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by yaddayadda 12y ago
At this point, it's almost certain that the PERCEIVED benefits outweigh the PERCEIVED costs, considering that non-profits still send tons of mail. There is little doubt that there are benefits to their current model. tvanantwerp cover
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
As someone who would regularly give to the ACLU - IF THEY DIDN'T SPAM ME - I can guarantee they are loosing money (and supporters) because of their policy. In particular, I contacted them asking if contributors were put on mailing list
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
>Great! Is this a unicorn or moon on a stick statement? [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845193
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
The peachyprinter's (not peachtree) drip system also drastically reduces the resin needed in comparison to existing DLP/SLA/Photolithographic type printers.
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
I was just identifying and summarizing calculations done by others. Among the calculations I analyzed, all included the cost of appeals and housing. In many states there were mandatory appeals for death-row inmates which added to their cost
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
The Kickstarter finished October of last year. Printers have already been delivered to the first, second, and third tier beta testers. As of the latest update, printers for the first (Jul), second (Sep), and third (Oct) tier version one hav
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
A little more than a decade ago, I had to do research on capital punishment for a college ethics class. In the United States, at that time, the cost for a death row inmate was several times greater than it was for an inmate in for life wit
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
The link takes me to an empty HN page.
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
The comment you are responding to has been deleted. Based solely on what you said, Maya Angelou was definitively never a "United States Poet Laureate" but the argument can be made that she was a "poet laureate". A Unit
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
[I have used VA healthcare, I have several friends who work for the VA Health Administration, and I have many friends who use VA healthcare.] When the VA system works it treats the whole person. For example, if you have PTSD it may exacerb
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Occasionally a user is particularly invested in an online conversation for really valid reason, e.g. area of expertise, Show HN, etc. So having a hard limit in a large scale ( x comments in an hour or y comments in a day, as opposed to
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
When I bought my house, one of my absolute requirements was that the house be in a UTOPIA city. If I were a business owner, I would have the same requirement.
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
mikeash, you are not alone. If text alone doesn't quickly and adequately convey what the product is or at least seriously pique my interest then I'm not going to spend time watching any videos.
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Metalsmith (metalsmith.io) actually uses consolidate.js as a template manager. consolidate.js supports 24 separate template engines ( https://github.com/visionmedia/consolidate.js ). So Metalsmith's "template
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Good to know!
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Interestingly, there is an Australian corporation, Macquarie Capitol Group, that may take over the administration of UTOPIA - http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/57282051-79/macquarie-uto...
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Utah already has something like this called UTOPIA ( http://www.utopianet.org/about-utopia/ ). The participating cities run fiber optic lines. The city pays for the fiber optic lines (lots and lots and lots of politica
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
I've debated doing just that, but in the end the environment and expectations have become completely toxic, so it's more important for me to find another job. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of constraints,
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Ahh, if only it were so simple. The program manager wasn't initially aware of the arrangement. When I mentioned it to him, he basically threw a professional fit along the lines of "To get work done I need you here when everyone e
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
We all have constraints in our jobs and potential jobs; things such as location constraints (house, family, etc), specialty, and level. In my field, at my level, and in my geographic area, there really aren't a lot of jobs. Even more
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
My current company allowed me to set my own hours and location when I was contracting for them. When I went full time, there was a verbal understanding that I would be onsite more and work more regular hours, but that I would still hav
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
"The name is a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law." - from the linked Wikipedia article; emphasis mine
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This Quadriplegic Racer Drives a Corvette by Tilting His Head(wired.com)
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Quill's WYSIWYG + HTML<->MD bidirectional support (e.g. leeoniya's example) + ShareJS' operational transformation [1] == awesome collaborative JS-ish web editor stack Throw in a ShareJS script to autosave [2], an it&#x2
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Does Portable-VirtualBox itself only run under MS Windows?
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
All of what @ rcamera said. I really like the current visuals and layout much better than the beta, particularly the contrast and blue links. I also like the favicon to the left of the page title in results. I actually like the instant sug
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
Not a hypothetical for me. More than a few years ago, I was a manager at a hotel. As such there were several days each month when I had the emergency pager (yep, pager). The only time I ever got a 911 on the darn thing was while I was in
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
> So no, my absence from LinkedIn has nothing to do with me being a bad candidate for a job. - I agree completely. >If you assume it does, you miss out on a good hire. - Again, I agree completely. On the other hand, any company that v
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
>Gandi has a morality clause in their ToS; there are any number of good, cheap registrars that don't, so I'd say go with one of them instead. Thank you for highlighting this!
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by yaddayadda 12y ago
I have learned the hard way that clueless employers should be avoided.

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