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by zzalpha 10y ago
Bots created by people... ... I assume.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Ahh, the valley cult of youth. Believe it or not, thousands of small businesses are started every year by folks in many different age brackets. Heck, the company I work for was founded by a 40+ year old entrepreneur. Don't let the myt
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I'm a little surprised by that, myself. I'm normally one to push for keeping political stuff off of HN, but that's when it's not related to the tech industry. But this would seem like exactly the kind of political topic
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Also loved how they cherry picked Verizon but failed to mention Comcast (largest terrestrial broadband provider by far) or AT&T (their combined cellular and terrestrial footprint is second only to Comcast). Meanwhile, ongoing mergers (
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Myth. Child mortality pulls down the average: http://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-... While adult life expectancy has increased somewhat thanks to sanitation and antibiotics, there has never been a t
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I don't think that's the question. You're speaking of what they charge. I'm curious (and fwiw I'm not the OP, so I have no idea if they were asking this... :) what it costs . Put another way, I wonder what this doe
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Speak for yourself. Hence use of phrases like "I believe" and "I think" and "My experience (for what it's worth)". Was that not disclaimer enough for you? I don't know how much you know about Ameri
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Or when the sponsors refused to let the kids' parents work through a simple issue like the school bus not showing up, and instead injected themselves into situations they didn't belong in. That was selfish and self-aggrandizing.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Community seems to be uncommon in the age of individualism. You've just identified one of the many things that I believe Canadians see as a value that distinguishes us from our friends to the south. Whether that's fair or not is
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You do realize you haven't said anything of any substance, right? I believe an accurate summary would be as follows: "Terrible article. Bad. Ignorant elites. Wrong." Care to provide any useful insight? Just... something?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Absolutely. The "big tent" the Republicans assembled started to come apart when the Tea Party insurgency began. They're now experiencing the consequences.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
None of which addresses my point. I'm not talking about innovation in the small, where a dev comes up with a clever new bit of user experience or a snazzy new algorithm. That stuff is nice but it's incremental. I'm talking s
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by zzalpha 10y ago
tl;dr Content is king. And you're absolutely right.
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What I find a bit odd is that this is ostensibly about becoming more innovative. But does anyone really believe that major strategic business and product innovation occurs at the level of the individual contributors and teams who will be af
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by zzalpha 10y ago
They may not be responsible for past policy, but I don't think it unreasonable to blame successive executive branches if they make the policy even more irrational.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Uhh, where on earth did you get the idea that these women were telling their kids how they feel? That isn't even intimating at in the article. Strawman much?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
you don't have the right to regret it anymore Good advice! Obviously the best way to deal with negative feelings is to invalidate their existence by making them verboten and immoral thoughtcrimes, and then burying them waaaay down d
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Valid point. I guess we can wait and see if the Trump administration continues to point the finger at GCHQ. If not, I'd say that's pretty good evidence that it report is true, given how infrequently Trump and his people walk bac
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by zzalpha 10y ago
For the vast majority of recreational climbers my comment holds. If you're in a no-fall situation where your life is at risk, it's because you're off route and run out, an entirely avoidable situation.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I will say, believing in your skills as a way to manage fear is a dangerous path in climbing. Your protection, not your skills, are what keeps most climbers alive and healthy. Obviously skills are important, but far far more important is di
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Whendon writes dialog with a very specific and intentional style. You may or may not like that style, but I think it's unfair to claim he cannot write dialog.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
No question about that. But I'd do that in addition to talking to Tesla customer service just to get the ball moving forward... after all, this isn't a crusade for this guy. He just wants his darn car back!
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to it. It's definitely a compromise, but you're trading vertical resolution for stability and compactness. Ever try using a 3:2 laptop on an airplane these days? It's not fu
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by zzalpha 10y ago
That's the body shop's job (and failure) ... Again, the body shop should have taken care of this. ... Perhaps the body shop is better at taking care of conventional cars and lead acid batteries, and just needs a little experi
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And premature optimization (ignoring architectural concerns) is usually a mistake. Profile, find hotspot, then use your clever cache-friendly hand-rolled tree algorithm when it makes sense. I'd rather a programmer understand that than
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Alas, despite the title, and my hope that someone could finally help me justify my deep aversion to raw tomatoes, the article provides little enlightenment: Frankly, the scientific community has been sadly remiss in getting to the bottom o
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Uber has a clear business model with clear revenue and cost centers. In this way they're similar to Amazon, spending to establish themselves. Their biggest challenge (beyond regulatory hurdles) is the race to the bottom, as their pri
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If you care to attack the premise of the article, I'd love to hear your reasoning. Vacuous ad hominems, however, add nothing to the discourse.
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They work better than chance but not much better When you're dealing with razor thin margins in individual electoral districts, and 300M people, even slightly better than chance can be pretty powerful.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
That right there is currently my biggest concern about universal basic income. It might work for a generation, but it's possible that many people who grow up in a cultured where work is unnecessary will fail to develop the ambition an

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