EricBerglund

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by EricBerglund 15y ago
Reddit and r/politics are not the same thing. Subreddits are user-created forums moderated as those creators see fit. Each subreddit chooses what it wants to see, how it wants to be moderated, and who will moderate. A particular sub comm
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
The issue I have with framing it as spending vs investing is that the main issue with capital gains revolves around the super rich, not people making $200k a year. Sure, a tax rate difference might influence Sally or Frank to spend or save,
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
As someone who's actually making an analogous opposite switch (learning vim rather than using Sublime), I'd love to hear your reasons for preferring Textmate over vim (I haven't used Textmate myself).
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
Really I think her point is best summed up by "It’s never about the technology or impact it’s having, it’s about the game of entrepreneurship; getting users, funding and exiting as quickly as you can." Her complaint seems to be that startup
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
What do "software" and "hardware" even mean in the context of the brain? All of what you call "software" is just the result of combinations of neuron patterns and chemicals, all of which could be included in a simulation.
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread it's likely because a significant portion of that $37B is overseas and cannot be brought back into the US without paying US taxes on it. It's quite likely cheaper to take out a bond to raise more money
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
True, but Open/Libre Office is freely available and can save to Word formats.
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by EricBerglund 15y ago
It might be because a movie reference that's relevant to the conversation at hand can be humorous, but a movie reference in response to another movie reference is just regurgitating a script. The child comment doesn't really add anything t
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by EricBerglund 16y ago
This is true in a market with few existing regulations and a low barrier to entry, in other words the complete opposite of the mobile market.
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by EricBerglund 16y ago
The thing is that people think of browsers as a single market with all browsers competing directly with each other. In reality, I think we're starting to get to a point where browsers are differentiating and targeting different groups of us