whamlastxmas

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1801.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
I valued my degree's paper more than the content. The content was largely bullshit. Who needs to learn astronomy for a business degree? Employers don't give a shit if I know about astronomy, why should I care? It's required,
1802.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
That's sort of a non sequitur. Maybe Meyer did better at holding Yahoo together than any of her non-Google competitors for the same role would have done. And a sample size of 1 isn't really anything to draw conclusions from in ter
1803.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
How is it any different from the unlimited ways they can use their money to influence things? This is far less concerning than how lobbying works in the US, how polticians get paid absurd speaking fees by companies who benefit tremendously
1804.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
How is this a noteworthy comment? You admit that press releases like this are tired and cliche and misleading marketing speak, and then somehow expect people to not be unhappy with that, or to not express their opinion? This is a discussion
1805.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Case in point, TSA paid $47,000 for an app that randomly chose for a passenger to go left or right.
1806.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Core is not extensible at all in terms of adding hardware to it. I don't see many people using Pi with only GPS and cell data and accelerometer and not connected to anything else.
1807.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
What laptop do you have? Truecrypt doesn't support UEFI which seems to be the only option every laptop has these days.
1808.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Almost certainly yes. I have taken apart many laptops, it's usually not more than 5 minutes reading a guide/video and another 5-10 minutes of work.
1809.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
It's an application, not a legal document for creating a legal entity. They're asking the question because it's valuable to them as an indicator. If you have two do-nothings that own 90% and a PhD researcher who's the br
1810.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
>They are being asked to answer fairly narrow questions of fact about specific actions of specific firms. They are incapable of having the knowledge needed to know when something is bullshit, however, meaning jury nullification is no lon
1811.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
>Guillory never had equity, wrote code, nor invested in the company, although he was listed on the application to Y Combinator They applied together to YC. They got accepted, but Guillory didn't go. Vogt said he didn't want to
1812.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
The issue is that his ownership only existed as a technicality and he only received a favorable outcome due to to the inflexible nature of the legal system. He was not a 50% owner or anything near that. However, due to a lack of evidence ot
1813.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
I wish a good, solid, but flexible founder agreement template existed. I have not found any that wasn't overly opinionated. edit: in light of the Cruise fiasco, the agreement should probably contain language saying the organization is
1814.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Thanks, been waiting for one.
1815.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Under the "scams" category no less, what a crock.
1816.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
With wheels like that it would no longer handle like a long board. I suspect it would be much less agile.
1817.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Your source for 20% says that 20% is a "conventional estimate" and doesn't seem to provide a source for that estimate. It seems pretty high compared to other numbers I've seen.
1818.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
According to this [1] about 10%. Their goal was to reduce urban use by 25%, meaning a total reduction of 2.5%. [1] http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1108
1819.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Agreed, I've lived at probably 8 different complexes in my life and none of them would have allowed this. I've had managers bitch at me for taking down vertical blinds and only having curtains.
1820.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Unbelievable the amount of bullshit happening here and I don't understand how so few people seem to know about it or care. Urban water use is such a tremendously small percentage of total water use, and they try to fix the problem by t
1821.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
>more informed by who, and in what way? Arguably the issue is people are informed, just by misleading information. Whether it be CNN, Fox News, reddit, or the Drudge Deport - they all have their own bias. By asking people be more informe
1822.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Probably the most under-represented group is the youth vote, so 100% turnout would probably mean much more progressive, socialist results as well. I say socialist here without the negative connotation.
1823.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Why should their prejudices/biases not be represented? I mean, I personally probably disagree with them, but disagreement is sort of the reason for having voting.
1824.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713015
1825.
by whamlastxmas 10y ago
Figured I'd post this here since after reading your comment I made an effort to simply make my existing Firefox more private: Install the "Privacy Settings" Firefox extension. This makes it easy to toggle the about:config opt