's benefit late one night.
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by wdr1 15y ago
I was waiting for him to suggest he would also buy Google & Facebook.
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by wdr1 15y ago
> Microsoft knows how to make a ton of money. Yes, but only out of Windows & Office. It's been a while since they've been able to expand into other areas. E.g., their online division typically loses >$500M.
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by wdr1 16y ago
Until 51% of population uses it incorrectly. Then, because English reflects usage, they become correct.
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by wdr1 16y ago
I just saw a TV ad for a Windows 7 phone last night that heavily touted integration with Xbox Live. Much in the spirit of Bing & Youtube, I wonder if other mobile devices will be able to integrate just as easily w/ Xbox Live?
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by wdr1 16y ago
Avoid CDs for now. The interest rates they pay don't justify the commitment. You can easily compare the interest rates of savings/checking/CDs here: https://www.google.com/comparisonads/ussavings?s=1&kw=sa... Right now it looks like
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by wdr1 16y ago
"Rely on them for a substantial portion of my income." I'm guessing Google employees should upvote this one? :)
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by wdr1 16y ago
> You also complained about customer service (in the airline industry, no less). That's like complaining about the weather. You should try Southwest. I started flying with them because of their rates. Now I'll stay with them forever b
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by wdr1 16y ago
This doesn't seem to work for me using Firefox on Snow Leopard. The menu changes to the crazy keyboard shortcut I give to Quit (and sure enough the crazy combo works as well), however Cmd-Q still quits Firefox as well.
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by wdr1 16y ago
I want to believe that, but I have a hard time proving it to myself. Growing up, I loved to read the paper. Without cable or Internet, it was the best information source I had available. However, when I visit home & look at the local

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