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by wils1245 9y ago
It’s the parent company’s CMS, not Wired’s. I’d bet that the people at Wired are more annoyed by it than anyone.
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by wils1245 9y ago
I don’t think the fact that the big 5 are doing well means we’re not in a bubble. Tesla is far from alone in holding a lofty valuation without profits to justify it, and we’re in the middle of an irrational mania over cryptocurrencies.
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by wils1245 9y ago
They already control the internet. The end of ISP net neutrality isn't about displacing the incumbents, it's about charging the incumbents rent to help maintain their position. This, along with anything else that they can afford t
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Net Neutrality Is Fiction, No Matter What FCC Does(bloomberg.com)
2 points by wils1245 9y ago|0 comments
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by wils1245 9y ago
This is an extremely ironic example. Google controls what content you see more than any ISP ever will, with or without net neutrality. If anything, this FCC change will cement Google's dominance. They'll pay some rent to ISPs to m
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by wils1245 9y ago
>Kayla Davis, who runs financial planning at ABM Industries, relied on Excel to pull data from a motley of disparate accounting systems "Motley of disparate accounting systems" is your problem, not Excel. Heavy Excel use/m
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by wils1245 9y ago
What sector are you in?
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by wils1245 9y ago
Do you take vacations? It's a wonder what it does for your state of mind.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Have you noticed how many brick and mortar stores ask for your email or phone number at the register during a purchase? They absolutely can tie offline purchases to online activity with that information (not to mention your credit card).
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by wils1245 9y ago
I remember the first time I actually got raw logs of where my ad agency’s impressions were ultimately going. It was just so blindingly obvious that it was all a waste. I came to the same conclusion you did. You’d have to go several layers u
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by wils1245 9y ago
Definitely agree with your point about it being odd to get in touch with perfect strangers, but it's a great tool for promoting acquaintances to friends. I recently had a small house party and organized a ski trip, and Facebook allowed
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by wils1245 9y ago
I think as others have mentioned, spam is a big problem, but the more fundamental problem with this idea is supply/demand. For a sufficiently large system, the number of people that are interested in talking to person X about topic Y
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by wils1245 9y ago
If I owe you $500, and I give you $450, does that mean I paid back the loan? The consequence of not living up to an expectation depends on what's riding on that expectation. For a company trying to live up to a valuation higher than co
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by wils1245 9y ago
Not sure about the systems you maintain, but mine page for false positives all the time. They're annoying, sometimes they wake me up, but in general they're not a big deal. A false positive from a medical test is much more costly,
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by wils1245 9y ago
I don’t like the overall goals of the bill, but both the 401k change and the tuition reimbursement tax are even more objectionable, simply for being dishonest. The 401k tax has precisely nothing to do with building a better tax code. It’s a
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by wils1245 9y ago
Sure, but McDonalds being successful doesn’t mean most people like McDonalds. Lots of people, sure, but lots don’t.
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by wils1245 9y ago
What difference does it make that traffic and parking are “external?” They are still always factors in many places. A data point countering your assumptions - I sold my car because I don’t like driving. I want transit to be good so I can us
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by wils1245 9y ago
Speaks to a problem of means testing property taxes on anything other than the property value - how to define poor in a way that can’t be games by skillful accounting?
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by wils1245 9y ago
Hasn't advertising always been the primary drip of financial resources for podcasts? Aside from a bit more enthusiasm for Casper mattresses than is probably warranted, I don't think your concerns have come to pass. The great thing
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by wils1245 9y ago
It is if the man supposedly cleaning things up is every bit as corrupt as those he’s having arrested.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Kind of hard to get outraged about. These people _are_ corrupt. So is the crown prince. The Game of Thrones reference is apt, none of these people are morally superior to the others. On the list of Saudi outrages, this ranks pretty far down
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by wils1245 9y ago
At some point though, what more can you do with characters? After a while the viewer knows everything about them and the setting they exist in. There's nothing more to flesh out. I grew up watching the Simpsons every day. I stopped wat
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by wils1245 9y ago
>> people will continue to pay higher prices Why are you sure if that? The opposite is true. At some point stockholders will get afraid and pull back. The question is how much, and who gets hurt the most. I think the point of the pare
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by wils1245 9y ago
My question is, when the crypto market corrects, will it spark a broader tech pullback? The big four will be fine, but lots of unprofitable tech companies will be vulnerable.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Why should we have any more faith in the miners? They have a self interest to divert the wealth stored in Bitcoin to themselves, which doesn’t align with my interests as a coin holder.
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by wils1245 9y ago
I don’t think that’s true. The violence that occurred on the day of the vote and the uncompromising attitude of the Spanish govenrment likely caused things to escalate more quickly than it would have otherwise.
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Ask HN: When do you sell your stock grants?
33 points by wils1245 9y ago|56 comments
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by wils1245 9y ago
To me, Mountain View is the most egregiously under built city in the bay. Huge corporate campus for Google and others, but the housing stock of a suburb.
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by wils1245 9y ago
What’s a reasonable commute? If you’re in any of those places and commuting to SF you’re likely looking at an hour to get to work.
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by wils1245 9y ago
Not sure what you mean. There’s a whole lot of investor money flowing into engineers’ pockets here in the bay.

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